Why would anyone worship Shar?

[cl656]

I read a book in the game about a cleric of Shar. This cleric was a woman who dedicated her entire life to the worship of Shar. Her reward for her service and devotion to Shar towards the end of her life, was to have a meaningless death by being completely forgotten by Shar.

Some Goddess...

[DiegoBrando]

Because Shar is a true god and can grant you power. Her proxy walks on the ground.
In reality your religion can't make you cast any spell. And the chosen of god has vanished for thousands of years. But there are still many believer.

[Hex]

♥♥♥♥♥ never forced it's will on anyone, while God was turning cities into ash because they didn't do what he wanted after giving them free will.

I'll take ♥♥♥♥♥ over a god with a raging bi-polar disorder.

[Roughly the size of a MO-ROOON]

Sometimes I like to look through old threads and marvel at the sheer, unbridled, impossibly stupid takes one can find.

[sleeper]

Shar and Selune are the oldest gods in Forgotten Realms its a good idea not to piss the most ancient godess by not worshiping her. Who know what secrets that can destroy the universe she has and could unleash.

[Jon]

Roughly the size of a MO-ROOON původně napsal:

Sometimes I like to look through old threads and marvel at the sheer, unbridled, impossibly stupid takes one can find.

Hey at least they're not digging through and bringing up the past to feel better about themselves, now that's something.

[twilightsin]

sleeper původně napsal:

Shar and Selune are the oldest gods in Forgotten Realms its a good idea not to piss the most ancient godess by not worshiping her. Who know what secrets that can destroy the universe she has and could unleash.

Shar about to drop a tweet so destructive it's going to destroy the weave...again.

[sleeper]

Selune probably has world destroying secrets also but Shar will actually use them

[ExcaliburV]

Ah, you almost got me, you necromancer you. Go on and tuck the thread back into its grave.

[Bishop Malthus St. Claire]

Tbh I don't see any problem of worshiping Shar. People who lose all hope would naturally incline to Shar's idea.
For examples that are not limited in the world of DnD, A tactician who devoted all his life to stop blood-shedding and to create a world without pain, but the only thing he concluded, in the end, is that humans are irredeemable and will never stop killing each other; a sensitive apothecary, whose tears would flow every time life faded in his hands, struggled to save every life that crossed his path, but got crushed entirely by his powerlessness and despair, and eventually believes that life itself is a curse, the ultimate happiness is void.

[Oce]

being a shar worshiper sounds pretty much like being an OF subscriber

[Marcus Butthurticus]

cl656 původně napsal:

I read a book in the game about a cleric of Shar. This cleric was a woman who dedicated her entire life to the worship of Shar. Her reward for her service and devotion to Shar towards the end of her life, was to have a meaningless death by being completely forgotten by Shar.

Some Goddess...

People of twisted nature, people with an affinity for shadows and such. Depressed, heartbroken people. People in need of protection in the dark.

[Teddy]

Why would anyone eat at McDonalds?

[Trolleur_Durden]

Shar worshippers are the D&D equivalent of nihilists.

[lazarusblack]

Shar worship is definitely Gnostic in nature. It elevates individual enlightenment through the rejection of established orthodoxies and norms, by means of acknowledging and embracing the suffering that is existence.

The ultimate goal being the negation of existence and thus suffering. In Shar's estimation, the world of light and everything that comes from it, including life, mortals and the experiences they have, are the consequence of light and her sister Selune.

Shar seeks to unmake creation, in many ways. Or at a minimum, drown it in darkness so complete as to make mortal existence as it is known in the realms, impossible. (Thereby alleviating suffering. Can't suffer if you can't live)

Those that choose to follow Shar are much like gnostic followers of Abrahamic faiths. In that the physical world is seen and regarded as painful, terrible and in some cases even Evil and that it must be endured in order to be overcome. Or preferably ended.

Ironically, an attitude that many atheists adopt in modern times.

[Amateur Nitpicker]

Indure původně napsal:

Probably the same reasoning why people in our world worship ♥♥♥♥♥.

Shar worshipers are generally outcasts that were persecuted by humans and society, so it is perfectly reasonable for them to trade death and destruction of humans for power. "The Child Who is Not Embraced by the Village Will Burn it Down to Feel its Warmth."

Couldn't be that said to Christianity? Or Any Judeo religion.

Like for me Shar is an actual representation of Real religions not the outcast ones.

Like I'm still confused about the preaching of Golden Rule while manipulating it to make it ok to ostracized other forms of religion. Like there was a time in the US they made slavery OK because the Bible said it's ok.

I feel for shadowheart. Like I know she is a good person (without selune or shar) but forced to do acts of evil either because of pain OR the wrong teachings.