Selene

**Selene**, was the Goddess of the Moon, Stars, and the Months from the Greek Pantheon. She was the original lunar deity of the pantheon, prior to the birth of Artemis and Hecate, and often regarded to as the personification of the moon itself.

She was known and worshipped by the Romans under the alias **Luna**, from which the English word "lunar" originated from. In her Roman form, she was seen as the secret tuletary of Rome and, along side Sol, represented the extent of Roman rule over the world, with the aim of guaranteeing peace.

She was the eldest daughter of Hyperion and Theia, the twin sister of Helios, and the older sister of Eos. She was married to the eternal youthful Endymion, and with him, she mothered the fifty nymphs of the Olympiad lunar months.

She faded sometimes in the Victorian era due to a lack of worship, passing down her title of the Lunar Goddess to her apprentice Artemis.

## Overview

Selene is the Titan goddess of the moon. She is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and sister of the Titan god Helios and Eos, Titan goddess of the dawn. She drives her moon chariot across the heavens. Several lovers are attributed to her in various myths, including Zeus, Pan, and the mortal Endymion.

In classical times, Selene was often identified with Artemis, much as her brother, Helios, was identified with Apollon. Selene and Artemis were also associated with Hecate and all three were regarded as lunar goddesses, but only Selene was regarded as the personification of the moon itself.

She is said to have driven the moon chariot. This heavenly vehicle got its power from white horses. It drove across the sky, providing the night with its light.

The moon goddess fell in love with a mortal man named Endymion. It was said that Selene watched him while he slept beside his cattle. The pair had 50 daughters. One account even makes Endymion and Selene as the parents of Narcissus, the hunter of the ancient world who felt infatuated by his own beauty.

Although most often associated with Endymion, some accounts tell of Selene’s affair with Zeus. This pair also had quite a few children, according to some retellings of the legend. In other stories, it is said that it was Zeus himself who gave Endymion immortality.

This divine magic trick made Endymion forever young. However, it came with a cost. Endymion was given the choice (by Zeus) of when he would die. The mortal opted for eternal sleep, thus granting him his youth, but it was a youth he could not enjoy. Selene visited Endymion each night in his place of rest near Mount Latmos.

## Appearance

Selene appears as a fair-skinned beautiful woman, with light-blue eyes that shone like concentrated moonlight in the dark with pale skin and a voluptuous figure. She had long blue hair with two long bangs, two strands on the sides, and a partly braided tail in the back.

Her attire consisted of a white cravat secured by a silver brooch set with a red stone, as well as a light-purple jacket with light sleeves, a wide belt around her waist, a matching pencil skirt with black tights, and high-heeled designer shoes.

As a Titan, she possessed an alternate form in which she only appeared amongst other Titanian deities. In this form, she was a 12-feet-tall marble statue of her regular form, with long lovely black hair moving gently despite there wasn't any wind beside her.

Her eyes appeared to be two empty holes of pure darkness, her irises and scleras were as dark as night. She had a pair of long raven wings growing out from her lower back and a pair of oxen horns protruding from the sides of her head.

## Personality

Selene was a very secretive and seclusive goddess, even by Titans' standard, preferring to live alone in the middle of the wild instead of amongst the deathless gods on Mount Olympus. Her seclusive nature only grew more following the death of her brother Helios, to the point where most deities believed her to have faded along side him if it wasn't for her weekly ride on the moon chariot.

According to Hera, she was once a caring, loving, and affectionate person who greatly cared for her family and friends. Despite this, she still stood up against her parents and joined the Olympians as she believed they were far better rulers than their Titanian predecessors. She had a strong affliation to justice and order, as she had witnessed the crimes and sins humanity had committed under the light of her chariot. Because of this, she often opposed those who held guardianship over the criminals, such as Ares and Hermes.

Like the majority of deities, she had a love for collecting gossips and rumors of all kinds, especially when it revolves around the misery of someone else. As shown in Circe's flashbacks, she appeared sadistically joyful when retelling the grotesques transformation of Scylla to the minor gods of Oceanus' hall, implying a darker side to her personality.

She had displayed herself to possess a depressive, melancholic aura because of the tragedies that had fallen upon her. From her appearance in Artemis' memories, she could be described as extremely bitter at both life and at the Olympians, despite being one of their earliest followers. She also personally blamed the death of Helios on Apollon, as she deemed the rapid growth of his cult had "snuffed out" her brother's existence.

She also displayed severe paranoia and fear of the Romans and the Olympic Empire as a whole, enough to seek out protection from the Abrahamic Heaven which was unheard of at the time.

## History

Selene was the eldest daughter of Hyperion, Titan of Heavenly Light, and Theia, Titaness of Radiance. She was the twin sister of Helios, Titan of the Sun, and the older sister of Eos, Titaness of the Dawn. During the First Titanomachy, she and her siblings sided with the Olympian deities and went against their parents, which ensured their safety following the end of the war, even allowed by Zeus to keep their original duty as the ones drove the chariots of the sun and the moon, as well as bringing forth the dawn.

During the battle against Typhon, when fighting against the Olympians against the Titan Monster God, her chariot was severely damaged with permanent burned marks all over it, which was the ancient Greeks' explaination for the scars and craters on the moon. The chariot was later repaired by Hephaestus to be more beautiful and effective than ever.

Sometimes in time, she fell in love with the Aeolian sepherd/astronomer named Endymion and wanted to make him her husband, which was opposed to the rule as a mortal cannot wed an immortal. Because of this, she came and asked Zeus to bless him with immortality, which he complied, having Hypnos and the Oneiroi to place him in an eternal sleep, in which he would be eternally youthful. She then took him to a cavern where he would stay for eternity. She had with him fifty nyphm daughters, the Menae, each represent a lunar month in the Olympiad calendar.

However, she did not stay with him forver as she still had many children with other people. With Zeus, she mothered the Goddess of Morning Dew Ersa and Zeus' immortal priestess Pandia. She was also known as a lover of the satyr god Pan and had with him Nemea, the eponymous nymph of the Nemea region. Through a threesome with Cephissus and Liriope, she was considered the mother of the vain-heared Narcissus. She was also said to be the mother of the legendary Greek poet Musaeus of Athens.

At some point, she became the foster mother of Regulus, son of Echina and Typhon and the original Nemean Lion that was killed by Heracles. At her son's death, she prayed for the God of the Bible to immortalize her son, and moved by her motherly love, He accepted, turning Regulus' body into a constellation on the Northern celestial hemisphere while his soul was turned into a Longinus - The Regulus Nemea, or the **Battle Axe of the Lion King**.

Centuries after, Selene, like the majority of Greek deities, was accepted by the Romans as their gods and was given new names and titles by them. She became known as **Luna**, with her cultivation as a Roman goddess dated back to the legendary days of the kings. She was known as one of the twenty principal deities of the Roman Pantheon, having a vital role in agriculture. During the time of the Roman Empire, she was widely worshipped by the Roman magic practitioners as a Magic Goddess, with a special temple dedicated to her as the patron of sorcery on the Palatine Hill, which Varro described as shining or glowing by night.

Eventually, as the Romans kept on assimilating Helios with Apollon, even in his Roman form of Sol, her brother faded away and left his role as the Solar God to Phoebus Apollon. This caused a trememdous damage onto her mental health, leading her to a giant cycle of alcohol abuse where she couldn't even perform her duty to ride the Moon Chariot across the night sky. Because of this, she decided to make Artemis her apprentice and passed down the duty of the Lunar Goddess to her.

In the following years, she became more and more paranoia, to the point where she was out-right fearful of the Olympic Empire, consisting of the Greek Pantheon and all the Pantheons they had conquered. According to Aglibol, he could still remember her despair face, praying to God and the Angels in the night to protect herself from the same possible fate as her brother.

Sometime in the Victorian era, Selene meet Nyx and spoke to her until Selene had to say that she was mourning the death of her brother Helios and thought of suicide following it, but Nyx slapped her face and said. With Selene saying "Does your brother want this? If she did this, would her brother be glad to see her sister do this? Her brother might want her to live for him. Selene, go on living for your brother.” Hearing Nyx's words, Selene's thoughts changed until now.

## Powers and Abilities

As one of the Titanian Deities who preceed the Olympian gods, Selene was an undoubtedly powerful deity. She was the original Lunar Goddess of the Greco-Roman Pantheon before the birth of Artemis and Hecate, personified the moon itself. However, due to her having faded, the majority of her powers remained unknown and could only be speculated.

**Titanian Deity Physiology:** As the eldest daughter of two Elder Titans (Hyperion and Theia) and the older sister of Helios and Eos, it could be assumed that she possessed all the standard of a Titanian Deity. However, as the powers of the gods derived from humans' worship, her powers have been weakened to the point where she faded away because of a lack of belief.

* **Immense Physical Capabilities:** Selene possessed all the standard physical capabilities of a Titan deity. However, due to a lack of worship, her physique had become severely weakened.
	+ **Omnilingualism:** Selene possessed the ability to speak or communicate in any known language, dialect, and even those of alien origins in realms, as long as this language could be spoken using a human's vocal cord. However, this power only translates to speaking and hearing these languages, but couldn't write or read them.
	+ **Deus-Ergokinesis:** Selene possessed the power to manipulate divine energy. In her mural on Mount Othrys, she was depicted as having a silvery-blue aura cloaking her, which could be assumed to be her divine energy.

**Immense Strength:** She possessed vast supernatural physical strength to outmatch the majority of supernatural species.

**Immense Speed:** She was able to run and move at speeds much greater than the finest human athlete. She also possessed superior senses in comparrison to the majority of supernatural species, to the point where it seems to be an entire sense of its own.

**Immense Stamina:** She did not require food, water, oxygen, or sleep to sustain herself, but could still grow tired after exhausting her physical limits. However, due to centuries of alcohol abuse and a depressive mindstate, her stamina was noted to be much weaker than other deities, being noted by Artemis to only slightly beyond that of a mortal.

**Immense Endurance:** She possessed a level of supernatural endurance that allowed her to survive from most physical damage that could usually kill an ordinary mortal. She was capable of witstanding conventional injuries, including great impact forces, exposure to temperature and pressure extremes, and falling from great heights without sustaining physical injury.

**Regenerative Healing Factor:** She had a incredible healing factor that allowed her to heal from any damage she took except for external sources that interfere with her regeneration power.

**Worship Empowerful:** Through her worshipers, Selene could have any of her abilities bolstered to a higher degree, depending on the number of worshipers she gained. However, due to her often being either assimilated or replaced by Artemis as the Greco-Roman Moon Goddess and Hecate as the Goddess of the Esoteric Moon, the number of her worshippers began to wane throughout the years following the end of the Roman Empire. Sometimes during the Victorian era, she faded due to a combination of lacking worship and depression.

* **Belief Empowerment:** As a god, she was shaped by the belief of humanity. Originally, she was only the personification of the moon, but due to the belief of the Romans, she started to be associated with magic, sorcery, agriculture, and sexuality. She was also envisioned as the secret tutelary of Rome.
* **Sacrifice Empowerment:** As a god, she gained powers through the sacrifices and offerings from her mortal devotees. The more sacrifices she received, the more powerful she became. However, due to the lack of offerings she received following the fall of Rome, her powers had become tremendously weakened to a point she became a minor deity.

* **Immortality:** Selene was originally an immortal being who could live indefinitely unless she was either faded or killed. However, if she didn't receive the necessary faith and offerings she required, her powers would become weakened through time and her body will physically become weaker and older. Due to a lack of worship, offerings, and belief required to substain her immortality, in combination with her depressed mindstate, she faded away in oblivion.

**Master Magician:** Due to the Romans' belief in her as a goddess of sorcery, Selene was envisioned as a supreme sorceress who held guardianship over female magic-users and dominance over the esoteric moon. Along side Artemis and Hecate, she was a component in the creation of the Supreme Goddess of Wiccan belief, representing the full moon and motherhood. Pasiphaë stated that she was one of the best spell-casters in the Titans' side, only beneath Hecate and Circe in terms of skillfulness and powers.

* **Elemental Magic:** Selene was skilled in Elemental Magic.
	+ **Lunar Magic:** As the Goddess of the Esoteric Moon, she was immensely skilled in Lunar Magic, capable of casting numerous Moon-based spells of the higest degrees.
	+ **Earth Magic:** She could grant divine blessings onto the fields of her devoted followers, rewarding them for their pious actions. She could also increase or decrease the fertility of the earth as she desired, deriving the area of life and growth. She as shown in Artemis' flashback, she could create giant humanoid warriors made out of earth.
* **Time Magic:** As the Goddess of the Months, Selene could use magic to manipulate the flows of time, either speeding up or slowing down time in a certain area. She was credited as the creator of many Time-related spells, the majority of which revolve around the movements of the moon.
* **Divination Magic:** Selene was considered one of the Titanian oracles, possessing natural affiliation toward divination magic.
	+ **Scrying:** She was able to use her magic to search and collect information through a variety of methods. She first noticed Endymion when performing a scrying ritual within a lake at the base of Mount Latmus while bathing. According to Pasiphaë, the traditional Halloween game of finding one's husband in the mirror derived from the myth of Selene and Endymion.
	+ **Lunar Sight:** She was well-known in mythology for being able to see everything touched by moonlight.
* **Transformation Magic:** According to Pasiphaë, Selene was the one who taught Circe to Men-to-Pigs Transformation spell.

**Master Combat Specialist:** As one of the Titans who participated in the original Titanomachy on the Olympians' side, it could be assumed that Selene was a skilled warrior. She was one of the gods who fought against Typhon to draw more time for the other deities to flee to Egypt for safety, albeit she was ultimately defeated and was taken away from the battle by her cousin Leto. Artemis herself claimed to be her apprentice in many subjects, including the art of war and the art of the bow.

* **Master Spearswoman:** She is a Master Spearman, possessing skills, techniques, and abilities unable to be replicated by any mortal beings. She possesses immense spearmanship skills, capable of wielding the spear to its utmost potential. She could easily use her spear-wielding skills to their utmost potential, and taking out numerous opponents with it.
* **Master Swordswoman:** She is a Master Swordsman, possessing skills, techniques, and abilities unable to be replicated by any mortal beings. She possesses immense swordsmanship skills, capable of wielding the sword to its utmost potential. She could easily use her sword-wielding skills to their utmost potential, and taking out numerous opponents with it.
* **Master Archer:** She is a Master Archer, possessing skills, techniques, and abilities unable to be replicated by any mortal beings. She possesses immense archery skill, capable of wielding the bow and arrows to their utmost potential. She could easily use her archery skills to their utmost potential, and taking out numerous opponents with it. She could also manipulate the trajectory of the arrows she shot with nearly-perfect precision.

**Master Technician:** Selene is a very skilled Technique-type fighter, having spent millennia perfecting her skills and abilities to the utmost perfection. Her techniques are said to be on par with several war deities themselves.

**Flight**: Selene has demonstrated the ability to stay afloat in mid-air.

## Equipment

**Moon Chariot**: The Moon Chariot of the Greco-Roman Pantheon, it previously belonged to Selene before she faded and passed down to Artemis. It is a beautiful chariot made out of pure gold and silver that radiates a soft silvery-white aura akin to that of the moon itself, with numerous engraved images of constellations and the phases of the moon. When she was still the charioteer, it was pulled by a pair of silver-maned horses, one was black and the other was white, with fiery golden eyes.

**Pulvis Lunam**: A special kind of crystal created by Selene from the light of her Moon Chariot. They possess powerful magical energy and are said to be carried within them a part of the spirit of the moon. These crystals are extremely valuable to magic-wielders, as it could perfectly mimic moonlight and could be used as the perfect alternative replacement for the moon when performing rituals. Following her death, the majority of the Pulvis Lunam have crumbled into mere dust, with only a collective few remain.

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## Trivia

* Selene's appearance is based on Selene from *Sid Story*.

* Selene has a lot in common with Artemis in terms of personality, powers and respective twins. The only major differences are:
	+ Artemis is a goddess and Selene was a Titaness.
	+ Artemis is a virgin while Selene was married.
* In modern times, *Selene* is the root of “selenography”, the study of the geology of the moon.
	+ The chemical element selenium is named after her.
	+ Selene, a species of fish, is named after her.
* The famous Cleopatra VII named her only daughter after Selene: Cleopatra Selene.
* The name of her Roman form, Luna, literally means “moon” in Latin.
	+ The term *lunacy* was named after her Roman incarnation Luna, since it was thought that a full moon rendered people insane.
* Selene's counterparts in other mythologies.
	+ Máni from Norse Mythology.
	+ Chandra from Hindu Mythology.
	+ Thoth and Khonsu from Egyptian Mythology.
	+ Tsukuyomi from Japanese Mythology.
* Zagreus often accompied Selene as she made her away across the night sky, inducing lunacy/madness on nights of the full moon.