#“It's arrogance to think you can challenge the gods and their laws you'll never succeed!” well he just did so now what | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

chronurgy · 4 months ago

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I really love that gale can actually Do It. He can actually become a god. Mortals seeking to become gods usually fail which makes it easy to write them off as over ambitious and consumed by hubris, to say that of course they were never going to succeed, they never had a chance. Icarus flying too close to the sun and all that. But Gale does it. He succeeds. And how do we interpret that? How do we read icarus's story without the fall? Can we really call it hubris, call it excessive pride and self confidence, when it works in the end? After all, it's not bragging if you can back it up

#gale dekarios #bg3 #Idk god gale is such an interesting ending #What remains and what doesn't #I think its presence and his success reshapes the narrative even if you choose a different ending #I just think there's something fascinating about a human clawing their way into the divine with grit and talent #“It's arrogance to think you can challenge the gods and their laws you'll never succeed!” well he just did so now what #Mortals have clawed their way into heaven and there's no putting that genie back in the bottle #(a little bit of a gortash parallel there I think)

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