What is dark urge

[Shadow]

How does someone choose dark urge? Is it something you have to pick in character creation? I don't recall an option to pick it.

[Angry Trash]

Originally posted by KillSwitch:

canonically you are suppose to be a dragonborn if you go dark urge right?

Yes, if you do not pick the Dark Urge you find their canonical corpse late into game in a side room and it is a white dragonborn

[Aria Athena]

Originally posted by KillSwitch:

canonically you are suppose to be a dragonborn if you go dark urge right?

I will go with no. It's completely irrelevant. Dark Urge is basically a custom character with an extra story line.

[DawnCry]

Originally posted by KillSwitch:

canonically you are suppose to be a dragonborn if you go dark urge right?

In theory yeah, personally I did play as human and drow thought.

[Grobut]

Originally posted by KillSwitch:

Can I still do an evil playthrough without going dark urge?

Easilly.

[Angry Trash]

Originally posted by Aria Athena:

I will go with no. It's completely irrelevant. Dark Urge is basically a custom character with an extra story line.

You actually find their corpse if you don't play them, so yes the Dark Urge is canonically that Dragonborn. But there's also a canon protagonist for BG1 and BG2 though you can make someone else.

[Squirrel With Acorn]

I guess I am still confused about the Dark Urge. Because on one hand I see people talking like the roll of the dice will often be determined if you resist the dark urge or not, while others say that it's super simple to resist the dark urge by simply not choosing those obvious dark intrusive thoughts.

The latter makes it sound like it's shallow, nothing more than flavor text and no true sense of resisting, where as the former makes it sound more deep. So which is it?

[Angry Trash]

Originally posted by BlueCanine:

I guess I am still confused about the Dark Urge. Because on one hand I see people talking like the roll of the dice will often be determined if you resist the dark urge or not, while others say that it's super simple to resist the dark urge by simply not choosing those obvious dark intrusive thoughts.

The latter makes it sound like it's shallow, nothing more than flavor text and no true sense of resisting, where as the former makes it sound more deep. So which is it?

The more you use it or fail to resist it, the harder it becomes to resist, and the more you are compelled into using it. If you encounter all three forced murders at the beginning and react poorly to them (the post-Urge reaction does not require a roll impacts this, but there are other times you need to roll BEFORE the Urge) then you start off already a bit deep into it.

[Aria Athena]

Originally posted by BlueCanine:

I guess I am still confused about the Dark Urge. Because on one hand I see people talking like the roll of the dice will often be determined if you resist the dark urge or not, while others say that it's super simple to resist the dark urge by simply not choosing those obvious dark intrusive thoughts.

The latter makes it sound like it's shallow, nothing more than flavor text and no true sense of resisting, where as the former makes it sound more deep. So which is it?

I'll tell you in some detail what happens in the first 2 Acts

You can resist every single urge. If you meet Alfira, during one of your rest you will lose control kill her in a gruesome way.

Later on you are ordered to kill someone. If you refuse, they will try to force you to kill one of your companions to satiate your urges. I think I avoided it that safely by choosing the correct dialog options and thus they restrained me. I then had to roll against the urges in order to not lose control and I don't know what would happen had I failed. The fact that I succeeded was reflected on the following dialog.

[DawnCry]

Originally posted by BlueCanine:

I guess I am still confused about the Dark Urge. Because on one hand I see people talking like the roll of the dice will often be determined if you resist the dark urge or not, while others say that it's super simple to resist the dark urge by simply not choosing those obvious dark intrusive thoughts.

The latter makes it sound like it's shallow, nothing more than flavor text and no true sense of resisting, where as the former makes it sound more deep. So which is it?

What I can tell you is that you will find a few situations in which you will have to roll against the dark urge and if you fail you will kill said character.

Also if during your playthrough you give into the dark urge by not having remorse or not stopping yourself you will start to lose dialogue options in some situations.

If you want one example of the roll:

One night you will wake up next to your loved one and you will have to roll against the urge to brutally kill him/her, after that you will have to convince your party that you didn't do it or they will try to kill you.

[sick duck]

Originally posted by Angry Trash:

It is one of the origin characters you can pick, looks like a white dragonborn by default but you can change this.

Is dark urge a doppleganger? The implication of the customization points to that because it is a unique depth of customization for an origin character.

[Angry Trash]

Originally posted by Aria Athena:

I'll tell you in some detail what happens in the first 2 Acts

You can resist every single urge.

Unless this was fixed in the current patch, the squirrel and Gale cannot be resisted?

[Pudding]

lizard with rabies

[Angry Trash]

Originally posted by sick duck:

Is dark urge a doppleganger? The implication of the customization points to that because it is a unique depth of customization for an origin character.

No, if you read his diary when you find his corpse as a non-Dark Urge, he explicitly refers to Orin's ability to change as part of her own gifts. He is also unclear with their relationship, as in one entry he calls her sister (but they both call Bhaal father, so this is likely just referring to their being spawn), but in another claims he is the last pureblood and she is just a tainted wretch cousin.

[Aria Athena]

Originally posted by Angry Trash:

Originally posted by Aria Athena:

I'll tell you in some detail what happens in the first 2 Acts

You can resist every single urge.

Unless this was fixed in the current patch, the squirrel and Gale cannot be resisted?

I didn't get anything related to Gale and I don't remember any squirrels.

[Angry Trash]

Originally posted by Aria Athena:

I didn't get anything related to Gale and I don't remember any squirrels.

When you see Gale asking for a hand You imagine yourself ripping off his arm, and then wake up to find out you've blacked out and actually done that.

And the squirrel is in a tree on a cliff somewhere in Act 1, if you get too close to it he opens a conversation and bites your leg. Other characters have an option to scold him or kick him, Dark Urge doesn't even wait for him to bite and kicks him into pulp.