Editing Selûne (section)

==Recent Events==
In the conversion to 4e Forgotten Realms; since there were so many gods that some had overlapping portfolios, many were removed and some were mashed together, with little regard for their story (and therefore how much sense it made in-universe to combine them). As there were multiple goddesses of the moon, [[Eilistraee]] was killed off and Selûne was combined with [[Sehanine]], who was the Elven version. This completely ignored the fact that there was little overlap among the 3 goddesses: Sehanine is also, and mainly, the elven deity of death and mysteries, while for Eilistraee, her association with the moon is mostly cosmetic and due to the fact that surface drow are more cofortable by night; she is not a moon goddess and her goals/activities are completely unrelated to that. In any case, in core 4e, Sehanine took the mantle of "moon goddess". In 4e Forgotten Realms it transpired that Sehanine had been an "Aspect" of Selûne all along (or vice versa), even though that made absolutely 0 sense, since Sehanine has always been an interloper, multispheric deity, while Selune is one of the deities involved in the creation myth of Toril, therefore predating the arrival of Sehanine. In any case, while there were two different religions for goddesses of the Moon and they were allowed to have differing origin stories and power levels, in 4e they were in essence the same thing. 

Needless to say the simplification of the pantheon would quickly be reversed when Wizards went back on their choices for 4e. In 5e, the retcon that had Sehanine become an aspect of Selune was re-retconned, and Eilistraee was restored (or revealed to have survived by Ed Greenwood, despite having lost her divinity for a century or so, and then recovering it with the Second Sundering).

This gets more complicated when you consider that Sehanine is also an aspect for ''yet another'' Goddess called '''Angharradh'''. It's at this point the [[Athar]] would stop by to hand you their recruitment flyer.

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