Baldurs Gate 3 - Dark Urge Questline (All Choices and Endings)
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- 00:00 Intro
00:17 Early game Dialogues
00:42 Meeting Gale
02:03 Companion Reactions to The Dark Urge
04:43 Tiefling Child in Druids Grove
05:39 Squirrel
06:24 Nettie's Bird
07:09 Tiefling Child listening to Harpies
07:21 Pandirna
08:28 Key Moment 1: Alfira join the Camp
13:55 Alfira Alternate Choices
16:04 Quil join the Camp
18:30 Butler Reward
21:48 Spending the night with Minthara
23:11 Pixie
25:55 Your next task Isobel
31:06 Isobel Reward
35:09 Sacrificing your Lover
40:26 Start the Redemption Arc
43:47 Act 3 Visions and Dreams
47:19 Bhaal's Murder Tribunal
55:44 Additional Murder Tribunal Dialogues
1:03:16 Facing Orin
1:07:50 Accepting Bhaal
1:10:42 Companion Reactions
1:14:57 Returning to Sarevok
1:16:53 Ending 1: In Bhaals Name
1:20:49 Ending 2: Defying Bhaal but still cursed
1:23:00 Withers Ending
1:24:26 Ending 3: Act of Resistance
1:24:59 Redemption Arc Tribunal
1:25:18 Dumbo Dialogue
1:27:07 Refusing Bhaal
1:32:59 Companion Reactions
1:34:44 Redemption Arc Ending - Hry
Dark urge trying to be good has been fun. I like that events like Alfira are out of your hands and it gets harder to just pick the option to resist each time.
Oh yeah, the moment the buttler told me "Oh you will kill that someone tonight 😊". I had a internal debate about killing the selunite or not for around 5 minutes, decided not to. I was never so scared to fail a saving throw.
Bruh same
Saving Alfira is possible
@@Tattletale97 huh, how so?
@@aaajeear8654 Knocked her out before the initiate of conversation, than go to sleep, a random NPC will be generated for you to kill.
"What is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" ~Paarthurnax
It is difficult to resist one's nature, but it is also incredibly rewarding.
Letsa go!
Indeed. It doesn’t feel entirely by coincidence that Durge’s default appearance is a dragonborn.
@@rustkarl I was thinking the same thing
To make money while players contemplate alignment options!
It's sweet that all your companions are actually supportive and non-judgmental about it. Half of them offer advice and the other half are like "Well, as long as it doesn't get out of hand, it's cool."
Probably not their first rodeo with a Haunted One.
I mean some, others legitimately get huffy about it even with high approval. Wyll was actually super supportive, says he knows I'm stronger. Gale says he should have seen it coming. Shart gets mad I didn't tell her I was the leader of the cult. Halsin is always a bro, funniest part is they act like it's new when we literally tell them in the begging of the game we are going cookoo
Spoiler, it gets out of hand
Fun tidbit, if you manage to get your hands on the Butlers hat before going to face Orin, and wear it to the encounter, the butler meets you at the door before the temple and will ask you to take it off before you go in. He said it is "Unbecoming of someone of my station". It was hilarious to me that they voiced that. I told him "The hat stays on" and Astarion approved.
The Detail in this Game is Just amazing and I Love that even when it's Not even important Detail ist Just Always good in games
5:05 "The death of a child. A timeless tragedy that never grows old."
It took me a minute to realize the joke but DAMN when it hit me 🥲
Damn, just like the younglings
When your the child of the god of murder, you can't help the thoughts that enter your head.
Playing as Dark urge and having Laezel as your love interest is hilarious. She half encourages you to kill and when you bring up that you might hurt her she’s like “ Oh don’t worry about me, I’ll just kill you” 😂and 😂
"Nah dw babe I'm built different"
The Dark Urge's and Shadowheart's redemption love arc is the best story ever created. They are really simmilar.
Playing as a paladin of Selune (mod or cleric instead) as well so you can get that Selunite/Sharan too
In my run my Durge was quite torn between good and evil. He let SH made her own choice. She spared the Nightsong... and SH's rebellion impressed him so much that he also decided to reject his heritage. His older version would have never hesitated to sacrifice a certain investigator just to get to the Bhaal's Chosen. His newer version gambled a fight... and won. If SH hadtaken a different decision, the game would have been way different.
fuck that going full durge and dark justiciar shadowheart gives you evil kinky sex
They are similar but also each others' opposite in a way. Shadowheart is an inherently good person who's been indoctrinated into a religion of evil and brainwashed into thinking she wants to do all this evil stuff. Her redemption arc involves her remembering the good things in her past she's forgotten and making peace with her parents. She needs to find her true/old self to become good again
The Dark urge, on the other hand, is inherently evil, a progidy of his own evil religion, and he yearns to do evil. His amnesia is the sole reason redemption is even possible. His redemption means burying the past and leaving it forgotten, abandoning his "father", and literally dying and being reborn into a new good person
This is what I did, and it was fantastic. My Drow Dark Urge is a Selunite on top and I played both redemption arcs. The troubling murder of Quinn (couldn't let Alfira die due to my desire for the potent robe plus I have a soft spot for her anyway) did bother me for several days, but I also knew it was coming. Didn't prepare me for the emotional bit though, even though Quinn was never someone I was going to care about. The writing in this game is beyond anything I had ever experienced before, so kudos to Larian and all the wonderful actors/actresses and developers that made it possible.
I noticed you missed a scene exclusive to dark urge. If you are the dark urge and in the underdark you choose to consume the noblestalk for yourself you will unlock a memory of you and the butler in the past. Just like there is a special conversation with Shadowheart that unlocks an act 3 scene if you convince her to consume it.
You can also buy Noblestalk in the city if you give it to the Dwarf, it does the same.
There's also a scene in the goblin camp where you bite off a goblin's toe
The Dark Urge breathed new life into my dozens of BG3 playthroughs. Whatever my intentions when I start a new game, I inevitably end up playing the exact same way, every single time. Save everyone and we all live happily ever after. Make a mistake? No worries, just save scrum. And rinse repeat forever. The Dark Urge is absolutely brilliant because there is no amount of save scrumming that is gonna bring that bard back. It's a brand new game now.
Between the bard, you almost killing your lover,and your past it gives you plenty of reason to want to do a redemption
“You were supposed to lend a hand, not take one” gives me Obi Wan vibes
I have to admit, Astarion is the absolute BEST wingman when you do a bad char playthrough.
minthara is also really good if you can handle getting her
@@itsgonnabeokaitbf if your going evil attacking the grove is the way to do it
@@mistersandman5811 not really, there aren't any benefits for siding with them. Minthara even asks you later why tf did you side with the goblins without being forced. Which is why I didn't directly betray the tieflings, I instead provoked the druids to butcher tieflings by killing Kagha, and claimed the massacre as mine
@@itsgonnabeokai meant specifically for getting Minthara as a follower since you can't do that without siding with the goblins as far as I know
@@mistersandman5811 if you agree to raid with minthara but then provoke druids the same day, you can fight druids together with tieflings, but because there are so few left to stand back to the goblins, the next morning the raid is finished before you arrive to the Grove. Minthara sits in Zevlor's cave and says something like "you started before me, good job, let's celebrate"
Astarion: PLAY IT play it for all it's worth!
*Astarion would come to regret these words*
Withers is the DM.
I think it’s hilarious when your companions are in the background as you muse to yourself about how you’re all alone and watch you commit atrocities
Squirrel: *exists*
Dark Urge: It came right at me!
this is a really good video for someone who does multiple runs! thank you!
"One HELL of a butler" *cue unhealthy Black Butler flashbacks*
*DEPRAVED Black Butler flashbacks*
the cape we get from the butler is the most useful thing I've seen so far
Incorrect, may I introduce to you….assassin rogue with the cape?
Are you daft?@@TJ-bg4fw
I would rather one tap with my melee Barb/Lock and and just walk around the map killing everything invisible. @TJ-bg4fw
ty for this video, I didn't feel like doing a whole playthrough, again.
One thing to add if you have Lae'zel in your party when you end in Bhaal's name there is no unique dialogue. However her face as you massacre Orpheus has to be the funniest moment in the entire game.
I thought the same thing. Girl looked mortified, shockingly not doing anything
Thank you so much for doing this. Been planning on doing a full run and abusing savestates galore but now I can just rush it for the achievements, luckily.
And god knows I tried. I genuinely felt horrible with all and any evil decision up until the druid's grove, even.
The white dragonborn with that hood+armor combo looks cool AF
13:47 always gets me, love it!
Astarion just eating popcorn while witnessing everything.
As long as he doesn't get kicked in his betweens.
thanks for uploading this man
You can apparently destroy Alfira’s instrument and she’ll still turn up, but only to berate you instead.
she'll berate you but then still ask to stay, and even if you make her leave your camp it ends up the same with you waking up standing over her mangled body
@@quixotical she doesn’t ask to stay per say. She says she’ll leave in the morning.
And I know that.
Good😊😊
Honestly, I feel that the Dark Urge feeds into our desires to hurt certain characters or have a "complete assholes" playthrough that RPGs commonly water-down (you can kill people, but rarely go out of your way to full on destroy life and torture it. It's not just "keep alive or kill in combat"). But I feel the redemption arc has the best content. The Dark path is just "you've killed a lot of people and become super powerful" or "you've killed a lot of people, become super powerful, but tried to be smart at the end so became a puppet".
With the Redemption path, even the small snippet at the end of the Dark path, it gives more of a story. The villain who fought against his father when it mattered most and ending his life to spare the world or the hero who resisted an all consuming darkness, trusted in his beloved to help him, lived on the love from his friends and allies, and died defying a monster of a god so aggressively that he bemused another unknown power into gifting him life once more.
Darkness is a rampage you can indulge in to go full villain, but the redemption arc is the best part, even if it is something as simple as saving the world from Mind Flayers and then yourself.
Or just redeem yourself to get free from Bhaal's leashes, but control the Absolute and rule the world in your name
The redemption arc is continuation to the original main character from BG 1&2 (at least if you played that one as a good person). Not the same character perhaps but similar.
IMO Dark Urge should have been the default origin. A lot of people play the custom origin ("Tav" aka Gustav, who in-canon should be dead by the events of the game) and completely miss the one story that truly ties the game to the previous titles
@@exantiuse497 Canonicallly, the MC of BG1-2 was murdered by another bhaalspawn a few years after the events of the game. Dark Urge is not him
I love how at times the narrator seems like a compelling voice rather than a story teller 😂
Too bad we didn't see more of Orin. She is truly crazy and it would have been fun to follow her path.
incest mod when
@@iLLya_ based
I thought we would be able to spare her or even get her to join when you break the truth to her : (
Follow her path? Just play Dark Urge then keep embracing the urge
@@iLLya_isn't Orin already a peoduct of incest?
I loved my Durge playthrough, although it was disturbing. I went full on serial killer and succumbed to every whim. Dark af
I love the narrator's voice so much. On a normal playthrough, she narrates everything like the perfect GM down to the finer details. On a Durge, she really sells that we're a deranged serial killer that has no control over our actions.
In Baals Name ( there is a scene you missed, right after the huge ship crashes and bevore you talk to shadowheart, make a long rest and you get a dark urge scene too)
Doing a dark urge side run with a friend and he gave ne Gales hand as a token of friendship lol
Bhaal and his worshippers are almost cartoonishly evil in a sense. There isn't anything particularly deep about them and if what they wanted wasn't so terrible then you'd almost not be able to take them seriously. Fairly stereotypical of an evil god and their cult.
1:17:22 he is so happy she calls him murder incarnate! what an adorable murder hobo
That defying option one leads to you killing the god of murder is just funny.
This goblin side npc lays it on quite thick...I mean the whole lonesome (recently robbed) innocent act.
Cons to DUrge playthrough: lose your character's romantic interest.
Pros: TOGETHAAAAAA, ASSS FAAAAMILLLYYYYY
I recently like just today started playing as a drow durge oath breaker and it’s amazing
It fits so good with the Astarion romance if u both decide to refuse to 'ascend.'
The urge is darker than I thought… holy 😳
Letting Intrusive Thoughts Win
There is still another main ending! Rejecting Bhaal at Bhaal temple but controlling the netherbrain for yourself at the end!
Nice video! What class/multiclass is your DU? It looks pretty amazing!
Actually, you do NOT have to side with the Goblins. If you turn on Non-lethal mode and knock Alfira unconscious, the Dragonborn Bard will still take her place.
The crazy thing for isobel is even if you try to suppress your urge after telling her that your blood yearns to kill her, the narrator essentially says, “it’s too late. The moment you made your thoughts known was the moment you lost control of your body.”
Some of the urge options are fucking hilarious if not horrible 🤣
Damn I just finished the game and had a conflicting set of endings, I chose to follow Bhaal and Durge in general and had Sarevok as an ally at high hall. However in the end I chose to defy and destroy the brain, then go on 'solo'. At the same time I chose to save romanced Karlach and join her in Avernus. The section after 6 months I came back as the Bhaal mindless husk looking to kill companions at night.
5:56 Damn I laughed so hard
arent there flash backs after you free yourself of bhaal that can be triggered? i couldve sworn one happened after when my durge was healed in a fight...i think it was them as a child
if you're healed before freeing yourself, its a flashback of you killing your foster parents, if it after you get the one you've just mentioned
What I miss is that CON, WIS, and INT have an impact on how the dark urge manifests. Next, we play a ROGUE who goes to sleep drenched in blood after butchering Alfira the Bard??? 🤔
I'm a big stupid and forgot to go back to the tribunal after killing Orin, glad I could see it here, seems like I didn't miss anything too crucial so I can keep on living
Holy shit. I had no idea withers was so based
I love the narrator
I wonder how many people picked to resist the urge. The narrator make resisting it soooo god damn hard, and at one point you just accept being a psycho, or tell yourself that you''ve gone too far already so why even bother.
Currently doing a durge play through where he is good till he has to choose between the priest or his lover. I already did a full redemption play through, just wanted to test out the slayer form as a “good” durge.
There is no "Good" in the Slayer
The fact you killed of shadow heart hurts my hart
Actually alfira will show up during your first long rest after finding tge grove wether you encounter her or not
Astarion being a ride or die homie
Hey, Dark Urge is a monster, but he ain't sexist. Man (or woman) has class.
Would have been so cool to have alfira as the party's bard.
In Bhaal's name.
"I will come back and tell you stories EVERY WEEKEND, Grandpa. I promise."
lol yall see that one person walking in the background of the cutscene on the left of withers at 1:31:42
It’s funny how Karlach thinks she could stand against the reincarnation of Bhaal 😂
Not reincarnation, just an avatar. You already killed at least one (Myrkul) and potentially Bane's as well
@@exantiuse497 I’m pretty sure bhaal states that you are “murder incarnate”
It's weird, I'm actually playing a Dark Urge character right now and some of the dialogue options I'm seeing here just never appeared.
It's nice to have an alternative story line for a new playthrough, though I didn't find slayer form very good and a constant, pointless urge to annoy companions and kill stuff was a bit annoying.
Asterian is the prettiest murderhobo ever.
So happy for the exploit to save alfira, hope it doesn't get patched
It doesn't feel like something they'd patch. They animated and voiced an alternative.
@@falconinthedive the alternative is for people who allowed the druids to kill the tieflings
Sad , after killing Alfira no wisit from buttler , so i think its still broke
Bhaaldur's Gate 3
The whole part about Alfira/Quil is wrong. These scenes are firmly part of act 1, unless you basically never long rest at all (which would be dumb as hell and even impossible on higher difficulties). The trigger for the scene has absolutly nothing to do with who you side with, its tied to map advancements + whatever other cutscenes may take priority. You can easily get this scene even before setting foot into the major Goblin camp.
Quil is a stand-in character, made to prevent the game from breaking, if Alfira is for some reason unable to show up. She has been implemented, because players found a way to save Alfira by knocking her unconcious when first encountering her.
1:09 oh no *LMAO*
I heard that to get the slayer form you have to kill your lover OR kill Isobel (and thus everyone in the last night inn) on act 2 OR accept Baal’s gift, or is there a fourth way to get the slayer form?
there's a way to kill isobel AFTER you kill Kethic. And you'll still get Slayer form, and you can even save the nightsong if you want. So the only casualty is Isobel.
Does anyone know how fully embracing ceremorphosis affects the “in Bhaal’s name” ending?
it doesn't, you rule in Bhaal's name as a squid, and there's nobody left to be upset with your looks
Can you still get the deathstalker mantle if you raid the grove with the goblins? I'm currently doing a 2nd campaign this time as the dark urge and since im still in the begining i'd like to know if its possible or not
Yes a dragonborn bard will show up instead to trigger the scene if you haven't triggered Alfira's event before she dies in the raid.
The question is, in the redemption ending where you are saved and free of Bhaal. Do you have to kill Isobel. As the ending credits make it out to be as if it weren't necessary as it weighs on your conscience but the death of the bard doesn't nor the drow should you kill her.
Good question. I haven't tested a scenario in which you don't kill the bard, Isobel, or your lover.
You don't have to kill anyone except Alfira/Quill. If Alfira is unconscious or already dead when the Alfira scene would start, her role is replaced by Quill. There is no choice in the matter. Whether Alfira's death weighs on the Dark Urge's conscience is up to the dialogue choices you choose. You can beg Withers to resurrect her for instance, but he will refuse, he says that resurrecting her would only bring her within reach of your urges again. The credits will then cite Alfira/Quill as the death you regret.
@robertboxwell Thank you! I'm currently undergoing my own Dark urge playthrough and it seems pretty interesting concept.
@@robertboxwell We have actually found out that you don't even have to kill the bard if you are dead for the night it would have happened. You butler even says it was a shame she got away!
@@catgckool428 Wait that could change so much. Can you bypass the other dark urge camp scenes through death?
Shadow heart is just the best wife!
Cant wait to use le kobold race mod and be a tiny terror on society
20:01 “One hell of a butler” ??? If that isn’t a black butler reference then I don’t know what is
could you still have the redemption arc ending if you kill isobel? and how would it affect the relationship with karlach?
You can yes this is an option if you want a special gift from the demon Butler, but don't want to kill your romantic interest. As for how it would effect karlachs relationship I'm not entirely sure on that, iirc the barrier breaks on her death so dammon would die, so making sure you deal with him first is a must.
@@nightbane44 thanks for the advice
I heard the accepting or rejecting Baal doesn’t affect the ending so I want to do a dark urge that TRIES to be good (save druids, don’t kill Isobel or her girlfriend) but accept Baal in the end but destroy the absolute and (romancing karlach) goes to hell with karlach (go commit evil and murder against the infernal hordes), is that possible?
Have you tried? I’m doing a similar run! I’m at the light inn but I’m not sure what to do with Isobel.. 🫣
@@artemisshalchi3577 I stopped playing at the beginning of act 3, just a few warnings: I did some research, to gain slayer form you need to kill Isobel OR kill your love interest OR accept Baal’s gift, I don’t want to lose the love interest and killing Isobel kills everyone at last night inn and instantly fails most act 2 quests so I intend to accept Baal’s gift, but accepting Baal’s gift turns jahera hostile (because she has some bad history with him) so if you intend to accept bahaal’s gift you better take all her gear before getting the gift or NOT recruit her and the ranger guy on act 3
@@lipepseneI figured something out. I saved Isobel. and killed the night song with shadow heart. She gets the blame and I get my slayer form lol 😂😂
@@lipepsenedownside is that everybody still dies (I did it after I was finished at the light inn) and Jaheira / Isobel dies
@@artemisshalchi3577 I already knew that, if Isobel and/or night song dies (no matter how) everyone at last night inn dies too, besides shadow heart doesn’t really want to kill the nightsong (I really don’t want to get involved with a goddess that erase the memories of her own believers so I opted to not say anything to shadow heart and let her do whatever she wanted) so I saw no merit or reason in killing the night song
shadowheart is so cool
1:34:28.
Laezel i think you meant to say"you are HIM"
For some reason the lover scen didnt trigger for me before i lift act 2 which was pretty sad, i played on tactitan and didnt rest to much which may be why
Just a note for future runs, partial rests can be used to cycle through backlogged events like that. I've taken to doing so either part way into an act or before the end depending on triggers and what not.
You missed the bit if you lost to Orin.
I just wonder, why didn't they use cespenar as your butler
Do you know what happens if you kill your lover and fail deception check? Are you just forced to kill all of your companions and that's it?
Yes. lol
@@GamesfromMarsYT you missed a scene, it is easy ti miss this, right after this nautiship of the tentaclesfaces crashes and you wake up, dont talk to shadowheart and make the first long rest, tehre you get adark urge scene
What hood is the urge wearing during the orin cutscene?
When you play a game of league of legends as zed and slaughter everyone in the enemy team: 1:20:39
My dark urge is a black dragonborn
Is it still possible to get the dark urge at any time or do you pacifically need to make that girl come to your camp?
you get the Dark Urge by picking Dark Urge Origin in character creation. You can customize his looks, the Dragonborn is only a default
She will come anyway when you talk to her even if you don't invite her
Can you also save the whole grove and the tieflings as Dark Urge?
so when u do the redemption stuff and go for good ending,can you also get romance endings,like going to hell with karlach ?
I didn't get any, so much for eternal lovers
Yes you can. Karlach is definitively possible.
Yeah
Does the Slayer form get taken away if you refuse Bhaal after fighting Orin, Im assuming it does but just wondering if you can keep the form while giving a god the middle finger
No, the god in question gives you the middle finger back and takes the shit he gave you away.
What class did you play on this play through
can I keep the dark urge slayer form and reject ball? I just want a decent ending with the slayer form
So when I accept the gift but then at the end destroy the brain. What happens? I don't understand that? Did orin take control of the body or what?
Hmmm. I just had to reload and refuse the gift😢 because I don't want to miss my roman e scene at the end.
The gift bhaal gives comes at the price of servitude, at that point you are an extension of bhaals will, and his will is using the army for wanton slaughter
1:12:58 Im not sure if hes "demi-urge" at this point :^)
Can you still go down the path of resisting if you kill Isobel?