This will be my master post, I guess :D Hello! I am the creator of Gale Guides and I want to spread my unhinged nerding about Gale on Tumblr too. Because why not. Maybe someone will find it helpful. But mostly because I want more players to get Ultimate Gale for themselves. Make him seen! Make him alive! He is so worth it! Use my Gale endings part 2 and get him before he is erased!
GaleGuide: Basic Gale Endings Guide Part 1
GaleGuide: Not so basic Gale endings (friend Gale included) Part 2
GaleGuide: Case of a sneaky God
GaleGuide: Difference between Gods
GaleGuide: Scenes in Act1
GaleGuide: How to get all Grove scenes and speed run to the Weave scene
Now look at him!
No mods! He is human and he is God at the same time.
You can hug him! You can kiss him! He will boop you! Tara is happy! But at the same time:
Tav: Are you saying you want to ascend? Claim godhood?
Gale: No, not like that. I don’t want to join them. I want to better them. A god’s powers, paired with a mortal conscience, a mortal heart.
This is our better God. He exists within the Game! He is ULTIMATE. He is everything. GET HIM GET HIM GET HIM GET HIM NOW
If you've seen the High Rollers episodes where the BG3 main cast play a D&D one-shot, then this might be a familiar face. Gale as a Tiefling! He is everything to meeeee
ever since the annoucement that gale's canon age will be revealed soon-ish, i'm now very attached to my gale is at least one century old headcanon and he just never corrected anyone in their assumption that he's only around ~40yo bc a) it never came up and b) it honestly didn't occur to him to mention it.
1300yo elminster still calls him m'boy.
and, most importantly, he's still tara's little love.
To him, it means the world. It’s his life’s work, his greatest achievement, the backbone of who he is — who he was.
That man does not exist anymore. Gale of Waterdeep. Vanished into thin air, like dust in the wind. The way the rest of him — his body, his soul, his essence — would have fallen into oblivion, if only he had obeyed his goddess’s command. If only.
But he didn’t — he wouldn’t, he couldn’t — and now he no longer knows who he is. He looks in the mirror, the reflection staring back practically unaltered. Just one more line on his face, one more streak of silver in his hair — still handsome, still himself.
And yet, decidedly other — different, changed.
Traces of his former self remain, smouldering under the ashes: his passion, his devotion, his ambition. But how to channel them? All that he ever was, he achieved because of Mystra. For Mystra. What is he without her?
He looks at the person sleeping next to him, how their chest rises and falls in their peaceful slumber, how their beautiful face is touched by the shadow of a smile.
Is it him they are dreaming of? Did he put that smile there? He cannot know for sure, not until morning. But what he does know is the depth of his love for them — a love that makes him question everything he has ever known. A love that has brought him back from the brink of the abyss. A love that dares him to hope of a thousand more days to come.
He feels it in chest — in the space where the orb ravaged him, where only a few weeks ago there was nothing but pain, hunger and nothingness — the life-affirming knowledge of being seen, of being wanted, of being loved and accepted exactly for who he is.
i wonder how many more people would've vehemently hated gale right off the bat on full release if his introduction conversation had stayed like this or something similar
Not to distract from the Bloodweave thing you're working on between requests, but may we have some Gale and Astarion cuddling and/or gentle kisses? Pretty please?