The Dark Urge: Difference between revisions

The fiend-like creature {{CharLink|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. The simple question of serving another Bhaalspawn like Orin made Sceleritas so queasy that he asked for the "bucket of Bhaal" to vomit in.

Enver Gortash and the Dark Urge had a close relationship, and Gortash considered the two of them to be friends.{{ref|Dialogue with Gortash during his coronation, if the Dark Urge has already killed Orin. <br>''"Ah! My dear friend, what a brilliant child you've been to your Father."''}}{{ref|Dialogue with Gortash when he speaks through a Steel Watcher. <br>''"Greetings, old friend."''}} Gortash thought of the Dark Urge as his favourite Bhaalspawn and assassin,{{ref|name=assassin|Dialogue with Gortash during his coronation, if Karlach is not there. <br>''"Crawling back from their bloody disgrace - it's my favourite assassin! Gods, you're a sight for sore eyes."''}}{{ref|Dialogue with Gortash during his coronation, if Karlach is there. <br>''"And with her! My, my... it's my favourite Bhaalspawn."''}} regarding them as one of his "nearest and dearest".{{ref|Dialogue with Gortash during his coronation, if Karlach is there. <br>''" To think you and Karlach travelled together all this time, and she hadn't the faintest you were one of my nearest and dearest."''}} He respected the Dark Urge's cold-bloodedness and the slaughter they brought,{{ref|Dialogue with Gortash during his coronation, if the Dark Urge has already killed Orin. <br>''"My master admires you, as I always have. For the slaughter you bring, and for the Netherstones you bear."''}}{{ref|name=gortashcontrol}} as well as the mastery and control they had over their urges.{{ref|Dialogue with Gortash in his office after killing Orin. <br>''"I always preferred your methods to hers. You have mastery over your Urges, Orin was consumed by her gruesome obsessions."''}} Gortash actually liked the Dark Urge while he only tolerated Orin.{{ref|Dialogue with Gortash during his coronation. <br>''"I tolerated Orin, but I liked you."''}} The Dark Urge for their part always liked Gortash as well,{{ref|Dialogue option with Gortash in his office after the Iron Throne is destroyed. <br>''"For what it's worth, I think I always liked you, too. But this is how it must be."''}} admiring his genius and the brilliance of his plans. Nonetheless, they did intend to betray him in the end when they would kill the world for Bhaal.{{ref|name=colonyletter}}

The Absolute, an [[Mind Flayer|Illithid]] [[Elder Brain]] evolved into a {{CharLink|The Netherbrain|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 it 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.