Selûne

Selûne
Alignment	Chaotic Good
Divine Rank	Intermediate Goddess
Pantheon	Faerun
Portfolio	Lycanthropes, the Moon, Navigation, Travellers, Quests
Domains	Chaos, Good, Moon, Protection, Travel
Home Plane	Gates of the Moon (Ysgard)
Worshippers	Women, Lycanthropes, Sailors
Favoured Weapon	Rod of Four Moons (Heavy Mace)

Selûne, The Moonmaiden, is the Forgotten Realms god of light, stars, the moon, navigation and good-aligned lycanthropes.

History

Selûne, alongside her twin Shar, was created by Ao in the beginning. The two worked together creating the realmspace of Forgotten Realms, eventually creating the Chauntea; who was the deified embodiment of Abeir-Toril.

From then on, the Sisters disageed on how things should go on from there. What started as petty arguments about whether the cosmic curtains matched the décor, whether shoes needed to be removed upon entering the universe, and whether pets were kept outside. It eventually escalated i to full out war between the goddesses, and at this point all of their decisions had been creating other deities to fill in the gaps of their creation. For instance: Chauntea thought the universe was a little chilly, so Selûne turned the spave heater on (presumably awakening Lathander). So having created other deities by the end of their fight like Targus, the original god of war, Moander, the god of decay, Jergal, god of strife, death and the dead. They had pretty much escalated their little cat fight up to a full blown military conflict!

It eventually came to a turning point when selûne had had enough of her sister's shit, and tore a piece of herself off and flung it at Shar. The pure divine essence literally ripped Shar a new one, and when it passed out the other side it formed another deity: Mystryl, Goddess of Magic, and pretty much the most powerful of their creations so far.

Unfortunately the attack had left Selûne significantly weakened, and she took some negative levels, becoming an intermediate deity. But thankfully Mystryl and most of the other significant gods of the universe decided to side with her, pushing the conflict into a stalemate.

Selûnes church has two main goals: fight against evil lycanthropes and summon Shards, blue-haired, female planetars, to fight against Shar and her minions.

Recent Events

In the conversion to 4e, Selûne seemed to be removed from the brand spanking new, condensed pantheon; since there were so many gods that there was often significant overlap of portfolios, that the only difference in some cases might be a single domain. Selûne was replaced as the goddess of the Moon by Sehanine, who was the Elven version, and who transcended the mere Forgotten Realms into the "Core" setting.

Needless to say the simplification of the pantheon would quickly be reversed when Wizards realised what a bad idea 4e had become. However, the link between goddesses remained. Now it is a given that Sehanine had been an "Aspect" of Selûne all along (or vice versa). In any case, while there are two different religions for goddesses of the Moon and they are allowed to have differing origin stories and power levels, they are in essence the same thing.

This gets more complicated when you consider that Sehanine is also an aspect for yet another Goddess called Angharradh. It's at this point the Athar would stop by to hand you their recruitment flyer.