Just briefly because I also do not have much time and want to keep my personal thread-derailment down:

An unreliable narrator does not have to be lying to you, they are simply unreliable because they are limited by their point of view. What Gale tells you about his predicament isn't completely true because Gale himself has made a false assumption about what the orb is. He only learns the truth during his audience with Mystra. Astarion builds Cazador up to be this omnipotent terror, but when you meet him he's a pedantic aristocrat who hides behind his minions and is worried about being found out as a vampire. Caz also didn't send the Gur after him as Astarion believes. What makes him scary is the vampiric compulsion he has over his spawn. Shadowheart only tells you half of her wolf story because that is the only part she remembers at this point. Both her and Lae'zel's reactions to Elminster's visit at the start of act 2 are pretty ironic but steeped in their world views. Finally when Wyll first talks to you about Karlach, he repeats what Mizora has told him about her, which is also not true and makes him unreliable in this case.

Last edited by Anska; 15/02/25 05:27 PM.