Selûne battles Shar, while her Shards swoop overhead. When beseeched by her clergy, she always responded. She also made few demands of her followers. She was generous and freely bestowed gifts and blessings on mortals. The one constant was her eternal conflict with Shar.
She was fiercely protective when confronted by evil. She had a serene and peaceful nature and was slow to anger she would not fight if she could help it, but nor did she hold back if she must. She was quietly mystical and, as a being of chaos, well used to change. Nevertheless, at all times, Selûne was caring and accepting of most beings, and forgiving of most of her followers' faults. Nevertheless, she was viewed as a calm power circa 1489 DR. These shifting personalities made her versatile. Finally, she could be aggressive and fierce, but cold, and with little mercy for her enemies. Then she was remote and weighed down by sadness at defeats and tragedies, even those that happened long, long ago. At other times, she was subdued, motherly, and almost poetic or tranquil and embracing. Sometimes she was enthusiastic, vivacious, joyous, and majestic, given to action and dance. Her faithful, coming from many walks of life, viewed her in countless different ways, and she reflected this. Like the cycles of the moon, Selûne had many and changing moods and natures. In any form or state, whenever she was in darkness, Selûne's avatar continually emanated a faint blue-white glow like moonlight. But, over time, she did indeed wax and wane in power and prominence. Such changes only affected her external appearance and did not reflect any change in might, at least to mortal eyes.
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If watched over time, her appearance seemed to grow to full radiance or to age and fade away, in keeping with the waxing or waning of the moon. She was also ever changing, ageing but ageless. A simple depiction of the goddess was of a woman's face on the disc of the moon. This one sometimes lived among mortals the most notable such avatar was the innkeeper Luna. A third was a matronly middle-aged woman, plump yet fair and aging gracefully, with gray-streaked dark hair. Another was an ethereal young girl of slender frame, dark eyes, and dark hair, wearing diaphanous robes colored white or resembling dappled moonlight, which trailed her "moondust" or "moon motes". One was a dusky-skinned human woman with long limbs perfect and exquisite beauty wide, radiant, lime-green eyes and long, ivory-hued hair that fell to her knees. In both her avatars and her religious artwork, Selûne appeared in many forms, like the phases of the moon. Regardless, most Faerûnian humans believed the moon to be the goddess herself watching over the world and the lights that trailed behind it to be her tears, from both joy and sorrow. Her name was shared by the moon of Toril, Selûne it was unknown if the moon was named for the goddess or the goddess for the moon. She was also known as Bright Nydra in the Farsea Marshes as Elah among the Bedine of Anauroch and as Lucha, called She Who Guides, in the Shining Lands, where she was part of the faith of the Adama. Her nature, appearance, and mood all changed in turn with the phases of the moon. Hers was the moon's mysterious power, the heavenly force that governed the world's tides and a mother's reproductive cycles, caused lycanthropes to shift form, and drew one to the brink of madness, and back again. In the time of ancient Netheril, when she was a greater goddess, she held the portfolios of the moon, moonlight, and stars beauty and purity love and marriage navigation and navigators tracking, wanderers, and seekers diviners and dreams good and neutral lycanthropes and autumn. In the 14 th and 15 th centuries DR, she held the portfolios of the moon, stars, navigation, navigators, wanderers, questers, seekers, and non-evil lycanthropes. Blue, silver Church of Selûne Selûne ( pronounced: / s ɛˈ l uː n ɛ/ seh-LOON-eh or: / s ɛˈ l uː n eɪ/ seh-LOON-ay ), also known as Our Lady of Silver, the Moonmaiden, and the Night White Lady, was the goddess of the moon in the Faerûnian pantheon.
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