Shar

see also: Etymology of Shar

Shar , the Main of the Night , the Night Singer , the Lady of Loss , or Darkness , is a fictitious divinity of the forgotten Royaumes.

She is the opposite one of Séluné and dominates the caves at night the lapse of memory, the loss, the secrecies and logically the Outreterre. She can see all that occurs in the black, and the hidden secrecies.

Shar is a Bad Neutral Great power whose symbol is a black disc surrounded by purple. Its divine kingdom is the Palate of the Loss, on the Plan of the Shades.

The clergy of Shar is a secret organization which operates discreetly and thus avoids direct confrontations with its rivals. In addition to its priests, it maintains an order of elite of monks wizard who draw from the capacity of the Fabric of Shade. It also counts among its faithful shadovars, the inhabitants of the Enclave of Shade, a flying city where live old nétherils. It holds the capacity on all those which use its Fabric of Shade, one of its creations which made sworn enemy Mystra its. A war broods between the two goddesses.

Clergy of Shar

The clerks of Shar request for their fates during the night. They do not have saint days but celebrate Ascenscion of Darkness, which is held the feastday of the moon and request a sacrifice. There are revealed with the high priests the plots which will be woven during the night. Every 10 days, a priest must hold a Fall of Night, a night dance where it achieves small larcenies.

The priests of Shar are often multi-classified Crafty beggars. They use night discs, also called chakrams, to fight remotely.

There exist several large temples of Shar through the forgotten Royaumes:

the Worship of the Shade (in Tsurlagol)
the Pressure Sinks (in the mountains of the Small Teeth)
the House Sinks (in Saerloon)
the Hall of the Shades (on a flying city of Néthéril)
the Temple of the Old Night (with Calimport)
the Valley of the Murmurs (in the south of the Mounts of Peak-Gray)
Vanrakdoom (Undermountain, under Eauprofonde)

Orders

Shar has a secret order called Dark Justicars. To enter this order, a priest must kill a disciple of Séluné.

the monastic order of Shar is called the Order of the Black Moon. They have a powerful capacity starting from the Fabric of Shade.

the Misadventures of Shar, the “Nightbringers”, are the force of elite of the army sharite. In fact spirits infest the bodies of women and handle them. Handled the force and the beauty of Shar gain then. There is a hundred in the forgotten Royaumes.

History

Shar is the malefic binocular of Séluné. They are fought since their birth. Shar seeks to gain capacity by bringing mortals to the glorifier. By its nature, she is opposed to the light. She is combined sometimes with Talona, rather than Loviatar.

Dogma

To only reveal the secrecies with the members of faithful. Never not to follow the hope, nor to make promise. To extinguish the light of the moon (the demonstration of Séluné) and to shelter some as much as possible. The night is where it is necessary to act, not to wait. It is interdict to seek to improve its life by planning it, except if the goddess authorizes it. To marry faithful of a different faith one is fished, except if that makes it possible to corrupt it. To obey the clergy and never to lie to him, under penalty of death.

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