Baldurs Gate 3 - Dark Urge Questline (All Choices and Endings) 

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.

"What is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" ~Paarthurnax

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."

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 🥲

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.

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 😂

The Dark Urge's and Shadowheart's redemption love arc is the best story ever created. They are really simmilar.

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.

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.

“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.

Astarion: PLAY IT play it for all it's worth! *Astarion would come to regret these words*

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

Withers is the DM.

Squirrel: *exists* Dark Urge: It came right at me!

"One HELL of a butler" *cue unhealthy Black Butler flashbacks*

the cape we get from the butler is the most useful thing I've seen so far

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.

13:47 always gets me, love it!

The white dragonborn with that hood+armor combo looks cool AF

this is a really good video for someone who does multiple runs! thank you!

Astarion just eating popcorn while witnessing everything. As long as he doesn't get kicked in his betweens.

You can apparently destroy Alfira’s instrument and she’ll still turn up, but only to berate you instead.

ty for this video, I didn't feel like doing a whole playthrough, again.

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.

Too bad we didn't see more of Orin. She is truly crazy and it would have been fun to follow her path.

I loved my Durge playthrough, although it was disturbing. I went full on serial killer and succumbed to every whim. Dark af

I love how at times the narrator seems like a compelling voice rather than a story teller 😂

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.

thanks for uploading this man

Doing a dark urge side run with a friend and he gave ne Gales hand as a token of friendship lol

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.

1:17:22 he is so happy she calls him murder incarnate! what an adorable murder hobo

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)

Cons to DUrge playthrough: lose your character's romantic interest. Pros: TOGETHAAAAAA, ASSS FAAAAMILLLYYYYY

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.

That defying option one leads to you killing the god of murder is just funny.

Letting Intrusive Thoughts Win

This goblin side npc lays it on quite thick...I mean the whole lonesome (recently robbed) innocent act.

It fits so good with the Astarion romance if u both decide to refuse to 'ascend.'

I recently like just today started playing as a drow durge oath breaker and it’s amazing

The urge is darker than I thought… holy 😳

There is still another main ending! Rejecting Bhaal at Bhaal temple but controlling the netherbrain for yourself at the end!

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.”

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.

Nice video! What class/multiclass is your DU? It looks pretty amazing!

Holy shit. I had no idea withers was so based

In Bhaal's name.

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

Hey, Dark Urge is a monster, but he ain't sexist. Man (or woman) has class.

5:56 Damn I laughed so hard

Some of the urge options are fucking hilarious if not horrible 🤣

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

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??? 🤔

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.

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.

The fact you killed of shadow heart hurts my hart

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.

Actually alfira will show up during your first long rest after finding tge grove wether you encounter her or not

I love the narrator

Astarion being a ride or die homie

Would have been so cool to have alfira as the party's bard.

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 funny how Karlach thinks she could stand against the reincarnation of Bhaal 😂

"I will come back and tell you stories EVERY WEEKEND, Grandpa. I promise."

So happy for the exploit to save alfira, hope it doesn't get patched

Asterian is the prettiest murderhobo ever.

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

could you still have the redemption arc ending if you kill isobel? and how would it affect the relationship with karlach?

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?

What hood is the urge wearing during the orin cutscene?

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?

Does anyone know how fully embracing ceremorphosis affects the “in Bhaal’s name” ending?

Sad , after killing Alfira no wisit from buttler , so i think its still broke

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.

Can you also save the whole grove and the tieflings as Dark Urge?

Bhaaldur's Gate 3

I just wonder, why didn't they use cespenar as your butler

Can you still go down the path of resisting if you kill Isobel?

Cant wait to use le kobold race mod and be a tiny terror on society

Can you still get Bhaal's gift if you kill Saverok?

it wouldnt let me defy him, I was so annoyed. Any idea how to get around that?

lol yall see that one person walking in the background of the cutscene on the left of withers at 1:31:42

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?

Wait what option gets you the withers of ending?

can I keep the dark urge slayer form and reject ball? I just want a decent ending with the slayer form

shadowheart is so cool

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

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.

Somebody know what Dye he is using 1:13:11

What class did you play on this play through

can I not kill isoble and than later side with the lord of murder ?

Shadow heart is just the best wife!

i accept bhaal but i dont the have first option "defy father", i rejected bhaal i got Tav usual options. WTF why? is it BUG?

When you play a game of league of legends as zed and slaughter everyone in the enemy team: 1:20:39

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.

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.

so when u do the redemption stuff and go for good ending,can you also get romance endings,like going to hell with karlach ?

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

You missed the bit if you lost to Orin.