Lol. Niara. The load screen image thing was somewhat a joke, though it is his psychotic looking, power hungry smile in that image that I was referring to most. He seemed a bit too happy there.
I was also wondering if the loading screens might be glimpses into a small scene from each of their pasts. I think everyone was clearly much more powerful, and the tadpole reset them, all of them. Wyll said he used to do all sorts of things he can't do in the game. Mizora gave him that power. That loading screen seemed like maybe one instance where he was standing in a smoking ruin after maybe he'd slaughtered a bunch of... Goblins maybe?
Either way, I'm just suspicious of him, and I have lots of theories. I'm not 100% sure either way. He could be, like I said, Elminster, for all I know. I mean, Volo is in it, and you know Elminster will probably be as well. Gale's personality sure fits the old crazy wizard, and in BG1 or 2 or both, Elminster disguised himself. If he lost a good deal of power during the Spellplague...
