Yes, I'm talking about:
what happens when you reject Bhaal.

I hate it. It feels wrong and flies in the face of every moment this game has been building towards this entire time.

The problem:
Every other companion in this game has had to sacrifice something to achieve their "good" ending. Shadowheart has to accept Shar's torments or lose people she loves, Astarian has to go back to the shadows, Lae'zel has to give up the person she aspired to be, and so on. These are hard decisions that result in serious narrative scars that these characters will have for the rest of their lives.

Yet, for some reason, the DUrge gets to be special. Not only do they get to obtain that freedom they've been fighting for, but thanks to the divine intervention of Withers, that freedom basically comes with no strings attached. No more urges, no more Bhaal, no more guilt. Everything is happy for you.

How am I supposed to be satisfied with this? Even your companions call out what a deus ex machina this is, with Astarian going so far as to rant about how all your problems get to be solved with the wave of a magic wand. He's absolutely right, this feels like cheating, and I hate it.

I don't mind having an option like this being on the table, but with such strong themes of rejecting oppressive authority figures and healing your scars, there SHOULD have been a middle ground option where we get to fight for our own sake without another god sweeping in to magic away what we choose to sacrifice. Withers undermines our do or die choice to master the urge ourselves or die trying.

What I'd like to see:
Give the DUrge an option to master the piece of Bhaal's soul they have so that Bhaal can never have it back. Let them trade away their only chance at true peace to spend the rest of their lives in an active conflict against the god of assassins. Let us make him work to reclaim what was his! That's exactly the kind of ending my morally conflicted DUrge deserves. The struggle they've always known, but one that is finally their choice to have. One that lets them win against Bhaal or die trying on their own two feet.

TL;DR:
Where is the option to make the sacrifice to master the urge and win against Bhaal on our own?

Last edited by Yharmeru; 01/10/23 02:04 AM.