Shadowheart/Cinematics

Overview

Approval

Disapproval

Banter

Location Remarks

Romance

Cinematics

This page contains a collection of cinematic scripts found in Shadowheart's scenes.

Overview

These cinematic scripts for the cutscenes, which are more akin to written storyboards combined with developers' notes, are included under the "Expand" buttons below, and are part of the game files.

Information about scene creation involving the character writers, motion capture actors and cinematic artists, along with its significance for storytelling, are in the Development section.

Romance

Shadowheart Shar Path

The player and Shadowheart a tiny, neglected shrine of Selûne - little more than a statue of the moonmaiden in a quiet, overgrown city courtyard. Shadowheart produces a little bottle/vial full of dark red liquid.

Shadowheart unstops the vial of Nightsong's blood and moves towards the statue of Selûne. The player follows. from behind the alter looking up at Shadowheart as she pours the blood across it.

As Shadowheart steps back to admire her work, the player steps forward, smearing the blood around as though finger painting.

The statue of Selûne has been desecrated with the blood of her daughter. Red tears trail from the eyes. Assorted graffiti is dotted all over. The player looks down from the statue to their bloodied hand. Shadowheart appears at the player's side. She's bright-eyed and blood-smeared.

Shadowheart steps in close to the player, a hungry look in her eyes.

Taller players step forward, guiding Shadowheart into a kill by the shoulders. Shorter race players take Shadowheart by the hand, guiding her into a kiss.

Shadowheart steps back from the kiss, delivers her line, then pushes the player to the ground, she kneels, straddling the player. She kisses forcefully.

The kiss ends, the players face a mix of shock and anticipation. The player's hand comes up subconsciously touching their lip, it's bleeding. Shadowheart smirks.

Shadowheart leans back, Shadowheart crosses her arms, reaching down to her belt line to pull her tunic up.

The player looks up as Shadowheart pantomimes undressing offscreen.

The statue of Selûne looms over them, covered in the blood of Nightsong...

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The player reaches down to their own belt line to remove their tunic. Cut to Shadowheart as she watches the player undress.

Shadowheart pulls the player's head down to her own.

Shadowheart topless and still straddling the player, puts her hand on the player's chest, delivers the first half her line, then rolls to a straddling position on top of her--then delivers the second half of her line.

Shadowheart pulls back from the kneeling kiss, delivers her line, then places a hand on the player's chest, shifting her weight and forcing the player to the ground. She straddles them and kisses, forcefully.

Evil End

Shadowheart's evil ending in which she executes clerics of Selune and Shar and becomes the prophet / founder of a new faith.

Shadowheart begins to walk through the awestruck kneeling crowd, eyes fixed ahead as she passes

Shadowheart smiles, her magic flickering between dark and light before ultimately melding into a twilight grey with accents of each.

Profile shot from the right, from the crowd's POV - SH's magic flares up as she walks, lining her in Shar's black and purple. Reverse shot from the other side, her magic now flaring Selûne's radiant white.

SH approaches a line of priests who are shoved roughly to their knees before her. Each wears the insignia of either Shar or Selûne, though they've become hopelessly muddled as the crowd hems them in from each side.

Shadowheart gestures at the waiting crowd, who fall upon the terrified clerics with nails and teeth. As we pull up and away from the shining figure in the midst of the seething mass of bodies, we see the Netherbrain pulse with power high above - and the sky itself take on the mingled colour's of Shadowheart's new church.