Originally Posted by Tarlonniel
No, those things aren't tied to the original games in any way.

Aylin also confuses me. She should be a half-celestial at the very least if she's actually Selune's daughter; most logically she would be a demigod. She's immortal, which is absolutely not normal for aasimars (I don't even think it's normal for half-celestials). Her power levels are not otherwise very extreme, though. Weird.

My guess is this. And it's just a guess.

I'm detecting a Daisy / Guardian level rewrite. I think Aylin was supposed to be Shadowheart's sister and that two were paired opposites in the same way that Shar and Selune were mirrors of each other but that Larian decided that "demigod" was too over the top for Shadowheart's story (and BG3 is Shadowheart's story, Tav is just tagging along)

Why else would Shar create an entire temple and assign her most powerful cleric to overseeing it if Shadowheart wasn't very, very special? All this for some rando selunite child? I think Shar wanted to show she could turn Selune's children against her. So if Shadowheart follows Shar she kills her sister, father and adoptive mother - she knows true loss.

Shadowheart a dark cleric seeking the light / Alyin is the warrior struggling with a darkness rising within - which we see in her creepy wounds and the excessive violence she uses in battle. It also explains why Aylin knows the Shadowheart's story.

I suspect that the two were supposed to help each other DA helps SH see the light and SH helps DA purge the darkness.

All of this follows the grand BG tradition of last second rewrites - Imoen's BG2 story doesn't make any sense unless you read the discarded version.