Originally Posted by kanisatha
Originally Posted by Thrythlind
Originally Posted by Topgoon
Even in previous versions when you can't free her, she still shows a bit of appreciation when you've tried. In general, from what I've seen, outside of her deep hatred of Giths and Selunites, Shadowheart can be somewhat pleasant.

Yeah, even in previous versions, she reads as a basically decent person who has been fed a load of BS on Shar, Selune, and the like.

Which, to be honest, is par for the course with Shar. That's a goddess with a long history of luring people in and chewing them up in a way that has her victims saying "thank you for devouring me / ruining my life"... even other gods.
Seriously? Why should I (in game) care about any of this if I'm a good-aligned person? If you're a priestess of Shar, by definition you are NOT a decent person.

Let me ask you this. What if the game allowed my PC to say to SH: "Your so-called goddess is an insane psychopath whore, and if I ever get the chance to lop her head off I would do it gleefully." What would SH's reaction be? What would my PC's subsequent relationship with SH be?

If you are even a mildly good-oriented PC, and you are ROLEPLAYING your PC properly (which is to say, true to the nature and lore of the setting within which your PC exists), SH should not be "savable" or "redeemable" simply because she should not be in your party in the first place. In fact, it may even be the case that she would be dead.

Eh. A lot of gods encourage seeking to redeem/save people from situations like this. Eilistrae followers are all about that sort of thing. And Selune and Shar have a long history of luring each other's worshippers away in setting.

Shar also has a long history of drawing followers by seriously misrepresenting her motives and intentions. Or her identity for that matter. So Sharites that pure victims/puppets are also not unheard of.

If she was upfront about being a Sharite and being directly hostile that would be one thing. An LN Helmite zealot would probably go full inquisition on hearing it but in this case she's being understandably standoffish and doesn't admit "I serve Shar" until much later which means you get a chance to see that she's really not very in line with Sharite principles. So if we the player didn't know ahead of time my response would be "what the hell are you doing with that abusive predator? Girl, your employer is bad. Get out of that job."