There the player finds the City of Judgment, ruled by the current God of the Dead, Kelemvor Lyonsbane. She returns the silver sword of Gith to the player, which allows him to open the Betrayer's Gate and travel to the realm of the dead. The Founder also admits that she is responsible for the player's plight – she wanted to use the player to end the spirit-eater curse (and Akachi's suffering, as well). The Founder explains that, while Lienna and Nefris understood their identities, the truth was hidden from Safiya for her own safety. In Act III, the player meets the Founder of the Academy, and Safiya realizes that she, Lienna, and Nefris are all splinters of the Founder's soul, and that the Founder was once Akachi's lover. At the end of the battle, the player learns that he has become a spirit-eater, an accursed being who must feed upon feys and elementals (and sometimes mortal souls) in order to survive. The player confronts Okku and defeats his spirit army. Upon returning to the Prime Material Plane, the player finds that the spirit-god Okku has besieged Mulsantir, demanding the player's blood. At the back of the theater, the player finds a portal to the Plane of Shadow, a dark reflection of the Prime Material Plane, where he defeats the Red Wizards who murdered Lienna. Unfortunately, the player finds that the theater has been attacked by Red Wizards, and Lienna has been killed. The player follows Safiya to the Veil Theater in the nearby town of Mulsantir, hoping to find Lienna, an acquaintance of Safiya's mother, who is supposed to provide the player with some much-needed answers. The player awakens alone in an underground barrow in Rashemen, where he meets Safiya, a Red Wizard of Thay. In Act I, the Shard-bearer's story resumes after the defeat of the King of Shadows.

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