#Basically kaguya's namesake is closer to the mythological kaguya.

[oathofmoonlight]

meta: celestial heritage

As anyone familiar with d&d probably knows how this works, but in the interest of explaining to those who have never cracked the player's handbook (good for you btw): Kaguya is an Aasimar, which means she is decended from a being from the celestial plane (a deity, an angel, something to that effect).

Aasimar were known to crop up from time to time within the order of the moon, but were still rather uncommon. One maybe every century or so. A child being born as an aasimar was considered extremely fortunate—superstition had it that child would go on to do great things. So, needless to say, there were some high expectations for Kaguya from day one.

(Bonus: Kaguya's younger brother was born human—though he didn't totally miss out on the divine magic boat. He was a sorcerer, of the Divine Soul variety.)

Kaguya's name comes from her celestial ancestor, the founder of the order. Kaguya (the original one, that is), allegedly left the celestial plane to aid mortalkind in their eternal fight against the darkness, abandoning her immortality for a mortal life. Her life and story have been pretty heavily mythologized over the years, but her being a celestial of some kind is generally accepted as fact.

(Bonus 2: One of the stories about the first Kaguya claims that, while searching for somewhere to call home with her new band of followers, she came across a gold dragon's den. Kaguya, being a generally good-hearted individual, befriended the dragon, and struck a deal with it: her Order would share the knowledge and magic they accumulated as the generations carried on, and in exchange the dragon would allow them to make their home on its territory and offer them protection. It's highly debatable whether there was any truth to this story—the town the order called home was indeed in a mountainside and definitely could have hosted a dragon's lair at one point or another, but nobody could really say whether there had ever been one. It's equally likely that the dragon died or left long ago as it is that it never existed in the first place. Nonetheless, gold dragons were a common emblem used by the order, particularly its leaders. Kaguya's tattoo is of a dragon for this reason.)