Luna Luna was a female human who managed the Selûne ' s Smile tavern in Waterdeep in the 1350s DR . Luna was in truth an avatar of the goddess Selûne , the Moonmaiden , who dwelled among mortals occasionally . History . The Song of Selûne . Luna ' s past was a part of legend , told in the Song of Selûne . The story began with Selûne as a youthful and beautiful goddess , residing in a mystic realm populated by deities . Turning aside from a life of ease , she was impulsive and grew tired of life in her own plane . Thus , she " borrowed " a wand of power from a god known only as " her father " and used the wand to fly away in a bubble of force , so that she might experience life in other realms . In time , she traveled to a plane with a forbidding blood moon palely glowing over a barren land . There , Selûne was smitten by a mysterious and attractive warrior , a lord of his people . The stranger persuaded her to use the wand to transport him and his followers to Toril , riding upon winged beasts , where they planned to settle . However , once they landed , he revealed his true form and intentions — he was the monstrous Imgig Zu . He and his people were hideous shapechanging monsters , set on conquest and ruin . He seized her father ' s wand of power and intended to kill the deceived goddess . Fortunately , help arrived in the form of a young wizard , Ostus Agrivar , who rode to her rescue , hurling a spell at Imgig . Although he was not powerful enough to defeat the monsters , he was able to cause enough confusion and chaos that Selûne could escape , climbing onto his horse . The goddess , now freed from her subjugation , used the only thing she had left : her own life force . Draining her life force away , she imprisoned the monsters inside a pocket dimension within a gigantic moonstone , which should contain them for all time . She reduced the gem , now known as " Selûne ' s Eye " , in size and gave it Ostus for safe keeping . However , the price of victory had been great . By using her life force , Selûne had weakened herself and sacrificed her immortal youthful vitality and beauty , aging thousands of years . This was a fact she kept hidden from the young wizard . The story had a few alternate endings . In some , Selûne learned her lesson and went back to her home , and brought the young mage with her . In others , Selûne died because of her sacrifice , but was resurrected come the next full moon . Still others told that the young mage loved her , but she rejected his advances because she was no longer young or beautiful . Aiding Conner and the Catlord . In the late 1340s DR , the conman and thief Conner had attempted to rescue the young Vajra Valmeyjar from slavery to Pasha Abon Duum in the Arena of Blood of Manshaka . He failed , and Duum ' s men beat him and left him for dead in the desert . As he lay dying beneath a desert moon , Selûne healed him through divine intervention . He survived , but continually tried and failed to rescue Vajra . At some point in the 1350s DR , known only as a mysterious woman , Selûne appeared to Conner . She foretold certain signs and sent him into the midst a vicious battle between the Catlord and the god Malar , the Beastlord , to rescue the kittenlord from the grasp of Abon Duum . Conner claimed to be on a mission from a god to protect the child . The Catlord agreed , and bought time for Conner to carry the child away . He was guided by the foretold signs . Thus Conner became the guardian of the heir to the great cat lord . The Selûne ' s Smile . Luna managed the newly established Selûne ' s Smile tavern in Waterdeep in the 1350s DR . An older Vajra Valmeyjar , now a free woman , took work as a bouncer there and became friends with Luna , with the two developing a good working relationship . Even after she left her employment , Vajra remained friends with Luna , who sometimes contacted her with unusual jobs that suited her abilities . In the Year of the Prince , 1357 DR , Cybriana ( the daughter of Ostus Agrivar ) , Timoth Eyesbright , and Onyx the Invincible had been seeking the paladin Priam Agrivar ( son of Ostus ) when they finally arrived at Selûne ' s Smile . Luna summoned Vajra to help them and introduced them . Vajra led them to Priam — the drunken beggar outside , whom they rescued from thugs . They all stayed in the tavern ' s common room that night , as Luna mused on the destiny of the five adventurers , and that of the world , before meeting with her " father " . Not long after , Selûne caused a shaft of moonlight to transport Conner and the kittenlord away from an attack by dire wolves . They appeared in the street outside Selûne ' s Smile , where Luna was there to greet them . Luna put the boy to bed , but he was still afraid of the wolves , so she told him a bedtime story , the Song of Selûne , which Luna and Conner found rather personal . Meanwhile , Vajra , Priam , Cybriana , Onyx , and Timoth had become caught up in Imgig Zu ' s schemes . Imgig had escaped " Selûne ' s Eye " and now plotted to release the rest of this people to conquer the Realms . As the heroes battled through Imgig Zu ' s minions and confronted him , Luna looked on from the Smile via a magical image of events , hoping they would succeed against her nemesis . When they were overwhelmed and subdued , threatened with death , Luna sent the moon to help . The roof of the cavern tore open and the brilliant light of the full moon shone through , blinding the ogre s . Priam slew Imgig Zu and Cybriana merged into Kyriani to trap Imgig ' s people back within " Selûne ' s Eye " . The victorious adventurers returned to the Selûne ' s Smile , where Luna placed the powerful " Selûne ' s Eye " gem on a shelf over the bar , then bestowed treasures on the heroes . Later that year , Duum ' s bounty hunters caught up with Vajra and the kittenlord , kidnapping the both of them from Selûne ' s Smile . The hunt to rescue the boy led Vajra and Conner back to Manshaka , meeting the Catlord , and ultimately thwarting Pasha Abon Duum ' s schemes and leading Vajra and Conner to reconcile . They returned to the Selûne ' s Smile , where Conner thanked Luna for all she ' d done , professing he ' d deduced her to be the goddess Selûne months before . He thanked her for giving him a chance to redeem himself , but she admitted she hadn ' t done it for him . Instead , she ' d done it for Vajra . Her experiences of betrayal had hardened her heart , shutting out much personal pain , but also chances to feel love or joy . Luna had worked to open her heart again . At one point , Luna cut off Onyx ' s bar tab , again . Shortly after , Luna felt a foreboding of danger , a secret that shook the heavens , and prayed to her father for answers . Just then , an interdimensional wormhole ( from the Great Door ) opened in the darkened skies over Waterdeep , disgorging a swarm of gargoyle s and kenku s . Vajra and Timoth battled the flying creatures until they were overwhelmed ; Luna urged them back into the Smile . As they watched the City Guard and Khelben Arunsun hold them off , Luna noted that this was " not " the danger she ' d sensed . On the hottest day of summer , 1357 DR , Vajra and Timoth arm - wrestled in the Smile as watched on and Onyx collected bets . Little did they know that their contest was magically enhanced , releasing Aviss and Fellandar from their extra - dimensional prison to wreak a path of destruction through the city , beginning and ending at the Smile . Khelben Arunsun suggested Luna use her " special powers " to thwart the villains , though Luna feigned ignorance . Still , in the end , she reflected moonlight from a silver dish into their eyes , dazzling them long enough for Khelben to hurl the villains back into their prison . Khelben thanked Selûne for their good fortune . Description . Luna appeared to be a short , plump woman with long , curly gray hair . She was of middling years but fair , with a matronly aspect . The young goddess Selûne depicted in the Song of Selûne was a slender , beautiful young woman , also with long curly gray hair , wearing a purple dress .