This ought to be fun and seperate the men from the boys in regards to the last option.
A fun game for Sunday after this weird week, inspired by a crazy ski masked rapper and a livestream I watched yesterday
I'll put 3 categories of villain for you to choose from, and also note I said favourite not greatest so you can't hide behind killcount, effectiveness or effect they still had on society now. In rising spiciness, the choices are:
Favourite gaming villain
Favourite media villain so can be anime or western media
Favourite historical villain
And since I suggested it I'll go first:
Gaming villain: Kane from C&C franchise, he was a mastermind with style and in the 3rd game played EVERYONE to win in the end
Media Villain: Demiurge from Overlord series, despite putting himself as number 2 behind the MC, the actual mastermind of the series, from 'happy farms' to his 'majestic weapon', you want evil look this guy up
Historical villain: I could be a wuss and say Vlad the Impaler or someone similar but let's go with someone very spicy, Shiro Ishii. Why him? Because after ALL the atrocities he committed for his 'scientific experiments' in Unit 731, he not only got away with it after the war but got military medals for it, pardoned and paid $200k by the Americans in exchange for his research and is responsible for a lot of the true vaccines we use today.
So anyone want to play?
Holy shit, no.
First off the main character is the spawn of an actual god, specifically Bhaal, Lord of Murder. Demons would be a massive downgrade here.
The Drow are 99.999% an evil race. We're talking full on moustache twirling sadists here. Betraying the Matriarch in that moment is not only the best thing you can do to remove a threat to the silver dragon whose eggs the Drow had stolen, but also to cripple that city for however long by causing so much chaos they won't be going on any raids for the foreseeable future while they all try to kill each other. There is a single Drow in the entire city who isn't evil and you get told to go kill him by his ex because she's bored of him.
He's that power hungry he literally tries to become a god. Twice.
The reason the elves "screwed him over" is because after being coerced by his sister Bodhi for so long Irenicus tried to tap into the Divine power of the Tree of Life and supplant the existing Elvish pantheon of gods. The first time he was stopped and this is what gets him stripped of his immortality and renamed "Irenicus, the Shattered One". The punishment was expected to eventually be fatal however he steals the main character's Divine soul which stabilises the condition. Bodhi was similarly punished but turned to vampirism as a means of avoiding her death. She gets the Divine soul of another Bhaalspawn however is slain prior to the showdown with Irenicus and because of her vampiric nature didn't "connect" with her stolen soul in the same way as her brother manages. When Bodhi dies the stolen soul simply returns, however after defeating Irenicus at the Tree of Life both he and the main character die and end up in Hell for a final confrontation over who gets the soul.
Irenicus is completely unrepentant about his first attempt to become a god that he spends his intended final years trying to extend his own life so he can get revenge on the elves who punished him then try again.
Dragons will kill you for just looking at them wrong. Better to set a bunch of spike traps to kill the dragon and hatch its egg as your battle pet.
But regardless, the 'best' thing you can do is go in and slaughter all the Drow. I mean they're evil right? Except that's some Anakin Skywalker shit and even he knew it wasn't right to fight evil with evil.
He just wants to level up, same as main character. Wanting to improve yourself isn't evil.
Chromatic dragons will kill you for looking at them wrong, Metallic won't. They are split by alignment in a similar way devils and demons are in D&D where one is Lawful Evil and the other Chaotic evil. In the case of dragons the ones with a metal in their species are good, such as the Silver dragon in question. A Grey dragon however would be evil.
No, the best thing you can do is infiltrate the city and recover the eggs. Not only does this ensure you actually get the eggs back but it means you don't have to lay seige to an entire city. Secondary to the story aspects it's also the method that grants far, far more rewards in terms of both character XP and loot because there are dozens of side quests you can complete during the infiltration.
This re-enforces the point u/MargarineMongoose makes.
The main character does doesn't want to level up, he wants to get escape the Underdark so he can retrieve his Divine soul from Irenicus before things get any worse, which they are with every passing moment.
The sole driving point of the main character in the original Baldur's Gate games is to escape those chasing him due to his Divine birthright as a Bhaalspawn. In the first game this takes the form of another Bhaalspawn who wants to be the last one standing as that results in them reincarnating into Bhaal. In the second game it's trying to avoid Irenicus at first, then trying to rescue a party member, then trying to get your soul back. In the expansion for the second game it's back to trying to survive attacks from other Bhaalspawn.
Irenicus only cares about having power.
"Silvers, like all dragons, believed themselves the most superior creatures in the world". They're literally Nazis.
If you are simply disinterested she says you "would have encountered my tooth and claw instead of words" if she didn't actually need you and if you outright refuse "I fear that the choice is no longer yours". Forced labor, that doesn't sound fascist at all... And if you were to fail, the mysterious imp warns you that she'll find you wherever you go and kill you.
Wow, what a moral exemplar that.
Oh no doing good is so much work. Better to just leave the evil Drow there mostly undisturbed with a new leader who might be worse.
Sounds like your main character does in fact want to level up instead of doing the right thing.