Sehanine

Sehanine, the Moonweaver, is a chaotic good deity of moonlight and the autumn season, as well as the patron of illusions, love, misdirection, mischief, and tides. Both moons of Exandria (Catha and Ruidus) are considered to be her domain, however, with Catha attracting most of the Moonweaver's worshippers and possibly be of her creation. Her worship is especially widespread among halfling, elven, and Water Ashari cultures.

Appearance and symbol
She is most often depicted as a young girl with light blue skin and white hair. Her body and limbs create the edges of the shadows. Full moon of Exandrian Catha is widely accepted as her symbol, personifying her cunning and grace.

Biography
The Moonweaver's connection to Catha is partially the reason the moon appears in the sky of both the Feywild and the Shadowfell. Most believe Sehanine created Catha to "bless the just with cunning and caution" and to cloak those who need "stealth and subtlety", when other followers identify her with "cunning and grace," posing an alternative to the general association of the deity with trickery and illusions. They understand the light of Catha to favor the "goodhearted".

Sehanine is often found wandering between Arborea and the Feywild.

The Moonweaver's Ribbons
Yearly, many travelers from all over Tal'Dorei journey past the Cliffkeep Mountains to witness the Moonweaver's Ribbons bend around the Elvenpeaks, pulled through the sky by mysterious figures on wyvernback. Special athletes called skyswimmers practice every day for the yearly coming of the Moonweaver's Ribbons.

"Great streaks of multicolored light that illuminate the northern sky on the winter solstice. The skyswimmers and their wyvern mounts seize the strands of light on their spears and paint radiant, esoteric portraits in the wintry sky, drawing intrepid outsiders from across Tal’Dorei to camp on remote mountains and marvel at their visual poetry."

Greater than the ceremony's creative achievement, it is also a ceremony to the deity known as the Moonweaver. She is the primary deity of the elves of Lyrengorn. "The high priestesses of the moon" claim this yearly ceremony cleanses the land of Lyrengorn, and increases the wild elves' lifespan.

Worship
Although there is no official holy day for the Moonweaver, her worship is greatest across Exandria and the rest of her domains, when Catha is full and at her largest during the decade. Wyvern-riding skyswimmers of Lyrengorn praise the Moonweaver during the annual arrival of the Moonweaver's Ribbons.

Folklore holds that many arrogant elves use the full moon celebration as a pardon to be mischievous, when some youthful elves use outfits and illusions to play tricks on their peers. Many consider the Moonweaver to be the goddess of love, obscuring tryst of lovers with shadows to keep these meetings secret. "Those who work in darkness and trickery often ask for her blessing" and those who invoke Catha granted with "inspired dreams" and knowledge of "hidden paths". "The Moonweaver sends her will as the goddess of moonlight and the autumn season, as well as the patron of illusions and misdirection". Many of the Water Ashari of Vesrah worship the Moonweaver, for her control over the tides.

Tal'Dorei
Sehanine is widely worshiped in Lyrengorn and in the Verdant Expanse, where a small Syngornian sect of the Moonweaver derives a moral imperative from the predictability of the lunar cycle to safeguard balance and calm order in the world.

She has a smaller but nontrivial following on the Bladeshimmer Shoreline, the Rifenmist Peninsula, and in the Stormcrest Mountains.

Wildemount
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.

Known worshipers

 * Mollymauk Tealeaf
 * Lucius Lorelei
 * Nalys Ildareth
 * Alyxian, the Apotheon

Celestials

 * Perigee, a deva

History
Sehanine is among the Prime Deities who fought the Primordials and the Betrayer Gods to protect the mortal races during the Founding.

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 and 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.

During the Calamity, the joint efforts of two worshippers of Sehanine and Melora forged a longsword Vestige of Divergence, the Star Razor. It is described as carrying "the blessing of the fiercest full moon and starlit night" or as "bright with the light of the bold full moon and the enigmatic starlit night".

Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein
 While Molly was influenced by Zone of Truth, he revealed himself to be a follower of the Moonweaver.

 At the culmination of Traveler Con, The Traveler disguised himself in sky-blue skin, white hair, and a feminine form. He told the crowd that the Traveler was but one aspect of Sehanine, a new avatar who had guided them to her. At that moment, the clouds parted revealing a full white moon, and the moonbeams turned into white chains that wrapped around the Traveler, pulling him skyward. A white-winged blue-skinned angelic figure holding a sword and whip descended, saying that the Traveler spoke in absolute falsehoods and did not represent the Moonweaver or any of her divine children, and began dragging him away in chains to be brought back to the Feywild for further judgement on his blasphemy.

Jester interceded, sobbing, holding Artagan as he was pulled upward. The planetar asked why she wept for him, and Jester responded that she loved him. Artagan forced both her and Fjord (who was holding Jester) free. As he was pulled higher and higher, a different voice emerged from the planetar, implied to be Sehanine herself, which then asked the Traveler if he had learned his lesson. He nodded. The chains broke apart, freeing Artagan, and the different voice from the planetar told the gathered people that if they wanted to find a new god, She would be happy to take them in.

Appearances and mentions

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