i WILL spread the word of good jancy and make disciples out of all of you....
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Shadowheart becoming a goddess of grief and loss
Loss, not in the Shar sense, where you forget it and abandon it, but loss in the sense that you need to remember and you need to cry and you need to grieve.
She admits that she doesn't feel at home with either Selune or Shar, and that's because she doesn't belong to either of them anymore, she belongs to herself, to her own loss and despair.
Shar almost focuses on causing the loss, making you lose and forget and abandon who you were before, down to taking your very name. But Shadowheart embraces her loss and acknowledges that those things and those people that were lost are still a part of her, even when she can't remember them. They still made her who she is.
And she's a cleric, she's a healer. What if she takes this experience and uses it to help others? Processing grief in a way that doesn't erase those memories of pain, but accepts them, and in turn she works through her own losses along with others who are suffering? And in time, she becomes the embodiment of loss that Shar could have been if she hadn't allowed herself to become consumed by jealousy and rage.
Loss isn't the end of all things, as Shadowheart finds out after the House of Grief. She remembers the pain, the darkness, while also acknowledging that the journey she's on and the friends she's made are a part of her too. You can't have shadow without a little light.
And somewhere down the line, more people find themselves navigating to her, for her help and her guidance in how to actually navigate loss, and how to neither let it consume you nor let it be forgotten entirely. And Shadowheart becomes a name on every griever's tongue, a goddess in her own right, becoming her own blend of darkness and light through everything she suffered.
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Half-formed headcanon that the previous Archdruid Halsin replaced was the one that advised his village's council and elders when he was an elfling. Maybe he was even from a similar branch of the High Forest originally, so he made the trek to visit their specific areas when his grove was situated closer.
He would make time when he wasn't busy to speak to the village children and learn their names and show them little tricks and give blessings and share stories and lessons with them. He became much like another adult in the community - a teacher and a guiding hand, but special because he only came around once in a while. It became pretty routine of them all (Halsin included) to anticipate his visits even though they weren't incredibly frequent. There would be excited little whispers on the breeze and giggles in the rustling bushes when he was expected, his telltale shadow stretching on the forest floor, the lot of them hiding underfoot and impatiently waiting for business to be finished so he would come out to play with them.
His visits became farther and fewer in between as Halsin got older due to needing to focus on things elsewhere, until he was eventually unable to come anymore, and was replaced by another druid in his stead.
Halsin years later reflecting back on him and thinking to seek the druid out again to be trained under his guidance after Halsin reaches his maturation epiphany, since he had nothing left keeping him in High Forest. Solely because he remembers looking up at that man and thinking: "I want to be like him when I grow up". So why not give it an attempt? And - on a wing and a prayer - with only a vague idea of where he might still be situated, he packs up and pursues.
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All For One and Yoichi plus Light and L standing across from one another, each thinking they know which person they'll get along with best, only for them to be wrong and switch conversation partners fairly quickly
Ten minutes later and L and All For One are fist fighting on the floor because There Can Only Be One and Light is coaching Yoichi through his I Might Be Kind Of Evil Actually breakdown
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