What I mean is, who do you picture the dark urge as being?
The canon white dragonborn storm sorcerer doesn't really feel right to me. I followed the Blood in Baldur's Gate thing closely, and I love the look of the white dragonborn. But when I think of the Dark Urge, when I imagine the character and the history and the role... I don't know, it's just not what I see in my head.
My first thought is that the Dark Urge is a rogue, surely. Perhaps an assassin mutliclassed with a gloomstalker. That makes a sort of obvious sense, right? And personally, I imagine him as a human or half-elf with long dark hair and a heavy beard from the time spent without being able to shave.
But that's all just my initial thoughts. I mean, it's almost too obvious. And then I wonder, does the former class of the Dark Urge have to be the same as what the Dark Urge becomes in the playthrough?
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Once upon a time, there was a thread (which I can't find) where someone discussed playing the Dark Urge as a paladin. At the time, I said that made no sense. The Dark Urge took a vow, lost his memory and then woke up with the powers of the vow? Why didn't this evil thing become an Oathbreaker if it was once a paladin? No way that vow would still be in place.
Thinking about it now, I was wrong. It makes perfect sense that the Dark Urge might be a paladin. I could see the vow of vengeance, most especially, and I can imagine that the vow was made in a half coherent state after Orin's attack, or perhaps even after the insertion of the parasite, which may have helped keep the Dark Urge from completely turning into a true soul.
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I very much view the Dark Urge as the main character of the story, at least in so far as the story can be said to have a main character as opposed to an ensemble cast.
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As time has progressed, I think I've finally settled on my version of the Dark Urge.
I imagine that he was a half-elf draconic sorcerer (white dragon bloodline). In my mind, he had the Mask of the Shapeshifter, allowing him to take on different forms which helped him get away with much of what he did.
But something happened when the tadpole was put into his head. When he lay upon the table and saw his innards without. The illithid tadpole entered his head and that--coupled with his essence as a Bhaal-spawn--caused his mind to touch that of an outsider's. In the midst of his suffering, he caught a glimpse of an ancient and otherworldly being. A great old one.
In that moment, he became a warlock, unlocking strange abilities of the mind. It helped him maintain some sense of himself instead of becoming a generic true soul. He got the ability of Blade Ward which helped him survive much of the agony.
As he wakes up on the Nautiloid, mind awash in dizziness and nausea, he maintains that connection to the ancient alien entity. The power of which helps him to escape.
As time progresses, his natural aptitude at sorcery returns and his nature becomes three-fold, influenced as he is by this unfathomable mind he touched, by the blood of his dragon ancestor, and by the taint of Bhaal himself.
And ultimately, that's who the Dark Urge has become for me.
