Even months after Baldur’s Gate 3’s launch, information miners are nonetheless pulling unused voice traces, dialogue bushes, and whole cutscenes out of the completed recreation—together with one alternate ending for the Darkish Urge background that’s far grimmer than some other final result within the ultimate lower.
A BG3 information miner shared this ending’s dialogue on X (formerly Twitter) on Nov. 17 which paints an incomplete however nonetheless pretty nauseating image. If the uncooked dialogue-node format is a bit onerous to parse, I’ve reconstructed an excerpt beneath within the order the traces would seem within the recreation.
The next not solely accommodates spoilers for BG3 however can also be not for the faint of coronary heart or weak of abdomen. You’ve been warned.
Narrator: Your reminiscence of final evening’s act is absent. Within the second of mounting, your thoughts emptied itself, and you would suppose solely of Bhaal. The gnoll’s rump appeared to change into his Temple’s graven altar the place you as soon as led worship
Gnoll: Give up stirring. Need sleep. Accomplished with mate.
Narrator: Bhaal calls for the start of a horde. In your again, in your septic nest, had been you to come across fifty an evening, it might nonetheless not be sufficient.
Participant: Suppose me not a slave to mere nature; the kids will probably be most stunning.
Gnoll: Rrrrrh. Go. Or face claws.
Narrator: So that you wander out alone to the rancid wastes, searching for the subsequent creature who will settle for your diseased embrace. What delights will you plumb subsequent? Displacer beasts? Worgs? Carrion-crawlers? Thus you shall spend the remainder of your days rutting, the lash of Father’s disappointment the one thought in your rat’s thoughts.
Any recreation that spent three years in an early entry state goes to have boatloads of lower content material, and BG3 is actually no exception. As you play by way of the title as a Darkish Urge, you’ll sometimes be stricken with the eponymous Urge, often attempting to prod you into doing one thing horrible like murdering your romance associate.
Finally, the Urge is revealed to be the voice of your father, none aside from the god of homicide and violence Bhaal, however selecting to withstand the Urge and deny your birthright—or worse, disappoint your father—had far graver penalties at one level in growth.
On this lower ending, Bhaal punishes the participant character for his or her insolence by forcing them to create extra Bhaalspawn which will succeed the place they failed. Not simply along with your chosen romance possibility, both, however with creatures throughout Faerun which is strictly as gross because it sounds.
Masters additionally shared developer notes connected to the script, which add a bit of extra visible and environmental context to this scene—waking up in a sewer subsequent to a gnoll appears to be a little bit of a step down from romancing suave vampires or hunky druids. Because it occurs, these traces had been already totally voiced and applied, pointing to this lower occurring relatively late within the growth cycle, doubtless for self-evident causes. You’ll be able to even listen to them in the event you’re feeling courageous.
Fan response appears to be a bit of extra combined than it ought to be. Granted, there’s immense potential for a few of BG3’s lower content material to be formally reincorporated into the sport in one of many Definitive Version reworks Larian appears to love placing out, however possibly it’s for the very best if this one stays on the reducing room ground for good.
