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.
Actually, this would be soooooo much better, a whole lot more interesting and original. Being an ordinary Joe nobody at level 1 is, for me, D&D at its best, what D&D was originally meant to be.
