I then talk to Shadowheart (romance), Karlach and Lae'zel about it and
Shadowheart/Karlach completely flip their shit at me. Shadowheart was sweet as hell about it in the end of act 2 romance cutscene and told me not to punish myself for my past, now she does it instead. Karlach acted like the signs were all there when I've been resisting it all along. Meanwhile Lae'zel just repeated the exact same thing she said when I told her I was a Bhaalspawn. And what she says highly indicates that I supposedly did not resist the urges. No chance to reply to any of them either, just straight back to normal dialogue. Yes Shadowheart, give me a kiss after you just shouted at me from the top of your lungs.
Wait, on my good Durge I took Astarion (romance), Wyll and Karlach to pay a visit to Gortash and in my case there were no reactions, sure, Karlach flipped for a bit asking "WHAT IS GOING ON?" but that's it.
Even when I tried talking to them after the fact they had little new to say (basically same lines as my basic Tav got). Well, they had more to say about me rejecting Gortash's proposition than Gortash's big reveal about Durge's past work with him. I wonder what gives.
But yeah, I agree that good Durge needs some massive quality assurance tests done, while being a major improvement to basic Tavs (who are the blankest slate in history of blank slates and have no tie to the main story aside from the tadpole and the fact that the rest of the companions for some reason agreed to follow Tav cause Tav is the main character - that's it), Durge still needs to have a lot of the contradictions in writing ironed out.
Like Durge somehow knows in act 3, after the 1st big dream that
they are a pure Bhaalspawn, with no mother, made of Bhaal's own flesh.
Okay, how do you know all that from just one dream?
