Why is Shar so hated?

[Masquerade]

So I've not played the other games as there was info everywhere about how minus a few easter eggs you didn't need to play them. However I'm a bit confused why everyone lost their minds when shadowheart says she worships her?

[FissionChips]

I don't want to give too much away, because the game does a decent job of explaining Shar and why Shadowheart is the way she is.

Just keep playing and exploring :)

[Partyrock]

Damn I need to stop coming here. Spoilers in titles now. I didn't know we'd actually face Shar.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Publicado originalmente por krunjar:

Publicado originalmente por Pan Darius Loveless:

She's on a mission, she's not a Bhaalite.

I'm not that far in yet. But yeah Shar is death, loss, oblivion. nihilism It's basically the god of Emo cringe.

But here's the thing .. Shadow heart isn't nihilistic or emo or cringe she loves animals. And is generally an okay sort. This is why her mother superior doesn't think she's worthy.

It's also because she considers the shar priesthood a surrogate family of a sorts. Truly worshipping shar means abandoning the need for concepts like those. Worshippers of Shar need no familiy and have no hope. Hell I suspect they're the ones who orphaned her in the first place. It's SUUUPER suspicious that her memories are gone.

I may have my problems with the romances in this game. But I actually think the central character conflict from shadow heart is an interesting one. She herself doesn't realize that merely hoping to be worthy .. Makes her unworthy. She's an indoctrinated child with little understanding of the cult she signed up for.

Yeah .. Shar be like that.

Keep playing...

[Snake Bit]

Edgy goth god wants to destroy everything. 'Nough said.

[zastcat]

Publicado originalmente por Pan Darius Loveless:

Publicado originalmente por Tyrannosaurus Rex:

Shar cultists are usually delusional. They'll tell themselves "Oh Shar just wants us to experience pain to help us better ourselves," meanwhile Shar herself is plotting on how to destroy the multiverse

You're confusing Shar with Loviatar.

Shar just wants to take a nap. All that damn noise the kids are making makes it impossible.

I love how by this interpretation shar and orcus both share motives

[Azure Fang]

Why is the goddess who is trying to erase existence to return it to eternal nothing hated? The goddess who, in her jealousy, conspired to steal control of The Weave from Mystra and, upon failing, created her own corruptive Shadow Weave, then tried to destroy The Weave to replace it? The goddess who, upon nearly succeeding in the prior question, caused multiplanar devastation, wiping gods from existence (albeit temporarily), rearranged the faces of Abeir and Toril, unleashed fiery magical death and killed or drove insane most spellcasters, and then hoovered up the power of as many gods as possible (read as: caused 4th Edition D&D)?

I have no idea why Shar's so hated.

[echoes222]

Publicado originalmente por Snake Bit:

Edgy goth god wants to destroy everything. 'Nough said.

That would be Lolth, not Shar :PPP

[z99o]

Char is rather controversial since while he did crash an asteroid into the planet he did have a point that humanity needed to move to space to evolve further. I can see why Shadowheart worships him, he's pretty cool.

[Snake Bit]

Publicado originalmente por echoes222:

Publicado originalmente por Snake Bit:

Edgy goth god wants to destroy everything. 'Nough said.

That would be Lolth, not Shar :PPP

Nope. It's shar. TEAR DOWN THEIR INSTITUTIONS! REVEAL THE LIES! DESTROY EVERYTHING! ABANDON HOPE!

[zastcat]

Publicado originalmente por echoes222:

Publicado originalmente por Snake Bit:

Edgy goth god wants to destroy everything. 'Nough said.

That would be Lolth, not Shar :PPP

it's actually a pretty big pool of gods and goddesses, though lolth wants to destroy the elves who don't worship her (and the elves who do worship her but don't meet her random standards of the day, and the elves who worship her and *do* meet her random standards of the day but are *too* good at meeting them, and... alright she just likes killing at random)

[Dreaming Prince]

shes always one letter away form shart and most people dont like that ♥♥♥♥.

[EricHVela]

People haven't lost their minds in my current playthrough. I don't recall people losing their minds in EA except the few times when I chose to make my character to go all judgmental on everyone, and that was only my character.

Shar comes across like a jealous deity to me, but deities and their followers are individuals and might not understand each other and what I know of Shar comes from lore and the followers. I could make judgments, but I'd need to meet Shar and get the story from that deity and also get the story from the opposition to that deity. If I cannot trust the accounts of a deity's followers, then I also cannot trust the words of the deity alone.

So right now in my mind, Shar is an excuse—a scapegoat—until someone proves otherwise.

(Official lore says one thing. BG3 has already deviated a little. I don't know the extent of those changes, but I'm okay with what changed so far. So, I'm rolling with it and assuming that the presence of official lore in BG3 is crowdsourced by the game's population as religions are wont to do.)

[Masquerade]

Publicado originalmente por Partyrock:

Damn I need to stop coming here. Spoilers in titles now. I didn't know we'd actually face Shar.

Lucky for you nobody said that

[krunjar]

Publicado originalmente por Masquerade:

Publicado originalmente por Partyrock:

Damn I need to stop coming here. Spoilers in titles now. I didn't know we'd actually face Shar.

Lucky for you nobody said that

Yeah this confuses me too .. I mean this is just a lore question XD