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• Blood Doesn't Make Monsters, People Do by ViperWitch

  Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  13 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • The Dark Urge & Sceleritas Fel
  • The Dark Urge & Enver Gortash
  • The Dark Urge & Orin the Red (Baldur's Gate)
  • Astarion/The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash
  • Alfira & The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • The Dark Urge & Party Members (Baldur's Gate 3)
  • Bhaal (Dungeons & Dragons) & The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • The Dark Urge & Withers (Baldur's Gate)
  • Arabella & The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • Sceleritas Fel
  • Enver Gortash
  • Orin the Red (Baldur's Gate)
  • Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
  • Karlach (Baldur's Gate)
  • Minthara Baenre
  • Gale (Baldur's Gate)
  • Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate)
  • Wyll (Baldur's Gate)
  • Alfira (Baldur's Gate)
  • Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate)
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Tags May Change
  • Drow Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • Blood and Injury
  • Blood and Violence
  • Blood and Gore
  • Blood Loss
  • Blood and Torture
  • Child Abuse
  • Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Past Child Abuse
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst
  • Heavy Angst
  • Female Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • Bard Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • Sorcerer Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Anti-Drow Racism (Dungeons & Dragons)

  Summary

  No one is ever born a monster. Not even a drow Bhaal spawn, but when everyone all your life tells you you're a monster, at some point you believe it.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  660

  Chapters:

  1/?

  Kudos:

  3

  Hits:

  27