In "Baldur's Gate 3," you can be as evil as you want, as I discovered when I went on a rampage in the "Dark Urge" (Dark Urge) honor mode. Well, I say "evil," but I'm not even sure if that counts. Before you get your claws into this messed-up turducken, two out of three of the people involved deserve it in some way: serious spoilers for Act 3 are in.

This particularly ingenious killing of Gortersch comes from Syntactics2411 on the game's subreddit. They located, murdered, and pocketed the body of Goltersch's mother. They then used the body to bludgeon him to death as Karlak, the person Goltaş had treated most unfairly.

Here we can divide the story into three levels. First of all, Gortash is a damned bastard - as anyone who has ever been in love with (or talked to) Karlak can attest. He has been chosen by the god of tyranny. He is the kind of guy who would sell you to Bane for a single corn chip. He also doomed Carrack to 10 years as a hellish war machine in hell. If anyone deserves to be beaten to death by his own mother, it is him.

"Did Gortáš's mother deserve this fate?" welcome to the swamp of moral ambiguity, this place sucks. Goltersch's parents, Dravo and Sally Frym, are in Frym's cobbler's shop in Act 3, "Baldur's Gate." It's an exchange that is easy to miss, but completely harrowing. I've recorded the conversation for your viewing pleasure:

To make a long story short, Goltersch's parents sold him to a warlock to escape repayment of a debt. Goltersch stuffed their eyes with mind flayer parasites to avenge the bitterness of his youth. Terrifying!

The third and final layer of this dreadful lasagna is the work of Karlak himself. In a "vow of vengeance" sort of way, both Gortash and Sally got what they deserved. But I don't know if it is necessarily Karlak's style to throw her enemies' dead mothers around like the world's worst javelin thrower. A large part of her character is that hell didn't turn her into a cruel killer, which seems like overkill. The "dark impulse" might do it for her, but what about "Carrack"?

So this is objectively the most morally gray thing I saw in Baldur's Gate 3. A mother who treated her son like a disposable possession, killed and tossed around by a monster she created and who inflicted lifelong wounds on her, and in doing so proved her reputation as a violent muscle to be correct. Will someone win, here?" i don't think so.