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Jergal used to be "the god of death" but was more than that. He was the "god of the end of everything". So death was a part of his schtick but he was more about keeping a catalog of everything that died. Bhaal on the other hand is just "the god of violence" and happens to prefer murder and violence to the kind of slow decay that Jergal was cool with.
Jergal also didn't choose them as his replacement. He just stepped down from his place. Bane, Bhaal and Myrkul chose them as their instruments after they "replaced" Jergals position. Choosing a mortal isn't as easy as "you do what I say now!" because of the way that Ao enforces the rules on the gods. Basically the gods have to look for someone who aligns with their values or hope to trick someone into it. There aren't a lot of mortals who are perfectly aligned with the values of The God of Violence and Ritualistic Killing so you don't get the most reliable chosen and end up dealing with some severe personality issues.
It's a part of the reason why The Dark Urge is such an interesting character. Seems like prior to getting brain damage Durge was the most devious and dangerous of the potential chosen.
At the end of the day, Jergal didn't care what happened as long as he got his eternal nap. Like most gods, he was callous and self-interested; the only difference being that he was lazy/bored, compared to the ambition of the Dead Three and many other gods.
That's a fairly recent change to his rules that happened after the Second Sundering.
And once they heard about that new law, The Dead Three renounced their divinity so that they could continue to act upon the mortal world. They now exist as quasi-deities. Not truly divine, but also way more powerful than any mortal should be.
The Dark Urge being a Bhaalspawn is a Larian homebrew, because the canon story is that at this point, all of the Bhaalspawn are long dead, and Bhaal was resurrected from their collected essence.
They never deserved them
Welp it is canon now though. It got approved and accepted by the IP holder (idk if they actually had something to do with it too), and now its canon :p
Nice lore summary. Even worked in schtick.
By definition, the Chosen will be dysfunctional. Just read their psych profiles.
User error, not the Portfolio themselves, it was largely an oversight by Jergal who just wanted to retire from being one of the most powerful entities in existence. 100% if sane individuals inherited the portfolio's from Jergal, who were not crazy-bent with desires for power and dominance (or in the case of Bhaal, psychopathy), you wouldn't have a situation that led to the Dead Three to begin with.
Should've seen Jergal try to guide Cyric when he had all of their portfolios.
Because lore-wise they were power-hunger mortals who were psychopaths.
As mortals who sought to ascend they went to Jergal and tried to overthrow him and his domains. Jergal, however, had grown so disinterested and done with it that he genuinely didn't care if they took over his domains so he could have a vacation.
So when the three showed up and went "Give us your power or we will destroy you with all these artifacts and power we've gathered," Jergal went "Okay. So, who's getting my power?"
It caused them, once allies, to turn on each other and Jergal went "Okay, play a game of chance to determine who gets which domains." Bane became Lord of Tyranny, thinking it would give him power over all life. Myrkul became the God of Death and told Bane that he can take Bane's kingdom whenever he wanted. Bhaal became the God of Murder and said to the other two that he was more important because by taking that domain he could help or hinder the other two at his own discretion by determining who lives and dies through murder.
Jergal went on vacation after they took those domains and is just coming back in BG3 now that the Dead Three are basically semi-gods and set themselves up for failure.
Nah, he stuck around the entire time in Myrkul's domain. He was the "court seneschal" of the realm of the dead, which Cyric inherited (along with all three God's powers... along with some others). When Cyric started shedding his sanity and his sphere's, he stuck around with Kelemvor after he became the god of the dead.
He's basically an old man that is sick of the kids screwing everything up.
That's not really how DnD works. "Canon" (although WotC hates to use that word) is derived from tabletop sources. That's why BG3's callbacks are largely limited to BG1 and BG2 information "verified" in Murder in Baldur's Gate and Descent Into Avernus, rather than Larian taking whatever they wanted from the original two games.
In essence, BG1 and BG2 are not canon to their own sequel. There is no reason to believe BG3 will receive superior treatment than its prequels when it comes to greater DnD lore.
Also, it is important to distinguish between Dungeons and Dragons (which is just a rules system) and Forgotten Realms, which is one of many campaign settings published for that system.
BG3 uses an unofficial version of the D&D rules to tell a story set in an unofficial version of the FR setting. Yes, Larian licensed it, but that doesn't mean much of anything lore-wise.