Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Why is dark urge by default a dragonborn ?

I'm not a forgotten realms scholar, so I pick up the lore I need for the game from various internet sources.

It struck me that the Dark Urge is a dragonborn race as defailt and in all the Larian art. Isn't that strange ? I gathered that the Urge was created by Bhaal from a part of his own essence after he returned from "death". I would therefore expect that the Urge would have the same race that Bhaal had when he was still mortal. I didn't find any reference anywhere that Bhaal had draconic ancestors.

What do you think, is Dragonborn a logical choice for the race of Urge ?

Because Larian wanted to show off dragonborn but the origins were already done, some like Helia and Minsc had already been scrapped so they made their half finished origin a dragonborn which makes little sense from the story.

Back in BG 1 and 2 the Bhaalspawn were ever race, anyone and everyone could be a Bhaalspawn. They did not have dragonborn back then but they'd have had them be a Bhaalspawn too.

Due to that lore wise the dragonborn makes sense.

The edgelord god went for the closest he could get to a t-rex.