Wyll is a good friend almost from the start, reliable in a fight, and by far the most heroic self-sacrificing character I've come across in a long while.
Yes, that's what I love about Wyll most: that he's a genuinely good person trying to do the right thing. However, his willingness to sacrifice so much of himself is something I would've liked to be able to interrogate more. He's quite confident in his abilities and his beliefs, but I'm not sure that he's confident in his sense of self-worth. Or maybe it's simply that he values others so much that it seems like he doesn't value himself enough.
Thank you Estelindis. Great comment. Definitely something to think about and explore. Is there a line for self-sacrifice and, if there is, how much is the reason the person is so willing in the first place what defines it and how much is the line defined by the result? As Withers asks, what is the worth of a life?
I feel like Wyll and Karlach challenge our character as much as our sensibilities as angels who look like devils while we sometimes choose devils that look like angels.
In the next age somone is going to decide Wyll should be remembered as a saint if Faerun remembers him, human and flawed but a saint. What about the rest of us as heroes or ordinary beings? How much is too much to ask to save someone or many and what are we if we are not willing to pay?
