I guess my feelings on the writing come from being very, very, very invested in FR lore. I'm an FR lore fanatic, having all the FR-related 3.5e source books, and owning and having read almost all the FR novels. I positively LOVE the lore of the FR setting. So when I see (or perceive) FR lore being treated dismissively or cavalierly in any DnD game, not just BG3, I tend to react quite harshly.
Agreed. Faerun is and will always be my favorite setting. I've not read as many novels but I also own many sourcebooks. I really do think there is someone inside Larian who gets FR lore. The shadow weave is acting just like a shadow weave should act, no? The shadow weave is a cancer - it finds healthy weave and replaces it.
I'm even open to the idea that this how WotC is reintroducing the weave back into the world - one mythallar was not destroyed in 4e, Gale finds it, feeds and in "little shop of horror" style it emerges as fully formed . . .
And the fact that Gale annoys me so much tells me that he's well written. Anomen was one of the better written NPCs in BG2. But he was so very annoying . . .
