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

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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.
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Background goals[edit section | visual editor]

Performing certain actions that align with this background rewards Inspiration Points. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration Points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4. Completing an inspiration event also grants experience to the Dark Urge Dark Urge. While not necessarily all-inclusive, listed below are known events which grant inspiration points to Dark Urge characters.

Location XP Reward Name Description
General
Anywhere/Multiple Locations 25 Indulge Thine Appetites Follow your Dark Urge.
  • Granted upon specifically choosing a line that reflects indulging the Urge, for the first time in a playthrough.[1]
  • There are 12 possible catalysts (NPCs and objects) in Acts One and Two: Gale (killing), Timber, Arabella, Wounded Bird, Okta, Remira, Pandirna, Zevlor, Lady Esther (kicking the githyanki egg), Blood of Lathander, Steelclaw, and the Strange Ox.[2]
50 Killing Spree Kill 5 enemies in a single round.
50 Panoply of Agony Get at least one kill with each Damage type.
  • There are thirteen different damage types.
25 Subdue Thine Appetites Resist your Dark Urge.
  • Granted upon specifically choosing a line that reflects deliberate resisting the Urge, for the first time in a playthrough.[1]
  • There are 6 possible catalysts (NPCs and objects) in Acts One and Two: Gale (saving), Okta, Arabella (in the grove and in Reithwin Town), Varrl, Linsella.
95 Unfriendly Fire Defeat 5 neutral creatures in a single round.
75 Forced Retirement End Jaheira's career permanently.
  • This inspiration can be earned in several ways throughout Acts Two and Three:
    • Jaheira dies permanently in any fight before being recruited in the end of Act Two, regardless by whose hand.
    • Jaheira is not recruited in the end of Act Two, and the party enters the Lower City in Act Three.[verify]
    • Jaheira is killed, when she confronts the Dark Urge on leaving the Bhaal Temple, if they embraced their Bhaalspawn legacy after defeating Orin.
  • If earned in Act Three, mutually exclusive with Bhaalspawn No More⁠Bhaalspawn No More.
Act One
Multiple Locations 25 Reuniting Friends Kill Brynna and Andrick, reuniting them with their fallen companion.
Blighted Village 25 Creatures of Bloodlust Recruit the ogre mercenaries, using the corpses of your enemies as payment.
  • Requires passing a DC 20 Persuasion check to convince ogres.
Campsite 25 Snipping the Chords Kill Alfira in cold blood.
  • Alfira appears in the camp if she was not previously killed or knocked out in the Sacred Pool. Regardless what is said or done, the Dark Urge butchers Alfira.
  • Killing Quil Grootslang instead of Alfira does not count.
Dank Crypt 20 Unfamiliar Familiarity Release Withers from his tomb.
  • Granted after the automated dialogue with awakened Withers ends.
Emerald Grove 50 Camaraderie in Bloodthirst Spill the blood of the tieflings.
50 Morally Acceptable Massacre Spill the blood of the goblins.
Goblin Camp 25 Good Ol' Long Pig Eat a chunk of the cooked dwarf.
  • The inspiration is granted upon eating specifically the piece which is tended on the roaster skewer. The Dark Urge character only must eat the dwarf meat.
  • The meat on the skewer is read-outlined. Taking it in plain sight is considered a theft. Taking and eating it after killing goblins still grants the inspiration.
25 Now It's a Party! Poison the stolen ale, slaughtering the goblins.
Grymforge 50 Head of the Snake Take Nere's head.
  • The interacting party member must pass the Strength check to cut off the head from Nere's corpse. Not necessary the Dark Urge themselves.
Ravaged Beach 20 To Sleep, Perchance To Dream Tentacled Dreams Close the pinned mind flayer's eyes forever.
  • Resist the mind flayer's mental influence, then kill it.
Shattered Sanctum 25 Grabbing the Poker with Both Hands Torture Liam.
  • The option to torture Liam is not available to Drow characters or those disguised as such. To do this, they must be disguised as anyone but a drow (or change the disguise accordingly).[verify]
  • It is possible to torture but not kill, and then save Liam.
Underdark 50 New Management Kill the Myconid Sovereign for Glut.
  • The party must agree to help Glut dethrone Spaw and kill the latter (other myconids cease hostility once Spaw dies).
Waukeen's Rest 30 Fresh Kindle for the Fire Leave the pinned Benryn to burn.
  • Freeing Benryn but letting him die from the fire before he escapes the room counts.
Act Two
Multiple Locations 50 Fly-Swatter Kill the trickster pixie.
  • The party may choose to stow the Moonlantern at the ambush site, and the Dark Urge can start the dialogue with Dolly Thrice later by dropping the lantern on the ground and picking it up again.
  • Also, the inspiration is automatically granted if the Dark Urge sides with the cultists' convoy and reaches Moonrise Towers with them.
75 Lunar Eclipse Kill the protector of Last Light.
  • Aside from directly killing Isobel in the inn, this can be also earned in Shadowfell. Nightsong's demise causes Isobel to die as well, which also counts for the inspiration.
  • Mutually exclusive with Long-Awaited Reunion⁠Long-Awaited Reunion.
Gauntlet of Shar 75 Bleeding the Corpse Dry Kill the necromancer.
  • Can be earned if the party kills him in his outpost or in the Shadowfell.
75 Blood Moon Kill the Daughter of the Moon.
75 Killer Poetry Trick the orthon with a false loophole.
  • Must succeed the passive Insight check when Yurgir recites his contract. Then, convince him to kill his retinue and himself. Bards and Warlocks pass this check automatically.
75 Self-Flagellation Kill your mirror-self in Shar's trial.
  • At least one party member must kill their "mirror" themselves to gain this, not necessary the Dark Urge.
Mind Flayer Colony 95 Lesser of the Three Kill the envoy of Myrkul.
Moonrise Towers 50 Too Easy Execute the useless goblins.
  • The Dark Urge has several unique lines to execute goblins, all of which grant the inspiration.
  • Mutually exclusive with A Velvet Glove⁠A Velvet Glove and Newly Downtrodden⁠Newly Downtrodden.
60 Swimming with the Shadows Force the Zhent smuggler to jump off the docks.
  • Convince Acolyte Marls to let you inspect the cargo. When he feels the tadpoles, suggest he washes them off.
60 Who Let the Gnolls Out Release the gnolls from their leashes.
Moonrise Towers Prison 60 Soulful Lobotomy Torture Minthara, reducing her to a husk of her former self.
Reithwin Town 60 Lack of Moderation is Key Kill the brewer with his own brew.
  • Make Thisobald drink three steins by any means possible, without making him hostile. This requires passing ability checks to drink/mime drinking and to amuse him with tall tales in three rounds in a row.
60 Under the Knife Kill the surgeon using his own servile nurses.
  • Convince Malus to become a subject for the nurses to hone their medical skills.
Shadow-Cursed Lands 50 Forcing Responsibility Demand that the goblin fetch his bone.
  • First stop Gronag from sending the Hyena to fetch, then pass any ability check to make him do it instead.
Act Three
Multiple Locations 170 Culling the Imitator Kill the wannabe assassin.
170 Trail of Blood Collect all the pieces of Dribbles.
  • Granted upon collecting the 7th corpse piece, whichever it would be, before reporting to Lucretious.
  • Obtainable only after opening the way to the Undercity Ruins.
Bhaal Temple 275 Bhaalspawn No More Reject your legacy.
75 Forced Retirement End Jaheira's career permanently.
  • This inspiration can be earned here, if the Dark Urge embraces their Bhaalspawn legacy and Jaheira survives to this moment. In this case, she (and possibly Minsc) confronts the party upon leaving the temple.
220 Homecoming Discover the Temple of Bhaal beneath Baldur's Gate.
  • Granted upon opening the Solid Doors to the temple.
275 Return of the Bhaalspawn Embrace your legacy.
220 Securing Your Line Become the primary descendant of Bhaal.
Lower City 220 A Massacre Beyond Imagining Annihilate the Steel Watch Foundry with Wulbren's secret weapon.
  • To earn this, the party must specifically plant the bomb into the Neurocitor.
220 An Overdue Slaughter Pull off a long-overdue climax to the life of Mystic Carrion.
  • Must kill Carrion and destroy the jar with his heart, regardless of any of the correlated quests being active.
220 Re-tasting the Kill Kill Ethel a second time - that stubborn, swampy scandal of a hag.
  • Available only if Ethel was denied to take Mayrina in Act One.
  • Despite mentioning a second time, this inspiration is rewarded even if Ethel was not killed in Act One.
170 Weak Gifts for Weak Beings Take the measly offerings to the gods for yourself.
  • Loot any of the five chests in the basement, not necessary by the Dark Urge character themselves.
  • Must specifically interact with the chests. Various ways to avoid the curse prevent from earning the inspiration.[4]
170 Written in Blood Accept Orin's proposition of alliance.
Murder Tribunal 220 A Step Too Far Save Valeria, rejecting Bhaal's gifts.
220 Death of Innocence Become the Unholy Assassin of Bhaal.
275 Spawn Cleanup Crew Defeat Bhaal's wretched legacy.
  • Can be earned during the tribunal, or after killing Orin.
Rivington 170 Cleaning Up The Scum Kill both of the opposing smuggling factions.
135 First of Many Request a statue of your mortal form.
  • The Dark Urge character is triggered no matter whose statue is made.
135 Kill 'Em While They're Young Execute the newborn mind flayer.
  • Must be attacked before feeding it a corpse (regardless of whether the party chooses to wake it or not). Killing it afterwards does not count.
  • Mutually exclusive with Unexpeected Parenting⁠Unexpeected Parenting and Newfound Subject⁠Newfound Subject.
135 Personal Relations Meet one of Orin's impersonations.
135 Unexpected Parenting Feed a brain to the newborn mind flayer.
  • Must specifically bring it a corpse to feed on. Suggesting it to find food by itself does not count.
  • Mutually exclusive with Kill 'Em While They're Young⁠Kill 'Em While They're Young.
Upper City 220 How High They Fall Kill the egotistic would-be immortal.
  • This is granted for killing Lorroakan only, regardless of whether Aylin is alive and / or present.
  • Mutually exclusive with The Karsus of Our Times⁠The Karsus of Our Times.
Wyrm's Crossing 135 Exsanguinated Ecstacy Accept Naoise's lewd proposition.
  • Must succeed a passive Insight check when speaking to Naoise after defeating Fist Jara.
  • The Dark Urge is triggered regardless of who actually talks to Naoise.
Wyrm's Rock Fortress 220 Shattering the Black Hand Kill the would-be Tyrant.

Notes and References[edit section | visual editor]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dark Urge specific choices are untagged, but for most part are written in italics and are often violent (but not necessary towards the particular NPC). In dialogue files the lines to follow the Urge are tagged as ORI_DarkUrge_Event_IndulgedUrge, while the lines to curb it have the ORI_DarkUrge_Event_ResistedUrge tags.
  2. ↑ In the scene with Sa'varsh Kethk and Youth Varrl, specific Dark Urge option to kill Varrl has an erroneous tag "ResistedUrge", thus diminishing the amount of options to get this inspiration.
  3. ↑ If the fight is not against Brynna and Andrick only, the inspiration is granted after the whole battle is resolved, provided that both died.
  4. ↑ The known ways to avoid the curse are described on its page, in the Notes section. If the party has already taken everything from the chests using the curse-safe ways, a party member can still put any item from their inventory inside an intact chest and take it back to earn the inspiration.
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