Lunara
The Light Moon · The Silver Healer · Mother of Tides · The Gentle Watcher
Domain
Light, Healing, Tides, Growth, Protection, Renewal
Alignment
Neutral Good
Status
Active
Factions
None
Lunara is the goddess of the light moon — a celestial deity associated with purity, healing, and the protective power of moonlight. One half of the eternal duality that governs the night sky of Asphodel, Lunara embodies light, life, and order. Her silvery radiance is believed to have restorative properties, and her phases govern the tides of the Shattered Coast and the growth cycles of plants and animals across the world. Midwives, herbalists, sailors, and those who tend the sick through the night count themselves among her most devoted faithful.
Holy Symbol
A crescent moon radiating soft silver light, cradled by twin waves
Worship & Rites
Moonlit vigils, herbal offerings, and healing prayers conducted under the light of the visible moon. Farmers plant and harvest according to Lunara's phases, and coastal communities track her cycle to predict the tides. Benevolent and life-affirming magic is performed under her full light, when her restorative influence is at its peak. Offerings of silver thread, moonflowers, and fresh spring water are common at her shrines.
Clergy & Organization
The Order of the Silver Vigil — healers, moon-priests, and tide-watchers who serve in temples, harbors, and rural healing houses across Asphodel. Many are attached to Solaran temples as a complementary nocturnal tradition, tending to the faithful through the night hours when Solara's light has faded. Initiates undergo a month-long period of night-waking, learning to draw on Lunara's light for restorative magic.
Holy Days
The Silver Vigil
Observed on the night of the brightest full moon, when healers gather to tend the sick and renew their vows. Temples open their doors to all who suffer, and no one is turned away until dawn.
The Tideblessing
A coastal festival held when Lunara's orbit brings her closest to Asphodel, swelling the tides to their highest point. Fishing communities launch blessed vessels and offer silver coins to the sea, asking for safe passage and bountiful catches in the season ahead.
The Twin Ascension
A rare celebration observed when both Lunara and Noctis are full on the same night — an event that occurs only once every few years. Temples of both moons open simultaneously, and even Noctis' secretive faithful emerge to observe the celestial balance. It is considered the most magically potent night in Asphodel.
Lore & History
The world of Asphodel has two moons, and Lunara is the brighter of the pair — a silver beacon that has watched over the world since before the first mortal drew breath. Where her counterpart Noctis represents shadow and hidden knowledge, Lunara embodies the comforting presence of light in darkness, a celestial guardian for travelers, the sick, and the grieving.
Lunara's influence extends far beyond the spiritual. Her phases govern the tides of the Shattered Coast, and sailors have charted her cycles for millennia, knowing that her pull determines whether harbors swell or recede. Farmers across the interior plant and harvest by her light, believing that seeds sown under a waxing Lunara grow stronger, while crops gathered under her full face keep longer through the winter months. Herbalists insist that medicinal plants harvested by her silver glow carry greater potency — a claim that hedge-witches and temple alchemists alike swear by.
The two moons are seen as complementary forces representing the duality of the universe. Lunara embodies light, life, and order, while Noctis embodies darkness, death, and chaos. This duality is reflected in the magic system of Asphodel, where both light and dark magic exist in a delicate balance — one cannot exist without the other, and practitioners who ignore this truth do so at their peril.
In the mythology and folklore of Asphodel, Lunara is seen differently across cultures. The people of Thalassia revere her as the Mother of Tides, a nurturing presence who shields their island kingdom from the worst of the sea's fury. The Éirleach druids see her as a mirror of the natural world — neither goddess nor spirit, but the living pulse of growth and decay made visible in the sky. Among the Frostfall clans, she is the Gentle Watcher, the one light that persists even through the longest polar nights.
The presence of two moons in the sky creates a unique and visually stunning landscape across Asphodel. On clear nights, the interplay of Lunara's silver light and Noctis' darker shadow casts the world in layered hues — twin sets of shadows stretching from every tree and tower, overlapping and shifting as the moons trace their separate arcs. It is a constant, beautiful reminder of the delicate balance between light and darkness, order and chaos, that defines the world.