love how in bg3 there is a god of tyranny AND a god of spider-tyranny. and the spider one is undoubtedly more effective that’s the power of unique theming for you
Broke: A tressyms life span is 20 years and since Gale summoned Tara when he was a child, she's nearing the end of her life :(
Woke: Gale has found a way to extend someone's lifespan but he's only using it on Tara
Bespoke: Kid!Gale actually summoned an Eldritch Being who took 3647473 looks at this lonely boy who just wanted a friend and decided to keep him company in a tressym form.
Characters not wanting Astarion to ascend not for any moral reason but because being stuck in Baldur's Gate doing political shit for eternity with a guy who can't plan sounds like it's own level of hell.
So, we all know that in the epilogue, Gale tells Tav:
I love you.
And if you look at the datamined dialog files and read the dev notes, you’ll see this:
Devnote: With the warmth of having said this a thousand times before.
So, taking that statement as a FACT (which, you know, I’m certain it was intended to be…) we now have a solid numerical value to start with: 1000.
Next, we know that per the narrator at the epilogue start, it’s been 6 months since the defeat of the netherbrain; therefore it’s been 6 months since Gale and Tav got engaged/agreed to live together. We’re going to conclude that they have spent every day together since then.
6 months = 182.5 days
Now, assuming that Gale says ‘I love you’ to Tav on a relatively similar schedule each day (ex: when they first wake up, when Gale heads out to Blackstaff Academy, etc. etc.) we can make an equation:
1000 declarations of love divided by 182.5 days = the amount of times Gale tells Tav he loves them every single day.
We solve the equation and get 5.47945205
We round that down, and voila! We now have flawless mathematical proof that
Gale says ‘I love you’ to Tav an average of 5 times every single day