In Baldur’s Gate 3, you can find the Dark Urge throughout the story, even if you don’t play as it. However, it is not exactly healthy anymore.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is full of little secrets that players may miss during their first playthrough. A seemingly insignificant corpse by the roadside can have greater significance, which one only realizes during a repeated playthrough of the story. This is particularly true for a body that can be found in Act 3. For that is the Dark Urge, if you haven’t selected it.
What was found? In the subreddit for Baldur’s Gate 3, user Shinobi-King18 posted a screenshot asking if he “just found the Dark Urge in Tav’s campaign.” Indeed, he has found a corpse named “Fallen Bhaalspawn,” which looks exactly like the standard appearance of the “Dark Urge” character that one can select as an Origin character.
In the comments, this suspicion is confirmed, as there are many clues supporting it.
Where can you find the Dark Urge? If you do not have the Dark Urge in your group, you can find it in Act 3, in the chambers of Orin, after you (hopefully) rescued your companions and defeated Orin the Red in battle.
There are several indicators that it must be the “Dark Urge.” On the one hand, you can only find the “Fallen Bhaalspawn” if you are not playing the Dark Urge, and on the other hand, it has the exact appearance of the standard Dark Urge in the character editor. But the ritual circle where the corpse lies is also exactly the same as the one the “Dark Urge” would otherwise use to carry out its gruesome murders.
The only downside: The spell “Speak with Dead” unfortunately does not work on the corpse.
We at MeinMMO also had a lot of fun with the “Dark Urge.”
What is the Dark Urge about? The story of the “Dark Urge” is special in Baldur’s Gate 3, as it differs significantly from other playthroughs. The Dark Urge has the urge to create chaos from time to time and to give in to the inner “dark desire” – which usually ends in quite brutal murders.
The story of the Dark Urge really picks up only in Act 3 when it becomes much more intertwined with the main plot. At least if you have a Dark Urge in your group. You gradually discover that as a Dark Urge you are a “Bhaalspawn,” meaning you are directly possessed by the god Bhaal, whom you occasionally honor through ritual murders.
If you are not playing this character, you will find it in the chambers of Orin the Red. She is also a Bhaalspawn and causes a lot of chaos in the city of Baldur’s Gate.
That you can find the Dark Urge as a corpse is quite logical since he is one of the “Origin Characters” of the game. If you do not take various characters into your group in Act 1 or simply “overlook” them, you can also find their corpses in the game.
Did you directly recognize the corpse of the Dark Urge? Or did you walk past the dead one carelessly?
The “Dark Urge” can indeed receive a very special spell – but you must earn it wickedly.
