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Haunted One
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"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
(Medicine) Ability Checks. - Intimidation Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with
(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.
 | Spoiler warning: The following content contains unhidden spoilers. Read at your own risk. |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. [Needs Verification] | |