Watch Baldur’s Gate 3’s narrator explore her darkest urges
Baldur’s Gate 3 gets a lot of things right, but perhaps its greatest asset is narrator Amelia Tyler, who serves as your guide and a sort of pseudo dungeon master, explaining your every thought, emotion, and action as you trudge through Faerûn. But now Tyler is bringing a more sinister energy to the Larian Studios RPG, by streaming her very own Dark Urge run alongside her partner and fellow voice actor Jay Britton, who previously provided voices for Larian’s Divinity Original Sin 2.
The Baldur’s Gate 3 Dark Urge origin playthrough is perhaps the most distinctive opening commitment you can make in the expansive RPG game. Upon selecting it, you commit to your character having a set of unique dialogue and action options based on a sinister set of urges – and, while you can often choose whether or not to listen to the voices, in some cases Baldur’s Gate 3 simply has your character do something unspeakably horrid, and you’re simply left to handle the fallout.
Tyler’s adventure begins as she creates her character, Violet Alabaster, who’s joined by Britton as brother Lucius, or “Lulu.” Reminding us that she’s just like the rest of us, Tyler immediately plunges a full hour and a half into character creation to craft the perfect Half-Elf Ranger for her journey.
“Violet is a character that I roleplayed with Jay on a roleplay server a couple of years ago,” Tyler explains, “we played brother and sister and they are awful – just the worst human beings.” Britton details the character’s original origins: “They are good, honest, hard-working people just looking to make their way in the world and help those around them… or maybe they’re dreadful elitist socialites from Victorian London.”
“Lucius is more knowingly mean,” Tyler relates,
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