Originally Posted by kanisatha
Originally Posted by The_Red_Queen
Originally Posted by kanisatha
Okay, and meanwhile, as all of this is happening, where is Selune? She (a greater deity) just sits there and allows her faithful to be "kidnapped" and "brainwashed" by Shar, her arch enemy no less, and is totally cool with it?

This is Larian BS that completely goes against well-established FR lore, and a good example of why I consider Larian's writers to be ridiculous jokes. A good writer accepts the constraints within which they're expected to write, and they still end up creating something awesome even while honoring those constraints.

Well, to be fair at the moment any BS is coming from those of us theorising that she might have some connection with Selune or have Selunite origins, rather than from Larian. Or at least I’ve not seen any definitive evidence of what they intend her exact back story to be.
Okay, yes, you are right about this. I guess it is still possible for Larian to (pleasantly) surprise me by giving us something truly original here that still stays true to FR lore and logic.

It will interesting to see. I know when WotC announced 5e they said that were done with the apocalypse of the week but I wonder if Larian has decided to go big on this. Perhaps Shadowheart isn't just any kidnapped child but an avatar of Selune. One of Mystra's avatars was captured and corrupted so there is precedent . . .

Who knows, perhaps that weird light coming from her is spellfire.