Okay, I have decided to watch what happens at the end, when you reject the Dark Urge to the very end and well... I have got several questions. So for those familiar with previous Baldur's Gate games and maybe dnd lore, I would appreciate your response. VERY HEAVY SPOILERS, DO NOT READ IF YOU DIDN'T FINISH THE GAME AS THE DARK URGE.
So, at the end of the game, we get the final choice to resist the Urge, which doesn't end well for our main character.
Now, I like the way it is presented, but... I am bothered by the final result. Basically, Bhaal, just straight out rips out his essence from Dark Urge, kills them and turns them faithless, destined to roam fuege plains for eternity.
That is until a familiar NPC, aka Withers saves the soul and life of the Dark Urge. This... bothers me. What happens, if you never recruit them? How can Bhaal just kill you like this? Why didn't he do that with previous Bhaalspawn? How is Bhaal capable of interacting with the real world, if he is pretty much dead after second game? I don't get it.
I thought that once you were born as Bhaalspawn, you would always have those intrusive thoughts or something like this.
Hell, I expected to see a path, where you gain the control of your urges, but they will always be a part of you and if you are not careful, they can and will influence you.
Maybe even retaining that part of divinity and making it into something good, like previous Bhaalspawns did.
Instead, it's just... gone? Like this? It's not a bad ending. It's rewarding in fact, but it feels too heroic, too idealistic for me. And feels a lot like a cop-out.
It also makes you wonder what happened to all previous Bhaalspawn? Were they all turned into Faithless, no matter their deeds? Or not?
Ps: one last thing I do not get. In BG 2, you lose your soul, at least the Bhaal part of it and you are just fine. In BG 3 you just die, seems inconsistent.
So, for those of you, who played previous games, care to enlighten me about it?
