Considering elves don't sleep and she's the goddess of dreams, it doesn't make much sense. It would be like humans worshipping the god of darkvision (if there was one).
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She's a goddess of travelers; the elves are stereotypical wanderers, and have traveled between many worlds (Castrovel, Akiton, Golarion) with their magic.
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Wanted to confirm the previous post. Elves do sleep, and even if they didn't, Desna embodies the virtues of freedom and diversity, which elves in Golarion are said to value, esp in relation to their aiudara network connecting distant places (lore errors notwithstanding). The freedom of dreams is just one of the many ways Desna expresses her theme.
Considering elves don't sleep and she's the goddess of dreams, it doesn't make much sense. It would be like humans worshipping the god of darkvision (if there was one).
Yeah, your problem here is your premise is in error.
Elves do sleep in the Golarion setting, and has always been the case (for Golarion). They are not like the elves of a certain D&D setting that do not sleep.
Also, outside of being the goddess of dreams, she's also the goddess of exploration/travelers, the stars, and luck. And even if none of that appealed to a current day elf, Desna is still an important deity to elven culture and you might be inclined to worship her anyways due to tradition.
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Yup; elves not sleeping at all is a specific Forgotten Realms convention, and as such isn't open content.
Furthermore, I've always thought that elves not sleeping was a pretty silly idea, especially considering the fact that their society and maps of their houses and everything else implies that they do sleep normally, like humans.
Elves in Pathfinder sleep.
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Forgotten Realms was really the only setting I'm aware of where Elves don't sleep. They sleep in Dragonlance, they sleep in Tolkien, they sleep in Shadowrun, they sleep at the North Pole, they sleep on Golarion.
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'Cause they like her and she likes them.
The core 20 deities are not meant to be a "Human pantheon." It's the Inner Sea pantheon. While there are some deities that generally present as specific ancestries, and a few of them come to the pantheon from other pantheons, all 20 of these core deities are, theoretically, potentially worshiped by anyone in the Inner Sea Region more, on average, than any other deity.
ALSO: Desna is an alien to Golarion. So are elves. So they have that in common.
As for elves not sleeping, as folks pointed that out, that's a Forgotten Realms only thing. It's never been the case in Golarion (with MAYBE a few error exceptions where earlier freelancers accidentally got some Forgotten Realms lore stuck in their text turnovers that maybe snuck by our editors and developers).
Elves in 1st edition already had an illogical thing going with them taking a century to grow up. It always weirded me out that a race that takes so much longer to mature than a human but is still a child when a human has reached the height of their potential, yet still elves supposedly are smarter than humans? If you add on top of that that they never sleep, suddenly you're expanding the amount of time they could be learning and doing things significantly... and that makes the illogic of them even more glaring, in my mind. Nevermind the fact that a society that doesn't sleep would look INCREDIBLY different than the norm for humans. They wouldn't have bedrooms, really, for one thing, and not being able to dream is so alien that it's kind of a non-starter for something, in my mind, that should be available as a standard playable ancestry.
So... elves sleep, and as of 2nd edition, they mature as fast as humans so an elf and a human would go to college at about the same age. Elves still live a LOT longer, but that's mostly irrelevant too in 2nd edition since we got rid of the ageist adjustments to ability score stuff.