Truly Shadow Heart

About this fashion

Highlights:

• You can propose to her after the final fight if she rejects the Ball at any point in the game and you decide to kill the brain.
• You can embrace both romantic and non-romantic Shadow Heart. Sharran Shadow Heart can also be hugged, provided she saves her parents and turns away from the Shar at the last moment.
• The romantic Shadowheart (both Sharran and Selinut) reacts to the events at the Bhaal temple in a new way. (Work is still ongoing)
• Rejecting the Ball, the Shadow Heart will not tolerate side-effects with bears, cambions, drow, etc. If you believe that I have removed a very important part of her character (or I impose my views, etc.), it is normal, you are entitled to your opinion and you are allowed not to set this mod.
• This fashion makes it easier to save her parents on the way to Selune. The Shadowheart no longer requires DC20 proficiency testing.
• Some of her dialogs won't disappear after the first choice of dialogs. It's a feature, not a bug. Shadowheart can usually say more if you return to this dialog when something important happens in the game.

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Detailed list of changes I made to the Shadowheart's Selune path:

• She doesn't tolerate any more betrayal if she rejects Shara. You can no longer eat this cake and eat it. If you want to have fun with bears, cambions, drow, whatever, and at the same time to have a romance with her - this mod is probably not for you.
• She is determined to save her parents. She doesn't need a DC20 religion test or stupid glasses to do that.
• You can hug her in the second act, after the Nightsong cutscene. In Act 3, if you have a partner, you can hug her all the time.
• Perhaps you will have more opportunities to slip away and build sand castles with it.
• If you ask Sasdowhart to kill Viconia, it will take a lot of persuasion. After all, revenge and violence are not her end.
• If you surrender the Shadow Heart of Viconia, most of the companions will leave the party, and some will become hostile. However, one companion shares this idea and will help you in this confrontation.
• If her parents are saved, you can propose to her.
• Even if she doesn't regret the Night Song, if she saves her parents and rejects Shar at the last moment, you can still propose to her.
• If married, the epilog will have additional conversations about the marriage and grandchildren of her parents.
• Fixed a bug with black hair in the nude cutscene (Hotfix 28 permanently fixed this)

I have made the following changes in her way to Shar and Seluna:

• All 6 kisses are available on both Sharran and Selunite tracks.
• The idol ball kiss can be any of the 6 available; it works for both selunites and non-selunites; non-Selunite Kiss is available if you encounter it (unlike the base game, which requires a partnership with it, which is not possible in Act 2)
• She has a more natural reaction to the events at the Temple of Baal if she is in a relationship with the Dark Urge.
• You don't have to kill Viconia to get her stuff. You can rob her by talking to her.
• Quite a few dialogs will stay longer and will not disappear after the first click.
• Fixed a few bugs and "problems" in her jokes.
• Some jokes lack proper flags, leading to Sharran's jokes being reproduced during the passage of selunite and vice versa. I fixed it.

I made only one change exclusively in her way of the globe:

• She will always agree to 3some with the drow twins on Sharess' Caress, even if the Nightfall cutscene has not yet been played.

A word or two about the name. I'm not very good at words, and English isn't my native language. Each source has a special flag named "ReallyCompanionNameHere", such as ReallyWyll, ReallyKarlach, ReallyShadowheart, and so on. The purpose of these flags is to provide a reliable way to locate the original character in a scene or dialog. Characters can change shape, mask, etc., many of their normal flags can change. These "real" flags always stay and ensure that Wiley always gets his lines. So I thought it would be a good name for a fashion that tries to repair all the damage to the character and the Shadowheart story done in Act Three. Yeah, John, I blame you, you're the worst.

Installation

I recommend installing via BG3 Mod Manager from LaughinLeader (1.0.11.0 or higher for patch 7): GitHub repository with instructions and downloads. You will also need Norbyte's Script Extender v17 or higher (v20 for patch 7): download it from GitHub.

This mod does not change saved games, so it is absolutely safe to install/uninstall.

For the most part, it's a mod to override. Keep track of conflicts with other overrides.

Notes to

patch 7 Version 1.4.0.0 and above is compatible with patch 7. Use the latest version of LaughingLeader Mode Manager to install mods.

In-game manager

mods This mod is not displayed in the in-game mod manager. I think I know why. Through trial and error, I found that the in-game mod manager hides mods that override the base game's files. This can be done to prevent patches and fixes from being displayed as mods. I tried to change the location of my mod files, but it either appears in the in-game mod manager and doesn't work, or it works and doesn't appear in the in-game mod manager. I think the latter option is the best choice.