Gale's Revelation (cut Scene From Early Access)

Gale's Revelation (cut scene from Early Access)

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Gale: (upon propositioning the player and being rejected in favor of another) I.. I see. He's a lucky man. Loyalty is such a... Such a very rare commodity.

Gale: Apologies, I really did think you and I... But no. Perhaps it's for the better. In fact I'll let you be the judge of that. After all, I still have a story to tell.

Gale: It is a story full of answers long overdue. It is the story of a man who fell in love with a goddess.

Player: Very well, I'll play along. Regale me, Gale.

Gale: Thank you.

Gale: Once upon a time, not quite that long ago, there lived a wizard in a tower. The wizard was what one might call a prodigy, who from an only age could not only control the Weave, but compose it, much like a musician or poet. Such was his skill that it earned him the attention of the mother of magic herself. The Lady of Mysteries. Mystra.

Player: What did Mystra's attention feel like?

Gale: Love.

Gale: Perhaps it was not quite love, but, you see, the wizard was but a very young man. It was most certainly love to him. Mystra showed him the secrets beneath the veils. The gossamer veils first, draped across the Weave. The delicate veils next, draped across her body. 'Chosen One' she whispered, as she slipped them off completely.

Player: The veils draped across the Weave?

Gale: Indeed. What most wizards perceive is but the ripple of the Weave's surface. Untold wonders lie beyond. I enjoyed them for a while. As we enjoyed each other.

gale’s willingness to blow himself up makes so much sense when you think about how being a chosen of mystra grants you immortality. a little over a year before the events of the game, gale had expected to live forever. in a year, he’s had to come to terms with the fact that after being cast aside he lives a mortal human life again. he will die. his years are limited.

no wonder he wasn’t horribly shaken-up by the suggestion he’d have to die ‘soon’—and no wonder he was willing to accept it. he’d already mourned the rest of the life he thought he’d be living hundreds of years in the future.

Against his better judgment, Gale spends a night with Astarion. Then he does it again.

Sanguine and its (recently finished) sequel Decathect, in one place for your reading convenience.

of course i fell in love with him. he is sopping wet and miserable

going into the comment section of a fic and seeing all my friends in there… oh shit they’re into this too… it’s my roman forum