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The '''moon''' is a prominent celestial body, overseen by the [[God|Goddess]] [[Ourania]], that dominates the night sky of [[Sapience]]'s planet. Its powers were once tied to the planet [[Lunastra]]. | |||
==Influence== | |||
Throughout the span of mortal memory, the moon has played many important roles running the gamut from historical to spiritual. Worship of such predates the ascension of the goddess Ourania, reaching back to the cult of the [[Supernal Triad]] in ancient [[Hashan]]. Lunastrans have also cropped up, along with parallels in the other two parts of the Triad, among the [[Tsol'dasi]] astronomer-cultists of the [[Valho Coast]]. The Hashani cult's practices saw the light of the [[Modern Age]] in the form of the [[Disc of the Nocturne]], a device that was later used to determine the divine patronage of the city. | |||
Further north, the Yriluawe people of [[Aran'riod]] have revered the phases of the moon since time immemorial. Their oracles and spiritualists have raised it to a position of prominence alongside the creation of [[human]]ity, and the Yriluawen shamans take great pains to ensure that the proper rites are enacted at the proper luminosity. | |||
In the ancient [[Tsol'aa]]-developed art of [[Tattoos]], the moon is used as a symbol for the passive regeneration of [[mana]]. A similar ideal is found in the city improvement known as the [[Pillar of the Moon]], a monument that bolsters the mental capacity of all who would dwell beneath it. | |||
During the [[Eternal Night]], the moon was darkened with the [[sun]] beneath the tidally locked planets [[Noxtra]], [[Somnustra]], and Lunastra. Slivers of errant moonlight empowered the net that found its way onto the dread [[nychtaur]], transforming the beast into its original form as the soul of a [[unicorn]]. When the Supernal Triad was destroyed in the cataclysmic wake of the Eternal Night, the light of the sun and moon was finally restored to Sapience. | |||
==Phases== | |||
Each of the eight distinct phases of the moon observable to attentive sky-watchers is foretold to have eldritch mysteries related to it. | |||
;''New Moon'' : The beginning of the lunar cycle; the moon, though present, appears dark or totally absent during this phase. | ;''New Moon'' : The beginning of the lunar cycle; the moon, though present, appears dark or totally absent during this phase. | ||
;''Waxing Crescent'' : Represented by a crescent-shaped arch on the right hand of the circle in the sky. | ;''Waxing Crescent'' : Represented by a crescent-shaped arch on the right hand of the circle in the sky. | ||