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ryttu3k · 1 year ago

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Video of Gale in pain due to the orb, text versions and other bits and pieces including dev notes.

Just remembered how, when I was first levelling up Gale, I thought, 'huh, he's got fairly decent Consitution for a wizard. Useful for gameplay purposes, of course, but I wonder if there's a narrative explanation?'

And not an hour or two of play later, learned that the orb - if left untreated too long - causes him constant pain, muscle spasms and disorientation. Gale and Tara did not immediately figure out how to treat his condition, which meant that he likely spent weeks or months in that state - and of course, whenever the orb acts up, he goes through it again. He probably endures it constantly through the end of act 1, after his treatment stops working.

Constitution, of course, is that the stat that represents ability to focus while being hurt. Endurance even after physical distress. Pain tolerance.

Yeah. I think there's a narrative explanation.

#yeah. yeah #gale has chronic pain that grows in intensity unless he gets pain relief #shadowheart has random spasms of chronic pain that stop her in her tracks sometimes #karlach has chronic pain that worsens depending on temperature and emotional state #durge has chronic headaches due to a traumatic brain injury #four of the seven origins have canonical chronic pain #hell you can include astarion's constant hunger in that too #and scarring can cause pain and he and wyll both have that #and wyll's would tug every time he makes any kind of expression #and the minor fact that he's blind in one eye!#lae'zel is the ONLY one to give no indication of a health condition #and even she can end up with an acquired traumatic brain injury #if you don't save her from the zaith'isk in time #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #the wizard of waterdeep #gale and chronic pain

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