Editing Sharess (section)

==History==
Starting out as Bast, she was the lieutenant of the war-deity '''Anhur''' and the eternal enemy of the evil deity '''Set'''. Originally, she was the slayer of vermin ''(Snakes, Scorpions, Rats)'' and was seen as a protector against famine ''(as vermin tend to eat or spoil the food)''.

At some point in Anhur's war with Set, Bast assumed the portfolio of '''Felidae''' who was a goddess of pleasure and cats, which was enough to cause a complete shift in her personality and lead her to quit her efforts against the god of evil and wander off on her own and join the Faerûnian pantheon. Because the Mulhorandi pantheon were interlopers from another plane, [[Ao]] generally preferred to keep everything neat and tidy and not have too much cross-over; but he allowed the transfer because [[Mask]] had already insinuated his way into the religions of the Old Empires ''(Mulhorand and Unther)'' because they didn't have their own God of Thieves. So because [[Ao]] plays fair, he allowed Bast and Mask to expand geographically into each others areas. So she traveled away from Mulhorand in order to seek out new experiences and began a journey of serial sexual conquests and experimenting with various drugs that left small cults all over the place.

In her travels, she assumed the portfolio of yet another deity, called '''Zandilar the Dancer''' who was an Elven deity localised in the Yuirwood, whose portfolio encompassed physical passion. Zandilar had attempted to seduce [[Vhaeraun]], the son of [[Lolth]] and was betrayed and her avatar was captured and drained of power. However Bast arrived just in time to prevent the drow deity from assuming her portfolio, and a diminished Zandilar freely merged with Bast and combined the two religions. From then on, one of Bast's titles was "The Dancing Lady", though she still occasionally acts in the name of Zandilar for the elves.

The name "Sharess" only came later, when Bast fell totally under the sway of [[Shar]], goddess of Darkness ''(and ironically a feminine analogue to Set)'' where Bast continued her experimental phase by experiencing lesbianism with a much older woman. Shar taught Bast to seek out [[Slaanesh|pleasures without limit or restriction]], turning her into a dark and dangerous deity in her own right, and about as far from her original incarnation as a goddess of protection and good as she could get. Unbeknownst to Bast, this dark-goth phase that Shar was encouraging was just Shar fattening Sharess up so that she could be consumed and give the goddess of Darkness more power.

It was only during the [[Time of Troubles]] that Sharess was saved by [[Sune]], the <u>actual</u> goddess of beauty and pleasure, who was inevitably sexier than Shar ever could be. So the thrill seeking little lesbian cat switched sides again and became a force for good.

Sharess moved her belongings into a ghetto in Sune's home of Brightwater and started getting out of her drug and sex addled stupor. She made peace with her estranged companion ''Anhur'' and has only started putting her life back together.

It's a bit difficult for her though, seeing as her fierce independent streak causes her to ignore most advice, combined with her inherent pursuit of pleasure continually leads her into dark places which sometimes brings her very close to overlap with [[Loviatar]], the maiden of pain and puts her at risk of getting drawn into yet another portfolio struggle.