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'''Shadowheart''', full name Jenevelle Hallowleaf, is an [[origin]] character and a recruitable [[Companion]] with the [[Acolyte]] background. She is a [[high half-elf]] and a [[Trickery Domain]] [[Cleric]] first appearing during the [[Prologue]]. | '''Shadowheart''', full name Jenevelle Hallowleaf, is an [[origin]] character and a recruitable [[Companion]] with the [[Acolyte]] background. She is a [[high half-elf]] and a [[Trickery Domain]] [[Cleric]] first appearing during the [[Prologue]]. | ||
As a loyal servant of the goddess {{CharLink|Shar}}, Shadowheart can be cold and calculating, willing to do whatever is necessary to serve the Dark Lady with utter devotion. She can be first found on the [[Nautiloid]] during the prologue where she serves as a temporary companion, and can be properly recruited at the start of Act 1 as well as | As a loyal servant of the goddess {{CharLink|Shar}}, Shadowheart can be cold and calculating, willing to do whatever is necessary to serve the Dark Lady with utter devotion. She can be first found on the [[Nautiloid]] during the prologue where she serves as a temporary companion, and she can be properly recruited at the start of Act 1 as well as romanced by characters of any gender. | ||
{{DiQ|We're in this together, but I'll happily go it alone. My faith will keep me company.|Shadowheart|'s strong devotion}} | {{DiQ|We're in this together, but I'll happily go it alone. My faith will keep me company.|Shadowheart|'s strong devotion}} | ||
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{{hatnote|For a full overview of Shadowheart's starting features, see the articles [[Cleric]], [[Trickery Domain]] and [[high half-elf]].}} | {{hatnote|For a full overview of Shadowheart's starting features, see the articles [[Cleric]], [[Trickery Domain]] and [[high half-elf]].}} | ||
===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
A devout follower of the Lady of Loss, Shadowheart is the sole survivor of a holy mission undertaken on the Mistress of the Night's behest. She alone must deliver a relic of immense power to her coven in [[Baldur's Gate]] | A devout follower of the Lady of Loss, Shadowheart is the sole survivor of a holy mission undertaken on the Mistress of the Night's behest. She alone must deliver a relic of immense power to her coven in [[Baldur's Gate]] while threatened by a strange new magic that is burgeoning from within. Her faith plays an important part in her story throughout the game, and she can be steered towards or away from it. | ||
===Starting class === | ===Starting class === | ||
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Zealously devoted, independent and headstrong, she prefers pragmatic solutions to issues, decisive action and staying uninvolved in the problems of others. While she initially seems guarded and reserved – hesitant to reveal information about herself – she is in fact amnesiac, with little memory of her own past. Fiercely devoted to Shar, she doesn't tolerate any slights against her goddess, often reacting defensively. Trained in the Sharran ways, she's also not above forceful actions, duplicity or even killing, to achieve her goals. | Zealously devoted, independent and headstrong, she prefers pragmatic solutions to issues, decisive action and staying uninvolved in the problems of others. While she initially seems guarded and reserved – hesitant to reveal information about herself – she is in fact amnesiac, with little memory of her own past. Fiercely devoted to Shar, she doesn't tolerate any slights against her goddess, often reacting defensively. Trained in the Sharran ways, she's also not above forceful actions, duplicity or even killing, to achieve her goals. | ||
Still, Shadowheart displays traits that are often at odds with her Sharran training. She has a fondness for flowers and animals, disapproves of indiscriminate violence, prefers relatively peaceful resolutions to conflicts when possible and often sympathizes with the plights of party members. She can be as sarcastic as [[Astarion]] | Still, Shadowheart displays traits that are often at odds with her Sharran training. She has a fondness for flowers and animals, disapproves of indiscriminate violence, prefers relatively peaceful resolutions to conflicts when possible and often sympathizes with the plights of party members. She can be as sarcastic as [[Astarion]] and doesn't shy away from dark humour. She is introspective and often harbours doubts as can be seen by romancing her, and when guided away from Shar, she's much more open and honest with her feelings. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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Born to parents {{CharLink|Arnell Hallowleaf|Arnell}} and {{CharLink|Emmeline Hallowleaf}}, Jenevelle, as she was named, was raised in a [[Selûne|Selûnite]] household in the forests outside [[Baldur's Gate]].{{note|Multiple things point to Shadowheart having grown in Moonhaven, the former name for the now ruined [[Blighted Village]], such as her reaction when picking up the {{SmRarityItem|Old Schoolbook}} or her scene at the Selûnite statue behind the mill. However, it's difficult to confirm as different sources in-game indicate that the village was destroyed over a hundred years ago by Ketheric Thorm's dark justiciar army, and Shadowheart is estimated to be roughly fifty years old. Conflicting timelines regarding the village and its destruction don't line up, thus, it's possible that the intent during development was that she and her family had indeed lived in Moonhaven, but that the inconsistencies were never properly fixed for release.}} Devout followers of the Moonmaiden, they worshipped her in quiet seclusion away from the city, raising young Jenevelle in the ways of Selûne. In time, she would take part of an ancient Selûnite initiation rite: abandoned in the wilds, she would have to rely on her skills and faith to fend for herself, proving herself as a devout believer once she returned.{{ref|name=father|[[Campsite]], line spoken by {{CharLink|Arnell Hallowleaf}} if saved from Shar and asked about what happened the night of the abduction.<br>''"You were to come of age that night - left alone in the woods, and only using Selûne's guidance to find your way back to us."''}}{{cite text|Selûnite Rite|Unknown}} | Born to parents {{CharLink|Arnell Hallowleaf|Arnell}} and {{CharLink|Emmeline Hallowleaf}}, Jenevelle, as she was named, was raised in a [[Selûne|Selûnite]] household in the forests outside [[Baldur's Gate]].{{note|Multiple things point to Shadowheart having grown in Moonhaven, the former name for the now ruined [[Blighted Village]], such as her reaction when picking up the {{SmRarityItem|Old Schoolbook}} or her scene at the Selûnite statue behind the mill. However, it's difficult to confirm as different sources in-game indicate that the village was destroyed over a hundred years ago by Ketheric Thorm's dark justiciar army, and Shadowheart is estimated to be roughly fifty years old. Conflicting timelines regarding the village and its destruction don't line up, thus, it's possible that the intent during development was that she and her family had indeed lived in Moonhaven, but that the inconsistencies were never properly fixed for release.}} Devout followers of the Moonmaiden, they worshipped her in quiet seclusion away from the city, raising young Jenevelle in the ways of Selûne. In time, she would take part of an ancient Selûnite initiation rite: abandoned in the wilds, she would have to rely on her skills and faith to fend for herself, proving herself as a devout believer once she returned.{{ref|name=father|[[Campsite]], line spoken by {{CharLink|Arnell Hallowleaf}} if saved from Shar and asked about what happened the night of the abduction.<br>''"You were to come of age that night - left alone in the woods, and only using Selûne's guidance to find your way back to us."''}}{{cite text|Selûnite Rite|Unknown}} | ||
[[File:Shadowheart Child.webp|thumb|A girl in the woods]] | [[File:Shadowheart Child.webp|thumb|A girl in the woods]] | ||
Yet {{CharLink|Shar}}, Selûne's dark sister, had other plans for the child | Yet {{CharLink|Shar}}, Selûne's dark sister, had other plans for the child and commanded {{CharLink|Viconia DeVir}} and a cadre of Sharrans to kidnap the child.{{cite text|name=kidnap|In Service of the Night| Viconia DeVir}} Arnell had learned of this ploy after capturing a Sharran spy, and taking his wolf form, he raced towards Jenevelle. But young Jenevelle never learned of her father's curse of lycanthropy, and instead of being rescued by her father, all she saw was a great wolf hunting her.{{ref|name=father2|Campsite, lines spoken by Arnell Hallowleaf if saved from Shar and asked about what happened the night of the abduction.<br>''"We caught a Sharran spy near our village, and learned that his accomplices sought to abduct you. (...) I took on my wolf-form to cover the ground more quickly. (...) But when I found you, you did not see your father rushing to save you - you only saw a wolf, hunting you in the darkness."''}} The Sharrans caught up to the pair and kidnapped both, taking them to a secret cloister of the Dark Lady in Baldur's Gate. | ||
=== Life as a Sharran=== | === Life as a Sharran=== | ||
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=== Endings=== | === Endings=== | ||
====Adventures throughout the Sword Coast==== | ====Adventures throughout the Sword Coast==== | ||
If Shadowheart turned from Shar | If Shadowheart turned from Shar and lost her parents in the process, she will embark on adventures throughout the [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Sword_Coast Sword Coast], visiting the [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/House_of_the_Moon House of the Moon] in [[Waterdeep]], battling Sharran assassins and even befriending an [[Imp]] named [[Bing Bong]].{{note|Bing Bong is the name of an imp appearing during one of the Larian Studios' sponsored Dungeons and Dragons sessions with the main cast of voice actors for the game. Run and hosted by the High Rollers DnD channel, during this adventure, Shadowheart and Lae'zel encounter an imp named Bing Bong working at a store, and Shadowheart briefly adopts him before Lae'zel kills him.}}{{cite web | ||
|work = Official Livestream & VOD | |work = Official Livestream & VOD | ||
|author = High Rollers DnD | |author = High Rollers DnD | ||
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====Mother Superior of the Sharran cloister==== | ====Mother Superior of the Sharran cloister==== | ||
Should Shadowheart have chosen to remain in Shar's embrace, she will have become the new Mother Superior of the Sharran cloister in Baldur's Gate, operating from the House of Grief. In the months since, word of Lady of Loss has spread far and wide, thanks to the efforts of Shadowheart. If romanced, Shadowheart will end the relationship prior to this, explaining that she needs to be fully devoted to her goddess. She will agree to be kissed for old times' sake, but remains faithful to Shar. Shadowheart also expresses sympathy for Viconia's fate, now able to understand what she went through as Mother Superior. | Should Shadowheart have chosen to remain in Shar's embrace, she will have become the new Mother Superior of the Sharran cloister in Baldur's Gate, operating from the House of Grief. In the months since, word of Lady of Loss has spread far and wide, thanks to the efforts of Shadowheart. If romanced, Shadowheart will end the relationship prior to this, explaining that she needs to be fully devoted to her goddess. She will agree to be kissed for old times' sake, but she remains faithful to Shar. Shadowheart also expresses sympathy for Viconia's fate, now able to understand what she went through as Mother Superior. | ||
==Quest rewards== | ==Quest rewards== | ||