08-07-2025, 09:39 PM
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((Spoilers!!!))
First and foremost is Aranea (on the right). She is a half wood-elf monk and a member of the Harper's faction. Her twin brother (Kieran) and her were taken by the Nautaloid, but he did not survive. She tries to live as much by the Harper's Code as possible, but has struggled with doing so from the anger and grief over her brother's death. In her pain, she connected with Shadowheart, sensing the other woman held a deep pain within her. The more she learned of Shar and her followers, the more she felt her friend didn't fit in with them, but she respected Shadowheart's faith even if she sometimes questioned it. Friendship turned into love and Aranea was able to convince Shadowheart to spare the Night song. She was a moral support for Shadowheart as she struggled with finding her faith in Selune. In the end, they destroyed the Absolute and saved Baldur's gate from the Grand Design. Now Aranea and Shadowheart travel Faerun together, helping those in need. (My head canon is she convinced Shadowheart to join the Harpers).