One night, as the full moon rose high in the sky, Akira heard a tale of a great dragon that lived in the mountains. The dragon's name was Tsuki, which meant "moon" in the ancient tongue. Tsuki was a gentle creature, with scales that shone like the moon's rays and wings that spread wide as the night sky.

With a wave of Tsuki's claw, Akira was returned to her village, carrying a small piece of the moon's magic within her. From that day on, the villagers noticed a change in Akira. Her eyes shone like the stars, and her heart was filled with the wonder of the lunar realm.

In Vedic texts, Chandra is a male god who rides a chariot pulled by ten white antelopes. He is responsible for the growth of plants and the rhythm of sacrifice. He is also the god of fertility and royalty. The story goes that he was cursed to wane each month, but blessed to wax again—the first explanation of the lunar cycle.

: A widespread motif in Western and European folklore, these stories often depict a figure banished to the moon as punishment for a crime, such as gathering wood on the Sabbath.

The moon has been personified as a deity in nearly every ancient culture, representing femininity, fertility, and the rhythmic cycles of life and death.

Not a literal color, but a prophetic tale. In many cultures (including Biblical and Mesoamerican), a "Blood Moon" (during a lunar eclipse) was an omen of war, death, or the end of a dynasty. The Inca believed a giant jaguar was attacking the Moon, and they would shake spears and make noise to scare it away.

Tales of the Moon is a story about the stories we tell ourselves to keep the dark at bay. It is a journey through a beautiful, frozen world where light is currency and the night is a predator, proving that even in the darkest times, a single story can shine bright enough to save the world.

The most famous dark tale is the werewolf. In European lore, a person cursed by a witch or born under a bad moon transforms into a ravenous wolf only on the night of the full moon. The story served as a metaphor for the "beast inside" all humans—the madness that emerges when the moon is brightest.