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{{ | {{Infobox character | ||
| | | role = Special [[Origin]] | ||
|name = The Dark Urge | | name = The Dark Urge | ||
| | | image = BIBG The Dark Urge Cropped.png | ||
| | | image_alt_text = The Dark Urge's appearance in Blood in Baldur's Gate. | ||
| race = Any, [[White dragonborn]] (default) | |||
| class = Any, [[Sorcerer]], [[Storm Sorcery]] (default) | |||
| background = [[Haunted One]] | |||
| hometown = [[Baldur's Gate]] | |||
| family = [[Bhaal]] ("father"/creator)<br>[[Orin the Red]] (Bhaalspawn relative)<br>[[Sarevok Anchev]] (Bhaalspawn relative)<br>Unnamed foster parents<br>[[Minsc]] ("uncle", determinant) | |||
|race=Any, | |||
|class = Sorcerer | |||
|background= Haunted One | |||
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|family= | |||
[[Bhaal]] (" | |||
}} | }} | ||
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Eventually, the Dark Urge became the leader of the Cult of Bhaal, and pledged to end all life in existence for their [[Bhaal|father]]. At some point fellow Bhaalspawn [[Orin the Red]] joined and served under them.{{ref|name=memoirs|Gortash's memoirs.}} | Eventually, the Dark Urge became the leader of the Cult of Bhaal, and pledged to end all life in existence for their [[Bhaal|father]]. At some point fellow Bhaalspawn [[Orin the Red]] joined and served under them.{{ref|name=memoirs|Gortash's memoirs.}} | ||
After receiving dreams of Bhaal, the Dark Urge – in correspondence with [[Gortash|Enver Gortash]] – hatched a plan to steal the Crown of Karsus in a heist at Mephistopheles' Vault, so that they could fulfil their pledge to their Lord: They would create an army of soulless mind flayers, and with the help of this army they would exterminate all life — Including, as the last being alive, their own. Fully intent on eventually betraying them, the Dark Urge joined forces with Gortash and [[Ketheric Thorm]], [[Bane]] and [[Myrkul]]'s chosen, respectively.{{ref|name=colonyletter||act2}}{{ref|name=memoirs}}{{ref|name=coronation||act3}}{{ref|name=parentnotes|Notes found at Gortash's parents' shop.|act3}} | After receiving dreams of Bhaal, the Dark Urge – in correspondence with [[Gortash|Enver Gortash]] – hatched a plan to steal the Crown of Karsus in a heist at Mephistopheles' Vault, so that they could fulfil their pledge to their Lord: They would create an army of soulless mind flayers, and with the help of this army they would exterminate all life — Including, as the last being alive, their own. Fully intent on eventually betraying them, the Dark Urge joined forces with Gortash and [[Ketheric Thorm]], [[Bane (God)|Bane]] and [[Myrkul]]'s chosen, respectively.{{ref|name=colonyletter||act2}}{{ref|name=memoirs}}{{ref|name=coronation||act3}}{{ref|name=parentnotes|Notes found at Gortash's parents' shop.|act3}} | ||
After the heist, Gortash suggested that they use the Crown on the elder brain located in the illithid colony below [[Moonrise Towers]]. The Dark Urge agreed to the plan, and joined [[Enver Gortash]] and [[Ketheric Thorm]] at Moonrise Towers.{{ref|name=memoirs}} | After the heist, Gortash suggested that they use the Crown on the elder brain located in the illithid colony below [[Moonrise Towers]]. The Dark Urge agreed to the plan, and joined [[Enver Gortash]] and [[Ketheric Thorm]] at Moonrise Towers.{{ref|name=memoirs}} | ||
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The Dark Urge's unique quest, [[The Urge]], has two distinct paths: The character can either resist their urges, or embrace them. | The Dark Urge's unique quest, [[The Urge]], has two distinct paths: The character can either resist their urges, or embrace them. | ||
If they resist the legacy, will | If they resist the Urge and reject their legacy, Bhaal will drain them of his unholy blood resulting in their death, only for [[Withers]] to intervene directly and bring them back to life. | ||
If they embrace their legacy, they will become Bhaal's Chosen yet again. | If they embrace the Urge and accept their legacy, they will become Bhaal's Chosen yet again. | ||
== Past relationships == | == Past relationships == | ||
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The Dark Urge had a turbulent relationship with their blood-kin sister Orin. Orin however was far more obsessed with the 'beauty' of the kill, believing that the 'thousands' of murders that Dark Urge committed actually were an affront to Bhaal, as revealed in her diary and manifesto declaring she would wipe out this stain and dishonor from Bhaal's Temple. Her entire belief in Bhaal is that the way you kill and build up to the moment of death is just as important as the death itself. This is later used against her by Sarevok, her own grandfather, who states that Orin has never understood what Bhaal actually wants: ''"Our lord does not care for beauty. Bhaal cares only for death. Death in numbers. Death in droves. It is a lesson Orin will only learn in death."'' By contrast the Dark Urge always did and was Bhaal's favored child because of it. | The Dark Urge had a turbulent relationship with their blood-kin sister Orin. Orin however was far more obsessed with the 'beauty' of the kill, believing that the 'thousands' of murders that Dark Urge committed actually were an affront to Bhaal, as revealed in her diary and manifesto declaring she would wipe out this stain and dishonor from Bhaal's Temple. Her entire belief in Bhaal is that the way you kill and build up to the moment of death is just as important as the death itself. This is later used against her by Sarevok, her own grandfather, who states that Orin has never understood what Bhaal actually wants: ''"Our lord does not care for beauty. Bhaal cares only for death. Death in numbers. Death in droves. It is a lesson Orin will only learn in death."'' By contrast the Dark Urge always did and was Bhaal's favored child because of it. | ||
This continued favoritism shown towards the Dark Urge would eat away at Orin, who became more and more bitter that even the worshipful masses of Bhaal's temple, the Bhaal cultists | This continued favoritism shown towards the Dark Urge would eat away at Orin, who became more and more bitter that even the worshipful masses of Bhaal's temple, the Bhaal cultists, would begin worshiping the Dark Urge, in turn seeing it as worship of a false idol. It was all too much and eventually Orin, in a mad fit of rage, stabbed the Dark Urge in the back of the head, splitting open their skull and then forcing a mindflayer tadpole inside the open wound. This unintentionally created the first True Soul. Afterwards Orin would go on to usurp control of the Bhaal temple while dumping their body into the section of the Moonrise Towers Illithid colony controlled by the cultists of Myrkul where they were discovered by Kressa Bonedaughter, a Myrkulite necromancer that repaired the Dark Urge's injuries and began experimenting on them unaware of who they were. | ||
=== Bhaal and his Temple === | === Bhaal and his Temple === | ||
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File: Preview The Dark Urge.png|The origin's default appearance in Larian's Release Showcase. | File: Preview The Dark Urge.png|The origin's default appearance in Larian's Release Showcase. | ||
File:BIBG The Dark Urge.png|The origin's appearance in Blood in Baldur's Gate. | File:BIBG The Dark Urge.png|The origin's appearance in Blood in Baldur's Gate. | ||
TheDarkUrge.jpg|Promotional art | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* ''[[The Dark Urge (Origin)]]'' a spoiler-free page that lists player interactions as the Dark Urge. | * ''[[The Dark Urge (Origin)]]'' a spoiler-free page that lists player interactions as the Dark Urge. | ||
==Related Literature== | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Blood-Envy for the Unworthy}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Clasped Book (Moonrise Towers)}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Concerning Orin the Red}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Letter from Alfira (Dark Urge)}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Prayer for Forgiveness}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Scrapbook of Letters}} | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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* The Dark Urge has much in common with the protagonists of many other party-based RPGs, such as being an amnesiac and having a hidden connection to the villains of the game that is revealed over time. | * The Dark Urge has much in common with the protagonists of many other party-based RPGs, such as being an amnesiac and having a hidden connection to the villains of the game that is revealed over time. | ||
** Notably, the protagonist of the previous Baldur's Gate games was also a Bhaalspawn. | ** Notably, the protagonist of the previous Baldur's Gate games was also a Bhaalspawn. | ||
* Even after being freed of | * Even after being freed of the Urge, the Dark Urge still has access to unique, violent dialogue – with the Urge references removed – suggesting that at least part of the Dark Urge's available actions could be the result of their own character, rather than simply Bhaal's influence.{{ref|As discovered in numerous possible dialogues in Act Three.|act3}} | ||
** Immediately after the Dark Urge is brought back by Withers, the character can revel in their freedom to be evil without the Urge, and take joy in having fooled everyone that they are innocent. | ** Immediately after the Dark Urge is brought back by Withers, the character can revel in their freedom to be evil without the Urge, and take joy in having fooled everyone that they are innocent. | ||
** The character can also embrace their goodness, which illustrates the virtue of a good-aligned Dark Urge, as they (and the player) truly ''choose'' to be good. | ** The character can also embrace their goodness, which illustrates the virtue of a good-aligned Dark Urge, as they (and the player) truly ''choose'' to be good. |