Man. That heavy pause and the way he visibly deflates before bringing up the orb. You can tell that was the last thing Gale wanted to say.

@river8783

8 ай бұрын

I took psychic damage from that.

@GrimmHooke

8 ай бұрын

The heavy pause is what always gets me. Phenomenal work from the writing, voice acting, and animation.

@samuelfoster914

7 ай бұрын

The fact they animated and got the facial expressions right. I felt more than words could ever say

@yurabbityu

7 ай бұрын

And, he actually wanted to live...for you. But to know what will happen to you, he'd rather die. 🥹

@avocadothecat

4 ай бұрын

​@@river8783 me too man... me too. He's too precious. I physically can't bring myself to harm him. This is harder than Undertale genocide run. Idk if it's good or bad that a non real thing in a videogame makes me feel strong enough to not want to end it.

"You can't sacrifice yourself if I sacrifice myself first." Gale this is not the way to go about things 😅

@twohorsesinamancostume7606

8 ай бұрын

There is a difference though. Whoever becomes a mindflayer has their soul destroyed and it's not like you're even still you. You're just a Mindflayer with the memories of whoever it transformed from, who you are is literally annihilated. If Gale detonates the orb he's still himself even if he is dead. His soul will stay intact.

@XxYldikoxX

6 ай бұрын

well sound logic haha

@keetard

6 ай бұрын

​Haha, not really. The Karsite orb would vacuum his soul and he would cease to exist in any shape or form.​@@twohorsesinamancostume7606

@K.C-2049

4 ай бұрын

I mean me, Karlach, Shadowheart and Lae'zel have girlboss things to do so... you're up Galester!

@harchierplebbington9397

3 ай бұрын

Karlach will also just decide to die and Wyll will not convince her otherwise if tav isn’t present, taking your own life after transforming is seriously upping the body count

Hes also the only romance companion thst fully accepts your illithid form at the end game. You get the same dialogue about moving to waterdeep and taking his name. Everyone else has some sort of negative/ connotations. Even wyll, who basically says "ill still love you but not publicly. you gotta lock yourself up somewhere secret. Ill visit you though."Like thats pathetic. Gale is just straight up aight behbeh lets head to my home town and get hitched, show me what dem tentacles do lol

@redvintner1094

8 ай бұрын

He’s literally more worried about the logistics of planning a wedding than the fact that you’re a mind flayer! That’s a keeper.

@galaxychar

8 ай бұрын

Minthara does too :) If Tav says “I’m a monster” she says “So am I” etc and is completely happy to be with you.

@Ova-bv4os

8 ай бұрын

@@galaxychar she's the only one I havnt gotten as I can't bring myself to do what is necessary lol. I just can't do an evil play through. Even a "redemptive" one

@puchalamanca

8 ай бұрын

Karlach is also ok with it

@shadowsonicsilver6

8 ай бұрын

@@Ova-bv4os If you play on PC get the Good Minathara Mod.

I find it so funny and sweet that gale is one of the only romance options that don't care if you transform. If you become illithid, everything continues between you like it's a minor bump on the road. While most everyone else has to be convinced to stay with you.

@vault18starplayerandenclav8

8 ай бұрын

I think its because he knows that it will essentially kill you.

@kousiksarkar9627

5 ай бұрын

Minthara?

@generallyuseless5821

5 ай бұрын

@@kousiksarkar9627 I completely forgot about her 💀. I usually play as a good aligned character and haven't romanced her, even after the update where you can recruit her without slaughtering the Grove. Is she also good with it? Might have to give her route a try.

@generallyuseless5821

5 ай бұрын

@vault18starplayerandenclav8 Not necessarily. I know there's something special about gnomes and ceremorphosis. Where they keep their memories and personality. Hasn't been added yet but Larian has hinted to it being added soon. So if you play gnome best of both worlds lol. Additionally, if you have arcane talent, you can resist the hive mind effect. Like Omeleum. And keep your pre-transformation personality. The only risk is being caught in the orbit of another elder brain.

@fatterperdurabo42069

2 ай бұрын

​@@generallyuseless5821arcane mindflayers don't keep their personality and aren't even necessarily produced from arcanists. They are just mind flayers with an unusual connection to the Weave, it has no correlation with the host. Omeluum is not the person its tadpole was inserted into, it explicitly only thinks of itself as an illithid.

"-swords, spells and sweat" Lol I do love his use of alliteration.

@Amazatastic

8 ай бұрын

He is a poet after all !

@Peytoneileen

7 ай бұрын

And he’s made multiple comments about how he likes our “musk” and things it’s super attractive (and arousing) to see sweat glistening on our muscles after battle…

Gale is ride or die… literally

i love him, he's my little fantasy hozier.

@prinsauce

5 ай бұрын

THAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE HOW DID IT NOT OCCUR TO ME?! Now I love him even more.

@ManubibiWalsh

2 ай бұрын

You just opened my third eye

My poor boi Gale, always tries to please everyone by sacrificing himself, little does he know, that I'd rather see Faerun burn to ashes, then my princess to die 🌟

@saal0

7 ай бұрын

He is my wife ❤❤❤

@garycannon4644

7 ай бұрын

@@saal0 *husband*

@MammalianCreature

6 ай бұрын

@@garycannon4644 Don't police their speech, commie

@FucksGaleprofessionally69

5 ай бұрын

​@@garycannon4644 none wife is right hes my male wife house husband

@garycannon4644

5 ай бұрын

@@FucksGaleprofessionally69 hes your what? lol

that little sad sigh alone makes me want to burn the world for him 😭

"Hey, you didn't let me blow myself up earlier, I'm not letting you do that now."

This happens if you just have high approval too. I maxed out our approval but never did anyromantic scenes with him (I romanced Karlach) and had this same conversation. I love this scene it's very well done.

You dont have to romance him for this conversation. I got the exact same one in my playthrough where I didnt romance him

@VisibleNemo

8 ай бұрын

To be fair, you don’t need to romance Gale for him to think you’re in a relationship lol

@Deadpan_Snarker

8 ай бұрын

@@VisibleNemo As much as I love Gale, my man feels like Anders 2.0 - even if I romance someone else, I feel like he has a crush on us either way, if we have a good relationship with him.

@candiedcrusader7841

8 ай бұрын

@@Deadpan_Snarker Its fucked up how in patch 1 just talking to him nicely gets him into your pants during the party.

@kevwox

8 ай бұрын

@@candiedcrusader7841that’s just how the party works. It’s free romance night, it’s a launchpad to start your romance if you haven’t started one yet

@TheDelethar

8 ай бұрын

@@candiedcrusader7841the man slept with a goddess, he’s just a horny lad

“Nonono, see, I’M the kamikaze guy here. Get another role in the party, I got to it first!”

There needs to be an option to just tell the Emperor and Orpheus to get their shit together and then blaze through the brain in a glorious fight. It can be hard but I would love the option because it's exactly what my Tav would want to do: fight on her own terms, fully believing that together they can win and that any other conflicts can be solved later.

@ni9274

4 ай бұрын

That would be the best option, a good redemption for the Emperor since the guy seem incapable of thrusting the protagonist.

@Observer675

10 күн бұрын

I'd like to recruit Omeleum, especially if you rescue him in act 3

He's come some way from "Mystra is great!".

@beccazach

8 ай бұрын

Just like Shadowheart and Lae-zel with their deities. Religious trauma and manipulation run rampant with these companions :')

@65firered

8 ай бұрын

@@beccazach Then again they weren't asked to blow themselves up

@khalassword7885

6 ай бұрын

@@65firered True, Gale at least had the choice to die in a noble sacrifice, while Lae'zel just dies to fuel Vlaakith, honourlessly and gets her very soul consumed and Shadowheart becomes an eternal slave to a god of darkness and evil. Mystra asks much of Gale, but at least he's getting something out of it, unlike those two.

Omg this is the the third time I've heard someone say "I want to live" (or something very close to it) in the game and it makes me emotional because it makes me think of the song by the same name off of the OST. So far I've heard Karlach say it in her final cutscenes as she's burning up, the narrator says something similar in reference to Tav having the right to live as an illithid after all you've done, and now Gale 😭 That song fits so well with the party it makes me so emotional listening to it

Honestly, bought this game for Astarion, stayed for Gale, can't romance anyone else, he truly is the sweetest.

Wish it went... Tav: "You'd sacrifice yourself for us?" Gale: "Not for them...for you. Ok maybe and a bit of Astarion, that git has also grown with me. Kidding aside, I would rather sacrifice myself than you sacrifice yours." This man gives me more and more reason to love him. 💕❤

He’s really the absolute sweetest despite starting off as a cocky little nerd who’s not over his ex 😭

I love the physics on his sleeve at the end

I adore him 😭

Execactly, he even said that if i didn't romance him It's cruel to do that to a romanced Gale, though. I didn't. Due to the bugs on him in act 3 i was worried, things wouldn't work. Patch 4 was really horrible to Gale and still half off aöö the bugs aren't fixed with Hotfix 10 So in my last playthrough, i picked Orphues's side and Karlach became a Mindflayer. Gale went through so much in LIfe, he deserves a healthy ending, as wholesome as possibe. Karlach, as a MIndflayer even says, she gets to live and to stay as she always wanted So yeah, faced to the choice, i chose to spare Gale this conversation. The neredy proposal scene was also sweeter while -not- one of the two is a Mindflayer. Just my 2 cents :D

@firestorm165

8 ай бұрын

Wait you can do that? When I released Orphious it was either me or him, didn't give me the option to volunteer Karlach for flayer duty

@MoonsongReverb

8 ай бұрын

@@firestorm165 Yes, it worked for me. Karlach has to be in your party, when you free Orpheus, though. So my final party for the finale at that time was: Karlach, Lae'zel, Gale and my Mystran Bard/Cleric When talking to Orpheus, i used the "I'm not becoming a Mindflayer-...." Option . Then Karlach stepped up and was like "Wait! It should be me...". She then explains that she's dying and asked me to let her be the Mother F***** who saves the world, literally. :D So i went with that and that is the only way you can "save" her, if you don't want her to die or go back to Avernus. Gale can keep his partner without being condemned to Tentacle romance for the rest of his life Two birds - one stone :D I hope it helps ;)

@lieselstrick

5 ай бұрын

​@@MoonsongReverbit really helped. I spend some time crying over Karlachs death. Why did the writers had to be so mean, it left me heartbroken. And another round of crying when whisters tells you that the dead soul Karlach didn't want to join the party. The end was a lot

@MoonsongReverb

5 ай бұрын

@@lieselstrick That is the worst ending Karlach can have, yes. As a Mindflayer. Karlach will be at the party. But i mostly asked Orpheus if he was willing to transform and he did. I feel the same, i want to have an ending as happy as possible for everyone. Damnit Larian, give Karlach a real happy ending option in the matierial plane finally!

1:27 is practically a title drop with how prevalent that song is throughout the game. Which makes it so tragic that after romanticizing his own death for half the game, he finally admits it only when offering to die.

i got so scared when he said we should reconsider. i thought i couldn’t convince him. i almost cried

@gamester512

5 ай бұрын

Luckily it's not a Romanced Alistair situation from Dragon Age Origins if you didn't take Morrigan's bargain before confronting the Archdemon. A romanced Alistair doesn't give you the option to talk him down in that instance. Gale does.

@CorruptedDivinity

3 ай бұрын

@@gamester512I’m still traumatised after Alistair shagging Morrigan while I romanced him

Damn reminds me of myself. Better to sacrifice yourself so your life in the end would have a meaning. Than see your loved one to die.

@saal0

7 ай бұрын

Noble, but also get therapy and practice self love. Which one of your parents made you feel like you were only worthy of their love when you accomplished something? (Kidding…?)

@gamester512

5 ай бұрын

Reminds me of a comment related to Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and how he failed to save Padme: "How do you save the one you love? You sacrifice yourself instead." As it says in the Bible: "No greater love has a man, than to lay down his life for his friend."

@mackenziesherry4894

2 ай бұрын

​@@saal0actually.. 😐 I personally think, when someone rather die for the one they love instead of seeing their lover dying, it's a selfish thought. 🙄 Bcus think about it, die will always be easier than moving on after being left by someone we love.

"You need not die alongside me" oh Gale 😢💔

Its sweet that you can say it will end yourself too if he decided to blew himself up 😭 cuz that’s how i feel when i hear him say stuff like this. Id rather become ilithid than let him die 😢 i can’t bear it.

I'd rather let the world burn. then make him use that orb. Is there an option to stay there with him if he does use it? Bc I'm not letting best boi go out alone.

the last part! my boi gaaale! silly in times of strife!!

woah your tav is cool af

"Noo haha you're so hot don't turn into a mind flayer" "But I am going to blow up myself and all of us with the nuke in my chest"

Oh how the turntables...

Non romanced Gale says this, too.

Completely unrelated but I need this outfit for Gale

@depechemold

7 ай бұрын

“basket full of equipment” on nexus mods, it also has plenty of other great outfits!

@alekzanderor5489

7 ай бұрын

its somewhere in the tower with lorrokan (act 3, nightsong and gale quest leads there)

@JasonAstraea

5 ай бұрын

I hate it.

@marzipom5630

5 ай бұрын

​@@JasonAstraeathank you for your input, Jason. We were all wondering what your thoughts were on this outfit.

Your tav is so beautiful

I'm getting Alistair flashbacks.

I keep wondering if the Emp could have recruited Orpheus to help shield him, rather than well, nom nom.

@henryknippling2408

8 ай бұрын

There’s no universe where Orpheus doesn’t kill emperor on site or immediately after the netherbrain dies. Orpheus would consider it a service and just punishment for not freeing him immediately upon discovering him. Emperor is many things manipulative being highly among them. But he was right to not trust Orpheus with his life. Sadly it pushed him to the losing side anyway,

@arcmen2275

8 ай бұрын

He has the mind of a ghaik. He fear Orpheus as they all do. Orpheus is angry and rightly so, but he set it aside because he know the need for a mind as powerful as an ilithid to combat the nether brain.

@mona-elf

8 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure that Orpheus would kill Emperor. It's not just because Emperor is Illithid. He's also humilated Orpheus by enslaving him and using his power. Just remember, when our babies free Orpheus he's accusing them, for not allowing his guards kill them and threatens that he will not forget what was done to him. I'm not saying he's a bad guy, he's a decent man, but with very harsh view on morals.

@WaterZer0

8 ай бұрын

​@@mona-elfThe Emperor did not create the Astral Prism; Raphael did. The Emperor just finds it and decides to stay inside and fight off the Honor Guard trying to free Orpheus. Vlaakith made a deal with Raphael for the Prism which you can find on a Githyanki tablet thingy inside the Prism.

@mona-elf

8 ай бұрын

​@@WaterZer0thank you for the information 🤗 I didn't mean that the Emperor trapped Orpheus in a prism, I meant that he's using him like a slave, manipulating his power. For people who used to be a slaves and desperately fought for freedom it's a big insult

At least his sacrifice doesn't consume his soul and it redeems his previous actions in the eyes of Mystra and likely gets to stick with her. Out of all the outcomes, this seems like the best option, at least if someone HAS to die or lose their soul, this is definitely the best option. Even if Karlach prefers to die rather than go to Avernus, at least she has a soul and it's free from Zariel's clutches. Hopefully there will be an update that allows for an ending that doesn't require the death of someone or the loss of their soul but achieving it should be difficult.

@alekzanderor5489

7 ай бұрын

Raphael comment that Gales body and soul were erased from this plane of existance upon orb detination (you accepted the deal, but broke it, gale tries to become a god but fails ending)

Is this his default hair? It looks more tousled than I remember

@hollune

4 ай бұрын

This is the Gale's Wizarly Updo Mod on Nexus :)

Which outfit are you wearing?

@hollune

7 ай бұрын

I'm using the Basket Full of Equipment NSFW mod and I believe this is the 'Breezy' version of Gortash's outfit with a bralette in the neck slot!

Where did you get such beautiful clothes for gale?

@hollune

3 ай бұрын

It's the Robe of the Weave from Ramazith's Tower in Act 3! With Boreal Blue Dye I believe

I am curious, can you even use the orb so that no one has to become Illithid? I avoided all orb conversations in my first play-through and when I suggested the option in my Gale Origin, it wasn't good enough for Orpheus.

@chickenbacon5197

8 ай бұрын

yea, just tell orpheus you'll transform later, then run the Gale Option.

@user-hanging-at-the-hanged-man

8 ай бұрын

Yes, get the Orphic hammer from Raphael either by stealing it or making a deal with him

@anska7475

8 ай бұрын

@@user-hanging-at-the-hanged-man Freeing Orpheus isn't the issue. When suggesting the bomb as a solution to him, he thought it to be unreliable - as did the Emperor before since Gale already hesitated using it once before.

@anska7475

8 ай бұрын

@@chickenbacon5197Interesting, I didn't see that option in my run. oO

@user-hanging-at-the-hanged-man

8 ай бұрын

@@anska7475 oops I completely misread this comment lmao, sorry :)

How do you get this ending?

@hollune

15 күн бұрын

When the Emporer tells you he needs the stones because an illithid has to control them, ask if you can become one instead. I was in a romance with Gale here, but I think it also works with high friendship

I got this same dialogue while romancing Karlach. Also Karlach accepted pretty well my illithid form. Don't know why the comments say its only Gale.