Baldur’s Gate 3 gets a new, dark Origin and some wild bear romance

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is just under a month away, at this point, and today Larian Studios hosted a Panel From Hell to celebrate the impending launch on PC. It featured a new Origin character with a unique playstyle, tons of gameplay details, and one very fraught scene with a Druid.

One of the big reveals of the Panel was the new Origin character, teased in its online mystery game, who is more like an Origin archetype: the Dark Urge. Much like Larian’s work on Divinity, Baldur’s Gate 3 will have the option to play as either a created character or one of the Origin characters who would otherwise be party members, like Shadowheart or Astarion.

The Dark Urge is a fully customizable Origin. Though they default to an alabaster dragonborn, you can play them as anyone. The Dark Urge is more about what resides in your character: an insatiable need for blood and carnage. While others deal with normal concerns, the Urge’s battle is all about ignoring or indulging their impulses. They’ll be guided by a vile servant named Sceleritas Fel, voiced by Divinity: Original Sin 2‘s narrator Brian Bowles.

Additionally, Larian added a little more voice talent to the lineup today. Maggie Robertson, who voiced Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village, is playing the third central antagonist of Baldur’s Gate 3: a shapeshifter named Orin the Red. Alongside Jason Isaacs’ Lord Enver Gortash and J.K. Simmons’ General Ketheric Thorm, that’s a star-studded rogues gallery.

Of course, there was one moment of today’s Panel From Hell that lit up social media. Larian showed off some of the romantic scenes in Baldur’s Gate 3, which are an obvious draw for any weary, impatient BioWare fans. The first was a sweet, innocent scene with Karlach, the newly announced