Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 390 Shadow Heart
"However, Yingxin is still okay. Although she was brainwashed by Shar, her nature has always been very kind. As long as she can learn the truth about her life experience and regain her past memories, she will definitely stand against Shar. But Asdalen..."

Nohill began to recall the life stories of these two teammates.

Shadowheart is a devout priest of the Dark Goddess Shar, the original dark evil god, a powerful goddess of night, secrets, loss, and oblivion.

She represents pain hidden but not forgotten, and vengeance fostered away from the light, and it is said that she has the power to make people forget their pain or accustomed to loss, so many people pray for Shar's blessing in the midst of pain.

The legends of the world were not wrong, she did have the ability to take away people's memories and make them forget their pain, but her nature was dark. If she really took away people's memories, her purpose would definitely not be to relieve their pain.

Because Shar hates all living things and all light, she is the original darkness and has always hoped that the world can return to its original silence. For this reason, she and her twin sister Selûne fight endlessly and are committed to taking any action that may hit Selûne and her believers. Shadowheart is a new round of attempts by this dark monster in the past 100 years.

Shadowheart's real name is Janevere Saintleaf, a half-elf and one of Noshir's first two teammates when he played Baldur's Gate. Because of Shar's conspiracy, she has a very bizarre life experience and extremely tragic experiences.

She and her parents were originally devout believers of Selûne, the goddess of the moon. When she was young, Yingxin's parents led her to hold a unique ceremony for Selûne's believers. This ceremony required children to find their way home from the forest unaccompanied. The original intention was to enable children to face darkness and danger bravely, but Shar interfered and destroyed the ceremony.

Her followers bewitched the young Shadow Heart and captured her parents who had been following her silently and protecting her in wolf form. The priests took her to Shar's temple, where Shar used her divine power to erase her memory and brainwashed her into a devout believer of darkness.

From that day on, she was raised by Shar's sect. She received a lot of training, hiding, lurking, torture, disguise, and was forced to absorb all the knowledge that Shar wanted her to master like a sponge. At the same time, she was forced to forget everything that Shar didn't want her to remember, more than once.

Every once in a while, Shar would take away a piece of her memory, no matter whether it was beautiful or painful, meaningful or meaningless, Shar would take it away without mercy.

She forgot the friends she made during the painful and ruthless training, her biological parents, and the small cave covered with night orchids.

During her training days at the Temple of Shar, that small place was the only thing that brought peace of mind to her and her friend Nocturne, but she eventually forgot about it.

She was afraid of wolves, but she forgot that they were actually trying their best to protect her parents. She liked night orchids, but she forgot why she liked them.

Her life has always been controlled by the monster Shar, and her experience is even more tragic than Truman's World. At least Truman was happy before he discovered the truth, but for Yingxin, happiness is just a burden, something that must be lost once you get it.

If he wants to help Yingxin, he must face the entire Shadow Embrace Monastery, and may even have to personally face Shar, the powerful dark evil god. In the past, under the interference of rules, gods could not personally intervene in the mortal world, but since the catastrophe of the saint, this rule has become increasingly weaker for the gods. Saving Yingxin will inevitably destroy the god's plan, which means that she will inevitably be offended.

"In fact, there is no need to worry too much about this. The monster Shar has no emotions in the conventional sense. To this evil god, the plot that has tortured Yingxin for more than 40 years is just a small experiment she conducted in her infinite lifespan, just to prove that believers of light can also fall into darkness."

"It would be best if this experiment succeeds, but she doesn't care if it fails. There is only one thing she wants to see the most from beginning to end, and that is to see Selune's followers suffer because of her."

"So from this perspective, Yingxin is the easiest to be saved, because her original intention has never changed. Although her memory has been wiped time and time again, she has always been that kind girl. As long as she can realize the truth, she will naturally be saved. But Astelan..."

Asdalen is at the other extreme. His experience is also quite tragic, even not inferior to Yingxin or Karak. But unlike them, he could not withstand the blows that life brought him.

Asdalen was originally a noble elf. 200 years ago, he served as the archon of Baldur's Gate. At that time, he pursued the justice of law and order, and never tolerated or showed leniency to criminals. However, one evening 200 years ago, he was suddenly attacked by a group of Ghur people.

The sudden attack left him seriously injured, but just when he was about to die, a man named Calzado suddenly appeared, defeated the group of Gur people in an instant, and rescued him from danger.

Unfortunately, this is not an ending where a hero saves a beauty or a hero saves a hero. The dying Asdalen asks Calzado for help, but Calzado's way of saving him is to directly transform him into a vampire.

No, he is not even a vampire, because he is just a vampire derivative. All genuine vampires have the ability to transform into vampire derivatives. Calzado, as his master, has absolute control over his life. Under such control, Asdalen is nothing more than a slave, a slave who can be tortured at will, worked hard without complaint, beaten and punished at will.

Although he rebelled against Calzado after being converted, he failed every time, and each failure brought him long-lasting torture and punishment.

He was whipped, buried alive, skinned alive, and had to eat only rotten rats for every meal. He had to struggle in fear every night. As long as he was tortured and wailed in pain, Calzado would smile with satisfaction.

He took pleasure in his own suffering, and never tired of it for more than 200 years, and after more than two centuries of torture... he succumbed.

He forgot the justice he once upheld, and his dignity was trampled to pieces. Under such violent torture, he could only wag his tail and beg for mercy from Calzado. In the end, as time went by, he could never change back.

(End of this chapter)