The unseemly thoughts of a BALDUR’S GATE III Dark Urge player
Tackling Baldur’s Gate III as a dragonbornwith the Dark Urge originsurehasbeen an experience. It’s a slightly more messed up angle than I’m used to when it comes to RPGs, but at 100+ hours I figured I probably won’t have time to play through the whole thing again. So instead of jumping straight on the morality bandwagon for my first run, I thought I’d go full goblin mode – or dragon mode, to be precise. Enter Bad Dragon..
So I’ve stepped into the strange and demented world of a forgetful killer, with backstory that gives your character a terrible affinity for all things maleficent. With my most bloodthirsty metal playlist churning in the background, I hurry on to incite whatever horrors I can muster,and to piece together my murderous past. Hopefully without making the game too difficult in the process.
“Killing, now that sounds like your first good idea,” the murderous enabler in my head exclaims soon after I begin. That’s the first reference to my backstory. This constant narration runs alongside a commentary in my journal that bids me to, “Be yourself! Think dirty thoughts!” It quickly becomes evident that Bad Dragon is above the status of a simple murder hobo when the narrator teases me with visions of a so-called “radiant future”, where I might be the one to guide goblin- and tiefling-kind into an endlessly bloodthirsty war. Driving a wedge between the major forces of this world seems to be all too easy.
THRILLS AND KILLS
Bad Dragon is a bloodletter of high calibre, it seems. I’m orchestrating desolation on a mass scale. But with these big ambitions I could use a helping hand, which appears in the form of my own butler, Sceleritas Fel. A peculiar character, he begins sowing seeds of hate and helping me place tog
