"It is no coincidence that a daughter of the Moonmaiden spoke to you of wolves."
"That's not the first time you've made such a leap. Maybe I shouldn't be entirely shocked - I did fall for a Selûnite, after all."
On 20 Nightal in the year 1463 DR, High Priestess Menodora of the Silver Ladies in Baldur’s Gate received a divine message from Selûne: A mother in need was about to enter the city, and the order must deliver and raise the child as their own. Menodora shared this vision with the temple, and the Silver Ladies raced to find the described woman. With divinely led ease, they located Esma, a half-elf who had travelled from Calimshan on the whim of a dream, ready to give birth.
According to Esma, her pregnancy was impossible, and that there was no father. True or not, the Silver Ladies decided on one certainty: the child born was touched by the Moonmaiden, based on her white hair and blue eyes.
When it became apparent that the Silver Ladies would not let Esma leave the temple with her newborn, she was faced with a choice: Either join the order, or abandon her child. She chose the latter, feeling bitter over the entire experience.
Simay was communally raised by the temple priestesses, who all taught her that she had a divine destiny. Growing up, she struggled to understand why her birth mother “abandoned” her, as the Silver Ladies claimed. Despite being told how special she was by everyone around her, Simay still felt rejected. And without any other children staying permanently in the temple, Simay had a lonely childhood.
As a teenager, Simay started to rebel against the priests with simple things like sneaking out at night. She enjoyed exploring the city without supervision, and even made friends in the streets for the first time. Her desire for freedom grew with age, until finally at age 25, she had enough of her sheltered life. Simay lied to Menodora, saying that Selûne came to her and said she wanted Simay to travel, and spread worship of the Moonmaiden through good deeds. The High Priestess believed her, and sent her on her way.
Simay did not commit to good deeds as much as she did to drinking, gambling, sex, and any other experience she was taught to avoid. She went from town to town on a constant party loop. When she ran out of the coin provided to her by the order, Simay started selling her healing and divination services as a cleric. She lived this way for four years, slowly coming to decide that whatever destiny the Silver Ladies spoke of for her must have been bullshit.
When Simay was on the verge of giving up being a cleric entirely, everything changed in an instant. After getting abducted by mind flayers, Simay concluded that her escape and survival could only be explained as divine intervention. With faith in Selûne renewed, Simay is now trying to live up to the special purpose in life she was always promised.
