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Joined: Oct 2021
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As warned in the title there WILL BE SPOILERS. LAST WARNING. that SH has. Has anyone tried not taking it and playing without it? I tried googling it and looking on youtube but nothing really comes up about what happens if you never recruit SH or take it off her. Do you just turn into a Mindflayer or do just become a True "True Soul"?
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old hand
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old hand
Joined: Nov 2020
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No. It just catches up to you on its own eventually.
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journeyman
Joined: Oct 2021
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No. It just catches up to you on its own eventually. Are you talking about at the Goblin Camp? If not can you go into more details please? I'm trying to see if recruiting SH is the better option for my Good DU or if I can just keep going without her. Thanks.
Last edited by Rosa; 25/10/23 12:11 AM.
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old hand
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old hand
Joined: Nov 2020
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Nope, not the goblin camp, though it'll catch up to you there too.
I've been doing quick, minimalist replays with just Gale and Astarion recruited, leaving Shadowheart to stand around outside the goblin shindig; if you do that, when you eventually transition either to the Mountain Pass or out of the Underdark, the artifact will catch up again (without SH this time).
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Joined: Oct 2021
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Nope, not the goblin camp, though it'll catch up to you there too.
I've been doing quick, minimalist replays with just Gale and Astarion recruited, leaving Shadowheart to stand around outside the goblin shindig; if you do that, when you eventually transition either to the Mountain Pass or out of the Underdark, the artifact will catch up again (without SH this time).
Ah ok. Thanks. Didn't want to go through the Goblin Camp and everything just to find out I have to reload and do it all again.
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enthusiast
Joined: Sep 2023
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Here's all the options I know of.
1. You recruit Shadowheart on the beach (when she's unconscious after saving her from the pod, or at the door to Withers' tomb).
2. You recruit Shadowheart at the grove if you left her on the beach.
3. You recruit Shadowheart at the goblin camp.
4. You never recruit Shadowheart.
5. You kill Shadowheart at any of the above areas and loot her.
6. You kill Shadowheart at any of the above areas and leave her.
During options 1 to 3, you'll get the artifact, still in Shadowheart's possession. You can eventually manually swap it to your inventory - but once it's there you can never get rid of it again. It will also go to your inventory if you send her to camp. And go to your inventory after you've entered the artifact and spoken to the Emperor at the githyanki Creche. Shadowheart does keep it entering the Shadow-Cursed Lands if you skip the Creche, and I don't know if the game will force it on you another time, though I'd guess the forced long rest where you enter the artifact again and the Emperor is revealed between act 2 and act 3 will hand it over to you at the end of it.
Option 4 leads to you getting the artifact when you go to the Mountain Pass or Shadow-Cursed Lands (not sure which). It used to cause a crazed Shadowheart (caused by the Emperor because he wanted her to go to you, presumably) to show up at your camp where you have to fight or recruit her but that seems to be cut.
Option 5 leads to you getting it, simple as.
Option 6 leads to the artifact magically showing up in your inventory during a long rest cutscene.
On a sidenote, 'good' Shadowheart and 'good' Dark Urge are a great match. Both amnesiacs seeking answers from the past and becoming better people, even if one was actually a good person in the past and the other was.. not so much. Still, worth recruiting!
Last edited by Michieltjuhh; 26/10/23 04:26 PM.
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apprentice
Joined: Oct 2023
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On a sidenote, 'good' Shadowheart and 'good' Dark Urge are a great match. Both amnesiacs seeking answers from the past and becoming better people, even if one was actually a good person in the past and the other was.. not so much. Still, worth recruiting! Very true. Shadowheart was my least favorite character until I played Dark Urge. She'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
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