How Larian Studios Wants You to Play Baldur's Gate 3
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
- Welcome back to the channel and Baldur's Gate 3. After falling in love with this game in our first run, I decided to try out some of the different play throughs and found something that led me to one of the most dangerous rabbit holes I've been down; trying to make sense of who the main protagonist is actually supposed to be. Equally as important, we quickly find out that the character we created seems to have some sort of nefarious past and thirst for the evils.
That being said, I've documented journey through Act 1 of BG3 uncovering what is probably the most fleshed out and underplayed classes in the world that Larian has created, the Githyanki. From the history of slavery and destruction to the Mindflayers that drive the main plot, every story beat has it's roots settled in Gith lore and I am going to do my best to stay true to it.
This is just the beginning though, and acts 2 & 3 are equally as huge. If you liked this video and want to see more of it please consider dropping any of the CZcams stuff or consider sharing the video. I play and create recreationally, but your feedback means the world to me. Thank you all for watching and I will see you in the next one.
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What classes were your four Gith?
Omg, I feel like this would have been good info to have. Thank you!!!
Yeager was and open hand monk!
I’m making Mikasa into a gloomstalker assassin!
Lae’zel is currently a battle master fighter!
And Armin is an oath breaker paladin, however I may change his. He was late to the party and I’m not super happy with his build atm!!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX thanks for the reply. I really enjoyed your story telling but wanted to know a bit more. My current run is actually using a dark urge Githyanki wizard so when I saw this video in my feed I had to watch it.
@@christinehede7578 well I appreciate it more than you know. Good luck and resist the urge, or don’t. Bwahaha!!!
Pretty sure the character in front (on the splash screen) is Minsc.....who, canonically had himself turned into a statue to await the next crisis.
Hmmm, could be. Looks like that characters burning, but I have no idea who’d it be otherwise.
800 hours into the game and I didn't know a Gith character can aggro Shadowheart like that on the beach, pretty cool.
It was my first time in about 4 play throughs not resting her on the nautiloid.
My first char was a Gith. Shadowheart stayed at camp...she was so annoying
@@tiagoleivas3495 it would’ve been more annoying to use her in combat :)
20:00 - My first run was Durge. I made it to this scene and then cast speak with dead on Arabella. She told me how she was just afraid and that she was 9.
*Immediately* I was like "Yea... this is too evil for me" and I'm someone who downloaded killable children mod for Fallout. The characters in this game evoke a level of empathy I'm not used to feeling for video game characters.
Ooof!! You’re absolutely right though. Almost every character is so well written. I’m working on part 2 right now and you almost forget how amazingly well Raphael is. I’m gonna have to dedicate a whole section to just him. Larian really created a masterpiece!!!
A Gith Dark Urge was my second playthrough. Lae'zel treated me like I'm a mind-addled Gith, and she took pity on me and tolerates my ignorance. Honestly, I loved it - even if I felt so stupid having to ask another Gith to explain Gith stuff to me.
She was totally a bro as the game progressed, telling me to keep my impulses under control and support my resistance.
But did you romance her?
I echo others in applauding your completely different take on the game. So many popular videos just seem to roll into one, but this is a refreshing game changer!
Thank you so much. I love BG3 so much and I think the best thing is to actually not watch anything else so that your play throughs don’t end up like everyone else’s so this means a lot to me!!!
The algorithm really cooked with this recommendation. Only 97 subscribers? Make that 98. Looking forward to the rest of this series, this video was great
Thank you. I think I only had 30 when I uploaded this video!!!
Make it 131 now.
@@bronzebow4235 ahhhhhh. Thank you!!!!!! This is so dang crazy!!
If you don’t play as Durge, you can find his preset dead and brutalized in orins bed chambers. That’s Durge’s canon ending lol
Right next to Orin’s mother!!!
Without much prior knowledge of BG3 going into this video but interested in the topic of it, i just😢 wanna say this was very fluid and easy to follow. Your editing was done very well. Very excited for part 2!
lol what’s with the random crying emoji?!?!
Awesome insight into the game. Looks like a lot of love and time was spent here. Looking forward to seeing more of your content! 😊
Looking forward to making it!!!
Loved this! This was so much fun to watch and what a great idea to play the game. Looking forward to watching act2 and 3. 👏👏
Oh boy, guess I gotta get started on it now!!
It's incredible how much every playthrough can change. I have 8 themes and variations on Tavs/Durges/Origins and not a one has played out the same, even when making similar choices. I haven't played a gith before so this has been interesting to watch. (I have a half-elf, drow, wood elf (durge), high elf, tief (durge), deep gnome, human, and another high elf (Astarion)...)
I made a mistake on my current (horribly cursed, trying for the Jack of All Trades achievement without just dumping all the classes on Minsc or my camp babysitter) run in the Grove that left Rolan, Cal, and Dammon dead, and I'm learning that the consequences of Rolan specifically being dead are: no children at Last Light and the only adult tiefs that are left are the scout that you don't meet until you get to Last Light, Mol, Lakarissa (Alfira died do to complications of this being a durge run), and Danis (no clue where his partner went, but she's not wandering behind the stables like normal). Ostensibly Zevlor is still somewhere.
Anyway, I hope you continue to have fun with this. Dark Urge definitely opened up the game even more once I braved it and is the intended protagonist, Larian just worried it might be too dark for many players to handle (if I can handle Dame Aylin maniacally stomping Ketheric's corpse or Astarion's repeated stabbing of Cazador, I can handle the even darker themes of Durge).
lol but Aylin was was definitely justified!!!
You did a fantastic job at editing the video this is very coherent and easy to watch thank u
And thank you for watching :)
One thing that really upset me when I played as a gith Tav was how, if Lae’zel is in your party, she always steals the spotlight, without fail. Like, when I met the gith by the bridge the dialogue is near the exact same.. with them assuming my Tav is her slave? Which makes no sense at all? And the entire interaction with Vlakith as well. I just didn’t feel like my character was actually respected as their own person at all. It honestly felt like they were the side kick whereas Lae’zel was the main character. It could have been done better I think. A way to give Lae’zel her spotlight and fleshed our story without taking away from the gith Tav.
Yes, I agree, but you could argue it’s the same no matter what race you are. I do rather dislike the interaction with Vlakith though. It’s pretty much ignored the fact that we are Gith, even when you choose that option!!!
If you speak to the waking mind in the mind flayer colony it has the same voice lines as if you were playing a non gith tav and it calls you "some species of elf."
@@mandemarso I’ll have to give that a go when I get there!!!
This video got you my sub! The way you wove narration and video together was awesome!
Thank you. Appreciate the love.
Even as a Gith, I spared Us. I knew it would forsake the absolute and illithids
That….. actually a valid point lol!!!
Playing the Dark Urge as Githyanki is a bit of an oxymoron. If you play the Durge until the end, you might know why.
Honestly can’t wait!!!
I'm playing as laezel right now and can confirm it is a LOT of fun! I completely missed half the companions, did next to nothing in act 1, and (after a brief detour in the underdark since we fell down a spider hole) immediately went to the creche. I love that you can find out about the creche and just go there - no need to bother with the things laezel definitely wouldn't want to sidetrack with. The only problem is level scaling if you don't get enough xp beforehand.
Luckily the underdark got me closer XD but it's been a lot of fun, going at things in a straight line vs exploring. I hit act 3 after less than 30 hours played, and see no real reason to slow down now!
Edit: Also - you DEF don't need to fight Nir. I didn't even go into the underdark on my first playthrough! Act 1 doesn't really have a "boss", and there's a few ways to get through the shadows in one piece. But I won't spoil for you or those who haven't explored!
Yes, I think I am trying to do as much as I can in order to see the urge/gith responses, but I’m positive that you can literally go to the end of act 1 in under an hour after dropping from the nautiloid if you know what you’re doing. Loving the support. #githlyfe
I've played many different characters, beat the game with my Drow/Cleric (which is a lot of fun) and then to get rid of some mods i had to delete all my saves. So i started over and just beat the game with my human wizard romancing Shadowheart. I have a Tiefling fighter romancing Karlach, restarted a Drow cleric romancing Minthara, and i about about halfway through act 2 with my Githyanki monk romancing Laezel. I really didn't want to but people keep talking about how awesome her romance is, and I'll be honest, so far it really is. She is a very deep character. I have a Durge in Act 1 but i can't decide if i want to embrace the murder or if i want to resist it.
This was the initial thesis for my video, that Larian made the narrative to revolve around the Gith, and I realize that the Durge run is more than likely not Gith, however everything about this run for me feels right, way better than my previous runs!!!
Love this video! Well narrated!
Thanks, listening to my voice while editing was one of the worst parts lol, but I’m glad it came out okay!!!
Nicely done! Ill be waiting for act 2. 😊😊😊
Ahhhh. Now I gotta get that going :)
I suspect that as soon as your videos hit the algorithm you will have lots more sub. The quality of the content is on point. Looking forward more vids.
I appreciate that more than you know. Tysm!!!
Enjoying the vid, and looking forward to watching more of your work. :)
The Dark Urge redemption arc is (most likely) the canon run, and amazingly good. It was my favorite. You basically reject your urges at key points and get one of several very interesting epilogues. The Evil Urge gets, ahem, different epilogues.
I was a big fan of BG1&2.
Thanks for the comment. I’m still deciding just how evil I want to be. I will also be completing the plat this run so I will likely see all the outcomes and am super excited for them!!!
Dark Urge as main character makes sense, but not as a gith, probably not as a drow either but especially not the gith. Canonically the Dark Urge had a childhood as an adopted child of a couple. He killed his foster parents when the Urge started to show and eventually went to the Temple of Bhaal. It would be really weird and out of place for a normal couple to take in a goth or drow child. The way you played gith Dark Urge also didn’t make sense. He should have no memories whatsoever, therefore shouldn’t really hate mindflayers and the like as a regular gith.
I appreciate the feedback!!! Ngl, I had no idea the canonical anything of the Dark urge and am just kinda having fun with it. Hope you got some level of entertainment out of it :)
So, the githyanki are the main protagonists in the fight against the illithid, as they've been battling them for ages. The dark urge is a character tie in to the previous baulders gate games as his back story is directly coordinated to the main character of bg1 (not the same person but a tie in to theyre shared origins.)
Love the vibe you've come up with though.
Thanks. I’m sure I’ll figure out more as I go, but this is all so new to me!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX right on! There's a lot of interactables for lore. Click all the things! xD
enjoyable watch, subbed
I appreciate you sooo much!!
great video!
Thank you!!!!
I think the reason why BG3 is undoubtedly one of the best games that has been created in the last 10 years is because of the story's versatility. You can play a dark urge gnome barbarian wild mage and it would make sense. A pack of Gith makes sense too. My first Dark Urge playthrough was a female drow assassin shadow monk. It made sense to me considering the lore with Bhaal, and the other characters. I thought it made sense that Shadowheart trusted a drow over a gith - Mother Superior's a drow. Astarion values ambition over kindness and makes it abundantly clear that he has prejudices, of course he would want to be on a drows good side. Baldurs Gate is known to have Seldarin Drow, so Wyll definitely ran into some - probably at the brothel! Minthara...enough said.
What is also wonderful about the game is that all the races and classes, depending on how you combine them - you'll experience different options in dialogue. Overall, it's a great game with what seems to be an infinite amount of layers.
Literally could not agree more. There are definitely aspects that I would change, but I’ll be able to come back to this game in another ten years and experience again while being able to learn new things about the game and world.
I compared it to Mass Effect in my review and while it is definitely more timeless than that series, it has some much character that if you invest the time, you will no doubt feel rewarded for your efforts!!!!
I haven't actually got far into this game as a Githyanki yet but I'll play one soon i think as the dialogue options you get are definitely interesting and if you're playing good alignment you can get Lae'zel and Shadowheart on side. I try my best to use other characters but i just default to those 2 plus one more. Maybe its because of all companions they're personal stories fit in the main story the best. Not saying other characters stroies don't fit or aren't important or fun its just those 2 feel so key to the story telling around the main plotline
I completely agree with you. I had decided before starting a play-through that I was going to have a full Gith team and the rest just sort of fell into place. I’m sure that there are going to be things that I’ve locked myself out of, but I’m excited to see how that all plays out!! Good luck on your run btw!!
I just noticed what your Toad Princess was wearing in the Astral Prism pocket dimension.
Would you please share which mods provided it?
Ummmm, I’m playing on ps5. No mods my friend!!!!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX 😳
Oh dear. It seems I've missed finding an important piece of gear.
@@hellsente7826 if you’re talking about Bae’zel, there was a glitch that got patched out where you could get Raphael’s armor.
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX Yes, I've never done that though.
Is she wearing the Helldusk armor there when you have her in the prism?
@@hellsente7826 yes, sorry I thought you were talking about the dream visitor at first. You could knock out Raphael when he visited your camp in Act 1 and take all of the items he drops in his fight. I also don’t have to worry about gold because you could continually knock him out and get infinite gold. :) it’s also the reason I didn’t add a 4th Gith because I pretty much paused the update to get this lol.
Also your character looks like the grinch with a beard. I cannot unsee it.
He is a mean one!!!
Love the idea of a total gith party as their story is unique.
Thank you!!! Was gonna do the run anyways and mouth custom high looked kinda evil so why not go for it lol
How do you have the Helldusk armor in act 1??
This was one of the exploits I mentioned at the end of the video. There was a glitch to knockout Raphael at your camp that got patched out while I was playing the game. Got that armor first though lol.
Wonderful. Gith as the Dark Urge. Hmm, never considered that. But an all Gith party, I am planning that.
Ahhhh I’m so excited for you. Come back and let me know the party you go with!!!
Well, you are half right in your assumptions about the main character focus of the game. Yes, the Dark Urge is the central focus of the story (as so much of the dialogue and the books you can find will reveal), but no, the Githyanki are not the assumed focus, but are instead a built in antagonist for the early story. While the Gith get some great extra dialogue options in Act 1, so do the Drow, but neither are written in any way to be central to the story.
I do recall a rather important Gith whom we may or may not be rescuing much later in the game ;) thanks for the comment!!!!!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX Indeed, and he is tangentially important, but the focus of the story is certainly not on the Gith as the protagonists. You honestly get just as much "special" dialogue options depending on your class, or Deity, as you do your race... and most of the race options (unfortunately) fade out after Act 1. The Dark Urge will prove to be the main character, however, as the story progresses... and I would definitely suggest avoiding any speed play options if you want the whole story though, as so many conversations and random books/notes you can read will fill in much of the story that is left blank in a normal play through.
@@The_Real_Fomsie oh I know. I jest about the Gith. But I spent over 40 hours on act 1. It was really difficult trimming down all the options. There was roughly about 40 mins of footage cut from this video to keep it to a decent length. I’m going to be doing a lot of looking around, but I’m actually looking forward to a lot of options becoming limited!!!
@@The_Real_FomsieI already knew Durge was the main character... but what really locked it in was on my first Durge run when reaching into a certain slimy hole in Moonrise only once didn't update Mig's quest to locate "meat sounds" and suddenly my party had bigger things to worry about than me licking spider carcasses....
Uhm you can play as Dark Urge and choose any race/class you want. It doesn't have to be dragonkin sorc
Yes, I actually am not fond of that class which is why I went Gith for this run!!!
GZ to everyone who made it thro the whole game i ve spent 429h the furthest i got was to the fight with myrkul never beat him so very GZ to all who did :)
Omg, was that because you were exploring everything?
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX not really... just a little mental disorder an urge that lets me start over again and again creating new chars to see every possoble dialoge and interaction , actually i try a new run so i will beat the game to, just a matter of time like with BG2 but back in the time there were no steam wich counted the time so pls dont ask how long this took ;D
@@wobatan8833 ha, this made me chuckle aloud. I’m like this with tv shows. Almost never finish the long ones and then when I decided I’m actually gonna finish it this time I usually restart just to not finish again. FML!!!
"and Lae’zel wanted her dead, so we killed her" - totally the story of my first playthrough ☺
Gotta keep Bae’zel happy :)
Not just her dead, but many others as well. "Ch'mar, zal'a Vlaakith"
@@hellsente7826 literally the sound my garbage disposal makes!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX Htak'a!!!
... you should hear what they sound like in BG 2 ;)
@@hellsente7826 both games are def on the list to visit!!! And I can’t wait!!!!!!!
I played a gith and it was as if it didn't matter.
Oh no. I wonder if because we beat it as a human the first time the difference in choices seems so substantial to me now?!?!?
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX And it just seemed like a story all about the NPCs to me you could have been anybody and it wouldn't have changed anything. Even when you get a dialogue option on religion or species it never seemed like it made any difference. Vlakath still chose Lae'zel not my gith that beat her in a duel and worshipped Vlakath. It felt like a hollow game that needed filled with undeserved awards.
@@stephend.c.5048 I’m genuinely sorry you feel that way, but I can totally understand where you’re coming from. I’m a huge rpg guy and am going to be playing Mass Effect or Cyberpunk for a new video while finishing this series. Is there an rpg that makes you feel more fulfilled in your choices cuz I’d love to hear about that or even play it!!!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX I prefer character building roles compared to story telling rolls. The best I'd seen morality work is a Neverwinter Nights persistent world Dor Meglin had a server alignment always shifting as characters leveled or made sacrificial offering towards their alignment and when the server was in alignment with your alignment you received bonuses like a couple points of divine damage and whatnot. NWN also had a faction system groups would turn on you if you were violent towards a member. But stories and choices isn't something I care for otherwise. The only choices for a second run would be playing evil and having different NPCs with me tell me their stories and make me feel like the game doesn't have any story for another one of my characters. Well I could choose for the NPCs if they do what is right or wrong. That's I guess the problem with playing whatever and having a story but then why all the NPCs have stories put them in a game where you just play the one build the game is designed for.
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX What's sad about BG3 is it's so beautiful if only they raised it to epic levels and made it an open persistent world and no pause between turns. Like wow this game could almost be so cool instead of six years to make a game I can only play for one month? Mostly because I can't stand watching NPCs take their turns each for five minutes remember I'm wasting my time playing a dumb video game that needs that long to resolve a 30 second combat.
But I thought the canon dark ruge was the white dragon, as you can find him in any tav run
I do believe you may be somewhat right, especially since that’s the default class when you start a Durge run, but I wanted to explore my options with what I felt was the race that Larian wanted the player to see the game as!!!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX not to mention the og not mdified dark urge I believe is the only one with a monologue just like any other origin character
@@DannyRayqu right, that’s exactly what I was saying!!!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX I do get what you mean, but as a 1st time player of bg and any d&d it felt more for me that they weere establishing the Gith as antagonists, the 2ndary villains, with how Lazel treats you at first, all the gith interactions end in battle, the creche, the inquisitor, the 7 times Laz'el can betray you, the many times you are ambushed by them, how the good ending of Laz'el is literally abandoning her beliefs and her people, not to mention that if you sacrifice Orpheus the 2nd to last battle is vs Vas and the other Gith
@@DannyRayqu you are not wrong at all, however there are aspects of the Githyanki storyline that suggest that there is a rift between the truth that Vlaakith is telling and the actual truth. There is a bit of a civil war going on between them, and they already have an established history with the Mindflayers. Additionally, Laz’el goes through the most meaningful transformation throughout the game, a transformation that doesn’t only shift her perspective in terms of religion and gods, but her entire existence and a race of people. Now, all of that can be as flushed out or can end at any point based on how you play the game, and I do believe that the Durge is more than likely not Gith, but it was my first D&D experience as well and I felt that was the story they wanted told. 100% not meant to sway your thoughts or be the definitive answer, just my thoughts and opinions that can run side by side along with your own!!!
Enjoying the vid, but I am curious-how did you play the game all the way through the first time without knowing how to pronounce githyanki?
OMG am I saying it wrong. Not only is this embarrassing, I’m also traumatized because I still don’t know how to pronounce it than!!!!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX just think of the yanki part prounounced the same as the NY Yankees lol. As a side note I am looking forward to act 2
@@lawrencefosterjenkins8216 oooooohh that’s definitely how Holly says it. She just said it exactly like how you described lmao.
Personally, I think Dark Urge (Durge) that resist the Urge is the cannon MC. With the reveals from act 3, I doubt they were Gith, but it's not impossible lol. Seems like you were more able to blend in though, without going into spoilers.
This was 100% my goal. I understand that the Durge is more than likely not meant to be Gith, however, this allowed me to play the urge run while also exploring a narrative thread that I feel is under explored
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXXcanonically durge is a white dragon born, since when you aren’t durge you can find durges dead body (i don’t remember where but I saw a vid on it)
However I think this is a cool run and kinda makes me wanna do my own gith durge
@@padawanty1042 I will have to look this up. Sounds cool af!!!
Prolly somewhere in act 3
It's strange how you say the story is set around Gith but Shadowheart and Gale are more essential to the story. I remember in the EA they had to think of ways to make sure the prism could carry on if you didn't want Shadowheart as they hadn't thought of that possibility
I agree about Shadowheart and Gale and I think that’s a disservice to the Gith. You can pretty much completely ignore the Crèche and are not punished for it. So much good narrative just completely avoidable.
I have always wondered, how does it make sense for a gith to be the dark urge?
I’m finding out if it does!!!!
I am wondering that, since the Dark Urge is canonically a Baldurian. Although I suppose Bhaal can do whatever he wants with his children.
@@bunnyboygamille it is as the gods wish!!!
I mean, I tossed the crown into the ocean and Minthra still got it soooooo :)
Dark Urge run is fun. I don't think I'll be able to play the non Dark Urge way.
It’s been really fun so far. There’s just some many options in character creation though :)
Valakith WANTS to be the most important to the Gith, but she’s not. She’s desperate for godhood, with an insatiable lust for power
That’s why I felt it so important to include those discs in this video. Such a small overlookable trinket yet so important to the Gith storyline… eventually lol.
She is eating the souls of her own people to get this Godhood.
@@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc all the more reason to make sure you explore and find those discs
Wait. Siding with grove or goblins isn't what gith would do. They stay out of affairs. Gith run = you and L the whole game. They wouldn't trust a kinyak
I mean, you’re probably right, but if they had info on the crèche or how to remove the parasite. . . Maybe, and I mean maybe, we might fight some goblins for that info?!?!?
It almost doesn't make sense to go to the goblin camp at all.
I justified it because after the cutscene with the Absolute's domination narrowly averted by the prism, and it being clear that Vlaakith (even if her Justil Kith'rak seems to operating against protocols) wills to collect that prism... the otherwise-clear goal of getting to the creche bears consideration, and the Absolute's agents also looking into "the weapon" and looking for the party AND being ghaik-tainted abominations ultimately complicit in the Grand Design tasks us in the name of our Queen and to solve the problem of what happens to us after we try to provide what she demands.
Quick assassinations. Capture, question, kill, and move on.
... or at least that's the plan until fighting Ragzlin alerts and aggros the entire camp :( ( jump spells :) )
@@hellsente7826 that sequence of events does make a ton of sense!
Dark Urge... child of Bhaal? Have you thought about how the asexual birthing process of that would work? What about the history of the Absolute's Chosen in Baldur's Gate... as Githyanki?
For me, "Tav" is actually a Gith name.
You are def saying words and the thoughts seem to be working in my mind!!
... wait.... so I wasn't supposed to kill most all of the Gith!? 😮 oops...
If you don’t share my secret that I went back and completely cleared of the crèche myself I won’t blame you for your choices :)
Try Gale run. That seems to be the main character. As of any dnd your mission is to become a god.
Oh, that is something I had no idea of. Thanks for the insight!!!
10:15 Classic Shart missing a attack
Her class is so bad. And to think we played our whole first play-through without changing it :(
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX If my friend isn't with us I'll leave her at camp forever
@@ChaoticUrges welp, it’s a little late for my run :)
Lol intro sounded cool bit after playing dark urge that wasn't the case
Act 2 is ending up to be way darker than I ever thought this run was going to be!!!
this is awesome you deserve at least 10x more subs
Thank you!!!! And I agree ;)
*spoilers* I don't know. I don't think a Gith fits the dark urge because of act 3. The idea that Gith, even a child of Bhall would have worked with Gortash to use an Elder Brain to start an ithillid invasion... the nature of the gith just doesnt fit.
Thanks for the warning, and I mostly agree. I do think there’s a possibility that the Gith could be manipulate the entirety of the situation and use it to gain Absolute supremacy, however I agree it is very unlikely. Just having fun with the unique playthrough!!!
The unusual nature of the Durge breaks the entire paradigm and allows other possibilities.
... possible spoilers...
Known facts:
-Durgeyani is a child of Bhaal,
-Normal Githyanki reproduce asexually,
-All of the Bhaalspawn, other than the main character, were slain in BG 2 (or in less accepted canon novels),
-Other Bhaalspawn were brought back by Bhaal from his own essence after Lord AO reformed him,
-Durgeyanki barely knows how to Githyanki and needs the Toad Princess to guide,
-Durgeyanki claims that he had a Sa'varsh but Durgeyanki doesn't know what ascension or the protocols are or how to read Tir'Su,
-Durgeyanki doesn't really know how to Bhaalspawn either,
-Durgeyanki was referred to those in Moonrise as a "thing", but Orin as a person,
-Durgeyanki apparently had some history in Baldur's Gate and played a role in forming the original schemes for the Elder Brain and the Crown of Karsus,
-Durgeyanki would have needed to earn being Chosen by Bhaal before all the other options,
-Also... ?
My conclusions...
The extraordinary situation of a Githyanki surviving outside of a creche in the Prime Material is something which basically doesn't fit anyway.
Seems either Bhaal laid an egg, or he altered an egg... either way it wouldn't have been a normal hatchery process. Somehow Durgeyanki operated in BG while having the body of a Gith (and some of a Githyanki's skills and characteristics). So, magic to obscure appearances? Or really really backroom puppeteering a la Phantom of the Opera or Keyser Söze.
Durgeyanki wouldn't have only the point of view of a Githyanki, and if they knew of Durgeyanki, they'd be Hshar'lak or an abomination and pursued. That could possibly have happened and led to an opportunity to steal the astral prism.
After the creche though, Durgeyanki would also have insights into their own Bhaalspawn nature and have a much more individual perspective. After living and operating in Baldur's Gate, Durgeyanki would have as much basis for identity and perspective from Faerun/The Sword Coast and their actual Gith-ness not such a exclusive factor. This also explains how Durgeyanki almost always only talks in an English accent and in Common. Otherwise even with brain damage some memory of Vlaakith's will as a central motivating factor would have been present to Durgeyanki's gradual understanding of self.
As a renegade Githyanki, and a creature of inherent violence, I wish I had seen if there were plotlines or conversations at the Society of Brilliance in BG... but she offended my princess, so the lady had to die and they should as well.
@@hellsente7826 I’m pretty much attacking this run with the same energy, just much less knowledge lmao!!!
69 subs and 69 likes on this vid. nice
“It’s a double rainbow”
I don't do evil playthroughs.
I’m literally struggling with it so much right now!
Dark Urge doesn't have to be an evil playthrough. Throughout the game you have the opportunity to resist your nature and try to do good (not always successfully). IMO it's the most interesting way to play the game.
@@tmage23 Sorry but choosing a character that kills Alfira and leaves Larissa alone is evil 😢😮😂 can never play the durge for that reason
I am going to try a non evil dark urge next
@@guilhermemelo3760 I’m still deciding where I’m going to go, but I hope you have fun!!!
The canonical race is actually a halfling or dwarves or gnomes. not any others.
Hmmm, canonical to the Durge, or the TAV?
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ugh not very handsome or pretty.
I don't do dark urges. Ok if anyone else likes them but I can't play a bad guy in my games. It would defeat my purpose for playing.
I feel that. 99% of the time I play the good guy as well, just wanted to try it out lol!!
what would an angry wolverine do?
I really wanted to watch this and see what a dark urge run was like. However you are slaughtering the pronunciation of githyanki so bad and can't stand it. If you are going to make videos about a specific race, you really should figure out how to pronounce it first. If you are going to make more videos, it is pronounced gith-YANG-kee with a hard A sound, Not gith-YONK-EE. You are welcome.
Yeah, unfortunately this was pointed out to me shortly after the video dropped. I’m sorry that it bothered you that much but if it makes you feel any better at all, I firmly believed when recording that that was how it was pronounced. I’ve already corrected it for the next act so you have that to look forward to :)
To be fair, if you speak with the dead with the Absolutist corpse by the Death Shepherds in the Mountain Pass, he says "gith-yawn-key."
@@bunnyboygamille yeah, ummm yeah that’s totally the legit reason that I mispronounced it this whole time. Thanks for reminding me!!!!
@@XXxTonyDaTigerxXX I got you, man!
@@bunnyboygamille now I have to start another playthrough just to go listen to this.... alright, alright!
This sounds like a gaming journalist's level of understanding of the game/lore. I haven't seen your first playthrough but it sounds like you spent a total of 15 hours on it and maybe didn't even leave act one.
This reminds me of a friend who watches those AI voice summaries of movies on CZcams and pretends to have seen the movie.
I’m assuming that you probably have played a lot more BG or D&D, two things that we have done at all. I have played a couple of the ARPG BG games, and I don’t claim to be a master of the lore at all. There is so much to this game. I have also beaten the game fully twice and am omitting some information for the sake of the next two acts!!!
I disagree that gith are the main characters and it is purely because I am racist
Easy answer would be not to be