[You are] projecting other characters' story arcs onto Gale, when Gale could actually be a Varric or Alistair or Vivienne. There's a difference between "accepting the possibility that a character can be lying and have hidden motives" and "believing that the character is lying and has hidden motives." [...] [You are] considering meta-context.
I'm not claiming to believe that he is already bad what I'm saying is that based on some of the things that I have seen and his study of Netherese magic and like you said, the tadpoles also have Netherese magic. There is the possibility that he knows more than what he is allowing you to know. GM4Him even mentioned Elminster who is the most powerful wizard in all of Faerun and he is also able to disguise himself. That's why I also say, that if Larian introduces Elminster he could possibly be Gale in disguise.
Many of your arguments about Gale being untrustworthy are speculation based off of FR lore and/or characters from entirely different franchises. I'd argue that it's impossible to disentangle your view of Gale from these sources because they affect your gut reaction to him and thus color your every interaction with him. (If the true reason why you distrust Gale is just a gut feeling because of your gut reaction to his smarminess, that's fine).
Even in the quoted paragraph responding to me, you use as evidence "There is the possibility that [Gale] knows more." Yes of course there's a possibility; Gale could be lying about the bomb, he could be lying about his knowledge of the tadpole via Netherese magic, he could be lying about everything about him. But this is purely speculation, and shouldn't be used as evidence for him being that way.
Originally Posted by Lady Avyna
Relax, it's just a game. It's okay to theorize about characters just like people do when watching a show. You don't have to get all technical about it.
It's perfectly fine to speculate about characters. And it's perfectly fine to re-interpret their in-game actions and personalities based off of those theories. But if you want to have a discussion about anything, it's important to define the conversation and acknowledge your biases/sources. And using speculation (particularly referencing other franchises) in a conversation about how the character is presented in the source material won't ever be a productive discussion.
