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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystefn" data-source="post: 9245299" data-attributes="member: 7043460">You're right, but when the conversation turned to "why aren't the gods helping?", people kept listing her as if she's a god who could help in divine ways. She's not and she IS helping, within the bounds of her ability and personality.Selune's worship is also toxic. Extremely so. They think abandoning young children alone out in the woods is a cool and fun thing to do. Yes, the Church of Shar did horrible things to Shadowheart afterwards, but let's not forget that 1) they wouldn't have had a chance to if the Selunites weren't engaging in outright child abuse and 2) they literally saved her life from said abuse out there.This is has always been part of the Shar/Selune dynamic. Yes, Shar is cruel and bitter, but Selune is also a monster, and the only reason she's seen as a "good guy" is because of the pants-on-head stupid philosophy of "dark = evil, light = good." It goes right back to the FR creation story, where Shar and Selune are great pals, creating everythign in balance, then one of them gets aggressively ambitious, breaks their deal, starts making everything to her liking, gets pissed when her sister tries to undo it, literally destroys an entire world to push things her way, then rips out a piece of her own soul to form a weapon to try to commit the first murder against her sister about it. Shar isn't the one that did all that stuff. That stuff happening to her is the reason Shar is now the goddess of grief and loss. In any sane world, Selune is the villain of that story.</blockquote>

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