Moon

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Moon

(Cosmos)

Type

Moon

Adjective

Lunar

This article covers the class of celestial bodies. For Golarion's moon, see Moon (Golarion).

A moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet.

Many moons visibly orbit Bretheda in this diagram of Golarion's solar system.

In Golarion's solar system

Castrovel

Castrovel has one moon.

Golarion

Golarion has one grey, crater-scarred moon, which the Azlanti called "Somal". Golarion's moon is tidally locked and always shows the same face to its planet, causing much speculation about what is on its dark side. A crescent moon on Golarion is sometimes called a skeleton moon.

Eox

Many objects orbit Eox, including:

• The Sentinel: An orbiting city created to defend the planet in the time before the cataclysm, it is now used by bone sages.
• The Thousand Moons: Created by the ejected mass from the Facinora Basin, they form a ring of moonlets.

Liavara

Liavara has many moons, including the five listed below and many smaller ones, collectively known as the Shepherd Moons:

• Arkanen
• Hallas
• Melos
• Nchak
• Osoro

Bretheda

Bretheda gains its title, the Cradle, from its vast number of moons. Many of Bretheda's moons are inert rock, many are tiny and insignificant, but some are remarkable, such as:

• Dykon, the crystalline moon
• Kalo-Mahoi, the aquatic, ice encrusted moon
• Marata
• Thyst, the poisonous moon
• Varos, the volcanic moon

Other moons

• Beurdreda is a moon made out of ice orbiting a planet distant from Golarion.
• The moon above Jezelda's Abyssal realm is called the Moonbog.
• The god Groetus takes the form of a moon that hangs above Pharasma's realm of the Boneyard.

In religion

Cultists worship Groetus, portrayed as a moon high above the ceremony.

There are many religious associations with moons, or with Golarion's moon in particular.

Moon subdomain deities

These deities grant powers of the Moon subdomain to their followers:

• Acavna
• Ah Pook
• Ashava
• Camazotz
• Haggakal
• Jezelda
• Kelinahat
• Ketephys
• Nocticula
• Tanagaar
• Thoth
• Tsukiyo
• Yan-gant-y-tan

Personification

• Desna is worshipped as "Mother Moon" by the matriarchal Nomen centaur tribe.
• Groetus is a god portrayed as a sentient and cruel moonlet that looks down upon the Boneyard.
• Haggakal.

Title

• Jezelda is called Mistress of the Hungry Moon and Demon Lord of The Moon.
• Tsukiyo is called the Prince of the Moon.
• Tsukuyomi, the azata Empyreal lord, is known as Prince of the Moon.

Portfolio

The following deities hold, or held, the moon as one of their portfolios:

• Acavna (see Azlanti)
• Jezelda
• Ketephys
• Tsukiyo

Religious symbols

• Desna: Butterfly with star, sun, and moon symbols on its wings.
• Fandarra: Crescent moon and night sky in shape of mountain.
• Groetus: Full moon with faint image of a skull seen in the craters.
• Jezelda: Full moon rising above a desolate moor.
• Ketephys: Hawk on a silver crescent.
• Tsukiyo: a jade crescent moon.

Ceremonies

• Zon-Kuthon: See Eternal Kiss.

See also

• Jezelda has her home on the Outer Rifts called the Moonbog (Misty Moonlit Moor of Frightened Human Victims)
• The moon is frequently connected to werecreatures.
• One of the Shoanti tribes is called Lyrune-Quah, or the Moon Clan.

References

For additional as-yet unincorporated sources about this subject, see the Meta page.

External links

• Moon (Earth's real-world moon) on Wikipedia
• Natural satellite (real-world moons) on Wikipedia