Originally Posted by Estelindis
Originally Posted by Kneecap
When it comes to characters Gale and Karlach, they both share a very similar hurdle; a ticking time bomb in their chest. Now, the game prides itself to have tough choices with consequences, but in this case, there's only consequences without any choices.
Putting Gale and Karlach side by side like that really highlights what a raw deal Karlach got. You wrote the comparison really well.

I appreciate that not everything in life is fair, and there's a place for bittersweet stories as well as triumphant ones... but yikes!
So you'd rather have a boring explanation with some magical bullshit that fixes everything instead of great story we already have? Yeah, Gale can be saved by Mystra, but she's a literal goddess of magic so knowing her has its profits, Karlach didn't have that luxury which is why we can make her last moments great after all she suffered. That makes it good from narrative standpoint