Yes --- Gale is a mystery for sure! I will def scroll back though older posts and see what folks have been chatting about!
Also, rereading my post, I think I was half asleep when I wrote most of it and it is rather incoherent in some parts. Lol. I was more toying with the idea of a version of Azuth from another dimension or some weird plane swapping stuff, but was much too tired to articulate it (or really think it through properly)!
But regardless of the details, the overall feeling is that Gale is hiding *something*, and is not what he seems.
I also wondered for a time if he is perhaps involved in the mindflayer plot directly. IF his story is true, in regards to Mystra and the orb, then I would not put much past him, in terms of what he would do to win back her favor AND his powers. Or at the very least, to save his own life. Or maybe it is godhood he wants (like Azuth achieved). Why did Mystra abandon him in the first place? Did he get to big for his breeches? I hope we get to learn more! Also, the the three times I have heard about Netherese magic in this game, it has been 1) the portal he stepped out of, 2) the orb in his chest, and 3) the tadpole. What if he played a part in the magically altered tadpole in our heads? Made a deal with some rebellious mindflayers to do some complex magic for them in exchange for their help, maybe? Can't their ships get him to the astral plane where he might release the orb? Would he have made a deal like that?
Hmmm...I wonder if he even has the damned tadpole in his head at all! There is no evidence that he does except his own word.
He also seemed to think he could make a deal with Rapahel and get away with it. He has the arrogance as Karsus, that one. A deal with a devil, a deal with mindflayers. Not so different.
Of course, considering he is an origins character, it may be that whatever is going on with him is not intentionally nefarious or tied to the plot in that way at all.
And...maybe...just *maybe*...my paranoia stems from another source. Like...how he slept with my naive druid elf who was on her first adventure away from her circle...then hurt her feelings the next morning by bragging about a goddess he slept with ...then told her he could die at any moment if she did not keep feeding him magic...and then played on her sympathy and feelings for him to keep him around. Total jerk move.
...still miffed...
Last edited by timebean; 17/05/21 01:35 AM.
