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| description = Shadowheart is an Origin character and companion in Baldur's Gate 3. She is a half-elf clerric of Shar with the Acolyte background. | | description = Shadowheart is an Origin character and companion in Baldur's Gate 3. She is a half-elf clerric of Shar with the Acolyte background. | ||
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'''Shadowheart''' is an [[Origin]] character and [[Companion | '''Shadowheart''' is an [[Origin]] character and [[Companion]] with the [[Acolyte]] background. She is a [[Half-Elf|Half-Elf]] and a [[Trickery Domain]] [[Cleric]]. Shadowheart can be romanced by characters of either gender. | ||
As a loyal servant of [[Shar]], Shadowheart can be cold and calculating, willing to do whatever is necessary to serve the Dark Lady with devotion. She can be first found on the [[Nautiloid]] during the prologue where she serves as a temporary companion, and properly recruited at the start of Act 1. | As a loyal servant of the goddess [[Shar]], Shadowheart can be cold and calculating, willing to do whatever is necessary to serve the Dark Lady with devotion. She can be first found on the [[Nautiloid]] during the prologue where she serves as a temporary companion, and properly recruited at the start of Act 1. | ||
{{Q|We're in this together, but I'll happily go it alone. My faith will keep me company.|Shadowheart's strong devotion.}} | {{Q|We're in this together, but I'll happily go it alone. My faith will keep me company.|Shadowheart's strong devotion.}} | ||
== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
{{hatnote|For a full overview of Shadowheart's starting features, see the articles [[Cleric]], [[Trickery Domain]] and [[Half- | {{hatnote|For a full overview of Shadowheart's starting features, see the articles [[Cleric]], [[Trickery Domain]] and [[Half-Elf]].}} | ||
=== Background === | === Background === | ||
A | A devout follower of Shar, 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 to or away from it. | ||
=== Description === | === Description === | ||
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Shadowheart dislikes those that disapprove of her worship or people pressing her for answers or details. She does not like needless cruelty or violence and can respond unfavorably to being too open with untrustworthy or unknown individuals. While she is afraid of wolves, Shadowheart loves animals and will always react favourably to positive interactions with them and negatively to cruelty towards animals. As a devout Sharran, she also approves of acts against Selûne and selûnites in general. | Shadowheart dislikes those that disapprove of her worship or people pressing her for answers or details. She does not like needless cruelty or violence and can respond unfavorably to being too open with untrustworthy or unknown individuals. While she is afraid of wolves, Shadowheart loves animals and will always react favourably to positive interactions with them and negatively to cruelty towards animals. As a devout Sharran, she also approves of acts against Selûne and selûnites in general. | ||
===Romance=== | |||
{{Hatnote|See main article: [[Shadowheart/Romance]]}} | |||
Shadowheart can be romanced by characters of either gender, and is one of the few characters willing to have a casual relationship. Throughout it, she will have to deal with the topic of her identity and how the idea of love fits the Sharran concept of self-sacrifice for their goddess. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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===Hunting after the mysterious artefact=== | ===Hunting after the mysterious artefact=== | ||
At some point during Shadowheart's last stages of training, whispers of the rise of a mysterious cult would reach the Mother Superior's ears. This [[Cult of the Absolute]] as it was being called, was quickly gaining traction among the populace and threatened the Sharran influence over the city. As luck would have it, the Sharrans would capture a [[Githyanki]] [[ | At some point during Shadowheart's last stages of training, whispers of the rise of a mysterious cult would reach the Mother Superior's ears. This [[Cult of the Absolute]] as it was being called, was quickly gaining traction among the populace and threatened the Sharran influence over the city. As luck would have it, the Sharrans would capture a [[Githyanki]] [[Lir|scout]] who, after being subjected to merciless torture, revealed the existence of a githyanki artifact of immense power that the cult were desperate to find.{{ref|[[Subject Mapping Results: Githyanki No. 7]]}} Such an artifact could prove an asset for the Sharrans in thwarting the absolutist presence in the city, and so the Mother Superior quickly formed a party of elite devouts, tasking them with its retrieval. Though deemed a suicide mission, Shadowheart and four other companions set out to fulfill what they believed were Shar's commands. | ||
The group was able to locate the [[Mysterious Artefact]] though at great cost: Shadowheart was the only survivor. Disaster wouldn't stop there, however, as she soon found herself captive at the hands of [[Mind Flayer|Mind Flayers]]. How and where she was captured is never explored, however, at some point during her capture she became [[Mind Flayer Tadpole|tadpoled]] and kept imprisoned in a pod awaiting [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ceremorphosis ceremorphosis]. | The group was able to locate the [[Mysterious Artefact]] though at great cost: Shadowheart was the only survivor. Disaster wouldn't stop there, however, as she soon found herself captive at the hands of [[Mind Flayer|Mind Flayers]]. How and where she was captured is never explored, however, at some point during her capture she became [[Mind Flayer Tadpole|tadpoled]] and kept imprisoned in a pod awaiting [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ceremorphosis ceremorphosis]. | ||
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==Daughter of Darkness== | ==Daughter of Darkness== | ||
{{UnderConstruction|section}} | {{UnderConstruction|section}} | ||
{{Hatnote|See main article: [[Daughter of Darkness]]}} | |||
===Quest rewards=== | ===Quest rewards=== | ||
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{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*{{FRWiki|Shadowheart|long}} | *{{FRWiki|Shadowheart|long}} | ||
* [https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/claims/bg3/char-sheets/BG3-Shadowheart-Sheet.pdf Shadowheart's | * [https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/claims/bg3/char-sheets/BG3-Shadowheart-Sheet.pdf Shadowheart's official 5E D&D Character Sheet on D&D Beyond] | ||
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