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| name        = Golarion's Moon (Somal)
| titles      = Somal
| type        = Moon
| adjective   = Lunar
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| gravity     = x 1/6
| atmosphere  = None except in Pockets and the Moonscar
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| inhabitants = [[Half-fiend]]s
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| source      = [[People of the Stars]]
| page        = 11
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[[Golarion]] has one large, grey, crater-scarred [[moon]],<ref>{{Cite book/Gazetteer|18}}</ref> which was called '''Somal''' by the [[Azlanti (human ethnicity)|Azlanti]].<ref>{{Cite book/The Moonscar|2}}</ref> '''Golarion's moon''' is tidally locked, and thus always shows the same face to its [[planet]], causing much speculation about what actually is on the dark side of the moon.<ref>{{Cite book/Children of the Void|49}}</ref> Size-wise, the moon has a surface just seven percent that of Golarion's.<ref name="PotS11">{{Cite book/People of the Stars|11}}</ref>

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== Moonscar ==
From Golarion, the moon is seen to have a shadowy area on its lower quadrant. [[Astronomy|Astronomers]] document this as a mountain range or a canyon; they are wrong. The [[Moonscar]] was formed over 12,000 years ago during a disaster which led to an invasion of the moon by the [[Abyss]]: the Moonscar is an horrific forest home to [[demon]]s, abyssal plants and monsters. The Moonscar is dominated by [[succubus]]-mothered [[half-fiend]]s who are a great threat to the peoples of Golarion. The fiends are capable of travelling from the moon to Golarion to snatch victims to return to the Moonscar, there to corrupt and breed and further the half-fiend population. Even more insidious is the return of some of the victims, after corruption, to twist their earthly homes to chaos and evil.<ref>{{Cite book/Lords of Chaos|63}}</ref>

== The ''Starstone'' ==
An ancient rumour exists that when the ''[[Starstone]]'' plunged to Golarion thousands of years ago, parts of it broke off in the planet's atmosphere and ended up landing on the moon.<ref name="PotS11"/>

== Lunar calendar ==
Golarion has a '''lunar calendar''' which follows the phases of its moon. Each full moon is given its own name and, in order through the year, they are:<ref>{{cite book/Blood of the Moon|inside back cover}}</ref>

* Long Moon
* Fated Moon
* Rebirth Moon
* Flood Moon
* Blossom Moon
* Sweet Moon
* Lover's Moon
* Swarm Moon
* Harvest Moon
* Hunter's Moon
* Black Moon
* Cold Moon

It is not known what the thirteenth moon would be called when a year contained thirteen full moons.

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