Munas Moonsinger

Munas Moonsinger is the sky father of the Moonsinger Pantheon, once the main religion of the Lunari Empire. He was a moon elf who managed to kill an avatar of the Sun and ascend to godhood becoming the moon.

With the decline of the Moonsinger Pantheon and the acquisition of the Asitir faith by the Lunari Empire this stories died out, becoming a legend few still believe in.

Before his birth
According to oral accounts passed down through many generations, Moon Elves, progenitors of the Lunari Empire, are supposedly aliens from the moon, descended to Earth after the destruction of their old civilisation. Not much is known of the elven society of the Moon, other than it was probably created under the tutelage of the Moon itself and that the Moon elves of the time looked different.

A god of the Sun, Sureal had great influence on the Moon elves of the time, being mostly venerated by nonconformist elves who predicated egoism and control as virtues. The conservative faction, faithful to the Moon, and the nonconformist faction, faithful to Sureal, eventually broke into a civil war. It is in this time that the legend of Munas Moonsinger took place.

The first battle
Munas Moonsinger was a Moon Elf of humble origins. It is said to be the result of the affair between a Human and a Moon Elf, tough other evidences of “Moon Humans” are nonexistent and a later placement of Munas on the timeline would contradict many of the stories told. The home village of Munas was destroyed during the civil war after failure brought by a drought, in Munassian thought, by the sun god himself. Later in his life, Munas returned to what remained of his village. There he spoke to the Moon, becoming his champion and obtaining a sacred, artifact level, sword.

After becoming the Moon’s champion, Munas set out to the once capital of the elves to fight an avatar of Sureal, referred to as a “Godling”. Ultimately, Munas defeated the Godling and brought an end to the civil war.

The second battle
After a period of peace and prosperity under Munas rule, the Sun God Sureal returned, having accumulated enough power and followers to try his revenge. Particularly his new followers, called “Lightmelders”, obtained from him the power of Luxomancy by giving up free will, marching together as “The Burning Legion”.

The Burning Legion revealed so powerful that Munas subjects were forced to abandon their cities, even the capital. Forced into an exodus, trying people prepared to set sailed, while the king and his royal guards fought the legion, trying to buy time for the escape.

In the battle, the royal guard was ultimately defeated and king Munas killed. After his death, Munas became the new moon, ascending to godhood.

Munas's descendants
After this point, reports become confused. It is known that the first Lunari people where nomadic sailors. Implying that, after the battle, the survivors leaved the moon to search a place distant to the Burning Legion, settling for Rathnir. This said other sources talk of an unknown missile that destroyed the moon, killing all the elves except for a shard full of Moon elves under cryogenesis, shard that ended up crash-landing on Rathnir.

In any case. What remained of the Moon elves arrived on Rathnir, living as nomadic sailors under the protection of the new moon god Munas, ultimately settling for a land that will become Nox Aeterna.

Moonsinger Pantheon
The Moonsinger Pantheon is the faith born out of the worship of Munas as the moon and as the divine protector of the Moon Elves. Although dedicated to Munas, the Moonsinger Pantheon is particularly based around the worship of his divine children.

The four gods of the Moonsinger Pantheon, offspring of Munas, embodied in the four stars near the moon in the old Lunaris flag, were The Dame, patron deity of parenthood and fertility, Celmandor, patron deity of smiths and masons, Loriel, patron deity of honor and sacrifice, Varival, patron god of war. To note only women where allowed in the church of The Dame.

A paragonhood system was put in place, where a paragon was a pious follower of the deity, acknowledge by the church. One could become a paragon of The Dame by living a life of kindness and devotion, a paragon of Celmandor by building something worth calling a wonder, a paragon of Ioriel by obeying for life to a strict code of rules and a paragon of Varival by proving an unnatural skill in battle.