Chapter 390 Shadow Heart
"But Yingxin is okay. Although she was brainwashed by Shar, her nature has always been very kind. As long as she can know the truth about her life experience and regain her past memories, she will definitely stand on the opposite side of Shar. But Asdaelon..."
Noshir began to recall the life experiences of these two teammates.
Yingxin is a devout priest who believes in the dark goddess Shar, and Shar is the original dark evil god, a powerful goddess in charge of night, secrets, loss and forgetfulness.
She represents the hidden but not forgotten pain, and the revenge far away from the cultivation of light. It is said that she has the ability to make people forget their pain or get used to losing, so many people pray for Shar's blessing in pain.
The legends of the world are not wrong. She does have the ability to take away people's memories and make them forget their pain, but her nature is 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 Selune have been fighting endlessly and are committed to implementing any actions that may hit Selune and her believers. Shadowheart is the new round of attempts by this dark monster in the past 100 years.
Shadowheart's real name is Janewell Saint Leaf, a half-elf, and one of the first two teammates of Noshir when playing Baldur's Gate. Because of Shar's conspiracy, she has a very bizarre life experience and extremely tragic experience.
She and her parents were originally devout believers of Selune, the goddess of the moon. When she was young, Shadowheart's parents led her to hold a unique ceremony for Selune's believers. This ceremony requires children to find their way home from the forest without accompaniment. The original intention is to allow children to bravely face darkness and danger, but Shar interferes and destroys this ceremony.
Her followers bewitched the young Yingxin and captured her parents who followed her silently and protected her in wolf form. The priests took her to Shar's temple, where Shar used divine power to wash away her memory and brainwashed her into a devout dark believer.
From that day on, she was raised by Shar's sect. She received a lot of training, hiding, lurking, tortured, disguised, and forced to absorb all the knowledge that Shar wanted her to master like a sponge, and at the same time 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, whether it was beautiful or painful, meaningful or meaningless, Shar would take it away mercilessly.
She forgot the friends she made during the painful and ruthless training, her biological parents, and the small cave covered with night orchids.
During the days of training in the Shar Temple, only that small place could make her and her friend Nocturne feel at ease, but she eventually forgot.
She was afraid of wolves, but she forgot that they were actually desperately protecting her parents. She liked night orchids, but she forgot why she liked them.
Her life had been controlled by the monster Shar, and her experience was even more miserable than Truman's world. At least Truman had been happy before he discovered the truth, but for Yingxin, happiness was just a burden, an item that must be lost after getting it.
If you want to help Yingxin, you must face the entire Shadow Embrace Monastery, and you may even have to personally face Shar, the dark evil god with powerful strength.
Once under the interference of rules, gods could not personally intervene in the mortal world, but since the Saint's Catastrophe, this rule has become increasingly weaker and weaker in its constraints on 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. For this evil god, this plan that has tortured Yingxin for more than 40 years is just a small experiment she made in her infinite life, 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 from beginning to end, that is, to see the believers of Selune suffer because of her."
"So from this aspect, Yingxin is the easiest to be saved, because her original heart has never changed. Although her memory has been erased again and again, she has always been that kind girl. As long as she can realize the truth, she will naturally be saved, but Asdalen..."
Asdalen is another extreme. His experience is also quite tragic, and he is not inferior to Yingxin or Karak at all, but unlike them, he did not withstand the blow brought to him by life.
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 criminals. However, one evening 200 years ago, he was suddenly attacked by a group of Ghurs.
The sudden attack left him seriously injured, but just when he was about to die, a man named Calzado suddenly appeared, and then defeated the group of Ghurs in an instant, saving him from danger.
Unfortunately, this was not a hero saving a beauty, or a hero saving a hero. Asdalen, who was on the verge of death, asked Calzado for help, but Calzado's way of saving him was to directly transform him into a vampire.
No, he was not even a vampire, because he was only a vampire derivative. All genuine vampires had the ability to transform into vampire derivatives. Calzado, as his master, had absolute control over his life. Under such control, Asdalen was just a slave, a slave who could be tortured at will, worked hard, and beaten at will.
Although he had resisted Calzado after being transformed, he failed every time, and every failure would bring him long-term torture and punishment.
Being whipped, buried alive, skinned alive, and only eating rotten rats for every meal, struggling in fear every night, as long as he was tortured, as long as he wailed in pain, Calzado would smile with satisfaction.
He enjoyed his own pain, and he enjoyed it for more than 200 years, and in this torture that lasted for more than two centuries...he surrendered.
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.