Shadowheart

Shadowheart is a Half-Elf trickster domain cleric of Shar, who appears in Baldur's Gate 3 as a side character or origin character. She is also available as a companion.

Shadowheart in her default armour

Background

Shadowheart is a Half-Elf cleric of the goddess Shar. Before the events of Baldur's Gate 3, Shadowheart was a part of a small group of Shar worshippers who boarded the Nautiloid that attacks Baldur's Gate, prior to the beginning of the game. Her strike team is eliminated by the Mind Flayers, and she is captured. She can then be discovered by the player and potentially freed. If she is not freed from the Mind Flayer pod, she can later be found near the ruins of the crashed Nautiloid. Shadowheart carries a strange and powerful artifact, that she recovered from the Nautiloid.

Personality

Shadowheart is a neutral-evil or true neutral aligned character. She is reserved and hesitant to reveal information about herself, her motives, or the artifact she carries. She is often indifferent to the plight of others, however, she does not explicitly take pleasure in the suffering of others, and she will disapprove of certain actions deemed unnecessarily cruel or violent. She has a particular dislike of Githyanki such as Lae'zel.

Gameplay

As a cleric, Shadowheart is capable of casting spells, healing and buffing allies, and tanking damage for her party.

Approval & Romance

Shadowheart Approves

• Persuade the Tieflings to let Lae'zel go
• Ask Lae'zel to say 'please' after rescuing her
• Kill the skeletons inside the Dank Crypt and trigger her "!", tell her you agree with her
• Read the Book of the Dead Gods and succeed the Religion Check
• In camp on the first night tell her you agree with her about finding a healer as soon as possible
• Persuade Aradin and Zevlor to stop fighting
• Persuade Arka not to kill Sazza
• Show the tiefling, Guex, how to fight by passing an Athletics Check
• Persuade Kagha to free Arabella
• Swear to take the Wyvern Poison
• Decline the devil's offer to remove the tadpole
• Tell her you would never trust a devil
• Crush the tadpole
• Persuade the goblins to let you pass into the Blighted Village
• Tell her that you don't care who she worships
• Ask her abount her faith, then persuade her that you have no problems with it
• Talk about her missing memories, promise to point out Night Orchids to her
• When entering the Sunlit Wetlands, pass the check to break the illusion, then BAA at the redcaps when you speak to them
• Demand that Crusher kiss your foot
• Agree to Abdirak's ritual for Loviatar
• Pass the Deception Check when speaking to the Githyanki Patrol
• When she has odd magical flare-up, choose to change the subject and ignore it
• Tell BOOOAL he is a fake god, tell him you are going to kill him and take his power