#diana and endymion by walter crane

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Diana and Endymion by Walter Crane - 1947

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Diana and Endymion - Walter Crane, 1883.

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Walter Crane (1845–1915), Diana and Endymion (1883),

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Walter Crane, Diana and Endymion, 1883

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Similarities between Noctluna and Endymion & Selene

Selene was the Goddess of the Moon, and it's personification in Classical Mythology. In many ways, she and her brother Helios took the places of Nyx and Hemera. Helios, Selene, and Eos, were the three siblings who effectively ruled the changing of the hours.

While Selene was driving her milky horses across the sky one evening, her soft gaze fell on Endymion, a beautiful sleeping man. Selene fell in love with him. Endymion’s parentage varies among the different ancient references and stories, but several traditions say that he was originally the king of Elis.

Endymion was also in love with the Moon, as he spent a lot of time admiring it from afar and under her care. 

That night Selene went to Zeus and asked if Endymion could be granted eternal youth and eternal life. She remembered her sister Eos' bad luck with mortal's and eternal life.

Zeus granted Selene's wish, and Endymion slept on for eternity, smiling in his sleep, remaining deathless and ageless. He dreamed that he held the moon in his arms, but it was more than a dream, because Selene really did visit him and bore fifty daughters to Endymion - all beautiful, pale, and sleepy. Endymion and Selene can only be together in their sleep.

In popular media, Endymion is the Prince of Earth who falls in love with Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom on the Silver Millennium, from Sailor Moon. 

"A Dream of Latmos" depicting Selene (the Moon) and Endymion, by Sir Joseph Noel Paton, really does resemble the logo of the game.

Final Fantasy XV has seemingly a lot inspired from the Greek Mythology, as pointed out by @anheiressofasoldier and Final Fantasy Peasant. I bolded the things I thought were explicitly used as inspiration for the game. 

In other versions with Diana instead of Selene, the moon goddess is even accompanied by two (hunting) dogs, much like Lunafreya and her loyal dogs Umbra and Pryna.

Diana And Endymion, by Walter Crane

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Diana and Endymion - Walter Crane (1845-1915) -1883 -watercolor and gouache

Walter Crane [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons