Haunted One

"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

• Medicine Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Wisdom (Medicine) Ability Checks.
• Intimidation Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Charisma (Intimidation) Ability Checks.

The Haunted One Background is only available to The Dark Urge characters.

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.

General

• Indulge Thine Appetites: Follow your Dark Urge.
• Killing Spree: Kill 5 enemies in a single round.
• Unfriendly Fire: Defeat 5 neutral creatures in a single round.
• Subdue Thine Appetites: Resist your Dark Urge.

Act One

Dank Crypt

• Unfamiliar Familiarity: Release Withers from his tomb.

Roadside Cliffs

• 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.

Druids Grove

• Camaraderie in Bloodthirst: Spill the blood of the tieflings.
• Morally Acceptable Massacre: Spill the blood of the goblins.

Blighted Village

• Creatures of Bloodlust: Recruit the ogre mercenaries, using the corpses of your enemies as payment.

Goblin Camp

• Fresh Kindle for the Fire: Leave the pinned Benryn to burn.
• 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's head.

Underdark

• New Management: Kill the Myconid Sovereign for Glut.

Campsite

• Snipping the Chords: Kill Alfira in cold blood.

Act Two

Shadow-Cursed Lands

• Fly-Swatter: Kill the trickster pixie.

Last Light Inn

• Forced Retirement: End Jaheira's career permanently.
• Lunar Eclipse: Kill the protector of Last Light.

Reithwin Town

• Lack of Moderation is Key: Kill the brewer with his own brew.
• Under the Knife: Kill the 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: 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 necromancer.
• Killer Poetry: Trick the 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 mind flayer.
• Unexpected Parenting: Feed a brain to the newborn 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

• Shattering the Black Hand: Kill the would-be Tyrant.

Lower City

• A Massacre Beyond Imagining: Annihilate the Steel Watch Foundry with Wulbren's secret weapon.
• A Step Too Far: Save Valeria, rejecting Bhaal's gifts.
• An Overdue Slaughter: Pull off a long-overdue climax to the life of Mystic Carrion.
• Death of Innocence: Become the Unholy Assassin of Bhaal.
• Culling the Imitator: Kill the wannabe assassin.
• How High They Fall: Kill the egotistic would-be immortal.
• Re-tasting the Kill: Kill Ethel a second time - that stubborn, swampy scandal of a hag.
• Trail of Blood: Collect all the pieces of Dribbles.
• Weak Gifts for Weak Beings: Take the measly offerings to the gods for yourself.

Bhaal Temple

• Homecoming: Discover the Temple of Bhaal beneath Baldur's Gate.
• Return of the Bhaalspawn: Embrace your legacy.
• Bhaalspawn No More: Reject your legacy.