Sehanine

Moonweaver

Sehanine, the Moonweaver, is a chaotic good deity of moonlight and the autumn season, as well as the patron of illusions and misdirection. Widely worshipped within halfling and elven culture, she is largely considered to be the deity of love and protector of the trysts of lovers. Those who work in secrecy and trickery often ask for her blessing. The moon Catha is widely associated with Sehanine, possibly as her creation.
"The Moonweaver sends her will as the goddess of moonlight and the autumn season, as well as the patron of illusions and misdirection." Many consider the Moonweaver to be the goddess of love. It is very difficult to encounter lovers on a tryst, as the Moonweaver creates the shadows for these secret meetings to take place. "Those who work in darkness and trickery often ask for her blessing." There is no official holy day for the Moonweaver; however, her worship is greatest on "the night of the decade’s largest full moon." Elven astronomers record the moon’s cycles and how during these cycles the moon gets closer and further away from Exandria, and they can forecast these days with considerable precision. Many haughty elves use this celebration as a pardon to be mischievous; some youthful elves use outfits and illusions to play tricks on their peers.
Sehanine is frequently found in the realm of Arborea or wandering in the Feywild.

Worship

Sehanine is widely worshiped in Lyrengorn and in the Verdant Expanse. She has a smaller but nontrivial following on the Bladeshimmer Shoreline, the Rifenmist Peninsula, and in the Stormcrest Mountains. Many of the Ashari in Vesrah worship her due to her control of the tides.
Worship of the Moonweaver is prohibited in the Dwendalian Empire, but the elves of Bysaes Tyl hold a secret festival in the Pearlbow Wilderness on the night of the decade's largest full moon, and there are shrines to Sehanine hidden in plain sight in the city.

Divine Domains

Arcana, Moon, Nature, Trickery.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Tenets of Faith

Seize your own destiny and pursue your own passions.
Let the shadows protect you from the burning light of fanaticism and the absolute darkness of despair.
Walk unbridled and untethered, forging new memories and experiences.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Sehanine is among the Prime Deities who fought the Primordials and the Betrayer Gods to protect the mortal races during the Founding.
During the Age of Arcanum, mortal followers of Sehanine and Melora forged Dwueth'var; unlike many of the weapons crafted during that era, it was intended to help protect Exandria rather than surpass or fight the gods.

The Calamity

During the Calamity, Torog and his followers tunneled beneath a woodland in the Cyrios Mountains that was home to reclusive elves who worshiped Sehanine, sinking the plateau into a valley. Torog's servants sapped the life and color from the trees at their roots, creating the Pallid Grove. The surviving elves retreated beneath the Pallid Grove, lived in fear of the Crawling King, and hid underground from the destruction of the Calamity. Over time, the Moonweaver's blessings mingled with the elves' natural adaption to the Pallid Grove, eventually forming a new subrace of elves known as the pallid elves.
Moradin and Sehanine built the King's Cage as a trap for Torog. It appeared to be a temple to Torog, but it was a fane that, once Torog had bound himself to it, was instrumental in banishing the Betrayer God.

Divine Classification

Prime Deity

Realm

Arborea

Age

Young

Pronouns

She/her/hers

Gender

Female

Hair

White

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Light blue