Embrace Shart - Hug Shadowheart in Act 2

🩶Part of the July 2026 Modathon🩶

Embrace Shart

Spoiler warning: Act 2

Shadowheart looks distraught - abandoned by her goddess and all former allies. And as for her divine magic...? Admitting who empowers her now may break her spirit for good.

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Shadowheart looks distraught, but now you can offer her a hug in this trying time. This mod makes use of deprecated hug content for Shart, available while she's in crisis mode in Act 2.

• []You can hug her in the first post-Shadowfell conversation if your approval is 30+[/]

  []You can hug her throughout her time of crisis with 40+ approval[/]

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  Installation & compatibility

  Can be installed or removed mid-playthrough. Will conflict with any mods that edit this file:

  \Mods\GustavDev\Story\DialogsBinary\Companions\ShadowHeart_InParty2_Nested_ShadowCurseChapter.lsf

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  Backstory that literally nobody asked for

  This mod has been on my wish list / to-do list for some time. Back when I first romanced Shadowheart, I was surprised I couldn't hug her while she's visibly distressed in Act 2. I opened up the parsed dialog out of curiosity, and... lo and behold, a hug option was there, but deprecated:

  The deprecated hug dialog is unfinished; the hug anims are missing, but it does have a bunch of hug reactions from God's Favourite Princess:

  There is also a deprecated hug option in her main InParty, which would have allowed players to continue hugging Shart after Nightsong tells her about her father. I might tackle that at some point as well, but that's much lower on my priority list because Hug Your Companions already exists.

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