The main issue I have with the concept of who to trust and not is that despite having a literal mental-emotional connection to these people, they are apparently able to lie directly to our faces without so much as a deception check (or prompting an insight check from us), and we cannot call them on it or do anything about it. They get to know everything we do, and we cannot lie to them - if we try, they immediately call us out about it and flaunt their tadpole connection on the topic... but we're forced to take everything they say at face value.
For example: Gale is 100% telling the truth about him choosing to sacrifice himself and prevent anyone else from being harmed by his folly, if he reaches a point of no other options. If he is facing the prospect that he is going to explode and there is nothing more he can do about it, he will forego any further attempts at safety on his part, and remove himself to a place where it cannot hurt anyone else. We know he is telling the truth on this ... because, if he's not, then the game is straight up cheating, to let him tell that lie to us without any kind of check or any possibility of us discerning that he might be dishonest.
Point is - he might be lying, and Larian might pull some heel turn with him that shows that his friendly disposition and good-heartedness was all an act, they absolutely might... and if they do, it will not be at all satisfying or acceptable, and will just feel like a really bad DM god-mode dick move, and it will not come off well... because they've given us the tools and mechanics to work out these things, and then not permitted us to use them and told us that those tools all indicate straight forwardness and honesty. So the question is not "Do you trust Gale" - Our tools all tell us that he is completely trustworthy - the question is "Do you trust that Larian is not making the very tools they gave us, lie to us, for the sake of their ham-fisted story-telling"... and it seems that many of you do not trust that. Nor do I, for that matter, and it aggravates me.
