Sehanine

The Moon Weaver, Goddess of Moonlight

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For more information on all Prime Deities, see: Prime Deities

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Sehanine is the goddess of moonlight, as well as the matron of illusions and misdirection. Widely worshiped in halfling and moon elven cultures, she is considered to be the deity of love, protecting the trysts of lovers with shadows of her own making. Those who work in darkness and trickery often ask for her blessing.

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Physical Description

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The Moon Weaver's depictions are as numerous as the myths and stories of her meddling with the unions of mortals. She is most often painted as a young girl with light-blue skin and white hair, her body and limbs merely wavy silk strands of silver moonlight that caress and create the edges of the shadows around her.
Another depiction of Sehanine is as a male elf. This depiction portrays Corellon and Sehanine as lovers. Characteristic about Sehanine's willowy male form are his eyes. They show a sense of melancholy and tenderness when he is depicted with Corellon.

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Divine Realm

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Sehanine is found among the verdant tangles of the realm of Arborea, watching over the elven courts, or wandering among the colorful fields of Faerûn.

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Tenets of Faith

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• Seize your own destiny by pursuing your passions.


• Let the shadows protect you from the burning light of fanatical good and the absolute darkness of evil.


• Walk unbridled and untethered, forging new memories and experiences.

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Personal History

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How Sehanine came to be is unknown, but one theory posits that she is Corellon’s daughter. Some believe that the elves originated from a mixture of Corellon’s blood and Sehanine’s tears. Most elves, however, believe in the traditional tale, in which Corellon created the elves from blades of grass.

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Divine Goals & Aspirations

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The Lunar Lady is a very protective deity towards elves. She sends omens to keep her people from danger, crafts illusions around elven hideouts, and organizes the journeys for elves to these lands. Nonetheless, she is quite an aloof deity and apart from the aforementioned deeds, she keeps herself apart from the happenings of Iolcus, except in matters of love. For a couple who catches Sehanine's gaze, it is not uncommon for the stars to metaphorically align.
As a general rule, she does not speak in a direct manner. Instead, she relies on dreams, visions, etc. to relay information. This does not mean that she is incapable of speaking in a clear manner as she has been known to do so as well.

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Worshipers

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As cloaked in mystery as Sehanine's church is, little is known of its secretive hierarchy. Clerics of Sehanine are mystics and seers, acting as spiritual counselors to those elves and half-elves before they begin journeys in search of transcendence or love. They weave illusions and cast divinations to guard elven lands and strongholds.
Sehanine's clergy favors silvery-white diaphenous gowns for the priestesses, and togas for the priests. They wear silver diadems on their heads, simple sandles, and silver lace sashes on their waists. Adventuring clerics are known for their elven chain mail and mirrored shields.

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Contacts & Relations

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Betrayer Deities

During the War of Repellence, Torog and his followers tunneled beneath a woodland 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 War of Repellence. 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 moon elves.
Moradin and Sehanine built the Dead Vault 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 Deity.

The Seldarine

Sehanine is a member of the elven pantheon and has good relationships with the other members. It is uncertain whether she is the daughter or wife of Corellon.

Divine Traits

General Information

Alternative Name(s)
Goddess of Moonlight
The Lunar Lady
The Matchmaker
The Moon Weaver

Alignment
Chaotic Good

Pantheon
Prime Deity

Areas of Concern
Dreams, freedom, illusions, love, moon, shadow

Favored Weapon
Longbow

Sacred Animal(s)
Firefly

Sacred Color(s)
Purple, silver

Symbol
A crescent moon turned upward, strung like a bow

Worshipers
Halflings, lovers, moon elves, those who work in darkness

Worshipers' Adjective(s)
Sehanite

Plane
Arborea / Faerûn

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D&D 5e

Domains
Arcana, Nature, Trickery

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Pathfinder 1e

Domains
Chaos, Charm, Darkness, Good, Liberation, Trickery

Subdomains
Deception, Espionage, Freedom, Friendship, Love, Moon, Night, Self-Realization, Shadow, Whimsy

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Pathfinder 2e

Domains
Darkness, Passion, Moon, Trickery

Alternative Domain(s)
Arcana, Freedom, Secrecy

Divine Ability
Dexterity or Charisma

Divine Font
Harm or Heal

Divine Skill
Stealth

Cleric Spells
1st: Illusory Object
2rd: Penumbral Disguise
7th: Moonburst

Divine Boons

• Minor Boon
  Sehanine prevents your enemies from pulling off your veil. Once, when a foe rolls a success on a Perception check to disbelieve your illusion, it gets a critical failure instead. Sehanine typically grants this benefit to protect an elaborate or consequential illusory deception.
• Moderate Boon
  You share Sehanine’s sharp eye, allowing you to use a longbow in any situation. When you attack with a longbow, you can ignore the longbow’s volley trait, and longbows have double the normal range increment for you.
• Major Boon
  Shadows are deeper around you. Darkvision and greater darkvision cannot penetrate darkness within 60 feet of you, but you can see through it normally.

Divine Curses

• Minor Curse
  Those who offend Sehanine find that light actively shuns them. You lose any low-light vision or darkvision you have, and you treat all light levels as one step lower.
• Moderate Curse
  If Sehanine is particularly offended by someone, they may find themselves lost in delusions of moonlight. When attempting to navigate or find something at night, if you roll a success or critical success on your Perception check, Survival check, or other check to do so, you get a failure instead.
• Major Curse
  Those who spread misery via false love face Sehanine’s greatest curse. You lose the ability to distinguish any living being from another through appearance, voice, scent, or similar sensory means. You can make out physical size (so you wouldn’t mistake an ant for a horse), but nothing further. If you were merely shallow, every creature you see has generic, bland features, but if your deeds were vile, you see only the faces of those you have wronged.