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===The plan=== | ===The plan=== | ||
Eventually, the Dark Urge became the leader of the Cult of Bhaal, and pledged to end all life in existence for their father Bhaal.{{ref|name=colonyletter}} At some point, | Eventually, the Dark Urge became the leader of the Cult of Bhaal, and pledged to end all life in existence for their father Bhaal.{{ref|name=colonyletter}} At some point, Orin the Red joined and became their second-in-command.{{ref|name=memoirs|[[Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda]].}} | ||
{{CharLink|Enver Gortash}} contacted the Dark Urge after reestablishing worship of {{CharLink|Bane (God)|Bane}}, and the two formed an alliance upon discovering common goals. They were visited in their dreams by Bhaal and Bane, who named them their Chosen and commanded them to ally with {{CharLink|Ketheric Thorm}}, the Chosen of {{CharLink|Myrkul|Myrkul}}. Gortash and the Dark Urge hatched a plan to steal the Crown of Karsus in a heist at Mephistopheles' Vault by having {{CharLink|Helsik}} open a gate to Mephistar for them.{{ref|name=memoirs}}{{ref|name=parentnotes|[[Scrapbook of Letters]].}} | {{CharLink|Enver Gortash}} contacted the Dark Urge after reestablishing worship of {{CharLink|Bane (God)|Bane}}, and the two formed an alliance upon discovering common goals. They were visited in their dreams by Bhaal and Bane, who named them their Chosen and commanded them to ally with {{CharLink|Ketheric Thorm}}, the Chosen of {{CharLink|Myrkul|Myrkul}}. Gortash and the Dark Urge hatched a plan to steal the Crown of Karsus in a heist at Mephistopheles' Vault by having {{CharLink|Helsik}} open a gate to Mephistar for them.{{ref|name=memoirs}}{{ref|name=parentnotes|[[Scrapbook of Letters]].}} | ||
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At Moonrise Towers, the Dark Urge was treated like a god,{{ref|The narrator's statements when the Dark Urge enters the throne room in Moonrise Towers. <br>''"In another lifetime, you were greeted in this throne room like a God, not the living wreck you are now."''}} and although nobody knew their name or rank, they were shown the utmost respect.{{ref|Dialogue with [[The Warden]]. <br>''"Your name, your place was kept from all of us last time, but you were to be shown the utmost of respect."''}} The three Chosen initiated a raid on the mind flayer colony, and successfully used the Crown on the colony's elder brain, enslaving it to their will.{{ref|name=memoirs}} At some point during this, the elder brain came to respect the Dark Urge and intended to go along with their plan, impressed by their unmatched cruelty.{{ref|name=elderbraindialogue|Dialogue with the Netherbrain at the Morphic Pool. <br>''"I respected Bhaal's child once, but not you, Gortash. [...] Your plan was devious, your cruelty unparalleled. I would have followed it, were your mind not destroyed by your sister."''}} | At Moonrise Towers, the Dark Urge was treated like a god,{{ref|The narrator's statements when the Dark Urge enters the throne room in Moonrise Towers. <br>''"In another lifetime, you were greeted in this throne room like a God, not the living wreck you are now."''}} and although nobody knew their name or rank, they were shown the utmost respect.{{ref|Dialogue with [[The Warden]]. <br>''"Your name, your place was kept from all of us last time, but you were to be shown the utmost of respect."''}} The three Chosen initiated a raid on the mind flayer colony, and successfully used the Crown on the colony's elder brain, enslaving it to their will.{{ref|name=memoirs}} At some point during this, the elder brain came to respect the Dark Urge and intended to go along with their plan, impressed by their unmatched cruelty.{{ref|name=elderbraindialogue|Dialogue with the Netherbrain at the Morphic Pool. <br>''"I respected Bhaal's child once, but not you, Gortash. [...] Your plan was devious, your cruelty unparalleled. I would have followed it, were your mind not destroyed by your sister."''}} | ||
After the Dark Urge put the Crown on the elder brain, they were soon betrayed by their sister Orin the Red, who was jealous of Bhaal's favouritism.{{ref|name=orinnotes|[[Blood-Envy for the Unworthy]]}}{{ref|name=orinduel|Dialogue with Orin, when she is confronted by the Dark Urge in the Temple of Bhaal. <br>''"Husk. Maggot. A Bhaalspawn, slip-sliding in filth with these pigs. You don't deserve the Murder Lord's blessing."''}} The Dark Urge had their skull pierced and opened with a dagger, and was infected with a tadpole that began to eat their liquidating brain, resulting in their amnesia, as well as them becoming the first True Soul.{{ref|name=orinpast|Dialogue with Orin, when she is confronted by the Dark Urge in the Temple of Bhaal. <br>''"How you screamed as my knife slit your skull, your brain juices sticky and sweet. A little hole, big enough for the worm, your body a blood sack to feed it."''}}{{ref|The narrator's statements when the Dark Urge confronts Orin in the Temple of Bhaal. <br>''"The day your tyranny should have engulfed this world, it was you who were the first to be enslaved. Orin's smile was the last thing you saw, her bright blade glinting as she chiselled into your skull. Her reckless digging left your mind shattered."''}}{{ref|name=kressadialogue|Dialogue with Kressa Bonedaughter. <br>''"You were my very first, after all. I learnt everything about the parasites from you."''}}{{ref|name=kressanotes|[[Mistress of Souls' Research Log]].}} | After the Dark Urge put the Crown on the elder brain, they were soon betrayed by their "sister" Orin the Red, who was jealous of Bhaal's favouritism.{{ref|name=orinnotes|[[Blood-Envy for the Unworthy]]}}{{ref|name=orinduel|Dialogue with Orin, when she is confronted by the Dark Urge in the Temple of Bhaal. <br>''"Husk. Maggot. A Bhaalspawn, slip-sliding in filth with these pigs. You don't deserve the Murder Lord's blessing."''}} The Dark Urge had their skull pierced and opened with a dagger, and was infected with a tadpole that began to eat their liquidating brain, resulting in their amnesia, as well as them becoming the first True Soul.{{ref|name=orinpast|Dialogue with Orin, when she is confronted by the Dark Urge in the Temple of Bhaal. <br>''"How you screamed as my knife slit your skull, your brain juices sticky and sweet. A little hole, big enough for the worm, your body a blood sack to feed it."''}}{{ref|The narrator's statements when the Dark Urge confronts Orin in the Temple of Bhaal. <br>''"The day your tyranny should have engulfed this world, it was you who were the first to be enslaved. Orin's smile was the last thing you saw, her bright blade glinting as she chiselled into your skull. Her reckless digging left your mind shattered."''}}{{ref|name=kressadialogue|Dialogue with Kressa Bonedaughter. <br>''"You were my very first, after all. I learnt everything about the parasites from you."''}}{{ref|name=kressanotes|[[Mistress of Souls' Research Log]].}} | ||
The Dark Urge was found by {{CharLink|Kressa Bonedaughter}} who, impressed with their willpower and resistance to the elder brain's influence, began to study them. She would cut them open and put them back together repeatedly over the course of several days in the mind flayer colony, during which the Dark Urge was unable to speak or do anything but attempt to inflict violence on themself or others.{{ref|name=kressapast|Dialogue with Kressa Bonedaughter. <br>''"I remember finding you close to death, beaten black and blue on the floor of this sanctum. It must have been a few hours after the tadpole was placed in your skull. How you got here was a total mystery, but I stitched you up just enough to keep you alive, then placed you within your crib. [...] We had such a close bond. I opened you up endlessly with my scalpels, and got lost in your insides. [...] It has never been the same with another... All the other victims who come here just meekly obey. You thrashed, you fought, you were indomitable."''}}{{ref|name=kressanotes}} | The Dark Urge was found by {{CharLink|Kressa Bonedaughter}} who, impressed with their willpower and resistance to the elder brain's influence, began to study them. She would cut them open and put them back together repeatedly over the course of several days in the mind flayer colony, during which the Dark Urge was unable to speak or do anything but attempt to inflict violence on themself or others.{{ref|name=kressapast|Dialogue with Kressa Bonedaughter. <br>''"I remember finding you close to death, beaten black and blue on the floor of this sanctum. It must have been a few hours after the tadpole was placed in your skull. How you got here was a total mystery, but I stitched you up just enough to keep you alive, then placed you within your crib. [...] We had such a close bond. I opened you up endlessly with my scalpels, and got lost in your insides. [...] It has never been the same with another... All the other victims who come here just meekly obey. You thrashed, you fought, you were indomitable."''}}{{ref|name=kressanotes}} | ||
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If they embrace the Urge and accept their legacy, they become Bhaal's Chosen once again and are tasked with resuming their plan to control the Absolute and kill all other beings. If they follow through and take control of the Netherbrain, the Dark Urge is confronted afterward by either their romantic partner or the companion with the highest approval, who scolds or praises them (depending on who it is and how their companion quest ended) for bringing about the end of the world; they can either mercy-kill that companion, kiss them goodbye while stabbing them (if romanced), or release all the surviving companions, telling them to run away. The Urge then uses the Netherbrain's power to kill everyone in the city with conjured daggers, and as they do so they are given a premonition of their success, worshipping Bhaal under a blood-red moon as the last living thing in Faerûn. | If they embrace the Urge and accept their legacy, they become Bhaal's Chosen once again and are tasked with resuming their plan to control the Absolute and kill all other beings. If they follow through and take control of the Netherbrain, the Dark Urge is confronted afterward by either their romantic partner or the companion with the highest approval, who scolds or praises them (depending on who it is and how their companion quest ended) for bringing about the end of the world; they can either mercy-kill that companion, kiss them goodbye while stabbing them (if romanced), or release all the surviving companions, telling them to run away. The Urge then uses the Netherbrain's power to kill everyone in the city with conjured daggers, and as they do so they are given a premonition of their success, worshipping Bhaal under a blood-red moon as the last living thing in Faerûn. | ||
If they embrace the Urge but ''do not'' obey Bhaal's orders, Bhaal begins to shred their mind mere minutes after destroying the Netherbrain as the party is leaving to celebrate. The Dark Urge can either accept their fate, turn themself into prison, attempt to fight back, or simply kill themself before Bhaal gets the chance, reuniting with a proud Withers in the | If they embrace the Urge but ''do not'' obey Bhaal's orders, Bhaal begins to shred their mind mere minutes after destroying the Netherbrain as the party is leaving to celebrate. The Dark Urge can either accept their fate, turn themself into prison, attempt to fight back, or simply kill themself before Bhaal gets the chance, reuniting with a proud Withers in the Fugue Plane. If the latter is not chosen, however, they show up in a shortened version of the [[Epilogue]], bloodsoaked and insane due to the madness Bhaal has left them with, and they plot to kill all their former companions in their sleep while licking {{SmRarityItem|Bloodthirst}}. | ||
== Past relationships == | == Past relationships == |