The Moon That Never Sets

The Moon That Never Sets is a mysterious moon around the planet of The Legend of Dragoon. It is a central part in much of a commonly accepted mythology story about the creation of the world and it's inhabitants.

In the story, a tree called the Divine Tree grew. From it, every species of life was created, up to 108 species. The humans and Viragos and dragons were among the last species. It was 11,000 years prior to the events of The Legend of Dragoon, when the final species, the God of Destruction Virage Embryo, came to be. It's purpose was to be the ender of all other life. The Winglies, at the time the dominant species, stopped it, and separated it's soul from it's body. That body was cast into the sky, where it became The Moon That Never Sets. The soul was sealed in crystal, and it's power was used by the Winglie leader Melbu Frahma. It ended up getting destroyed, unleashing the spirit into the world, to continuously attempt to reconnect to it's body.

Every 108 years, the soul will attempt to make it to it's body, one way or another. In order to bring The Moon That Never Sets down, the soul must destroy all signets holding it up, with the divine moon objects. This gets achieved in spite of the group's best efforts, so the Moon comes down on the Divine Tree. The soul then meets with it's body, and the Virage Embryo is reborn, but Melbu Frahma, at the last second, replaced Shana to harness the power and become the God of Destruction.

This is related to the Black Monster as well. The Black Monster was created to appear every 108 years as well, and to destroy the carrier of the soul of the God of Destruction, as well as every nearby soul that could become it's new host. However, the last time the Black Monster appeared, it failed to kill the actual Moon Child, thus resulting in the prophecy being likely to go through.