Dare You To Get This One Signed By Tim

Dare you to get this one signed by Tim

Started as a doodle, now we're here.

Can y'all reblog this for me if you like it and don't mind? Trying to build an art following and reach a few more Gale fans 💜

Here, have the blue version as payment / thanks.

larian writers, with hands placed on astarions shoulders like a proud parent: this is a thoughtful and touching narrative about male victims of abuse

fans: hey, thats fuckin sweet! do you have any more of these stories in your game?

larian writers, grimacing as they turn their heads towards wyll and gale: okay so, in our defense, it gets kinda murky when its a hot white woman doing it

gale stans: wasnt he groomed?

larian writers: but he liked it? his ultimate goal is to get back with her :)

wyll stans: isnt it kinda gross that the devil who owns his soul keeps blatantly sexually harassing him in front of everyone as a form of humiliation-based punishment?

larian writers and also whoever the fuck wrote that christmas animation (you motherfucker, when i fucking get you i stg): i know canon says otherwise, but he secretly wants her. dont you want her? you can fuck her if youd like

halsin stans: hey, so, uh-

larian writers, sprinting out of the room:

thought about gale suddenly and how we're not quite sure when mystra came to him but, he was decently young and she chose him because of his power amd potential with the weave, how he could devote himself to her. she shaped, she groomed him.

the moment she leaves him, abandons him, gale dekarios who has devoted himself to her, is after the orb drains much of his original power. he's no longer an incredibly powerful archmage. if you look at his behavior, his eagerness to please and talk to tav/durge/whatever origin character, he wants to he useful. he wants to be useful so bad because he devoted himself to mystra and when he was no longer powerful, when he was weakened by the orb...she took her "love" for him away.

was gale smart for the orb business? not particularly. was he at fault? sure, basically. But you try begging for someone to love you when all they love is the power they have over you, rethink gale.

I guess he needs all of it just to gain glory, fame, power. Balduran reminds me of pre-orb Gale, who wanted more knowledge of the Weave. Gale is my favourite character, but he's honest about his ambitions. Whereas Emperor is always trying to manipulate the player. And we'll never know if he had manipulated people before transformation.

Balduran and Emperor

I've recently had a discussion with @mumms-the-word about the Emperor. Was Balduran such a bad person even before becoming illithid or did his transformation trigger a drastic change in personality?

Today I've defeated Ansur for the fourth time and made screenshots of what Emperor tells the player about his life as Balduran. Here they are:

He says he refused to return to his city without greatness. So he craved power and recognition even before becoming illithid. He became worse after the transformation, but initially Balduran was not an entirely good person.

I'm a lecturer (not professor), but that's me and my students 😆

Also while I was a student I sometimes sent works at 1 or 2 AM, and found out in the morning that professor/lecturer had answered me at 4 AM. Professor Dekarios would do that, I'm sure) He has the circadian rhythm of Tara the cat))

Y'all know those professors who you could email a question to at 1:30 AM and they would email you back like 10 minutes later because their sleep schedule was also a mess?

That's professor!Gale in a modern AU

It's so inspiring that people took up this idea! Thank you, fellow galemancers!

(That's the first time I initiated such a chain reaction, don't mind me)

I've been reading Player's Handbook for the DnD campaign, and came across this:

Imagine Gale of Waterdeep gulping down ale and immediately casting Fireball. For some reason I find it endearing.

What do you think, galemancers?