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One thing that was brought up in BG1+2 was that Bhaalspawn have subtle markers that show them for the creepy changeling children they are from birth: "...the marks of chaos, have power with no direction, and shall feel the blood of a god within them."

Bhaalist priests can recognise them, Sarevok recognises them in himself and Charname... but it never actually explains what the fuck that means. It seems like you need to know what to look for though: Bhaalist priests would know their own deity's signs, and Sarevok did his research.

It's not simply "you get weird dreams when you finish puberty", you can spot a Bhaalspawn while they're still in the cradle if you know what you're looking for: "Nyalee did see him for the spawn-child he was while but a babe and stole him from the crib!"

Considering that you meet at least one Bhaalspawn who mentions feeling that divine essence his entire life, I can only assume it's the usual faire of murder ideation, a sense of alienation, occasional strange powers, and sometimes being the creepiest children on Toril... maybe all Bhaalspawn start off with one of those tells (extremely destructive out of control temper tantrums, little baby magnets for undead and hauntings, triggering the fight or flight reflex in people by existing, silver allergies, holy water allergies, etc etc... Something physical like black blood is probably too obvious a tell.)

its not bhaalspawns fault their love language is acts of service and all they know how to do is kill

Dorn and his bhaalspawn. Bhaalspawn and his dorn

Dorn's going to lose those fingers if he's not careful

when you disappoint Sceleritas :(

I just love that before I even had baldurs gate and knew anything about the dark urge I created a dnd5e character that was an elf barbarian (thought that was funny) with the 'haunted one' background.

I made a version of him for my dark urge run through <3

Brief overview of his story ⤵️

TW: murder/gore/suicide ⚠️

His name is altair and his story was that he was adopted by a half-orc barbarian family, raised to fight like they do, loved unconditionally. He had strange blackouts growing up but never did anything malicious (without good intent). He was (unbeknownst to him) picked by a bhaalist cult as their chosen. When he was 15, he ended up blacking out and killing his entire family. They lived in a small house in the forest, so the only ones that knew what happened were the cultists that always spied on him (through spells and such). They saw him unconscious and took him back to their temple.

When Altair came to, and realised what he had done, he tried to take his own life. The cultists didn't let that happen, but it resulted in injuries that left him unable to speak. The cultists indoctrinated him. Told him he was meant to be there, told him what they were doing was important and good for the world. So he stayed, every night he was visited by apparitions of his siblings, who encouraged him to carry on and do good.

Until he found documentation of his families incident, he learnt that it was the cult initiating the blackout. He went into a rage and tried to escape, killing any cultists that got in his way, but also creating paths for any trapped/indoctrinated children to follow. He destroyed as much as he could.

Afterwards, all he does is travel from town to town, using his strength to help who he can, getting rid of anyone he deems morally wrong. He knows he was 'destined' to harm people, but he doesn't want to.

friendly reminder that being around bhaalspawn triggers fight or flight so everyone at camp probably felt like they were on the verge of an anxiety attack whenever durge was around and they had no idea why

Little wip of slayer Zil