Shadowheart's act 1 romance won't trigger.

[Scarlet Dystopia]

Hi! So I have like 95-100% approval rating with shadowheart (highest of all my companions). I have gotten cut scenes for; Laezel, Astarion (multiple), Gale, and Karlach but shadowheart WILL NOT trigger. I've had her argument scene with lae'zel already. I just raided the grove (she was drunk so I know it wont trigger there). I'm not sure what else to do? I don't really want to move on to act 2 without triggering Shadowheart's scene as I really wanted to romance her as the main romance. Is this a bug? I've long rested about 20 times at this point and gotten multiple OTHER cut scenes but hers just still will not trigger nor do I get the "I feel like we missed an opportunity" dialogue option. Now all my long rests are just blank sleeping scenes. Any help will be appreciated.

[Remnant Melody]

If you raid the grove, YOU CANNOT have the intimate scene with Shadowheart. Her's is tied to -saving- the grove and that party. Your only female option now is Minthara, its spicy.. go have fun with Drow Queen instead.

[Scarlet Dystopia]

Originally posted by SassyKitKats:

If you raid the grove, YOU CANNOT have the intimate scene with Shadowheart. Her's is tied to -saving- the grove and that party. Your only female option now is Minthara, its spicy.. go have fun with Drow Queen instead.

Really?? I was doing a ton of reading before I started this playthrough and from everything I could find it said that you COULD romance shadowheart on an evil path and that most people could trigger her act 1 romance scene before the grove. I wonder if that was patched out (everything I was reading was from Aug/Sept). I have already romanced SH in a different playthrough but I was def looking forward to doing it again on this one. Oh well. I do adore our queen Minthara <3.

[Remnant Melody]

Yeah, I found out the hardway too not too long ago and re-read the bg3.wiki site and was like "Oh... well.. thats kinda dumb." I guess its Larian's usual hamfisting of 'evil bad' I suppose. This is why I stick with Astarion, its uncomplicated on evil or good runs. XD But yes, Minthara <3 Her voice is worth a little chaotic carnage.

[Scarlet Dystopia]

Originally posted by SassyKitKats:

Yeah, I found out the hardway too not too long ago and re-read the bg3.wiki site and was like "Oh... well.. thats kinda dumb." I guess its Larian's usual hamfisting of 'evil bad' I suppose. This is why I stick with Astarion, its uncomplicated on evil or good runs. XD But yes, Minthara <3 Her voice is worth a little chaotic carnage.

thank you so much for the information! I spent the last 2 days trying to figure out why she wouldn't trigger. But now that I knew that (thanks to you!) I decided to add in the polyamory mod + script manager and with some code (in script manager) I was able to force the game to flag me as in a relationship with her and now she is all cute and lovey!! I can't get the act 1 cut scene but I think I should still be able to get act 2! Thank you so much for your help!!