Baldur's Gate 3 Fans Find Nasty Unused Ending For The Dark Urge

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There's an unused ending for The Dark Urge ending tucked away in the files for Baldur's Gate 3 - and it's pretty goddamn nasty. The cut dialogue, which certainly would have been part of a bad ending for the player character and presumably their companions, shamelessly dives into the horror and depravity that make up the Dark Urge's roots and doesn't hold back on how awful it could be.

Spoiler warning for The Dark Urge origin.So, if you're still reading but don't why the Dark Urge has their dark urges, it's because they're Bhaalspawn. That means that Bhaal, the God of Murder, is their dad. As you might expect, he's not a great pops, and frequently uses his kids for his own end. They're essentially resources to be used up for whatever evil plot he's scheming, and this is where the ending comes in.

In the unused ending, you would have disappointed Bhaal so much that he's decided to strip you of any autonomy or independent thought. In doing this, his only use for you is breeding stock, so you can create more Bhaalspawn to be used by your evil father.

That sounds bad enough, but if the dev notes are anything to go by, we would have been "treated" to seeing this in action during an epilogue. Some of the voice lines were actually recorded, so the ending got as far as having voiced narration. Content warning for all of that before we go any further.

In case the devs notes are a little hard to read, I'll go through them below as if I were selecting dialogue options, and combine them with the accompanying responses set out in the data. A few minor lines have been skipped, but you'll get the picture.

Well, how are we feeling after all that? Violently ill? Yeah, I'm guessing that's what they were going for.

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