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{{quote|"A wicked moment, person, or thing that cannot be slain by sword or spell haunts your mind and flickers in your peripheral vision. You carry it wherever your adventure takes you - or perhaps it carries you."}}
| description = Haunted One is a character background in Baldur's Gate 3 unique to the Dark Urge. It influences your skill proficiencies and provides opportunities to gain inspiration.
 
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== Background Features ==
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'''Haunted One''' is a character [[Backgrounds|background]] unique to the [[Dark Urge]] with [[inspiration]]s themed around embracing (or sometimes resisting) [[The Urge]].
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== Background features ==
* '''Medicine Proficiency''': Gain [[Proficiency]] with {{Ability|Wisdom}} ([[Medicine]]) [[Ability Check]]s.
* '''Medicine Proficiency''': Gain [[Proficiency]] with {{Ability|Wisdom}} ([[Medicine]]) [[Ability Check]]s.
* '''Intimidation Proficiency''': Gain [[Proficiency]] with {{Ability|Charisma}} ([[Intimidation]]) [[Ability Check]]s.
* '''Intimidation Proficiency''': Gain [[Proficiency]] with {{Ability|Charisma}} ([[Intimidation]]) [[Ability Check]]s.


''The Haunted One [[Backgrounds|Background]] is only available to [[The Dark Urge]] characters.''
== Background goals ==
 
== Background Goals ==
Performing certain actions that align with this background will reward [[Inspiration]]. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4.
Performing certain actions that align with this background will reward [[Inspiration]]. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4.


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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%;"
 
!Location
=== General ===
!XP Reward
 
!Name
* '''Indulge Thine Appetites:''' Follow your Dark Urge.
!Description
* '''Killing Spree:''' Kill 5 enemies in a single round.
|-
* '''Unfriendly Fire:''' Defeat 5 neutral creatures in a single round.
! colspan="4" |General
* '''Subdue Thine Appetites:''' Resist your Dark Urge.
|-
* '''Panoply of Agony:''' Get at least one kill with each damage type (Bludgeoning, Slashing, Piercing, Acid, Cold, Fire, Force, Lightning, Necrotic, Poison, Psychic, Radiant, Thunder)
! rowspan="5" |Anywhere
 
|25
=== Act One ===
|Indulge Thine Appetites
 
|Follow your Dark Urge.
[[Overgrown_Ruins#Dank_Crypt|Dank Crypt]]
|-
* '''Unfamiliar Familiarity:''' Release [[Withers]] from his tomb.
|50
 
|Killing Spree
[[Wilderness#Roadside_Cliffs|Roadside Cliffs]]
|Kill 5 enemies in a single round.
* '''Reuniting Friends:''' Kill [[Brynna]] and [[Andrick]], reuniting them with their fallen companion.
|-
* '''To Sleep, Perchance To Dream Tentacled Dreams:''' Close the pinned mind flayer's eyes forever.
|95
 
|Unfriendly Fire
[[Druids Grove]]
|Defeat 5 neutral creatures in a single round.
* '''Camaraderie in Bloodthirst:''' [[Raid the Emerald Grove|Spill the blood]] of the tieflings.
|-
* '''Morally Acceptable Massacre:''' [[Raid the Emerald Grove|Spill the blood]] of the goblins.
|25
 
|Subdue Thine Appetites
[[Blighted Village]]
|Resist your Dark Urge.
* '''Creatures of Bloodlust:''' Recruit the [[Lump the Enlightened|ogre mercenaries]], using the corpses of your enemies as payment.
|-
 
|50
[[Waukeen's Rest]]
|Panoply of Agony
* '''Fresh Kindle for the Fire:''' Leave the pinned [[Benryn]] to burn.
|Get at least one kill with each [[Damage type]].
 
[[Goblin Camp]]
* '''Good Ol' Long Pig:''' Eat a chunk of the cooked dwarf.
* '''Grabbing the Poker with Both Hands:''' Torture [[Liam]] yourself.
* '''Now It's a Party!:''' Poison the stolen ale, slaughtering the goblins.
 
[[Grymforge]]
* '''Head of the Snake:''' Take [[Nere|Nere's]] [[Nere's Head|head]].
 
[[Underdark]]
* '''New Management:''' Kill the [[Spaw|Myconid Sovereign]] for [[Glut]].
 
[[Campsite]]
* '''Snipping the Chords:''' Kill [[Alfira]] in cold blood.
 
=== Act Two ===
 
[[Shadow-Cursed Lands]]
* '''Fly-Swatter:''' Kill the [[Dolly Dolly Dolly|trickster pixie]].
 
[[Last Light Inn]]
* '''Forced Retirement:''' End [[Jaheira]]'s career permanently.
* '''Lunar Eclipse:''' Kill the [[Isobel|protector]] of [[Last Light Inn|Last Light]].
 
[[Reithwin Town]]
* '''Lack of Moderation is Key:''' Kill the [[Thisobald Thorm|brewer]] with his own brew.
* '''Under the Knife:''' Kill the [[Malus Thorm|surgeon]] using his own servile nurses.
 
[[Moonrise Towers]]
* '''Forcing Responsibility:''' Demand that the goblin fetch his bone.
* '''Lesser of the Three:''' Kill the envoy of Myrkul.
* '''Soulful Lobotomy:''' [[Decide Minthara's Fate|Torture Minthara]], reducing her to a husk of her former self.
* '''Swimming with the Shadows:''' Force the Zhent smuggler to jump off the docks.
* '''Too Easy:''' Execute the useless goblins.
* '''Who Let the Gnolls Out:''' Release the gnolls from their leashes.
 
[[Gauntlet of Shar]]
* '''Bleeding the Corpse Dry:''' Kill the [[Balthazar|necromancer]].
* '''Killer Poetry:''' Trick the [[Yurgir|orthon]] with a false loophole.
* '''Self-Flagellation:''' Kill your mirror-self in Shar's trial.
 
=== Act Three ===
 
[[Rivington]]
* '''Personal Relations:''' Meet one of [[Orin]]'s impersonations.
* '''Kill 'Em While They're Young:''' Execute the newborn [[Abandoned Windmill|mind flayer]].
* '''Unexpected Parenting:''' Feed a brain to the newborn [[Abandoned Windmill|Mind Flayer]].
 
[[Western Beach]]
* '''Cleaning Up The Scum:''' Kill both of the opposing smuggling factions.
 
[[Wyrm's Crossing]]
* '''Exsanguinated Ecstasy:''' Accept [[Naoise]]'s lewd proposition.


[[Wyrm's Rock Fortress]]
* There are thirteen different damage types.
* '''Shattering the Black Hand:''' Kill the [[Enver Gortash|would-be Tyrant]].
|-
! colspan="4" |Act 1
|-
![[Overgrown Ruins#Dank%20Crypt|Dank Crypt]]
|20
|Unfamiliar Familiarity
|Release [[Withers]] from his tomb.
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Wilderness#Roadside%20Cliffs|Roadside Cliffs]]
|20
|To Sleep, Perchance To Dream Tentacled Dreams
|Close the pinned mind flayer's eyes forever.
|-
|25
|Reuniting Friends
|Kill [[Brynna]] and [[Andrick]], reuniting them with their fallen companion.
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Druids Grove]]
|50
|Camaraderie in Bloodthirst
|[[Raid the Emerald Grove|Spill the blood]] of the tieflings.
|-
|50
|Morally Acceptable Massacre
|[[Defeat the Goblins|Spill the blood]] of the goblins.
|-
![[Blighted Village]]
|25
|Creatures of Bloodlust
|Recruit the [[Lump the Enlightened|ogre mercenaries]], using the corpses of your enemies as payment.
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[Goblin Camp]]
|25
|Good Ol' Long Pig
|Eat a chunk of the cooked dwarf.
|-
|25
|Grabbing the Poker with Both Hands
|Torture [[Liam]] yourself.
|-
|25
|Now It's a Party!
|Poison the stolen ale, slaughtering the goblins.
|-
![[Waukeen's Rest]]
|30
|Fresh Kindle for the Fire
|Leave the pinned [[Benryn]] to burn.
|-
![[Underdark]]
|50
|New Management
|Kill the [[Spaw|Myconid Sovereign]] for [[Glut]].
|-
![[Grymforge]]
|50
|Head of the Snake
|Take [[Nere|Nere's]] [[Nere's Head|head]].
|-
![[Campsite]]
|25
|Snipping the Chords
|Kill [[Alfira]] in cold blood.
|-
! colspan="4" |Act 2
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Shadow-Cursed Lands]]
|50
|Fly-Swatter
|Kill the [[Dolly Dolly Dolly|trickster pixie]].
|-
|50
|Forcing Responsibility
|Demand that the goblin fetch his bone.
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Last Light Inn]]
|75
|Forced Retirement
|End [[Jaheira]]'s career permanently.
|-
|75
|Lunar Eclipse
|Kill the [[Isobel Thorm|protector]] of [[Last Light Inn|Last Light]].
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Reithwin Town]]
|60
|Lack of Moderation is Key
|Kill the [[Thisobald Thorm|brewer]] with his own brew.
|-
|60
|Under the Knife
|Kill the [[Malus Thorm|surgeon]] using his own servile nurses.
|-
! rowspan="4" |[[Moonrise Towers]]
|50
|Too Easy
|Execute the useless goblins.
|-
|60
|Who Let the Gnolls Out
|Release the gnolls from their leashes.
|-
|60
|Swimming with the Shadows
|Force the [[Marls|Zhent smuggler]] to jump off the docks.
|-
|60
|Soulful Lobotomy
|[[Decide Minthara's Fate|Torture Minthara]], reducing her to a husk of her former self.


[[Lower City]]
* Requires erasing Minthara's mind yourself; letting the Inquisitors do it does not grant Inspiration.
* '''A Massacre Beyond Imagining:''' Annihilate the [[Steel Watch Foundry]] with [[Wulbren]]'s secret weapon.
|-
* '''A Step Too Far:''' Save [[Valeria]], rejecting [[Investigate_the_Murders#Infiltrate_the_Murder_Tribunal|Bhaal's gifts]].
! rowspan="4" |[[Gauntlet of Shar]]
* '''An Overdue Slaughter:''' Pull off a long-overdue climax to the life of [[Mystic Carrion]].
|75
* '''Death of Innocence:''' Become the [[Impress the Murder Tribunal|Unholy Assassin of Bhaal]].
|Bleeding the Corpse Dry
* '''Culling the Imitator:''' Kill the [[Dolor|wannabe assassin]].
|Kill the [[Balthazar|necromancer]].
* '''How High They Fall:''' Kill the egotistic [[Lorroakan|would-be immortal]].
|-
* '''Re-tasting the Kill:''' Kill [[Auntie Ethel|Ethel]] a second time - that stubborn, swampy scandal of a hag.
|75
* '''Trail of Blood:''' Collect all the pieces of [[Find Dribbles the Clown|Dribbles]].
|Killer Poetry
* '''Weak Gifts for Weak Beings:''' Take the [[Stormshore Tabernacle|measly offerings]] to the gods for yourself.
|Trick the [[Yurgir|orthon]] with a false loophole.
|-
|75
|Self-Flagellation
|Kill your mirror-self in Shar's trial.
|-
|75
|Blood Moon
|Kill the [[Aylin|Daughter of the Moon]].
|-
![[Mind Flayer Colony]]
|95
|Lesser of the Three
|Kill the envoy of Myrkul.
|-
! colspan="4" |Act 3
|-
! rowspan="5" |[[Rivington]]
|135
|Personal Relations
|Meet one of [[Orin]]'s impersonations.
|-
|135
|Kill 'Em While They're Young
|Execute the newborn [[Abandoned Windmill|mind flayer]].
|-
|135
|Unexpected Parenting
|Feed a brain to the newborn [[Abandoned Windmill|Mind Flayer]].
|-
|135
|First of Many
|Request a statue of your mortal form.
|-
|170
|Trail of Blood
|Collect all the pieces of [[Find Dribbles the Clown|Dribbles]].
|-
![[Western Beach]]
|170
|Cleaning Up The Scum
|Kill both of the opposing smuggling factions.
|-
![[Wyrm's Crossing]]
|135
|Exsanguinated Ecstasy
|Accept [[Naoise]]'s lewd proposition.
|-
![[Wyrm's Rock Fortress]]
|220
|Shattering the Black Hand
|Kill the [[Enver Gortash|would-be Tyrant]].
|-
! rowspan="9" |[[Lower City]]
|170
|Weak Gifts for Weak Beings
|Take the [[Stormshore Tabernacle|measly offerings]] to the gods for yourself.
|-
|170
|Written in Blood
|Accept Orin's proposition of alliance.
|-
|170
|Culling the Imitator
|Kill the [[Dolor|wannabe assassin]].
|-
|220
|Re-tasting the Kill
|Kill [[Auntie Ethel|Ethel]] a second time - that stubborn, swampy scandal of a hag.


[[Bhaal Temple]]
* Despite mentioning a second time, this inspiration is rewarded even if Ethel wasn't killed in Act 1.
* '''Homecoming:''' Discover the Temple of Bhaal beneath Baldur's Gate.
|-
* '''Return of the Bhaalspawn:''' Embrace your legacy.
|220
* '''Bhaalspawn No More:''' Reject your legacy.
|How High They Fall
|Kill the egotistic [[Lorroakan|would-be immortal]].
|-
|220
|Death of Innocence
|Become the [[Impress the Murder Tribunal|Unholy Assassin of Bhaal]].
|-
|220
|An Overdue Slaughter
|Pull off a long-overdue climax to the life of [[Mystic Carrion]].
|-
|220
|A Step Too Far
|Save [[Valeria]], rejecting [[Investigate the Murders#Infiltrate%20the%20Murder%20Tribunal|Bhaal's gifts]].
|-
|220
|A Massacre Beyond Imagining
|Annihilate the [[Steel Watch Foundry]] with [[Wulbren]]'s secret weapon.
|-
! rowspan="5" |[[Bhaal Temple]]
|220
|Homecoming
|Discover the Temple of Bhaal beneath Baldur's Gate.
|-
|220
|Securing Your Line
|Become the primary descendant of Bhaal.
|-
|275
|Return of the Bhaalspawn
|Embrace your legacy.
|-
|275
|Bhaalspawn No More
|Reject your legacy.
|-
|275
|Spawn Cleanup Crew
|Defeat Bhaal's [[Sarevok|wretched legacy]].
|}


{{Character creation}}
[[Category:Backgrounds]]
[[Category:Backgrounds]]

Latest revision as of 21:55, 30 August 2024

Haunted One is a character background unique to the Dark Urge with inspirations themed around embracing (or sometimes resisting) The Urge.

Background Haunted One Icon.png
“
A wicked moment, person, or thing that cannot be slain by sword or spell haunts your mind and flickers in your peripheral vision. You carry it wherever your adventure takes you - or perhaps it carries you.
„


Background features[edit | edit source]

Background goals[edit | edit source]

Performing certain actions that align with this background will reward Inspiration. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4.

Location XP Reward Name Description
General
Anywhere 25 Indulge Thine Appetites Follow your Dark Urge.
50 Killing Spree Kill 5 enemies in a single round.
95 Unfriendly Fire Defeat 5 neutral creatures in a single round.
25 Subdue Thine Appetites Resist your Dark Urge.
50 Panoply of Agony Get at least one kill with each Damage type.
  • There are thirteen different damage types.
Act 1
Dank Crypt 20 Unfamiliar Familiarity Release Withers from his tomb.
Roadside Cliffs 20 To Sleep, Perchance To Dream Tentacled Dreams Close the pinned mind flayer's eyes forever.
25 Reuniting Friends Kill Brynna and Andrick, reuniting them with their fallen companion.
Druids Grove 50 Camaraderie in Bloodthirst Spill the blood of the tieflings.
50 Morally Acceptable Massacre Spill the blood of the goblins.
Blighted Village 25 Creatures of Bloodlust Recruit the ogre mercenaries, using the corpses of your enemies as payment.
Goblin Camp 25 Good Ol' Long Pig Eat a chunk of the cooked dwarf.
25 Grabbing the Poker with Both Hands Torture Liam yourself.
25 Now It's a Party! Poison the stolen ale, slaughtering the goblins.
Waukeen's Rest 30 Fresh Kindle for the Fire Leave the pinned Benryn to burn.
Underdark 50 New Management Kill the Myconid Sovereign for Glut.
Grymforge 50 Head of the Snake Take Nere's head.
Campsite 25 Snipping the Chords Kill Alfira in cold blood.
Act 2
Shadow-Cursed Lands 50 Fly-Swatter Kill the trickster pixie.
50 Forcing Responsibility Demand that the goblin fetch his bone.
Last Light Inn 75 Forced Retirement End Jaheira's career permanently.
75 Lunar Eclipse Kill the protector of Last Light.
Reithwin Town 60 Lack of Moderation is Key Kill the brewer with his own brew.
60 Under the Knife Kill the surgeon using his own servile nurses.
Moonrise Towers 50 Too Easy Execute the useless goblins.
60 Who Let the Gnolls Out Release the gnolls from their leashes.
60 Swimming with the Shadows Force the Zhent smuggler to jump off the docks.
60 Soulful Lobotomy Torture Minthara, reducing her to a husk of her former self.
  • Requires erasing Minthara's mind yourself; letting the Inquisitors do it does not grant Inspiration.
Gauntlet of Shar 75 Bleeding the Corpse Dry Kill the necromancer.
75 Killer Poetry Trick the orthon with a false loophole.
75 Self-Flagellation Kill your mirror-self in Shar's trial.
75 Blood Moon Kill the Daughter of the Moon.
Mind Flayer Colony 95 Lesser of the Three Kill the envoy of Myrkul.
Act 3
Rivington 135 Personal Relations Meet one of Orin's impersonations.
135 Kill 'Em While They're Young Execute the newborn mind flayer.
135 Unexpected Parenting Feed a brain to the newborn Mind Flayer.
135 First of Many Request a statue of your mortal form.
170 Trail of Blood Collect all the pieces of Dribbles.
Western Beach 170 Cleaning Up The Scum Kill both of the opposing smuggling factions.
Wyrm's Crossing 135 Exsanguinated Ecstasy Accept Naoise's lewd proposition.
Wyrm's Rock Fortress 220 Shattering the Black Hand Kill the would-be Tyrant.
Lower City 170 Weak Gifts for Weak Beings Take the measly offerings to the gods for yourself.
170 Written in Blood Accept Orin's proposition of alliance.
170 Culling the Imitator Kill the wannabe assassin.
220 Re-tasting the Kill Kill Ethel a second time - that stubborn, swampy scandal of a hag.
  • Despite mentioning a second time, this inspiration is rewarded even if Ethel wasn't killed in Act 1.
220 How High They Fall Kill the egotistic would-be immortal.
220 Death of Innocence Become the Unholy Assassin of Bhaal.
220 An Overdue Slaughter Pull off a long-overdue climax to the life of Mystic Carrion.
220 A Step Too Far Save Valeria, rejecting Bhaal's gifts.
220 A Massacre Beyond Imagining Annihilate the Steel Watch Foundry with Wulbren's secret weapon.
Bhaal Temple 220 Homecoming Discover the Temple of Bhaal beneath Baldur's Gate.
220 Securing Your Line Become the primary descendant of Bhaal.
275 Return of the Bhaalspawn Embrace your legacy.
275 Bhaalspawn No More Reject your legacy.
275 Spawn Cleanup Crew Defeat Bhaal's wretched legacy.
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