The roster of Origins characters already at times feels like those memes about players who show up to their session with an epic backstory about being the heir to the throne, a magical prodigy and a veteran of the demon wars w/e.....level 1.
I hope to heaven Gale isn't actual literal Karsus because that would be jumping the shark so high it'd be up there with the Tears of Selune.
It's so unnecessary.
Would we love Gale that much less if he was *just* 'slightly arrogant, but well-meaning dad-wizard' maybe with a life-threatening condition that we'd have to fix at some point over the course of the game as his personal quest? The grandiose heights Larian seems compelled to take each and every origin seems just so much more....extra than it has to be. A lot of the most memorable D&D characters, from games and elsewhere never needed to be puffed up so much to be memorable.
