It's a heroic fantasy story. Here is my conclusion. (Spoiler if you haven't finished the game )
You, my friend, are a demi-god, although you may not realize it. Fate has decreed that you will lead this party of selected godly-touched heroes, like Iason led the argonauts. Jergal even sends an avatar to protect and help you on your mission, like Athena and Hermes helped Perseus defeat Medusa. Even though he still had to do the hard work himself.
After finishing the game once, and especially now running the DU campaign as second PT, this is for me the only reasonable backstory of my hero.
Imagine all the primordial Gods that get involved. Mystra, Shar, Selune (Dame Ailyn), Jergal and the 3 upstart dead Gods. You can't leave that to just anyone. We were all meticulously picked out.
As DU it's clear where the demi-godhood comes from. In the other PT, as I was halfdrow, I think I'd want Elistraee as my divine foremother.
So basically, to you, BG3 is a story repeat of DOS2? Hmmmm.
I mean, I wouldn't put it past Larian to have planned something like that, lol. But it would be a bit too much, since both games' act 1s share already so many damn similarities...
I'm not going to read through the thread because spoilers, but to me The Dark Urge makes the most sense to play.
Otherwise you're just a random nobody. Even Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are connected to Hamlet more than the Custom character is to this story.
Yeah, true that, although the comparison between Tav and Hamlet made me cackle irl.
But on topic though, yeah, when playing I've had the same suspicious feeling my gut as you did Rahaya, and on repeat runs it gets even worse.
And I also dislike the entire origin system in this game, Dark Urge should've been the main character, the main Tav and we all know it. Also the fact that devs disentangled Durge from Tav (Tav had all those violent urges directed at Daisy hmm) super close to release and decided to make Durge a part of... y'know what to make it extra spicy.
