Selûne

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Selûne (苏伦)
Alias(es)	Lady of Silver, Silver Moon Lady, Maiden of the Moon, Lady of the White Night, Guide, Silver Mother; affectionately called “Mama Selûne” by Aaron 3 163
Species/Race	Primordial goddess; one of Realmspace’s two original creator deities beneath Ao 5 701
Gender	Female 3
Alignment	Chaotic good 4
Affiliation	Church of Selûne; Harpers; Black Moon Pantheon; formerly Sune’s pantheon 119 162 674
Occupation/Role	Moon goddess; goddess of women and motherhood; patron of good lycanthropes and the Harpers 162 287 324 442
Divine Realm	Moon Gate 162
Family	Shar — younger sister; Mystryl — daughter, born from the collision of Selûne’s and Shar’s powers 5 698 701
Status	Active; formerly a greater deity, but still below that rank during the final battle against Shar 698 701
First Appearance	Introduced by name in Chapter 3; first directly appears to Aaron in Chapter 5 3 5

Power Progression

Historical changes are listed by their place in Selûne’s life; the citations identify where they are described.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Primordial creator goddess / former greater deity	5 65 701	Emerged from primordial chaos alongside Shar. The sisters originally shared every divine domain and each possessed part of the world’s source power.
Greatly diminished divine power	119 698	Sacrificed most of her divine essence to wound Shar during the original War in Heaven. Her power eventually fell below lesser rank, prompting her to seek Sune’s protection as a subordinate deity.
Intermediate deity	119	Recovered to intermediate divine power after the Time of Troubles and peacefully left Sune’s pantheon.
Expanded celestial spell tradition	152 163 286	Aaron’s Wind of Heavens merged with her power over stars, moon, and the starry sky. Her clergy gained an additional spell list, though her power alone could not reproduce the full celestial tradition.
Approaching greater-deity strength	493 621	Church funding, Heavens Magic, and accessible Word of Truth spells helped attract millions of additional worshippers. She announced another attempt to regain greater rank, but had not achieved it by the final battle against Shar 698.

Background / History

Creation and the Original War in Heaven

After Ao created Realmspace and its Crystal Sphere, Selûne and Shar emerged from the primordial void. Selûne represented the universe’s first light, while Shar embodied primordial darkness. They initially lived in harmony 5 288.

When Chauntea arose and asked for warmth, Selûne brought the Eternal Flame from the Elemental Plane of Fire and ignited the sun, allowing the earth to support life. This disagreement over light and creation became the foundation of the sisters’ War in Heaven 5 288.

Unable to defeat Shar through continued combat, Selûne stripped away most of her divine essence and hurled it at her sister. The attack severely wounded Shar and barely secured victory. Their colliding powers gave birth to Mystryl, the first Goddess of Magic 698.

Decline and the Time of Troubles

Selûne’s weakened condition eventually drove her to become Sune’s subordinate deity. Their arrangement provided protection rather than ending their friendship 119.

During the Time of Troubles, Selûne lost access to her realm and suffered impaired power and memory. Shar impersonated the “real Lady of Silver,” captured her, and nearly brainwashed her into becoming a Chosen of the Night. Adventurers rescued Selûne; High Priestess Naneze Sarrel played a critical role, and Khelben helped coordinate the rescue. After recovering her power, Selûne defeated Shar in Waterdeep 5 162 204.

Waterdeep became a holy site commemorating that victory. After returning to intermediate rank, Selûne peacefully left Sune’s pantheon to pursue an independent path 5 119.

Appearance

Selûne’s Lady of Silver form has silver-white hair, clear emerald-green eyes, fair luminous skin, and a mature, maternal appearance. One manifestation in her realm is explicitly three meters tall 163 287.

• Three principal aspects: the maiden-shaped Maiden of the Moon, the young-woman aspect Selûne, and the mature Lady of Silver 162.
• Clothing: frequently wears white, sky-blue, or pale blue-green gowns; later appearances include a white, gold-iris embroidered qipao 5 423 493.
• Jewelry: pearl necklaces and crescent-shaped sapphire earrings 5 152.
• Footwear: appears barefoot in her garden, but also wears Greek-style sandals and open-toed heels 5 388 423.
• Divine ornamentation: blue rose petals are normally concealed beneath her halo 388.

Personality

Selûne treats her followers as children and offers care without demanding repayment. After healing Aaron, she asks only that he remain healthy and help people in need. Her approach to independence is similarly parental: once she believes someone can stand alone, she steps back rather than maintaining control 6 287.

Her gentleness does not prevent moral confrontation. She warns Aaron against reckless killing, sacrificing innocents, and confusing spiritual integrity with accumulated power. When he accepts a relic in exchange for concealing the Hellriders’ betrayal, she directly rebukes him 65 162 388.

She is also whimsical. Impulsive decisions and shifting directives historically made it difficult for her clergy to follow a consistent long-term policy. Against Shar, she usually defended and counterattacked rather than pursuing a decisive end to their conflict 287 288.

Her affection for Shar survives their rivalry: she asks that her sister be spared if possible. Her relationship with Aaron becomes more possessive and explicitly romantic, while her secret occupation of Eleanor’s body shows that her own conduct does not always respect the autonomy she advocates 288 443 545.

Abilities & Skills

Moonlight and Moonfire

Selûne channels lunar radiance into healing, protection, and destructive magic 5 183 389.

• Converts moonlight into milky-white moonfire, filling the pond used to renew Aaron’s body 5.
• Heals injuries through manifestations and grants shields of divine power; the protection given to Aaron’s companions lasts three days 183.
• Infuses weapons with moonlight damage, ranged lunar attacks, and Moonfire spells 65 389.
• Her healing is not unlimited: Disma and Maximian remain injured after receiving aid because their wounds are too severe 183.

Restoration and Soul Healing

Her blessing repairs both physical and spiritual damage 5 6 12.

• Restores Aaron’s body and soul, leaving him capable of bearing divine authority and with Charisma raised to 22 5 6.
• Temporarily suppresses the Chaos Gods’ curse rather than permanently removing its underlying danger 6.
• Rebuilds Isobel’s body after Aaron saves her soul from dissolution in the Shadowfell; Selûne cannot accomplish that rescue alone 406.
• Opens Halisstra’s soul, strengthens Eilistraee’s virtues within it, and suppresses Lolth’s lingering influence 673.

Divine Blessings and Chosen

Selûne can bestow favor, divinity, enhanced weapons, and religious advancement 67 73 562.

• Blesses Eleanor’s Moon’s Hand warhammer after her donation to the Church 67.
• Advances Eleanor directly from Touched One to Moon-Bathed 73.
• Grants Eleanor a sliver of divinity and Legendary advancement for reclaiming her holy city 562.
• Rewards Aylin’s service during the Battle of Waterdeep with a sliver of divinity 406.
• Confirms Aaron as her Chosen while explicitly acknowledging that his power originates elsewhere 289.

Heavens Magic

Aaron’s celestial magic gives Selûne’s clergy access to spells beyond their existing divine repertoire 152 163 286.

• Compatible powers include stars, moon, and the starry sky; her divine form rejects the sun and night components during the initial merging 163.
• The additional spell list supports divination, stellar attacks, altered celestial phenomena, and signaling through the Starry Signature spell 163 286.
• Eleanor and coordinated Selûnite clerics use Heavenly Meteor Burst to destroy a Legion Devil formation during the defense of Suzail 226.

Manifestation, Possession, and Divine Perception

Selûne appears through avatars, relics, and invested divine objects 197 388 442.

• Manifests through the Tears of Selûne relic and can emerge from the Wand of the Fourth Moon during ceremonies 197 388.
• Responds to a powerful summons of faith from good lycanthropes, spending divine power to descend across the ocean 442.
• Secretly inhabits Eleanor without the cleric’s knowledge; repeated possession allows Aaron’s Chaos influence to affect Selûne’s own divine body 443 583.
• Recognizes Amaunator’s craftsmanship in Karsus’s Magic Box and suspects that his divine blood locks the artifact 389.
• Direct intervention remains constrained, particularly after the Time of Troubles; she warns that she may be unable to counter threats from Shar, Gruumsh, or Cyric personally 5 163.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Moon’s Hand warhammer — carried by Selûne when she appears in the Phlogiston Sea during Aaron’s emergence as a true deity 663.
• Sword of the Dark Moon — reforged from Aaron’s broken sword and bestowed on him. Adds armor-bypassing moonlight damage and a ranged, frost-aspected Moonlight Slash; Selûne associates it with a weapon she used while running an inn in Waterdeep 65.
• Three Moonstones — commissioned from three legendary clerics and given to Aaron to activate a power-channeling device in her ruined temple near Arabel 163.
• Wand of the Fourth Moon — a Moonminster weapon containing a sliver of her divinity, through which she may appear at annual celebrations 197.
• Tears of Selûne — holy relic used to transform Eleanor’s Moon’s Hand into an artifact of the same name. Grants protection, enhanced damage against magical defenses, a once-per-week escape from death, and a seventh-circle Moonfire spell 388 389.
• Word of Truth Lasso — Aaron’s protective spell condensed into a bracelet-like object of pure energy, intended to counter the Cyrinishad. Selûne agrees to wear it despite doubting that Cyric can brainwash deities 493.
• Golden Apple — awarded to her by Aaron as the goddess most beautiful to him personally. Its placement is part of Shar’s attempt to fracture the goddesses’ relationships 544 545 546.

Church and Divine Realm

Moon Gate

Selûne’s realm contains a moonlit garden, lakes, a waterfall descending from the heavens, forested mountains, and Sacred White Trees. She summons Aaron there for private counsel and receives other divine visitors 5 162 287.

Worship and Temples

• Followers: predominantly women, especially adult women. The Church treats symbols of womanhood, including human breast milk, as sacred 3.
• Temple requirements: architecture is unimportant; an open-air shrine or magnificent hall is acceptable. A shimmering pond and moonlit garden are indispensable 4.
• Waterdeep: a holy site associated with Selûne’s victory over Shar; Moonminster is a central institution of her worship 5 162.
• Night of the Sacred Rites: observed on a full or new moon; fortunate clerics receive summons to speak with her in her realm 148.
• Harpers: Selûne’s temples honor Harper heroes who defended peace and justice 162.
• Silver Moon Opera Troupe: travels to perform and preach, but also conducts investigations, conspiracies, and assassinations against people its members judge wicked 303.

Clerical Hierarchy

Rank	Qualification / Description
Called	Clerics whom Selûne has never touched 73.
Touched One	One encounter with Selûne 73.
Star-Joined	Multiple encounters with Selûne 73.
Moon-Bathed	Received her blessing 73.
Silverbrow	Rank above Moon-Bathed 73.
Moon	Imbued with her divine power; Lady Silverstar holds this rank 73.
Enlightened	Recognized as fully understanding her teachings 73.
High Enlightened	An Enlightened cleric who has reached Legendary strength 73.
Starforger	Highest-ranking priestesses serving as her Chosen 73.

Commercial Growth and Outreach

Aaron’s Silver Lotion becomes the basis of the Silver Trade Company, established with support from Sune’s Church and the justice and guardianship churches. Selûne distributes early samples among goddesses she knows 118 149.

In the Sunset Lands, Eleanor promotes the faith through free holy-day meals, poor relief, and half-price healing. These services make Selûne’s Church the territory’s most widespread religion. By the time Selûne approaches greater-deity strength again, its worshippers have increased by millions across the Sword Coast and central Realms 251 493.

Relationships

• Aaron Salian — Chosen, divine partner, and eventual romantic interest. She initially regards him as her child because of his family’s devotion and their powers’ shared affinity with cosmic origin and return. They share their first true kiss after the Golden Apple dispute; she postpones his wish to marry her until after his marriages to Eleanor and Charlotte 163 545 546.
• Shar — younger sister and ancient adversary. Selûne still wants her spared, but ultimately joins the coalition that defeats and captures her 288 701.
• Eleanor Dinefleur — devoted cleric, recipient of extensive divine favor, and Selûne’s secret possession vessel. Selûne supports her relationship with Aaron and repeatedly instructs him to treat her well 65 443 493 653.
• Sune — longtime best friend and former patron. Their pantheon separation is peaceful; the Golden Apple dispute later tests their closeness 119 544 545.
• Mystryl — daughter born from the original War in Heaven. Their reunion in the Netherese past is painful because Selûne knows the catastrophe awaiting her, while Mystryl refuses to alter her future 698 701.
• Eilistraee — close allied moon goddess whom Selûne introduces to Aaron as a potential partner against Lolth. She later becomes a central member of the Black Moon Pantheon; Selûne urges Aaron to care for her after her sacrifices 181 546 667 674.
• Chauntea — ancient ally. Selûne plans to approach her to resolve the overlap between Buer’s inherited abundance powers and Chauntea’s domain 54 289.
• Amaunator — former fellow member of the Netherese Seven and proposed solar component of the Heaven Pantheon. Fights alongside Selûne against Shar 288 405 701.
• Lady Silverstar — Moon-ranked cleric who receives Aaron and helps administer Selûne’s interests in Seabury 73 162 286.
• Naneze Sarrel — Starforger and High Priestess of Moonlight whose intervention helped save Selûne during the Time of Troubles 162.
• Khelben Blackstaff — Harper ally who helped organize her rescue from Shar, earning strong ties with her Church 204.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Selûne’s Role
Aaron’s rescue	Renews his body and soul, challenges his expectation that kindness must create debt, and warns him about the price of power 5 6.
Silver Trade Company	Accepts Aaron’s cosmetics venture as a means of strengthening her Church; rewards his contribution with the Sword of the Dark Moon 64 65 149.
Arabel restoration	Counsels Aaron against reckless advancement, supplies Moonstones, accepts his celestial magic, and helps his wounded party escape underground ruins 162 163 183.
Heavenly Paradise Plan	Considers Buer’s healing and abundance legacy as the foundation of a prosperous mortal realm and a coordinated divine alliance against Shar 287 288 289.
Elturel and the Hellriders	Exposes the abandonment of Zariel, warns that Aaron and Eleanor are not ready for Avernus, and equips Eleanor with the Tears of Selûne artifact 388 389.
Moonrise Towers	Restores Isobel’s body after Aaron rescues her soul, enabling the return of Selûnite leadership against Ketheric’s allegiance to Shar 406.
Golden Apple dispute	Receives Aaron’s personal declaration of devotion. Their relationship becomes explicitly romantic, while she turns their wedding plans and northern expedition into preparations against Shar 544 545 546.
Moonsea campaign	Clashes with Shar while possessing Eleanor and struggles to remain a spectator when Aaron is endangered by the Phaerimm 583 592 595.
Aaron’s godhood	Accepts the Lord of Reincarnation and Masked Lady as subordinate lesser deities. Aaron begins handling some of her prayers and divine-magic duties, then later takes an intermediate-deity throne beside her 621 664.
Black Moon Pantheon	Forms the new pantheon with Aaron and Eilistraee. Laduguer and Deep Duerra join as Aaron’s subordinate gods, indirectly serving Selûne 674 676.
Final battle against Shar	Helps identify the impossibility of Shar’s three simultaneously greater-powered aspects. After the coalition’s victory, reunites with Mystryl in the past and returns to her own era 698 701.

Notable Quotes

“I desire peace, but I never forsake battle. When I fight, my symbol is the cold, dark full moon.” 65

“To me, the best repayment is a healthy, whole you. A confident, kindly you.” 64

“A holy relic has a price. Truth is priceless.” 388

“If love could solve everything, you would already be Her Majesty the Overgod, Sune.” 588

Trivia

• The Salian family has worshipped Selûne for seven hundred years, beginning with its ancestor Lyondolf 5.
• She once ran an inn in Waterdeep; Sune recalls legendary visitors, including Khelben, regularly visiting her establishment 65 289.
• Waterdeep’s annual celebration includes a live play reenacting her defeat of Shar with a mace 5.
• Selûne-brand magical stockings provide warmth, cleanliness, leg-shaping effects, and spellcasting concentration benefits, but work only for women 324.