Sharess

Sharess / Bast
Alignment	Chaotic Good
Divine Rank	Demigoddess
Pantheon	Faerun, Mulhorandi, Phaeronic
Portfolio	Hedonism, Sensual Fulfilment, Sex, Cats (also War and Righteous Fury)
Domains	Chaos, Charm, Good, Travel, Trickery
Home Plane	Brightwater (Arborea) also Heliopolis
Worshippers	Bards, Sensates, Hedonists, Warriors, Women
Favoured Weapon	Cat's Paw (Claw Braver)

Sharess (originally called Bast) is the Mulhorandi goddess of beauty, pleasure and cats. Her portfolio had enough unique appeal that she crossed over into the Faerunian pantheon of the Forgotten Realms.

Considered to be utterly self interested and fickle, it is often forgotten that she is actually a deity of protection and battle, and is the nemesis of the snake deity Set.

History

Starting out as Bast, she was the lieutenant of the war-deity Anhur and the eternal enemy of the evil deity Set.

At some point in their war with each other, 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. She travelled 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 Faerun.

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 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. 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 actual 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.

Worshippers

Celebrant of Sharess

The Celebrant of Sharess is the goddess's foremost prestige class. However it is neither a reckless nymphomaniac, nor is it an evangelical cleric. Instead it is a warrior arcanist that crosses a little bit of Enchanter with a little bit of Barbarian.

It relies on rules from the Book of Exalted Deeds and you need two Exalted feats to qualify, meaning your character has to maintain a Good outlook, and specifically a Chaotic Good alignment. Aside from this the class needs seven points in Diplomacy and Perform skills to qualify; that's it. So pretty much anyone who worships Sharess can qualify.

From there, you get Charisma-based Arcane spellcasting from a limited spell list up to level 4 spells, along with a Cat familiar.

The class also comes with some spell-like & supernatural abilities that allow you pull off an effect similar to Bardic Music where you can fascinate, compel or even force people to fall in love with each other on failed saves.

The Barbarian comparison comes from the fact that in addition to all the magical stuff listed above, they can enter a Rage a number of times per day, using exactly the same mechanic. They can also perform full attacks as part of a charge action and may ALSO Haste themselves as an extraordinary ability.

The only downsides include a shitty BAB progression that doesn't really gain the benefits of having combat abilities, and the only good save is Will. So it appears the class doesn't know what it wants to be.

However, it could be a powerful extra class for the group's warrior who want to pick up a few Arcane tricks while also augmenting their own fighting prowess with actions they couldn't otherwise do. But because it doesn't improve existing spellcasting of any type, it is practically useless for Clerics or Wizards.

Glorious Servitor (of Bast)

Sharess's other prestige class from Lost Empires of Faerun turns your character into a pseudo-lycanthrope as befits a member of a beast-cult. It requires Improved Turning and 2nd Level Divine casting to qualify for this class, but has nothing to do with those features, so it's a bit of an odd ball class that takes your cleric career into a dead end.

Instead, the Glorious Servitor prestige class let's you turn into a Leopard at level 1, then gives you increasing buffs as you progress, such as +6 AC and +3 STR while in animal form, and also giving Spell Resistance, Poison Immunity and eventual transformation into an Outsider. Despite the bizarre entry requirements, This class at least has an attempt to theme, but competes against a Druid for the shapeshifting party role. But is stuck with one form and no spell progression.