Okay, but maybe don't list jokes as part of your explanation when someone is trying to have a serious discussion with you about reasoning that they aren't understanding or that confuses them...
I would not put it past Larian to make him Elminster...
Anyway... I did just look up all of Gale's item refusal, final recourse, and extra tadpole probes... and to be honest, no... I still don't see why people are suspicious of him, even after seeing all of those.
He asks for your help, and when you don't give it, he warns about getting close to a point of no return... and after that, when it is past that point, he uses the only other solution available to him to prevent a catastrophe, and his own soul be damned - because, you know, if he'd just let the catastrophe happen, his soul would be intact and he'd go to his afterlife, and even be available for resurrection, most likely... his choice there is the good choice, born of desperation and lack of options.. so... I'm not seeing why it's suspicious or untrustworthy... why do you (or others) see it as being so?
He gets insistant if you don't give him things, yes... and I see nothing wrong with that at all, considering the consequence of what he's talking about.
When you probe him, and get caught, he gets offended by the breach of trust and violation of person that it represents, not what you actually saw. He is receptive to being reasoned with about the necessity of your actions, though it's clear he still doesn't like that you did it.
When you probe and don't get caught, you see the mistake that he made, and you see the oppressive, dark pressure that he constantly faces and feels - remember, the tadpole links are sensory and emotive transpositions, not onlooking impressions; when we feel something dark, sinister and oppressive bearing down on us, that's not Gale doing something or being something... that's us experiencing what it's like to be Gale, same as when you experience what it's like to be Astarion lurking through the streets.
I'm trying to understand, I truly am, I promise... but I'm just not seeing anything suspicious or untrustworthy of Gale in any of this... help me understand, please.
