Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Originally Posted by EvilParrot
So Gale being a barbarian with no spellcasting ability makes sense?
There was a Wizard, not so long ago, who was especialy gifted in channeling a weave ... one could say he was making spells, as musician is composing simphony.
As it happens, his admitely non-negligible talent caught the eye of godess of magic herself, and she made him her chosen one ... but the Wizard wanted more ... he fell in love with Godess, ans she, for the time as it was, returned his affection ... or at least so the young Wizard thought.
In time tho, her visits were more and more distant, until one day she visited the Wizard for last time ... Wizard was heartbroken, and dedicated to earn affection of his love once again.
So this Wizard found an ancient book, where old magic was traped ... magic that was primordial piece of his Godess ... "maybe," this foolish Wizard though, "if i manage to return this piece back to her, she will see that im still worthy" ...
But something went wrong.
Oh something went horribly wrong!
This primordial piece was hungry for magic, and it was draining everything around ... the Wizard could have died that day, and he almost did ... but his link to magic was forever damaged.

When Wizard a little later find out that his deed didnt impress Mystra at all ... he got angry ... VERY angry ... and that is when he find out that he had other hidden talents this whole time.

The end. :P

Originally Posted by EvilParrot
Astarion the oath of devotion paladin?
There was an Elf noble ... usualy pretty face good-for-nothing noble ... surely you know hunderts of such kind, all parties, no work, all himself, no worries about anyting.
Until one night, when he was ambushed ... and almost killed.
Mysterious stranger appeared ... offered him eternal life, in exchange for eternal servitude ... our Elf didnt even think about consequences, he didnt care about them for last dozen decades, so why start now? He accepted. And finaly find out what it means to serve ...

Centuries past ... two of them if im not misstaken ...
Lots of time for our Elf to forgot about that Noble ... but he didnt, he still remembered person he was, at least on surface, since he weared it as a mask in public ... but nothing behind it remained intact.
Our Elf was broken, bitter, lost ... forsaken.

But ways of Faith are unpredictable.
Our Elf was kidnapped again ... one could even claim he was rescued, even tho it might be pure accident.

Now free of his cruel master ... our Elf wanted to finaly do all those things he allways wanted, all the hings his master allways did, but forbids him to do them aswell.
He wanted to fight, conquer, destroy and plunder ... but before he managed to meet first person to satisfy his twisted desires ... he realized, that no matter what, he is not his master.
And so he made an Oath ... Oath so sacred one couldnt believe that being so dark can be so noble.

Will he keep it, tho?
Only time will tell.

Originally Posted by Sansang2
Gale has been retconned heavily
I think that was Wyll. wink

Sure, but this isn't a table top session with a dm who can change stuff on the fly. This is a CRPG where they have to write the dialogue and background and change cuts scenes for these things to make sense. If you have 200 hours of content and you need to write and test for 12 different primary classes / stat sets for each companion that strikes me as either they cut out a whole lot of stuff (which makes me worry about people accidentally missing out on lots of content) or a buggy mess where things don't make sense or some combination of the two. You have to make sure Gale the sorcerer doesn't keep paying out sorcerers, make sure Astarion isn't sneaking around in his full plate armor and actually test all this stuff. And if you are doing all these things then that effort would have been better spent IMO in just adding more companions in with fixed classes.