Shar’s Discarded Aegis

Sequestered in the pits of the House of Grief, High Moon Elf Noire spent ten years as a devoted Death cleric of Shar, serving as the cloister’s primary healer. She recalls nothing of her life prior to her initiation into the church, but nonetheless pledges her loyalty to Mother Victoria after reportedly being saved by her underlings after a brutal mugging on the streets of the lower city. Though she and an ex-Selunite novice called Shadowheart were never close (as was their faith’s doctrine), she nonetheless developed a liking for her after repeated outbursts and bullying brought them together at their clinic.

Having been denied divine protection from the Shadow Curse, Noire took the absence of her Lady as a test of faith. After refusing help from a Selunite cleric in one of the last refuges amongst the curse, she directed her party through the accursed terrain until reaching a stronghold of her Lady’s power -- The Gauntlet of Shar. Retreating into the temple’s caverns, Noire and Shadowheart realized their opportunity to not only topple the reign of the traitor Ketheric, but ascend as part of the once-vanquished Dark Justiars. Despite both having completed the trials and obtaining the Spear of Night, Noire sensed that the final part of the test was meant only for Shadowheart. Scrambling to yet prove her fealty to the Dark Lady, she thought back to old markers of faith in the face of such trials, slinking her way back to Last Light Inn. Under the guise of an enemy attack, Noire sent her own spear through the heart of the cleric, Isobel, figuring the slaughter of not only a Selunite but the child of the traitor to be enough for her Lady’s embrace.