They're just digging their hole deeper, aren't they.
The way Gale presents himself in game as a carefree light-hearted fellow is completely at odds with a story about a power hungry usurper who failed and was cast down from Archmage status. He should be either completely humbled or gone insane. But he's more like "well that happened, let's go adventure!". They crank his story up to 11, and then downplay it completely. Fail.
Larian storytelling is like kids at a sandbox enthusiastically stating who's dad is the strongest.
Why didn't Mystra cut him off from the Weave completely? Or just kill him instantly instead of killing him with a time bomb? This is 1970's James Bond villainy.
And of course, it couldn't simply be a mage who tried to steal power from a master Wizard - it had to be an archmage and a god. We need to go over the top already at level 1, because we simply can't pace ourselves.
The more I read, the less I believe in these characters.
And now we have two level 1 characters out of six who have some magical bomb ticking in their chest. This is so bad I just.. can't.
I'm come to terms with this disconnect, because the fact is, yes, all of them have these insane backstories that 'should' make them much more in a hurry/insane/whatever than they are. There is a disconnect between what sounds cool in a story, and the reality of adventuring as a party. I just have to sort of ignore their backstory for the most part, and treat them as just a level 1 nobody. I think that's the best way to go about it.
