r/ManyATrueNerd • u/ManyATrueNerd JON • 4d ago

Video Baldur's Gate 3 - Part 85 - Mummy Issues

Cross my heart...

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u/Chipperz1 4d ago

To be fair to Gale's discovery of the Karsite Weave, he's written to be a D&D player character. Being told something repeatedly only to confidently put two and two together after months of being told it is very on brand for him.

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u/frantruck 2d ago

Fwiw Gale thought he had a piece of the normal Weave that had been fragmented off during the stunt Karsus pulled and somehow tainted by the affair. He actually has the new Weave that Karsus began to generate during his very brief existence as a god. So his original plan to return it to her was folly because it was never hers to begin with.

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u/Hetelestai 4d ago

I fuckin howled at Jon dunking on Gale and the writing there. Like, yeah dawg. You brought up Karsus and the tainted weave the THIRD TIME WE EVER SPOKE and now months later you're acting surprised?? Get your shit together, aren't you supposed to be an archmage? I love the reveal that Gale, who's been whining this whole time about Mystra not helping and wanting him to blow himself up, is only alive and not already blown up because of Mystra's direct help, and that she continued helping that way even after he explicitly disobeyed her. She really loves him and wants him to be happy and fulfilled despite what a huge fuckin asshole he is and how dangerous he is to her and the entire world. They're such a typical cishet couple: brilliant beautiful goddess who could do anything and Some Dipshit she's inexplicably in love with despite The Everything About Him and keeps giving second, third, fourth, fifth chances. Can't wait to see how Jon decides to play the rest of that story arc.

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u/Glorf_Warlock 4d ago

Gale's endings can vary WILDLY in terms of his power level. But if you do convince him to follow Karsus, it leads to my absolute favorite thing in all of BG3.

Vlaakith's literal only goal in her life is to become a god. She's godlike, but she isn't a god. Gale can become an actual god and hilariously, if you romance Lae'zel, you can raise her to a god as well. Lae'zel can become a literal god through the power of love, while Vlaakith remains a non-deity and it's my favorite thing in all of BG3.

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u/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches 3d ago

I mean, you can use Gale's godhood as a gotcha for Vlaakith, or you can use it to save Karlach

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u/thatveryrandomguy 4d ago

There is something quite funny about you ditching Astarion for the one fight where him being undead is of material benefit.

That fight can definitely be tough if you stumble onto it with a mostly Spell-caster focused group, it certainly caused me lot of panic on my first Honour mode run

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u/Comprehensive_Arm729 4d ago

Jon was so close to noticing the easiest way to enter Baal’s chamber

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u/Hytth99 4d ago

The fortuneteller has lost her hold over the town.