AU Information: Gale is basically going on a lengthy depression spiral! He will try to use his growing intense Arcane Bond to solve all problems but did you know, magic cannot solve all your problems? The developing Arcane Hunger will conversely leave him exhausted. There will be a lot of layers of illusion going on, magical and non-magical, in which he tries to maintain that he is fine. The vibe will end up like this but he'll be hiding it. A lot of the time, he will outwardly look healthy via the power of magic. Had some more ideas down here but I'm trying to decide if I want/need to shove some of these around as I read this post. Open to ideas!
Catalysts: Gale will forget details of his life: Mystra's order that he sacrifice himself, the fine detail of his adventure through the Sword Coast of Faerûn, his mother, etc. He'll know this isn't his home, that he has somewhere he needs to return to and something important to do, but he won't remember what or why! He'll be very assured Mystra loves him and supports him so that bubble will be unfortunate when it breaks. He will also be convinced it's only this silly world that's the source of his unhappiness, and that it's his own doing. If only, Gale Dekarios!
Open to people to give him jolts of memory, small or large!
Reawakening: Gale will resist awakening! His AU is a pit of misery, and he will be resistant to believing that maybe this is not fact how life is and where he belongs? This place is miserable, of his own doing, it's just he needs to get back home where Mystra is and where everything is good? It's all the sum of his own actions that put him here! You will need to boss battle his mix of denial and low self-worth to snap him out of it.
Behavior: He'll be familiar to his usual self, but with a sort of tired edge and a slight edge of mania. He will also dodge questions more aggressively than usual -- closer to Act 1 Gale who briefly doesn't want to tell you the truth about his Karsite Orb. He won't reject his powers, but his balance will shift as his desperation to find answers sends him down increasingly dangerous roads. He will try to use his power to give people what they want, potentially over using it, and he will desire to find a way back to Faerûn.
The lesson we're going for here is Gale Confronting His Disastrous Mental State as well as Gale Learning Not Everything Can Be Solved With Magic And, Maybe, He Can Have Value That Isn't His Magic. Will he learn it? We just don't know!
Wanted History & CR: I have tentatively some stuff pencilled, including maybe Gale having turned on Thorne 650 ish years ago I suppose when it began to lose territory in some fight to protect Astarion, but I'm open to any other details! This is a lot of time to cover, and I am still a little shaky on the setting pre-AU let alone post AU, so I'm loose with specifics! If anyone wants to have been helped by him, or to have tried to talk him out of something stupid only to give up, or anything else do let me know! Equally open if you want Gale to go into his classic romance path of suddenly being in love with you because you were accidentally too nice to him, especially so if your character then went 'ah buddy no' and left him to drink wine alone and get over it. I'm not really looking to start anything serious this way, but it'd be a good awkward thing to have them reflect on later!
Other plans: Nnno but I am about to go tag back around the Thorne mingle again! So if you want to establish something there before all this I am game for that too.
Gale Dekarios | Baldur's Gate 3
Assignment: Herald of Forbidden Arts
AU Information:
Gale is basically going on a lengthy depression spiral! He will try to use his growing intense Arcane Bond to solve all problems but did you know, magic cannot solve all your problems? The developing Arcane Hunger will conversely leave him exhausted. There will be a lot of layers of illusion going on, magical and non-magical, in which he tries to maintain that he is fine. The vibe will end up like this but he'll be hiding it. A lot of the time, he will outwardly look healthy via the power of magic. Had some more ideas down here but I'm trying to decide if I want/need to shove some of these around as I read this post. Open to ideas!
Catalysts:
Gale will forget details of his life: Mystra's order that he sacrifice himself, the fine detail of his adventure through the Sword Coast of Faerûn, his mother, etc. He'll know this isn't his home, that he has somewhere he needs to return to and something important to do, but he won't remember what or why! He'll be very assured Mystra loves him and supports him so that bubble will be unfortunate when it breaks. He will also be convinced it's only this silly world that's the source of his unhappiness, and that it's his own doing. If only, Gale Dekarios!
Open to people to give him jolts of memory, small or large!
Reawakening:
Gale will resist awakening! His AU is a pit of misery, and he will be resistant to believing that maybe this is not fact how life is and where he belongs? This place is miserable, of his own doing, it's just he needs to get back home where Mystra is and where everything is good? It's all the sum of his own actions that put him here! You will need to boss battle his mix of denial and low self-worth to snap him out of it.
Behavior:
He'll be familiar to his usual self, but with a sort of tired edge and a slight edge of mania. He will also dodge questions more aggressively than usual -- closer to Act 1 Gale who briefly doesn't want to tell you the truth about his Karsite Orb. He won't reject his powers, but his balance will shift as his desperation to find answers sends him down increasingly dangerous roads. He will try to use his power to give people what they want, potentially over using it, and he will desire to find a way back to Faerûn.
The lesson we're going for here is Gale Confronting His Disastrous Mental State as well as Gale Learning Not Everything Can Be Solved With Magic And, Maybe, He Can Have Value That Isn't His Magic. Will he learn it? We just don't know!
Wanted History & CR:
I have tentatively some stuff pencilled, including maybe Gale having turned on Thorne 650 ish years ago I suppose when it began to lose territory in some fight to protect Astarion, but I'm open to any other details! This is a lot of time to cover, and I am still a little shaky on the setting pre-AU let alone post AU, so I'm loose with specifics! If anyone wants to have been helped by him, or to have tried to talk him out of something stupid only to give up, or anything else do let me know! Equally open if you want Gale to go into his classic romance path of suddenly being in love with you because you were accidentally too nice to him, especially so if your character then went 'ah buddy no' and left him to drink wine alone and get over it. I'm not really looking to start anything serious this way, but it'd be a good awkward thing to have them reflect on later!
Other plans: Nnno but I am about to go tag back around the Thorne mingle again! So if you want to establish something there before all this I am game for that too.