Alignment: Neutral Evil Category: None Domains: Death, Trickery Pantheon: Faerûnian Province: Darkness, night, secrets, loss, forgetfulness, hidden pain, vengeance Symbol: Black disk encircled with a purple border
The dark twin of Selûne and her eternal rival. Shar is the goddess of darkness both in its physical form and as it exists in the minds and souls of mortals — she represents pains hidden but not forgotten, and vengeances carefully nurtured away from the light.
She appears as a lithe dancer with skin like a starlit night sky, or as a mysterious woman clad in swirling black robes. Rarely she manifests as a black sphere limned in purple flames, like a strange solar eclipse.
She is revered by those who venture into dark places, those who have fallen into melancholy and despair, those who wish to forget something, and those who have lost something and wish to recover it. Her worship has been outlawed in many places due to the dark deeds carried out by her followers, driving her priests into secrecy — which only sharpens their bitterness toward authority.
Chosen of Shar forget who they once were and know only who Shar has made them into. She delights in taking followers from otherwise happy lives and breaking them down until they remember only devotion to the Mistress of the Night.
She actively opposes Mystra, God of Magic and deities of light, and her followers work against the militant orders of Selûne.
A mural depicting the creation of Shar and Selûne was found decorating the first room of the Luminous Cloud Citadel’s upper tower.