Sharess Sharess ( pronounced " SHAH - ress " ) is the deity of hedonism , festhalls and sensual fulfillment . Sharess is oft depicted as a beautiful , voluptuous woman with the head of a cat ( especially in Mulhorand ) . She has the individualistic and hedonistic personality of a feline and she is constantly grooming herself to ensure her appearance is always up to standards . Sharess is an innate flirt and loves toying around with beautiful mortals ; once she has had her fill , she swiftly moves on to other sources of pleasure . Worshipers . Church of Sharess . The Church of Sharess is of casual nature , and her clergy are responsible for the running of many festhalls found throughout large cities in Faerûn . These festhalls seek to indulge every pleasure imaginable . Privately owned festhalls usually employ at least one or two Sharessan clerics . The Church of Sharess probably celebrate the most festivals out of all the faiths of Faerûn . These revels are known collectively as the Endless Revels of Life . Even daily events present a chance for Sharessan to revel ; sometimes even the rising and setting of the sun . Their most beloved festival is the Midsummer ' s Eve festival , where the pursuit of pleasure has no boundary . Sharessan clerics pray for their spells at dusk . Affiliated Orders . Sharess doesn ' t have any Orders as such but a group of werecat s devoted to both her and Selûne and calling themselves the Eyes of the Evening hunt down Sharran cultists on nights of the full moon . History . Sharess was once Bast , a Mulhorandi power who was the patroness of cats , and Anhur ' s lieutenant . During the Second Empire , she subsumed the portfolio of Felidae , a beast cult deity of felines , nomads , and sensual pleasure . Struck by wanderlust , Bast traveled across Faerûn leaving many cults in her wake . During these travels , she also subsumed the divinity of Zandilar the Dancer , a goddess of the Yuir elves , so that she gained the elvish goddess ' portfolio of intense passionate love . After Myth Drannor fell , she began to experiment with the darker side of pleasure and fell under the sway of Shar . She began to become known as Sharess , but before she was completely subsumed by Shar , she was freed by Sune , during the Time of Troubles . Shar had tried to assassinate her as she had Ibrandul due to her reluctance to be completely dominated by the goddess of shadow , but Sune doused her with a chalice filled with waters from Arvandor ' s Evergold that restored Sharess ' beauty and willpower , giving her the will and the edge to rebel against her mistress . Since then she has spent much of her time in Arvandor , frolicking and pursuing pleasure in all of its forms , despite the warnings of her deific allies and the offers made by Shar . Now she holds on tightly to her independence , fostering a wider worship while at the same time guarding herself from Shar and Loviatar . Relationships . Sharess has restored alliances with Selûne , Sune , Milil , Hanali Celanil , and Lliira . She now opposes both Loviatar and Shar , who has never forgotten that Sharess escaped from her clutches . She also remembers her Mulhorandi roots , and opposes the evil Set along with the other good - aligned gods of that nation . She has a close relationship with Nobanion , who shares her interest in felines , though Sharess does as much to annoy him as she does to entice him . She also has a romantic relationship with Anhur , though their opinion of each other varies wildly from absolute love to indifference depending on how many fights that they have .