Concept

One of Shar’s dark disciples, Shadowheart was sent on a suicide mission to steal an item of great power. While wrestling with her faith and strange, untamed magic, Shadowheart has enemies on all sides - and a long-buried secret to uncover.

For Shadowheart, I wanted to create a build which works thematically regardless of which path you take with her personal quest.

To achieve this I decided to lean into the following aspects of Shadowheart’s character concept:

1. Her depiction in concept art as a spear wielding cleric, following either Shar or Selune.
2. Her background as a lone-wolf agent of Shar, requiring self-reliance and a broad skill set.
3. Her physical depiction in-game, and her Sharran background, both suggest a character who is more graceful than hench.

Therefore, on my shopping list were:

• Secret Agent: Must be able to fulfill the Dungeoneer role in addition to the Support role common to Clerics.
• Sharran or Selunite: Must take most of her levels in Cleric and work thematically with either path of personal quest.
• Spearmaiden: Must wield a spear.
• Finess: Must use Dexterity, rather than Strength, for melee combat, aligning her gameplay more closely with her in-game character model.

Usage

Combat:

Non-combat:

Build

Gains and Losses

When compared with a pure Cleric, this build makes the following trade-offs:

Gains

Loses

Equipment

Trystan’s equipment is geared towards …