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"synopsis" : {"type" : "LSString", "value" : "Shadowheart appears at the player's campsite one night after they missed all other opportunites to recruit her in their party. She seems unhinged, paranoid - convinced that we intend to steal something important that she possesses. We may learn that the item she refers to is the mysterious cube - a sentient gith artefact that's manipulating her into appearing to us and forcing a confrontation. The cube contains the long-imprisoned spirit of a gith general, who wants to fall into our party's hands in an effort to eventually break free. He's forcing Shadowheart to either join the party or get killed by the party - either way, the cube will be where it wants to be."}

Looks like we will see her past life, including 101 Torture training and getting tortured/abused....narration is pretty graphic (they will have to put warnings I think). The magical flare-ups start to happens back then, she doesn't appear to know what it is then either.

Party "romance" scene with Shadowheart. The writer's context note mention that her magical flares-up is supposed to happen when you kiss. That explain the "did it hurt?" question. Notes mention it is painful to Shadowheart as well.

She does a prayer to Shar in the old Shar Temple and doesn't feel a response which cause her to have a bit of a crisis of faith (the "I failed my god" kind). Context note mention that Nightsong feels that Shadowheart fears failing in her duties to Shar too.

I think Shadowheart is older than we think, the place triggering her memories is described as ancient looking and crumbling. Nobody seems to have been there since Ketheric was defeated about a century ago.

She has a canon "daisy" (especially marked as not in the EA).

You can do a quest for him, there is a talk of a sealed tomb, but also that he was banished to the Shadowfell. He was a Paladin, he had a nice sword (referred to and described as a moonblade). That means he was a Moon Elf. And it's weird his moonblade still served him when he serve Shar.

If I'm not mixing things up (there are wrong stories of what happened), Ketheric 's daughter Isobel was accidentally killed by Halsin. We can meet her ghost, I think.

He had Thayan friends, necromancers. Hmm, that Necromancy of Thay book in Moonhaven (aka Blighted Village).

Divine Soul Shadow?

Did Halsin murder her in bear form? when do druids usually gain control over their forms?

but there was one corrupted moonblade so there is precedent. I also don't know if a moonblade can reject you after atunement?

I wonder how the gith patrol plans on getting this general out of there, then. Seems like going to the creche with that artifact on us is a bad idea.

Sure it will end badly, creche seems like a bad idea from the beginning. The "purification" itself doesn't sound very encouraging and it certainly isn't what Lae'zel expects. Besides, the idea that Githyanki would like to help us willingly doesn't appeal to me.

Doubt if they want to release him there is probably a reason why he is trapped in the artifact.

I have not seen this confirmed in any of the leaks yet but I have a feeling Lae'Zel might not have grown up in Githyanki society at all, that she's larping not knowing about Faerûn and its peoples. When you approach Zorru with her there's an insight check that tells you she is hiding something about her creche and the gith patrol being traitors to Vlaakith sounds like a load of bull to me. She doesn't even tell them which creche she's from.

Kinda, nobody gets magical powers under their skins like that just for worshipping a god.

Haslin killed her with a dagger. The weapon type might be changed, as glaive is used at some point too.

cursed glaive in the druids' basement, that is referred to as a dagger in the book next to it?

You can meet a Selûnite priest in the Shadow Cursed Land. He's looking for Shadowheart. Her magic flares happen when she spot him. She used the magical flares against a Sharran during her flashback training and they also happen when she kiss you after the party (according to the scene context notes). So it's not triggered by Selûne related stuff only. The priest claims he knows what it means, but she has to go an abandoned chapel in BG to learn more because Shar is too strong in the area. I find that a bit suspicious...Selûnite shouldn't have to hide in BG.

Her name might actually be a title: The Shadow Heart. As that is how the Selûne Priest refers to her, although it all look like temporary dialogues.

Both Shar and Selune wants her, foretelling her coming and stuff.

if she doesn't do as Shar wants, you get a super depressive Shadowheart around camp...

I wanted to check if Shadowheart knew what Ketheric looked like to see if her Daisy was him. It's one of her "origin moment", but no sign of her knowing who he was. The only thing interesting is that this sound a lot like tadpole dream #2:
Ketheric: Shar whispers of you, of the great destiny you bear! Embrace it with me, and spread Her darkness across these lands!

Romancing Shadowheart got a bit complicated if Ketheric makes advances to her, lol. She can even leave the party at that point going by the dialogues.