Gale's story bugs me a lot less than Wyll's. Gale was an archmage, succumbed to hubris and got nerfed as a consequence. Wyll's story only makes sense if you accept the "he's all talk" theory. Also, he has a prior relationship with Spike? So he's familiar with this backwater where the ship crashed? When did he get tadpoled, then? It will be ingesting to see if they've tightened this up
Sometimes I’m confused by the dialogue when Gale says that he knows things through studies but now everything has gotten real.
Did the man really just become and archwizard through reading books without any practical experience?