If Gortash was always meant to be in the House of Hope, and potentially recruitable after you kill him, then I'm sad that got cut, because that would've been so interesting for him as a character.
To see the tyrant, laid low, no longer the Archduke of Baldur's Gate and ruler of the Sword Coast, but the sniveling little boy who used to cry himself to sleep at night, back in the hell that was his childhood.
Also, I have this theory now, ever since I found out about this, that maybe Gortash didn't just do all this because he had to feel powerful after a childhood of being powerless and helpless.
Maybe Gortash knew that it was only a matter of time before he was forced back to the House of Hope. He knew he would die eventually, and be forced to return to Raphael.
So maybe he turned to Bane and sought as much power as he could attain, so that he could raid the House of Hope and either kill Raphael or at least steal back his contract?
Maybe serving Bane was always secondary to that goal.
But imagine.
Oh fucking imagine...
That he allied himself with Ketheric and the Dark Urge, on behest of his god, and at first, it was just a job for him.
Just something he had to do, because Bane asked him to. But he and the Dark Urge grew close. And maybe he wanted to ask the Dark Urge, after they successfully raided Mephistopheles, if they would help him kill Raphael.
Maybe he was scared to ask before they were close, because it would've revealed a weakness.
A vulnerability, in the Chosen of tyranny.
But then the Dark Urge vanished, so he never got this chance.
And then.
The Dark Urge comes back, a changed person, and he's saddened, but resigned to the fact that he can never ask again.
And then they kill him. Betraying him and the alliance.
And then...he goes back to the House of Hope...and that is his eternity. Being punished by Raphael, taunted for his ability to steal the Crown of Karsus, but unable to reject his fate in the end...
Only for the Dark Urge to knock down the fucking doors, and cut off Raphael's head?
Oh.
Oh, we were robbed, my friends.
The idea of the Dark Urge killing Gortash for the greater good, but inadvertently giving him what he always wanted...
And saving him, whether intentionally or not...
Gortash would smile at his luck. At the kismet. And the dark irony.
But he would be...so glad...that he met the Dark Urge.
They say don't thank me, but he'd say, I have to. I must.
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