| Shar | |
|---|---|
| Titles | Mistress of the Night, Lady of Loss |
| Gender | Female |
| Power Level | Greater Deity |
| Alignment | Neutral Evil |
| Domains | Darkness, Loss, Secrets, the Underdark |
| Holy Symbol | Black disk with a purple border |
| Favored Weapon | Chakram |
| Cleric Domains | Death, Trickery |
Shar is the goddess of darkness, loss, and secrets — twin sister to Selûne and her eternal opposite. Where Selûne represents light and hope, Shar embodies the comfort of darkness, the numbness of grief, and the power of hidden things. She is ancient beyond reckoning, one of the first beings to exist, born from the primordial void alongside her sister. She resents Selûne bitterly for the light her sister brought into existence, and their conflict has lasted since the dawn of creation.
Shar is subtle and manipulative, preferring to work through agents and carefully laid schemes rather than direct confrontation. She offers her followers the seductive promise of relief from pain — a forgetting of all suffering — which makes her dangerously appealing to the grieving and the broken.
Followers
Shar attracts those who have suffered great loss, those who dwell in darkness literally or emotionally, and those who crave secret power. Her followers include assassins, spies, the grief-stricken, and those who have willingly surrendered their memories or emotions to her in exchange for her blessing. Her clergy are secretive and rarely identify themselves openly. They are cold, patient, and emotionally detached — many have given up so much of themselves to Shar that they feel little of anything at all.
Divine Relationships
Shar’s eternal enemy is her twin sister Selûne — their conflict is one of the oldest in existence and shows no sign of resolution. She also opposes Mystra deeply, having created the Shadow Weave as a corrupted alternative to Mystra’s Weave. She has manipulated Cyric in the past and views him as a useful but unstable tool. Mask once served beneath her before being absorbed into her portfolio entirely.