I recently finished my good run for baldurs gate and I loved it so much. Karron loves Gale so much. I immediately started my Durge run as Karron and it’s already super rough…
Durge does not care who or when they kill. A child, an old man, a young couple. Doesn't fucking matter.
The brain calls Durge Murder Incarnate. And what is murder and death? Unfair. It doesn't matter how old you are or if you have things you still want to do in life. Death will steal a girl from her mother's arms and then refuse to take whom she leaves behind. Death is cruel and doesn't care about your circumstances.
Durge is death. Durge is a child who wasn't born. Durge is a thing not living but existing. Durge was crafted from a former mortal's essence, but they have never been a mortal themselves.
Durge kills for their own sake. For their own existence. It's selfish and vile, violent by nature and wholly incapable of caring about you. Mercy is them taking everyone, not just one person. But death will never stop killing
And then they found their version of life incarnate so they didn't wholly change their ways but learned how to control themselves and if you really want to go down that route you can read this as Gortash the inventor, the one who developed humanity further halting death. Not stopping it but slowing it down. Human advancements reducing the death we face and allowing for longer life's, yada yada yada. You catch my drift. He's humanity in that scenario.
Yes I'm going down the old nature gods road and you can't stop me. Symbolism save me. Symbolism.
when the dark urge thinks Gortash's name is "sickeningly familiar"
what was so sickening about it?
resentment, that Gortash never came looking for them? residual rivalry?
or is that prickle in their throat a pavlovian response and the sickening feeling is like a phantom memory of choking on his dick until they were nauseous