I have a few questions regarding the faith of the Sharrans, or rather, the goddess Shar herself. I'll pose them in the interest of me better understanding this goddess so that I might one day, if I play someone who has her as his or her patron, be able to portray him or her as accurately as possible.

Here we go-

(1) If I gather the source-books correctly - and I realize that canon and EfU are different - Shar wishes to return the world to a state of void. What do I have to imagine this void to be? A black sea of nothingness? Utter nothingness and non-existence, like, for example, what one could imagine to exist in the real world in places where there is no universe? Or is it more like merely a different form of existence? The latter would be much less cool.

(2) Let's assume Shar is a sentient goddess - more than that non-life non-existence she wishes - how does this make any sense at all? If she is indeed a sentient goddess, isn't she insane to wish her own end (along with the end of all things)? Or is this a sacrifice she is willing to make? Is her goal to first bring the non-existence of all gods and things, and then her own? Or is Shar, if she ever gets this far, nothing more than a name for the perpetual void and nothingness that'll be leftover, unthinking and unfeeling?

(3) How aware are her worshippers of her motivation to end all existence, and how do these who do know this feel about it? Shar being a goddess of secrets, I imagine, will keep it down, but then again, her dogma does punish placing value on anything that exists.

1. " black sea of nothingness? Utter nothingness and non-existence"

2. "(2) Let's assume Shar is a sentient goddess - more than that non-life non-existence she wishes - how does this make any sense at all? If she is indeed a sentient goddess, isn't she insane to wish her own end (along with the end of all things)? Or is this a sacrifice she is willing to make? Is her goal to first bring the non-existence of all gods and things, and then her own? Or is Shar, if she ever gets this far, nothing more than a name for the perpetual void and nothingness that'll be leftover, unthinking and unfeeling? "

The answer to all of these could be 'yes'. I think you actually have a pretty firm grasp of Shar already.

3. "(3) How aware are her worshippers of her motivation to end all existence, and how do these who do know this feel about it? Shar being a goddess of secrets, I imagine, will keep it down, but then again, her dogma does punish placing value on anything that exists."

Her clergy would know, and work to assist it. They choose to serve the goddess because they share belief with her dogma.

Ve are nihilists, Lebowski.