The Hero They Need - Baldur's Gate 3 Inspired Song | @BardStrike x Endless Taverns Collab

Special collaboration with @BardStrike ! This is "The Hero They Need", a redemption Durge song to play against his Murder Hobo Durge song "The Monster They Made". Go hear the companion track, “The Monster They Made,” on BardStrike for the other side of the story. I'm a big D&D nerd, Endless Taverns was born from waning to make D&D modules of my own weird ideas. You can download it all FREE: https://ko-fi.com/endlesstaverns/shop 🤖 Find My Music: https://ffm.bio/endlesstaverns Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0KCDcshjirenWz5JiPnmw0?si=OQQ1wt0RR8iznP_oa-SJ5Q Help me keep the Endless Tavern running! https://ko-fi.com/endlesstaverns Lyrics: I could have bent this world my way oh what a mortal sin But every time the urge was offered I chose not to let it in I've walked through cursed shadow where the sun dared not shine I've bled for my companions I've claimed their pain as mine I met them where they were some broken, scarred, and shamed The ones who thought their stories ended who'd forgotten their own name But these forgotten realms will know who we are before the day is through and maybe together we'll rewrite the ending we were handed too I am not what they made me I am not what I've done I am not the end of everyone I'll carry this darkness I'll carry these deeds And I'll bury them screaming and be the hero they need They stayed when they should've run they stayed after what I'd done They handed back my pieces every time I came undone I'd look into their eyes and I'd feel such a hunger rise yet looking back at me, they chose to stay by my side So every time I had the choice to let the dark urge win I thought of every one of them, and I'd pull it back in I am not what they made me I am not what I've done I am not the end of everyone I'll carry this darkness I'll carry these deeds And I'll bury them screaming and be the hero they need Did you think I'd break beneath the weight of what was asked of me? Did you think the dark would swallow all I was before I'd see? I looked into the abyss and the abyss looked back with hate Cause I had built a world too beautiful to ever let it break I didn't arrive here with the answers I arrived here with a choice And all the good that followed after was guided by my inner voice For all who walk beside me and for all those who I could save Know I was just a stranger doing my best to be brave A father made of hunger who would sooner see me dead Than watch his chosen weapon choose compassion over dread But gods who build their temples out of suffering and red Don't deserve the kind of worship born from those who've bled Cause power without purpose is a crown without a cause And I have walked too far with those I love to give it pause I am not what they made me I am not what I've done I am not the end of everyone I'll carry this darkness I'll carry these deeds And I'll bury them screaming and be the hero they need Human-made // AI Assisted (Suno, Midjourney, Seedance 2, Sora, and Nano Banana Pro)