Just to respond to one of the earlier posts, talking about the drawbacks of playing as the dark urge. I’m playing as the dark urge right now, but as a resisting one, and I haven’t had any issues with losing the “good” companions honestly. Can’t you play as a “good” dark urge? Granted, I’m only halfway through act one, but the good companions all have very high approval of me and Astarion hates me.