@Niara
His model art is kind of off-putting, because he's clearly got a number of fairly rough permanent markings that will leave lasting damage - and the thing about worship dedications for this particular mistress is that permanent or lasting physical damage is a no-no - it's seen as a failure of practice, so to speak.
I kind of don't like that Loviatar is categorised so strongly as an evil deity; the lore he shared with us is an accurate description of at least one major aspect of her worship - the reveling in live through expressions of pain and our ability to truly feel them. In temples of her worship, it's conducted by highly skilled and trained attendants, and only upon willing supplicants, who WILL refuse to administer worship to someone who is not up to it - or who, at the least, will only give lesser dedications based on an individual's physical ability to withstand it. Her temples also serve ministrations and aftercare to supplicants, and usually they are very willing to talk to visitors about such things.
1. Always enjoy your posts.
2. I don't think you are correct. Sounds like you are describing some faction within the church of Sharess. Granted I haven't seen anything since 3.5, but in 3.5 Faerun Loviatar's followers enjoyed capturing Ilmater's faithful and torturing them to death. Let me know if you have a 5e source that contradicts the 3.5 description.
Perhaps you could ask Larian to make him a companion and you could write a romance where you converted him to the faith of Sharess. He's already doing the consent thing so you could teach him aftercare and such.
