I wouldn't say BG3 is guilty of portraying a groomer for a god, especially compared to all the crap in real life mythologies that are far more explicitly that. They just put the defining trope of tabletop wizard bullshit into the game. You wouldn't believe how many people still to this day run campaigns just to speedrun loading themselves up with magic to have sex with gods in their imaginations. Gale is a little love letter to that fantasy brought down to earth by the logical consequences for that kind of self-fellating ego so that he can have a real personality and real character development.
The worst way I can manage to read it is like ahania already said, gross imbalance of power is not itself the same thing, and the information we have does not itself indicate anything worse than the unavoidable gross imbalance of power. All the gods tend to be jerks in their own ways in Faerun and Mystra certainly is no exception, but she's not evil and reading evil into a relationship we just don't have that many details about while ignoring Gale's own positive opinion of his own experiences in his tender middle-aged years is silly.
Also yeah I agree with almost everything KillerRabbit has said.
Last edited by Auric; 13/02/24 05:06 AM.
