Luna Starleaf

The High Priestess of Nature

### Allies

Aisu Kurimu, Raz Rakoten Mauz, Enel Enlee, Blarg Deaff, Psych Diety, Zander Taxe

### Powers

Divine Magic, Spirit Companion Summoning, Commanding Words, Great Control with Nature

## Appearences

### Referenced In

Crisis of Static Thoughts
A Thousand for One Night
The Psion's Night

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**Luna Starleaf** is an elf cleric, animal tamer and primary naturalist of The Party. She primarily acts by using nature magic to control animals and enemies and supporting her party members with healing magic. Luna has a fairly open personality, happily drinking, dancing and playing games with her party members at any opportunity. She is also the official owner of Big Doggo after she gained his affection when he was supposed to be her enemy. Luna acts a cleric of Melora, although she doesn't worship the goddess in the traditional sense, instead serving the deity through caring for the natural beasts of the world.

# History

Luna was born in the Winterbole Forest into the Evergreen Tribe, a tribe of druidic elves known for their fierce stance on placing the natural ways above all else and their expansionist desires for the forest. The Evergreen Tribe was also cursed long ago by a powerful druid for their vicious ways, making it so any tribe member who left the forest would lose their druidic magic. This came to be known as the Evergreen Curse

Luna grew up in her tribe with her parents, her brother Sunny and a high ranking friend within the tribe named Shawn. Luna was well versed in the druidic craft, however she was also naturally gifted with a great ability to befriend and help the beasts of the forest. This earned her the favor of both the primal spirits and the goddess Melora, whom granted her shamanistic and clerical magic respectively. Over time, however, Shawn became increasingly toxic towards Luna, although the tribe turned a blind eye to it due to his high status. This came to a head in an incident where Shawn attacked Luna and cursed her to make her Evergreen Curse even stronger, partially in an attempt to discourage her leaving the forest. This had the opposite effect however, as after this incident, Luna no longer felt safe in her home. Luna left with her brother Sunny and while her parents knew of the situation, they stayed behind in the forest, fearing the loss of their druidic magic. Leaving the forest, Sunny lost his druidic magic from the Evergreen Curse, although Luna lost her druidic magic even faster due to Shawn's additional curse.

Luna and Sunny traveled the realm for years, hopping from inn to inn. Having grown up in the forest, Luna had difficulty interacting with most people, with most people she encountered not understanding her. She took this hard, but tried to avoid letting it show how much this bothered her. There were times when her frustrations shown through, however, including an incident where she lamented to a bartender about how useless she felt. In order to support themselves, Sunny and Luna became a mercenaries and adventurers, taking on different jobs and while Sunny did most of the combat, Luna supported him with healing magic. While Luna had lost her druidic magic, her connections to Melora and the primal spirits remained, giving her access to clerical and shamanistic magic.

Over the years, Luna attempted to find a way to remove the curse which took away her druidic magic. During this search, Luna heard a rumor that the mages of House Arcticstar were well versed in removing such curses, so she and Sunny set out for Vor Rukoth to investigate further. They ended up in the Kurimu Manor where Luna was able to secure lodging at a local Melora shrine. While staying here, the local lady Chyokuratu "Koko" Kurimu came to visit the shrine and took an interest in Luna's unusual worship style. The two of them became friends and Luna was later introduced to Koko's brother, Aisu. Seeing that Luna was well established, Sunny decided to move on to new adventures, although he and Luna remain in contact and on good terms.

Koko eventually learned of Luna's desire to break her curse and decided to use her resources to look into it. Koko was able to find a certain method to remove part of the curse, although she warned Luna that there may be unforeseen consequences to using the method. With this in mind, Luna refrained from using the method while in Vor Rukoth. Luna also became quite close to Aisu.

When House Pyrostar launched a massive attack on the Kurimu Manor, Luna went into hiding and managed to escape physically unharmed. This incident, however, gave her extreme anxiety as it reminded her of the incident which happened with Shawn years before. When Aisu decided to leave the manor, while she understood his decision, she felt upset about the situation and did not go with him as she continued to suffer from extreme anxiety due to the attack. A couple months later, however, after she had recovered from the attack, Koko asked her to go and join Aisu as she was suspicious of political goings on and felt he could use some help. Luna happily accepts and sets out for Fallcrest.

# Personality

Luna is friendly, cheerful and fun-loving, but also has a melancholy and reserved side to her. She is happy to befriend any potential allies and enjoys participating in activities with friends, such as drinking with Blarg, dancing with Aisu or playing Le Buddies Arena with Enel. She also has mischievous side to her, often participating in Enel's schemes or creating her own, such as startling Psych awake with her unicorn form.

Luna's primary relationship is with the animals of the natural. Luna has a strong gift with connecting to animals and can often befriend and even communicate with animals she has just met. This skill has also earned her favor among the primal spirits and the goddess Melora, both of whom have granted her magic for her purposes of aiding and animals.

# Abilities

Luna is particularly skilled with a number of magical and non-magical abilities. Luna's primary ability is her knack for befriending animals and having them help her with anything she needs. In addition, Luna has divine magic from her goddess, such as healing magic and magic to command enemies to do as she says. While she formerly had the ability to call on her spirit companions for primal magic, she has since sacrificed this skill to restore some of her druidic magic. With this magic, she has regained the ability to take the form of a unicorn and attack her enemies with the primal power of the animal world.