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** Also, in the ''Elder Evils'' expansion for ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', the Blood Moon is a "symptom", so to speak, of the imminent awakening of the [[Alien Invasion|Hulks of Zoretha]]. The moon turns a creepy red colour and creatures go [[Ax Crazy]] with bloodlust and try to murder each other.
* Some domains in the [[Ravenloft]] setting provide examples of this trope, such as Sithicus, where a moon similar to Krynn's Nuitari (see above, under Literature) is the only one in the sky. Nova Vaasa was once stated to have five moons, a detail that fans have argued about.
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has Selûne<ref>shares its name with the Faerûnian goddess of moon, navigation and some other things</ref>, the moon of the planet Toril, trailed by a Trojan cluster of small asteroids commonly called Selûne's Tears. Also, it looks like a dusty stone much like Earth's Moon, but it's a permanent false image created by Leira<ref>the goddess of illusion
* In the fantasy ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' world, there are multiple moons. One of these is made up of warpstone, this setting's form of [[Green Rocks|glowy green rock]]. Warpstone is solidified magic from the Realm of Chaos and can mutate anything it touches, generally in a bad way. This moon affects the flows of magic, occasionally sends down warpstone meteorites, and has a (seemingly) randomly changing orbital period (and hence the length of each month as judge by that moon varies massively). On one night each year,<ref>the date varies, obviously, but it's presumably usually within a couple of months of the Summer Solstice, as the occurrence is known as Geheimnisnacht/Geheimnistag (the Night/Day of Mysteries), and the two months after the solstice are Vorgeheim (Before Mystery) and Nachgeheim (After Mystery)</ref> both this moon and Mannslieb (the largest, normal moon) are full. On this night the dead are restless, and demons find it easier to break out of the Realm of Chaos.
* The moon in ''[[Exalted]]'' is actually dedicated to making things ''less'' weird; it's a gigantic reality engine controlled by Luna, Incarna of the Moon, and dedicated to keeping the chaotic influence of [[Reality Is Out to Lunch|the Wyld]] out of Creation.
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