Champions of Shar

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Shar, The Mistress of the Night

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har, the Mistress of the Night, the goddess of darkness and the caverns of Faerûn, as well as a neutral evil greater deity. Counterpart to her twin Selûne, she presides over caverns, darkness, dungeons, forgetfulness, loss, night, secrets, and the Underdark. Among her array of twisted powers is the ability to see everything that lay or happens in the dark. Shar's symbol is a black disk with a deep purple border. Shar is also the creator of the Shadow Weave, which is a counterpart and attack upon the Weave, controlled by Mystryl and her successors, before both of the Weaves fell into ruin during the Spellplague.
Alignment: Usually neutral, usually evil
Suggested Classes: Ranger, Rogue, Warlock, Sorcerer
Suggested Cleric Domains:Knowledge, Twilight
Suggested Backgrounds: Urchin, Hermit, Criminal, Spy, Faceless

Earning and Losing Piety

You increase your Piety score to Shar when you expand the god's influence in the world in a concrete way through acts such as these:

• Convincing people to embrace loneliness and sorrow
• Convincing a magic user to use the Shadow Weave
• Thwarting the schemes of Selûne, Mystra, or Lathander

Your piety score to Shar decreases if you diminish Shar’s influence in the world, weaken her dominion over the Shadowfell, or alleviate misfortune without good cause through acts such as these:

• Allowing Selunes or Mystras followers to flourish
• Convincing a group of people to accept their loss or have hope
• Cooperate in casting a spell with a user of Mystra's Weave

Shar's Devotee

Piety 3+ Shar trait
Your adherence to the Shadow Weave has made you the enemy of Mystra and all who follow her sanctimonious arts, but you have learned to turn their powers against them. You may call on the Shadow Weave to cast absorb elements with this trait a number of times per day equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Shar’s Votary

Piety 10+ Shar trait
You can cast counterspell or dispel magic with this trait at the lowest level. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. If you successfully end or counter a spell effect with this trait, you regain a spell slot equal to the level of the spell ended. If you do not have spell slots, you instead gain temporary hit points equal to five times the level of the spell ended. You only may only regain one spell slot or five times the level of the spell ended in temporary hit points regardless of how many spell effects were ended. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Shar's Disciple

Piety 25+ Shar trait
When a soul is released in your presence, you draw it in to send it to the Shadowfell. When a creature dies within 10 feet of you, you can use your reaction to become heavily obscured until the end of your next turn.

Champion of the Shadows

Piety 50+ Shar trait
You can increase your Dexterity and Charisma score by 2 and also increase your maximum for that score by 2.

The Sharbloods

The worshippers of Shar form many a clandestine temple, but one of the most secretive, is a cabal known as The Sharbloods. The devout speak of this prestigious group do so with awe and reverence. They are believed, and rightly believe themselves to be, the Chosen of Shar, though the exact foundation for this belief is known only to their highest ranking members. While others might boast championship of Shar, or set about performing rites in Her name with access to Her power, their acts are mere child's play in comparison to the font of power Shar grants to Her chosen.

Gaining Membership

A prospective member of the Sharbloods must first be approached by one of their number. This will occur only randomly and infrequently during Religious Service to the Temple of Shar, with the expressed purpose of demonstrating one's Piety. As described above, there are many secret sects which might approach the faithful, but the Sharbloods will approach an initiate deemed worthy by correctly answering the following questions:

• !heydm is the initiate approached by a taboo sect of shar?

• If the DM answers "Yes," the sect is not the Sharbloods. Otherwise:

• !heydm do those of this secret sect get to experience any special privileges?

• Only if the DM answers "Exceptional Yes" is the sect the Sharbloods.

If the Sharbloods have approached the prospective member, the initiate must then retreat to solitude and study, represented by the expenditure of 16 Divine Favor, 6 Lore, and the performance of 5 lines of Roleplay dialogue. During this contemplation, the initiate opens their mind to Shar's influence while studying Pre-Knowledge Tomes, a mere apéritif to the wealth of secret lore those of the Sharblood are granted access. Initiates are expected to seek out these tomes themselves, but should find no difficulty in the task should they truly be among the Chosen.

Ranks of the Sharblood

You gain reputation by utilizing the Bounty Rewards system. This applies to any creature you slay. You cannot claim the gold rewards for these bounties. You cannot gain more reputation than your rank ceiling and you must perform 5 lines of Roleplay dialogue representing your graduation to a new rank.


Note: If you perform bounties for a guild, you can gain reputation for both The Sharblood and the guild. Satisfying guild bounty requirements earns you the gold as normal.

Shar Haran

0 - 500 Reputation. The initiate's Wisdom Score increases by 1 to a maximum of 20. They gain the feature, Shar's Sight.

Shar's Sight

You gain Darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have this trait, the range of your existing Darkvision increases by 30 feet.

Shar Suor

501 - 1,000 Reputation. The initiate's Wisdom Score increases by 1 to a maximum of 20. They gain the feature, Shadow Presence.

Shadow Presence

You gain a +2 bonus to Charisma (Intimidation) checks.

Shar Alusfaen

1,001 - 2,000 Reputation. The initiate's Wisdom Score increases by 1 to a maximum of 20. They gain the feature, Touch of the Shadow Weave.

Touch of the Shadow Weave

While in darkness, you can hide as a bonus action. When you do so you are invisible to any creature that relies on darkvision to see you in that darkness. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all uses of this feature when you finish a long rest.

Shar Lien

2,001+ Reputation. The initiate's Wisdom Score increases by 1 to a maximum of 20. They gain the feature, Shadow Weave Blade.

Shadow Weave Blade

You can cast Shadow Blade once, as though cast using a 7th level spell slot. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell. You regain the use of this feature when you complete a long rest.

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