> [!infobox]+ Sehanine > > <div class="infobox-coat-of-arms"> > <div style="text-align: center; padding: 5px;"> > <div class="character-name-container"><div class="character-main-name">Sehanine</div><div class="character-epithet">the Moonweaver</div></div> > </div> > </div> > <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0.2em;"> > <img src="SehanineSymbol.png" alt="Sehanine" style="max-width: 250px; height: auto;" class="internal-image"> > </div> > <table class="infobox-table"> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Province</td><td class="infobox-data">Goddess of the Moon, Illusion and Night, Patron of the Elves of the Forests and Wilds</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Alignment</td><td class="infobox-data">Chaotic Good</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Symbol</td><td class="infobox-data">A crescent moon turned upward, strung like a bow</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Holy Day</td><td class="infobox-data">Moonsbirth, the first full moon of Redfall</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Type</td><td class="infobox-data">Greater <a href="Deities.md" class="internal-link">Deity</a></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Home Plane</td><td class="infobox-data">The verdant tangles of <a href="Arborea.md" class="internal-link">Arborea</a>, where she watches over the elven courts, though she often wanders the fields of the <a href="Feywild.md" class="internal-link">Feywild</a></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Divine Champion</td><td class="infobox-data"><em>Not Known</em></td></tr> > </table> ### About Sehanine, the Moonweaver, is the greater goddess of the moon, illusion and night, and the patron of the [[Elves]] of the forests and wilds. It was Sehanine who wove Chorilia, the moon of [[Aeborhia]], into the night sky, so that it might pull the tides and keep the rhythm of the world, and the fourth day of every week, Weaversday, is named in her honour. Playful and elusive, she is a goddess of shadows and misdirection, though never of cruelty, for her shadows have always been used to shelter rather than to harm. In the [[Age of Founding|Schism]] and the [[Dawn-War]] she raised her hand against no god, but hid those who could not defend themselves in her forests and guided them to safety by the light of her moon. Those who work in darkness and trickery ask her blessing, as do lovers, whose meetings she is said to protect with shadows of her own making. She dwells among the verdant tangles of [[Arborea]], watching over the elven courts, though she often wanders the colourful fields of the [[Feywild]]. ### Depiction The Moonweaver's likenesses are as many as the tales of her meddling in the loves of mortals. She is most often shown as a young [[Elves|elven]] woman with pale blue skin and white hair, her body and limbs dissolving into silken strands of silver moonlight that caress and shape the edges of the shadows around her. In the forests and wilds, her shrines often show her only as Chorilia itself, with a silver bow drawn across it, the same image carried by her holy symbol: a crescent moon turned upward, strung like a bow. ### Divine Domains Sehanine's clerics are most often granted powers of Nature, Trickery or Twilight. ### Holy Day Sehanine's holy day is Moonsbirth, held on the night of the first full moon of Redfall, celebrating the night she wove Chorilia into the sky. As the moon rises, the [[Elves]] of the forests and wilds gather to dance in moonlit glades, while illusions, costumes and masked pranks run through the night. Younger [[Elves]] delight in tricking one another, while their elders take a slyer pleasure in mischief of their own. In towns and cities, her shrines open their reflecting pools to the moon, so that all who visit may see Chorilia shining up from beneath their feet. ### Commandments of Sehanine - 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. ### Enemies of Sehanine Sehanine makes war on no one, but she has never hidden which side she stands on. Through her kinship with [[Eilistraee]], whom she drew out of her grief after the death of [[Vhaeraun]], she opposes [[Lolth]] and her hold over the [[Elves|drow]], and she has no love for those who would burn or tame the wild forests she shelters. Her faith teaches distrust of fanatics of every kind, whether they march beneath the banners of good or evil. Among the gods, she is closest to [[Corellon]], [[Melora]] and [[Eilistraee]]. ### History - #### The Age of Founding Sehanine was born among the Pantheon at its forming. When the gods first shaped [[Aeborhia]], she wove Chorilia and set it in the night sky, so that it might rule the tides and give the world its rhythm, and she named the fourth day of the week, Weaversday, as her own. To the [[Elves]] who wandered the forests and wilds she gave the gift of moving unseen through shadow and moonlight, and many of them have looked to her ever since. When the [[Age of Founding|Schism]] divided the Pantheon, Sehanine stood with the [[Prime Deities]], but she raised her hand against no god. Instead, she defended those who could not defend themselves. Mortals fleeing the armies of the [[Betrayer Gods]] and the [[Primordials]] were hidden in her forests, cloaked in her illusions, and guided to safety by the light of her moon, while the night itself was turned against those who hunted them. It was also in the [[Age of Founding|Schism]] that Sehanine came to [[Eilistraee]]. After the young goddess slew her brother [[Vhaeraun]] to save her father, she fell into a deep grief, and it was the Moonweaver who sat with her beneath the moon and drew her out of it. From that time the two goddesses of the moonlight have shared a close kinship, and when [[Eilistraee]] rose to stand against her mother, she did so with Sehanine's blessing. - #### The Age of Arcanum Through the [[Age of Arcanum]], Sehanine remained close to the [[Elves]] of the forests and wilds, and to lovers of every kind. Many of the tales of her meddling in mortal romances, of secret meetings hidden in shadow and unlikely matches made under the full moon, are said to date from this age. - #### The Dawn-War When the [[Dawn-War]] came, Sehanine again took no part in the battles between the gods, but sheltered those caught beneath them. As the [[Elves]], disheartened by [[Corellon|Corellon's]] absences, retreated into the [[Feywild]], it was Sehanine who wove the shadows and illusions that hid their passage, and she watched over them there until the war was done. - #### Post Dawn-War At the [[Divergence]], Sehanine left the [[Material Plane]] alongside the rest of the Pantheon. She dwells now in [[Arborea]], near the elven courts of [[Corellon]], though she often wanders the [[Feywild]], and her moon still rises over [[Aeborhia]] each night. ### Modern Worship of Sehanine Sehanine is worshipped most devoutly by the [[Elves]] of the forests and wilds, such as those of the [[Guewood]] and the elves of [[Zaenov]], who keep her rites in moonlit glades rather than in temples of stone. In towns and cities, her shrines are small and quiet, and most often stand beside those of [[Corellon]], with whom they share clergy and worshippers, as in [[Kraesuine]] and [[Zhavrin's Gate]]. Her shrines are dim and contemplative, often built around reflecting pools angled to catch the moonlight. Beyond the [[Elves]], lovers seek her blessing on their meetings, illusionists and those who work by night ask for her favour, and fishers and sailors give thanks to her for the tides that Chorilia brings. ### Known Worshippers of Sehanine #### Champions *Not Known* #### Other Worshippers - Naeris Duskwhisper - Head of the Shrine of Sehanine in [[Kraesuine]].