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That video is freaking awesome! Especially at the end when both their endings got merged together so she becomes the Absolute while he becomes the Sun Lord, ending with matching eyes, that was so good! Very well made and the shovel bits were hilarious

That's pretty much what a Dark Urge ending should be. Morbidly sinister yet poetically romantic, sharing together in the madness with their love interest... a deranged power couple like the Joker and Harley Quinn, Bonnie and Clyde... if only Larian cared even 1% about telling an intricate evil story with some satisfying nuance.

Good for Gale! In general, you won't understand now what his alignment is, because if you save Sazza after a while, he will admire you, showing himself as a very kind person. Maybe Gale just really wants to live... But can also let the player force him to explode in the finale. Generally speaking, yes, he's quite a complex and contradictory personality.

Yes! This is what true romance should look like for DU and Astarion! A feast of passion and blood. Love, biting, killing, “evil and fun” as Stephen Rooney used to say! <3 Maybe the modders will someday fix the “”reject Bhaal or it'll be bad/ don't play our games without spoilers or you'll get into something that will definitely make you feel really, really bad” style ending, and it will be possible to accept Bhaal again and play the evil DU in BG3. In my headcanon, this story will always be like that, as DarkUrgeDairies has shown. It makes no sense for Bhaal to demand the murder of a beloved of the DU when the two of them can also plunge the world into chaos just fine. Bhaal himself has no problem with sexuality, given the way he procreated his children. Just as there's no problem with teaming up with someone (Bhaal teamed up with Bane and Mirkul when the whole trio were human). In the evil ending for the DU proposed in the game, it's never entirely clear to me what is even meant - whether Bhaal takes away the DU's mind and takes control of them (again, the question of “why”?), or whether we see a “novel” instead of an RPG, with a separately prescribed DU for that purpose (with the player excluded from the story) when the DU makes such a sacrifice to his father voluntarily. But in this case all our choices, all our lines in dialogs with Astarion, all our roleplay and our idea of our character are annihilated and deprived of any meaning.