The Shadow-Cursed Lands bear many secrets that you can find and one of them is a Sharran Sanctuary that may be entered if you can unveil its secrets.
Deep within the area, there will be a statue of Ketheric Thorm and a secret entrance that allows you to enter the sanctuary to get certain buffs.
Before you explore the Sharran Sanctuary, you must first locate it and find a way to open its secret entrance to obtain the boons from within.
Where To Find Sharran Sanctuary?
The Sharran Sanctuary is located to the north of The Waning Moon at around (-152, -30) and will trigger a Perception Check when you approach the plaques on its sides.
You will often encounter this as you make your way to the House of Healing, which is where the Wake Up Art Cullagh quest sends you.
How To Open Sharran Sanctuary Entrance?
To open the secret entrance to the Sharran Sanctuary, you will need to interact with the plaques that are on its sides.
This can easily be solved by interacting with them going counterclockwise as the solution to the puzzle is to read them in the order of north, west, and east.
Once you have solved the puzzle, an entrance will be revealed, and you may continue making your way into the sanctuary.
Sharran Sanctuary Statues
Within the Sharran Sanctuary will be 3 different statues and interacting with them will require you to pass Saving Throws for each of the statues.
The following are the statues and the blessings they provide:
- Dark Lady’s Grace (Center Statue) – Provides +5 to Charisma
- Dark Lady’s Awareness (Southeast Statue) – Provides +5 to Wisdom
- Dark Lady’s erudition (Northeast Statue) – Provides +5 to Intelligence
Failing the Saving Throws will result in you suffering from decreased Charisma, Wisdom, or Intelligence based on the statue you fail a Saving Throw from.
The effects of the buffs or debuffs will last until your next Long Rest.
Shar Altar Ritual
After receiving all 3 blessings from the statues, a hidden entrance will open up to the Shar Altar, which you may interact with to perform a ritual.
Selecting the option to perform the ritual will result in the following items appearing at the shrine for you to take:
- Elixir of Necrotic Resistance
- Potion of Angelic Reprieve
- Scroll of Blight
- Scroll of Revivify
Should you Take The Ritual Dagger of Shar?
Before or after performing the ritual, you may decide if you want to take the Ritual Dagger of Shar, which will of course have consequences.
Aside from Shadowheart’s disapproval, a Charismatic Sentinel, Intelligent Sentinel, and Wise Sentinel will appear and attack your party.
Defeating the sentinels will grant you a decent amount of experience but they won’t have much on them for you to loot.
Ritual Dagger of Shar
The Ritual Dagger of Shar is a +1 Dagger that deals an additional 1-4 Necrotic damage to enemies, making it a decent weapon if you want to poison your enemies.
Other than that, taking this dagger is an offense to Shar but the only penalty at this point is Shadowheart being unhappy with your decision. (She worships Shar)
Verdict
Making your way into the Sharran Sanctuary is a good idea if you want to get the Wisdom, Intelligence, and Charisma buffs as they may come in handy.
Stealing the Ritual Dagger of Shar can be useful if you don’t have that many weapons on you but at this point, you should be well-equipped, but the experience may be helpful.
A good way to cheese your way with the statues is to Quicksave before a Saving Throw and reload if you fail until you pass all of them.