"Aaaaaaargh!"
Shar's furious screams could not conceal her defeat. The Goddess of Night was imprisoned on the statue of the Lord of Frenzied Flame, her hands and feet bound by chains branded with the Chaos Holy Symbol. She looked almost exactly like Lolth, the living armor on Khorne's body, except Aaron had not cut away any unnecessary parts. He was no demon, after all.
But Shar clearly did not believe she had lost. Despite losing all her divine power, despite her defeat, her eyes still blazed with murderous intent. Starlight flickered in those lustrous black eyes, and dark energy swirled thickly within them. No matter how one looked at her, she had absolutely nothing in common with the shadow creatures simulated by the Shadow Plane.
Most notably, that incomparably powerful will of the world had almost taken physical form.
After the Overgod Ao created Realmspace, Selûne and Shar were the first to emerge from chaos. Each possessed a portion of the power of the world's source. Shar would never acknowledge defeat. She had not even figured out why she had lost.
From the Goddess of Night's perspective, she had been only a hair's breadth from victory. Just a hair's breadth, truly. Had Aaron not discerned the secret of how she had split her Greater Deity power into three at the crucial moment, had Amaunator not suddenly awakened, had Eilistraee not understood a power unknown even to her, Shar firmly believed she would have won in the end.
Just as she had said, even in defeat, she was still one of the creator goddesses-Shar, a Greater Deity!
At her peak, Shar had once possessed so many portfolios: darkness, night, hatred, loss, oblivion, sleep, nightmares, illusion, lies, deception, revealed secrets, secrecy, betrayal, intrigue, temptation, thievery, stealing, murder, and winter.
Although Shar had