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== Past Relationships ==

The goblin-like creature Sceleritas Fel served the Dark Urge and joined them during a series of grisly murders in Baldur's Gate. Sceleritas was deeply devoted to the Dark Urge and found great pride in serving them. Even sharing in The Dark Urge's more intimate moments and thus able to reveal to the player that the Dark Urge was a necrophiliac before Orin's treachery. In fact the simple question of serving another Bhaalspawn like Orin made Sceleritas so queasy that he asked for the "bucket of Bhaal" to vomit in.

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 themselves, would begin worshiping the Dark Urge themself, 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.

The Dark Urge commanded great respect, admiration, and devotion from the devotees at the Temple of Bhaal in Baldur's Gate. Inspiring them with sheer ruthlessness, staggering amount of victims, and the intelligence of their schemes and planning. Bhaal himself loved the Dark Urge the most of all his children as he had personally handcrafted the Dark Urge's body from his own flesh, as confirmed by dialogue with Naaber and Sceleritas Fel, and filled them with blood directly from his body, thus making him the perfect child in the Lord of Murder's eyes. This also stands in contrast to the other Bhaalspawn who were born from myriad dalliances with mortal women of various races during the [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Time_of_Troubles Time of Troubles], as such the Dark Urge was considered the true or pure Bhaalspawn. Bhaal's uncharacteristic level of love and concern for the Dark Urge is shown in the amount of attention that the Dark Urge receives from Bhaal, even after losing their memories. While most chaotic evil gods (including Bhaal) would discard a Chosen if they were no longer useful, such as Myrkul did with Ketheric after his defeat. Bhaal went to great lengths to restore the Dark Urge to their former place and made sure to guide and reward them until they returned to the Temple.  

This seems to indicate that Bhaal felt an amount of paternal pride and love for his child. At least as much as the malevolent deity was capable of displaying.

Originally a relationship built on mutual respect for one another, the Dark Urge and Enver Gortash would come to ally with one another to carry out a plot created by the Dark Urge. It appears that they were instructed by their patron gods to reach out to each other to establish their alliance and devise a way to return the Dead Three to prominence in the Sword Coast. This lead to them sharing coded correspondence with each other as they discussed the failures of previous Banites and Bhaalists and how they might avoid them.

It is possible that the Dark Urge and Enver Gortash found in each other the closest thing either of them ever had to a friend.

The Absolute, an [[Mind Flayer|Illithid]] [[Elder Brain]] evolved into a Netherbrain from the power of the Crown of Karsus, actually had a fairly positive relationship with The Dark Urge who it views as the Kingmaker that crowned it. This also extended to admiration for The Dark Urge's desires and methodology, even admitting that had they still been in charge of the conspiracy of The Dead Three it would have gone along with their plans more readily stating: ''"Your plan was devious, your cruelty unparalleled. I would have followed it, were your mind not destroyed by your sister. But with you gone, the three pitiful Chosen fought like children in your wake. I gave them power to harm one another with, while I crafted my design."'' While this could be the Netherbrain simply humoring The Dark Urge who was trying to bind it and thus lull them into a false unease, it is made clear the Absolute feels no threat from The Dark Urge in this moment and has no reason to lie as it believes it is right at the cusp of ultimate victory and the culmination of The Grand Design.