NEW ENDING CUTSCENE for Gale and Mystra | Patch 6

[@jimstoesz3878]

Nothing better than a story where the hero goes on an epic adventure of self-discovery only to reveal at the end that they've learned *fUCKING NOTHING!!*

[@7samuray]

Absolutely! This is the most terrible and stupid ending of all that exists.

[@ShaYneHD]

Nah he saved the world and now hes gon get some god pussy🤪 ofcourse he is a huge mega simp, but between this ending, killing yourself, die fighting against mystra or becoming a boring wizard academy teacher, Id rather stay with a goddess lol

[@spectre1725]

@@7samuray it's the best one if you're intend is a good happy ending

[@7samuray]

@@spectre1725 Sorry, but you are not entirely right, in my opinion this is a very stupid ending. Gale overcame his relationship with Mystra as wrong and unequal, he left it in the past. And you want to return it to the starting point. This means only one thing: he understood nothing and achieved nothing.

[@7samuray]

@@spectre1725 There is a good ending without returning to Mystra, believe me :)

[@Mel0D]

holding gale's *physical form* over gale to manipulate him into serving her again is so very very on brand for mystra as portrayed in this game. it's a shame we can't kill her

[@mythgravenn]

i wish we could too, but killing her would start another spellplague, and we dont ever want that to happen again lmao

[@JakubixIsHere]

You know what happend last time someone killed mystra?

[@JStryker47]

I feel like they should've made it so that if the player convinces Gale to give her the crown, then Mystra will not only remove the orb from his chest, but also restore the true form of whoever changed into a mindflayer - Tav, Orpheus, or Karlach. And also, that Gale origin characters can choose to return to the mortal world, as a human again.

[@Haos51]

Finally a true ending where is a mindflayer at the end without Gale blowing himself up. Even if being a mindflayer for but a moment.

[@ThaKillaWarrior]

I know its not the point, but the music is so good here. The soft and encouraging tone captures the essence of this scene perfectly. Just like with Divinity 2, everybody at Larian was cooking.

[@chizhang4369]

This is the best ending possible really!

[@EnbyNomad]

If Mystra has 0 haters then I'm dead.

[@tek512]

The second-most simpified outcome. The most simpified is of course returning the power of the crown to her *without* having become an illithid, so she can't even bargain with restoring his original state. In either case, the dude gives up his shot at godhood for a woman who uses and gaslights him, who did not care if his very soul was destroyed by using the Karsite Weave as a bomb, and who will definitely tire of him again in relatively short order. This is Mystra's m.o. She's a pretty awful god, especially considering she used to be mortal.

[@TheMysteryMouse]

Genuinely, what the hell is he supposed to do in Elysium?

[@Taric25]

Well, it's basically neutral good Heaven so whatever he wants.

[@chizhang4369]

Fucking all the time? Lol

[@sergeyt2947]

Soulless husk of Gale flew away, smiling. Prolly for Mystra that is enough )

[@PunmasterSTP]

I like to imagine Gail actually made a good choice here and will be happy with Mystra, but for some reason I doubt it...

[@lipepsene]

Sooo that means this gale can’t attend whither’s party?

[@Northalix]

You actually attend, as a soul echo.

[@lipepsene]

@@Northalix you control a soul echo?

[@Northalix]

@@lipepsene Yes, but you can only observe, not interact.

[@lipepsene]

@@Northalix then what’s the point? This must be just another of the many bugs from patch 6

[@marina_the_fox]

@@Northalix were you able to complete the game as a soul form at party? Cuz I couldn't do it😐

[@CorruptedDivinity]

Oh hell nah, Gale is Tav’s. Each play through I’m always trying to romance someone else but I always end up with Gale. He’s too precious 😭😭

[@halop]

thats gay

[@7samuray]

What happens if you choose the first option? 1. "Thank you, but no. I have someone waiting for me"

[@marina_the_fox]

Mystra lets Gale go, but he remains his Illithid form. After that everything goes as usual: cinematic, scene with your romantic option, Withers party

[@7samuray]

@@marina_the_fox Oh, thank you very much! This question haunted me. I had hope that she could bring him back as a man. And this really could be the best reward for Gale. But, alas. Mystra prefers to do something good only for herself. The gods don't care about mortals unless they are under their control.

[@marina_the_fox]

@@7samuray not really. The gods care about the mortals within their domain, but if they interfere in their life's too much and unnecessarily, then the gods themselves will be punished by the main god Ao. With Gale, this sets a precedent that if he is restored to human form and returned to Faerun, then everyone will believe in Mystra and will make requests to her to heal relatives who have become illithids. And this will raise a question from Ao; such questions often do not end well. And then the other question: why can Gale, but Tav or other heroes cannot? In my opinion, this would not be very good in terms of storytelling.

[@7samuray]

@@marina_the_fox Yes, you are right about the precedent and Ao. But the situation here is a little different. This is not just a request to God from a mortal. We are talking specifically about the reward for actually “saving the world” and eliminating the potential threat from Karsus’s magic. And the reward must be proportionate to the sacrifice that was made. I think Ao might approve. Thus, if Mystra could return Gale to human form, she simply did not find it necessary (important) to do so if he decided to leave. Although for Gale it would have the highest meaning. This shows that humanity is truly inaccessible to the gods; they think in other categories. Regarding requests to Mystra from other mortals. In Faerûn, media is not so developed that the fact of the return of human form becomes immediately known to everyone. In general, all this is very strange. Jergal personally states that illithids do not have souls. No one can know this better than him. This means there can be no recovery.

[@marina_the_fox]

@@7samuray about illithids and souls - it's Larian homebrew. Or rather mistake: D&D basically indicates they do have souls, but they just don't believe that eternal fate is up to a deity. So technically and theoretically it is possible to heal even with a wish spell🤔 And yeah, you right: gods think in other categories. I remember reading a book about Mystra-Midnight, when she just became a goddess and retained human thinking: she tried to convince the gods to oppose Cyric and was able to do this only when she began to convey the idea through the domain of one or another god. Later, she also had to reject human thinking, as this entailed certain consequences. I just want more options and endings for other characters like Gale has now. So that there is balance and interest in replaying.

[@raydaveed]

Good but he can't return on earth right? 😢

[@axelhopfinger533]

Probably not unless he's sent there as an envoy of Mystra. Or finds another magical way.

[@spectre1725]

They just made the best good ending there is :D I have to replay, there is no choice xD

[@irgendwer3610]

wtf, I did exactly this, romanced no one, became an illithid and at the end my third dialogue option was something like "maybe some time later", and I remain an illithid >:(

[@quirkyhonor3427]

If only there was a lesbian version, but I'm happy because that seems like the best ending. Lol