So Gale has an updated bio on the BG3 website and it is... juicy.
What’s a god to a world-class wizard? Gale was once a formidable archmage in Waterdeep, but pushed his relationship with the goddess Mystra too far. Failing to usurp his former lover’s godhood, the goddess stole Gale’s magics away and cursed him with the Netherese Orb, a dangerous artefact with enough magical potential energy in it to level a city if it were allowed to escape.
Beyond learning the lesson for his hubris, Gale has now become beset with concern for the danger he poses to others around him, and is worried that if he undergoes ceremorphosis, the angry Orb could imperil countless lives if he can’t neutralise it first
That description is
very different from what he tells us in EA and I wanna know what people think of that. I think it changes a lot about how he comes off and about potential dynamics. But also the part about learning lessons is interesting and makes me actually feel a bit better disposed to him than I was before, and I liked him fine enough. But if his overall story in act one remains the same as in EA, well... that's gonna rub a lot of people wrong I'm sure.
