Originally Posted by Nerovar
Originally Posted by Darth_Trethon
No. Without going into spoilers the Dark Urge has nothing to do with the tadpoles and it never did. Also based on datamined info it seems like the Dark Urge was originally intended to be the base Tav experience regardless of tadpole use. It's more related to the plot of BG1 and BG2 than tadpoles. That's why it seems like like the Dark Urge is literally Tav+ or rather why Tav seems so bland and empty.
The Dark Urge was alluded to in the original illithid dream sequences but it tried to turn you against the dream visitor. So yes, it was baked into the regular Tav but it was also only "unlocked" if you used the tadpole.
That makes no sense at all because the Dark Urge has nothing to do with tadpoles and this origin character was always the same his entire life before every getting the tadpole. The Dark Urge is 1000% entirely unrelated to tadpoles. There is a source to it and a reason why it is there, but it's not in any way related to tadpoles or illithids or any of that. It's also so intrinsically tied to BG1 and BG2 that it's almost certainly not something they changed at the last minute where it's like they wanted to do something else but switched to this. Whatever you thought you saw in early access was not in any way related to the dark urge.

Last edited by Darth_Trethon; 24/08/23 01:43 AM.