I'm interested to see how playing as Gale will work.
They can easily give Gale same effect as Exhaustion have ...
That would force player to feed him
I might be wrong, but I don't see Larian suddenly throwing up a "Game Over" sign one day if the player decides not to sacrifice anything and thus they blow themselves up.
I blame EA for that honestly ...
Do you remember that backlash they get when people find out that Mindflayer on beach WILL actualy eat them if they are not carefull?

I bet they had more such traps in mind ...
But im not quite sure if they didnt change theyr mind seeing so negative response. :-/