#this epilogue was from my first playthrough and I had no idea how firm you had to be with Gale to stop him persuing Godhood

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CW for grooming

so uh. this is part of a letter from Elminster to Gale in the epilogue (God ending for Gale, unromanced).

If this isn't irrefutable proof that Mystra groomed Gale in every sense of the word, I will eat my wizard hat.

There really isn't any reasonable explanation I can think of for Elminster visiting an eight year old Gale other than Mystra sending him. Elminster is busy and his time is precious.

Gale was eight when Mystra decided it was appropriate to show her interest in him by sending her most famous chosen.

He was so young, so impressionable. Knowing the goddess of the weave, magic, the thing he was best at and most passionate about, thought he was special? Fuck.

I always thought it strange how people denied this - we may not have had hard evidence but the way Gale strings together "child prodigy", "mentor", "muse" and "lover" in the same sentence has always been extremely damning.

Can we accept it now? Please? No more discourse on how Gale is just a Hubris Machine who crossed Mystra's boundaries because he's fundamentally arrogant? Accept that he was groomed to be desperate to feel special, to adore Mystra, to do anything to prove his devotion?

I know that won't happen but a man can dream.

Hope y'all had good parties. Ain't no party like a Withers party.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #bg3 epilogue #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #baldur’s gate 3 #this epilogue was from my first playthrough and I had no idea how firm you had to be with Gale to stop him persuing Godhood #In the epilogue I will hopefully reach this weekend it will be with him as my partner #and i've successfully talked him down from it lmao #but yeah jesus fuck can people just ACCEPT he was groomed #cw grooming #tw grooming #grooming