Lunera
Lunera, the Silent Watcher, is the goddess of night, dreams, and hidden truth. She is the stillness between heartbeats, the voice that whispers when all others fall silent. To some, she is the gentle guardian who watches over sleepers and guides lost souls through the dark. To others, she is the veiled manipulator, the keeper of visions that twist reality, and the hand that stirs unseen destinies.
Her faith teaches that the night is a veil, a time for reflection, secrecy, and revelation. Whether comforting or disquieting, Lunera’s gaze never sleeps.
description
Lunera is depicted as a tall, graceful woman cloaked in shadowed silk that glimmers like starlight. Her face is often half-hidden by a silver veil. In one hand, she holds a crescent moon that shines with pale light. in the other, a black mirror or silver dagger, depending on the artist’s interpretation.
In older depictions, she is entirely faceless, a silhouette of serenity surrounded by glowing orbs that represent sleeping souls.
Titles
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Worshippers
Alignment
Symbol
Domains
Favoured Colour
The Silent Watcher
Lunite
Dreamers and Mystics
Any
A Crescent Moon with open eyes
Night, Dreams, Secrets
Pale Blue
Worshippers
Basic Information
Activities
Lunera’s presence is felt most strongly in the quiet hours of the night. She manifests in dreams, offering visions of what was, what is, or what might be.
Sometimes her messages are blessings, guiding lost travellers, soothing the grieving, or granting insight to those who seek peace. At other times, her dreams are warnings or torment, showing mortals the truths they refuse to face.
Her miracles are subtle. A sudden calm in the heart of fear. A shadow that moves to shield the innocent, or a dream remembered just in time to avert disaster.
Personality
Lunera is serene, distant, and inscrutable. She rarely speaks directly, preferring symbols and intuition over words. To some, she is endlessly compassionate, patient and forgiving, offering wisdom through stillness. To others, she is cold and manipulative, her silence masking motives mortals cannot hope to understand. Lunera embodies truth as reflection rather than revelation, she does not force knowledge upon mortals but waits for them to recognize it in themselves. She loves humanity deeply, yet keeps them at arm’s length, for she knows that too much truth can shatter as easily as it frees.
The faith of Lunera is among the oldest in humanities memory. When the first fires burned low and the wild world pressed close, mortals looked to the moon as their only constant companion in the dark. From that reverence rose the belief that the moon itself was a watcher, compassionate yet remote, seeing all that unfolded beneath its light. Over time, this belief coalesced into worship of Lunera, the goddess who saw all deeds done in secret and judged not by day’s reason but by night’s truth.
Priests of Lunera, known originally as the Dreamers, recorded the first known prophecies of humankind. Kings and seers alike sought them for guidance, for they believed the goddess spoke through dreams to shape fate’s course. Yet her teachings have always divided her followers. Some sects view Lunera as a gentle protector, offering rest and solace to the weary. Others, believe her silence conceals a deeper agenda, that she manipulates mortal dreams to shape reality itself.
In Misthria’s history, her faith waxes and wanes with the moon’s phases. During times of uncertainty, her worshippers are welcomed as counsellors and prophets, in ages of fear, they are hunted as deceivers. Regardless, her influence endures, for even the most faithful of Solara’s light must rest beneath Lunera’s gaze.
History
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Kaelis, The Wanderer – Allies of the unseen road; Lunera watches where Kaelis walks.
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Nytheris, The Shadowed Sage – Sisters of silence; one guards dreams, the other guards truth.
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Solara, The Dawnmother – Balancing light and dark; both reveal in their own time.
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Sylthara, Keeper of the Veil – Kindred stillness; both are watchers, not actors, preserving the balance unseen.
Relationships
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Dream Offering: Devotees write their fears or desires upon parchment and burn them before sleeping, believing the smoke carries their pleas to the Watcher.
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The Mirror Rite: Performed by clerics and priest, this ritual uses a bowl of still water to commune with Lunera’s reflection (the crescent moon), seeking prophecy or closure for the lost.
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Festival of Shadows: Held during the new moon, worshippers don masks and exchange secrets anonymously.
Rituals
Lunera’s worshippers are poets, mystics, spies, and dreamers, those who live by instinct and insight rather than law or doctrine. She is beloved by travellers and night watchmen, midwives and mourners, for her calm presence brings solace where others bring noise. Her temples are quiet sanctuaries of moonstone and water, open to all who seek peace or understanding.
Her clergy, interpret dreams, mediate disputes, and serve as keepers of unspoken truths. They are trusted as confessors and feared as seers, for Lunera’s followers are said to know more than they should. Many rulers consult them in secret, seeking counsel in private where the sun’s scrutiny cannot reach.
To her faithful, Lunera is not a distant deity but a presence in every shadow, the soft breath that cools fevered dreams, the calm after grief, the promise that even in darkness, one is never truly alone. Yet she also reminds mortals that shadows do not lie, they merely show what light refuses to see.