Sehanine Moonbow

Sehanine Moonbow
Full moon topped by a crescent-shaped haze, or the crescent moon
Alignment	Chaotic Good
Divine Rank	Intermediate God
Pantheon	Dawn war, Seldarine
Portfolio	Death, Dreams, Journeys, the Heavens, the Moon, Moon Elves, Mysticism
Domains	3E: Chaos, Elf, Good, Illusion, Knowledge, Moon, Travel 5E: Grave, Knowledge, Light
Home Plane	Arvandor (Arborea)
Worshippers	Diviners, Illusionists, Moon Elves, Half Elves
Favoured Weapon	Moonshaft (Quarterstaff)

In Dungeons & Dragons, Sehanine Moonbow (often referred to as "Sehanine" or "the Moonbow") is the goddess of Autumn, Twilight, Dreams, Illusions and funnily enough: the Moon.

She is a member of the Seldarine and is regarded as the mother of the Elven races. Depending on the religion, she is often considered to be either the waifu or the daughter of Corellon Larethian, possibly meaning that the Elves could be a product of incest (which, given the usual predalictions of the gods, is probably reasonable to assume either way).

History

When the Gods first winked into existence, they set about crafting the universe. Sehanine put her lot in with the other deities that would be later considered "Elven" and started calling themselves the Seldarine.

She had the major hots for their leader: Corellon Larethian, but unfortunately for her, he was already enamoured by the deeply sexy and alluring Araushnee, while Sehanine was considered the odd blue haired nerdy girl who was content to let the others do the heavy lifting and contributed very little to the act of creation other than a few prophetic fan fics and moody poetry.

Later, she uncovered the fact that Araushnee was secretly banging the edgy bad-boy Fenmarel Mestarine behind Corellon's back. But said nothing about it while Araushnee let herself be "captured" by the pantheon jock: Gruumsh.

Corellon fought to get his cheating spouse back, not realising that she was secretly trying to have him killed so she could claim the whole of creation without having to resort to a messy divorce. But of course, as an Elf, he was therefore gay and not capable of taking Gruumsh alone.

Enter Sehanine: who was so distraught over the pain inflicted to the object of her affections, who was the protagonist of so many of her blog posts and fan fictions, that her tears were enough to rejuvenate the broken Corellon into one last burst of effort. Where in a single stroke, he managed to thrust with his big, giant, well-oiled, magnificent, longsword into Gruumsh's face.

...and incidentally took out his eye, but that's by the by. Though Gruumsh bears a grudge for the attempted violation, and Araushnee was expelled from the Seldarine after the whole Scooby villain plot was exposed. And she would have gotten away with it too if not for that pesky Sehanine. Araushnee moved away with the kids and changed her name to Lolth so that Corellon would not be able to find her.

Sehanine then got her wish and became the waifu of Corellon, her fluids mingling with his fluids to create the Elven race or something, then she lived happily ever after.

Aspects of Aspects

Some Elves in Forgotten Realms also revere Angharradh "The Triune Goddess" — which is what you get when you combine Sehanine with the other feminine Elven Goddesses: Hanali Celanil (Goddess of Love) and Aerdrie Faenya (Goddess of Air). This merging actually happened when they evicted Araushnee. For, like, five minutes. At least, according to the local version of mythology. Technically, veneration of Angharradh should count as heresy, but since it all stays entirely within the Seldarine pantheon, other elves don't really care.

Those three only combine this way in their Elven forms because of the compulsive need for Elves to Mary Sue. Angharradh is the ultimate queen of Arvandor and the only true wife that Corellon really deserves, but she isn't really the goddess of anything specific other than the protection and promotion of Elves. Her clerics are usually also clerics for one of her other forms.

When 4e version of Forgotten Realms setting number of the gods was reduced so that an average Hasbro manager could count them on fingers "discovered" most gods to be aspects of a handful, Sehanine became an aspect of Selûne, who is the Goddess of the Moon in general, and represents something a little more primordial. Elves, not being content to share their mythological origins with the other races just slapped on all the mystical dream crap after fact in order to make it more Fey. So Sehanine is apart from Selûne, but is a part of her at the same time, like a feminine Jesus. Since in 4e Hanali Celanil and Aerdrie Faenya themselves are considered to be aspects of the more general Goddesses Sune and Akadi respectively, all 3 aspects of Angharradh are also aspects of other deities. 4e is like this.

Realm

As an aspect of other powers, but as well as being a power in her own right, the Moonbow shares a few divine realms.

• Planescape: She shares Arvandor with most of the pantheon. Simple!
  • Curiously, her main errant boy (well, not quite boy) is Moonsilver (Px/⚲ tiefling/R10/CG) — ¼fiend/¾elf whose mother was killed by the relatives from Abyss, so the goddess adopted this kid and raised as her own. Reactions of the elves from Faerûn to such news were never described. Which wasted an opportunity for a whole new epic worth of cognitive dissonance: a lot of them are cheesed off by seeing sparkly Elven blood polluted with inferior Monkeigh human stock, so fiendish hybrids are not mentioned in public as a part of elven history and make the elves flip out if discovered.
• 4e: As the spouse of Corellon, she shares the Elven court with him and hangs out in Arvandor, in both her Moonbow and her Triune Goddess forms. Though since Hanali Celanil and Aerdrie Faenya haven't been connected to Corellon romantically, its unclear whether the the Triune Goddess shares his bed. Possibly having relations with three Elven babes by proxy through a fourth.
  • As Selune, the Moonbow has her very own pocket of Ysgard called the Gates of the Moon which a realm of floating rock and ocean under a perpetual night sky, which is bound by its own unique set of rules:

1. Werecreatures have full control over their abilities while in the divine realm.
2. Any arcane spell cast needs a particular school trigger, which you need to learn from the locals, who happen to be angelic beings like Planetars, Lillends and Celestial Werewolves, so you can't come here to cause mayhem.
3. Divine spellcasters lose their abilities dependent on the relative distance between their own deity and Ysgard.
4. Any summoning spell always summons Einheriar.