Gale/banter

Overview

Approval

Banter

Romance

A collection of Gale's remarks and overhead conversations with other characters.

Remarks

Selected

• One with the Weave.
• We're a long way from Waterdeep.
• The air is ripe with magic.
• Lovely day, this. For now.
• Which way to the nearest library?
• I applaud your taste.
• Lost in thought.
• Quite ready for you.
• I have the magic touch.
• Elminster's not around, so might as well.
• You have my attention.
• Seek and you shall find me.
• Direct me.
• Salutations!
• No rest for the wicked, I see.
• Let me work my magic.
• Charmed, I'm sure.
• An excellent choice!
• At the ready.
• Ready and willing.
• Yes?
• Your desire?

Selected (in combat)

• Creator. Destroyer.
• A battle of wits.
• Swords, meet sorcery!
• One can't always be a gentleman.
• No gloom, all doom.
• Death is but a word away.
• What fools these mortals be.
• Victory is assured.
• The lanceboard is set.
• May the dice roll in my favour.
• Mystra-Ryl!
• Allow me to demonstrate.
• I don't fancy their chances.
• The witching hour.
• A tale for the ages.
• Unleash me.
• I speak. They burn.
• Gone with the Weave.
• Let me recite their demise.
• A rough tempest I will raise.

Selected (sneaking)

• This really isn't my forte.
• My knees are starting to ache.
• Such an undignified position to find oneself in.
• I'm a wizard, not a cat burglar.
• Let's get this over with.
• I'd rather stand tall.
• What?
• Get me up, would you?
• Intolerable.
• This is no fun at all.
• I can't see a thing from down here.
• Why am I doing this?
• Just hurry this along.
• How unseemly.
• How much longer will this take?
• Bad for one's back, this.
• I'm surprised you spotted me.

Selection spam

• I hope Halaster takes good care of Tara while I'm away.
• Sembian wine; Cormyrian boar; Waterdhavian conversation. It's the little things you miss while on the road.
• Oh, what a tangled Weave we web!
• All the world's my stage and you're just a player in it.

Selection spam (in combat)

• Just go for the Magic Missile and fire away. Never fails.
• Don't make me go all Edwin Odesseiron on you.
• Get. Out. Of. My. Head.
• I really wish I could cast a Hold spell on you.

Selection spam (sneaking)

• You made me hide, don't make me come seek you.
• Gods, it's like trying to sleep with a mosquito in the room.
• A little privacy please.
• Stop it - that tickles.

Moving

• It shall be done.
• Certainly.
• Forthwith.
• Most excellent.
• With ease.
• Adventure awaits.
• Onward.
• May it please Mystra.
• The path less travelled.
• To new horizons.
• On my way.
• With haste.
• Let's explore.
• Quite.
• My pleasure.
• That way?
• Of course.
• Right away.
• Yes.
• Let's go.
• Immediately.
• Very well.
• Step by step.
• I venture forth.

Moving (in combat)

• It shall be done.
• Certainly.
• With ease.
• Onward.
• May it please Mystra.
• On my way.
• With haste.
• Of course.
• Step by step.
• Indeed.
• Outflank. Outsmart.
• Swiftly now.
• Don't get too close.
• In striking distance.
• Let's light them up.
• Step to it.
• Good move.
• Rook to queen six.
• Knight to king five.
• Pawn to cleric four.

Moving (sneaking)

• It shall be done.
• Certainly.
• Forthwith.
• Most excellent.
• With ease.
• Adventure awaits.
• Onward.
• May it please Mystra.
• The path less travelled.
• To new horizons.
• On my way.
• With haste.
• Let's explore.
• Quite.
• My pleasure.
• That way?
• Of course.
• Right away.
• Yes.
• Let's go.
• Immediately.
• Very well.
• Step by step.
• I venture forth.

Hiding

• Such a long way down.
• The coward's route.
• It's a gnome's life for me.
• My robes will get dirty.
• Unseen and unsightly.
• If I must.
• Yes, yes.
• Not this again.
• You've got the wrong man for this.
• Oh, bother.
• Brought low.
• No honour among sneaks.

Hiding (in combat)

• Did they see me?
• On cat's paws.
• A silent spell.
• The whispered Weave.
• There goes my equilibrium.
• An invisibility spell works too, you know.
• I will be but an illusion.
• I'll keep my doubts to myself...
• O, to cast on bended knee.
• Must I?
• I perform better on my feet.
• This has to be frowned upon.

At low health

• Weave save me. I can't take much more...
• Death can't have me. Not yet...
• I cannot die. Please, help me.
• Some healing for a wizard in need?

Attacked by party member

• Really?
• Stop it!
• Get off!

Can't fit in a small hole

• I'm far too big to get through there.
• Perhaps if there were considerably less of me...
• That's not a Gale-sized hole.

Can't fit in a tiny hole

• Which part of me is supposed to fit in there, exactly?
• Far, far far too small for me.
• I'm a large man, and that's a very small hole.

Can't use an item

• Now's not the right time for that.
• Hmmm. Maybe later.
• No. I'll have to try again later.
• I can't use this at the moment.

Can't use an item while in combat

• Gods, you're distracting aren't you?
• Perhaps later, when I'm not in mortal peril...
• Hardly the right moment for that!
• Not the time!

Finding a locked item

• Locked. Perhaps by some nearby mechanism...
• Not budging. There must be something here to unlock it.
• Can't be opened directly. Time to investigate.
• No ordinary lock. Something else seals it.

Picking a lock

• Knock, knock.
• I don't think this is strictly legal...
• Surely there's a spell for this sort of thing...
• The right tools for the wrong trade.

Looking at a globe

• Ah, to hold the world in the palm of one's hand!

Looking at an astrolabe

• Quite something, to hold the cosmos in your hands...
• A map of the celestial bodies. Beautiful, but not a patch on the real thing.
• A fine apparatus. Though not as beautiful as my own.
• Coliar, Karpri, Anadia... So many worlds still to travel. One day.

Looking into a mirror

• Looking magical, as always.
• 'Doth thy mirror crack?' Apparently not.
• No harm reflecting on one's appearance.

Looking into a telescope

• No time for star-gazing. More's the pity.

Succeeded Perception roll (trap)

• A trap... This place is more dangerous than I thought.
• A nasty surprise... Caution is warranted here.
• My, I had better be careful not to trigger that thing.

Succeeded Investigation roll

• I spy with my little eye...
• Something hidden - but not from me.
• Methinks I spotted something.
• What's that over there?
• Intriguing.

Succeeded Investigation roll (trap)

• A trap... So much for the art of hospitality.
• Traps! One always has to be on the alert.
• Traps, eh? I've a feeling I'm not very welcome here.

Identified a mimic

• My, my, a mimic. I'm the last one you've tried to ambush, you craven thing.

Surprised by mimic

• Another mimic! You'd think I'd get better at spotting the damned things.
• Gah! That's a frightful amount of teeth where there shouldn't be any.

After a short rest

• That hit the spot.
• A little respite does wonders.
• Patched up and pushing on.
• Lovely little pick me up.

Guidance

• Use it wisely.
• I have power enough to share.
• Let me make myself indispensable.
• Hmm, a little pick-me-up.
• An essential incantation.

On character death

Player:

• Now's no time to die. You must get up!

Player (Dark Urge):

• No, not you!

Lae'zel:

• Lae'zel! You can't die like this...

Shadowheart:

• Shadowheart! Anyone but her!

Karlach:

• Don't give up, Karlach. Please...

Jaheira:

• No, not Jaheira!

Wyll:

• Wyll! Please - stay with me.

Minthara:

• Don't worry, Minthara. Gale won't let you down.

Minsc:

• Minsc? Boo?

Astarion:

• Astarion!

Halsin:

• Halsin, no!

Throwing Scratch's ball after his death

• You were a an excellent friend, Scratch - and that's coming from a cat-lover.
• I hope there's balls and bones galore, wherever you are...
• Poor Scratch. I'm lucky to have met you.
• I hope Scratch doesn't miss his ball, wherever he is...

Location Remarks

Act One

Act 1 Spoilers! This section reveals details about the story of Baldur's Gate 3.

(Sitting on the Stool of Hill Giant Strength)

• My, not only is this chair comfortable, it imbues its sitter with power!
• Hmmm. So if I stand, the power's gone. Sedentary magic I suppose that's called.

Act Two

Act 2 Spoilers! This section reveals details about the story of Baldur's Gate 3.

(Entering Act Two from Grymforge)

• Moonrise Towers lies ahead. We must venture on, however bleak the path.
• Shrouded in no ordinary shadows. What evil lurks within such darkness?

Act Three

Act 3 Spoilers! This section reveals details about the story of Baldur's Gate 3.

Party Banter

Gale/banter and Astarion

• Astarion: I am enjoying our walks together, aren't you, Gale?
• Gale: Uhm... Sure. In silence.

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• Astarion: So, do you have loves waiting for you once this is all over?
• Gale: You know what - that is not the easiest of questions for me to answer.
• Shadowheart: You mean just waiting, like a lovesick puppy? Short-term amusements are much less hassle.

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• Astarion: That orb seems powerful. What can it do once it's extracted?
• Gale: Nothing good can come of it unless it is contained. Why?
• Astarion: It might be useful. Who knows?

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• Astarion: Ever heard of a vampire called Cazador, Wyll?

(If it is known that Astarion is a vampire)

• Wyll: I don't think so. Why? Friend of yours?

(If it is not known that Astarion is a vampire)

• Wyll: Doesn't ring a bell. Why?
• Gale: He's patriarch of the Szarr family. Nasty fellow, if the histories are accurate.
• Astarion: I imagine they are.

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(After dispelling the illusion at Sunlit Wetlands)

• Astarion: From sweet woodland to stinking swamp. Can you do tricks like that, Gale?
• Gale: Easiest thing in the world. Though I'd do it the other way around.

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(After encountering Auntie Ethel)

• Wyll: Ethel mentioned Netherese magic. What in blazes does that mean?
• Gale: Magic from the fallen empire of Netheril. Ancient, exceedingly dangerous, and quite unrivalled.
• Astarion: Wonderful! I'd hate to be destroyed by any common old magic.

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(Near Rosymorn Monastery)

• Astarion: Another ruined temple, full of foul-smelling beasts, spoiling for a fight.
• Gale: No mere temple. This was a monastery, devoted as much to study as to worship.
• Astarion: Oh, how ignorant of me. So it'll be free of foul-smelling beasts, then?
• Gale: Quite the opposite. Some monastic orders celebrated their pungency as proof of their devotion. 'To think is to stink' was the motto of one ill-fated brotherhood near Amn.
• Gale: Oh, but you meant beasts of the life-threatening variety? Yes, I'm sure it's teeming with those.

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(At Crèche Y'llek)

• Gale: I knew I should've attended the Blackstaff's lectures on githyanki tir'su.
• Gale: If I understood their script, who knows what secrets their texts would surrender...
• Astarion: Why not ask one of the friendly bloodthirsty warriors? I'm sure they'd be happy to translate.

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(At Mason's Guild Rebel Hideout)

• Astarion: What's this? A clever little hideaway?
• Gale: Not just clever - rather ingenious. Somehow its construction keeps the Shadow Curse at bay.
• Astarion: A little too clever, if you ask me. Watch out for traps.

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(Approaching Moonrise Towers)

• Astarion: Moonlanterns to keep the curse back, burly guards to fight off any monsters - I could get used to this place.
• Gale: Don't get too comfortable. We shouldn't overstay our welcome in such a place.
• Astarion: No, of course. Why stay somewhere safe and comfortable when we could be in mortal peril?

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(At Moonrise Towers)

• Astarion: Can't say I love what they've done with the place.
• Gale: Unsurprising, really. Fanatical cultists tend to care more for ambience than aesthetics.
• Astarion: Reason enough to put them all to the sword, I say.

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(At Mind Flayer Colony)

• Astarion: It's enough to put you off tentacles for life.
• Gale: You had a taste for tentacles?
• Astarion: The Elfsong Tavern used to serve excellent calamari. Mind you, that was two hundred years ago...

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(At Mind Flayer Colony)

• Astarion: Gods - we're not back, are we?
• Gale: On the nautiloid? No, this is a different nursery - similar, but not identical. There's likely one in every colony.
• Astarion: I don't care what's in every mind flayer colony, Gale - nobody does. Except you.

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(At Lower City Sewers)

• Astarion: I gave my return to Baldur's Gate a lot of thought. I never pictured this, though.
• Gale: What did you have in mind? A quiet party, toasting your return with a few good friends?
• Astarion: Less 'quiet party with friends', more 'days of hedonistic debauchery'. But otherwise, yes.
• Gale: Sounds like a recipe for disaster. But you know what? I'm learning to enjoy the taste of chaos. Count me in.

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(At ?)

• Gale: Mystra has a shrine within the city. Located in the Stormshore Tabernacle, if my memory serves me.
• Astarion: Do whatever you need to, but I shan't be paying my respects to any of the gods on show.
• Gale: You never felt the call of the divine, Astarion?
• Astarion: Oh, I tried them all. None of them answered.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 1 romance scene)

• Astarion: So Gale, how is your sad, hopeless pining going?
• Gale: I'm hardly pining. It's been a year or more since Mystra cast me aside.
• Astarion: Oh, my dear wizard. I wasn't talking about Mystra.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 2 romance scene)

• Astarion: So, how was your night with Gale? Did you have a long, hard debate?
• Gale: Ignore him. Astarion envies the depth of our bond because he's of a shallower inclination.
• Astarion: Snort.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 3 romance scene)

• Astarion: So, Gale - you laid with a goddess? You must have some sordid tales to tell?
• Gale: Sordid? I lay with the Mother of Magic herself. What we had was transcendent, euphoric, incandescent. Not sordid.
• Astarion: You actually made sleeping with a goddess sound boring. Incredible...

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(If the player is romancing Astarion; after act 1 romance scene)

• Gale: I see you waste no time pursing your quarry, Astarion.
• Gale: Tell me, do you always woo your lovers with such patient attention?
• Astarion: I rather thought I was a little slow this time. Usually, they're begging me to drain them on the first night.

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(If the player is romancing Astarion; after act 2 romance scene)

• Gale: I fear I've been rather hasty to judge you, Astarion.
• Gale: One heartbreak was quite enough for me, but to experience it as many times as you have must change a person.
• Astarion: Thank you, Gale. Let us both hope that broken hearts are a thing of the past.

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(If the player is romancing Astarion, and Astarion stayed a spawn)

• Gale: If you're feeling faint after your bout with Cazador, Astarion, I don't mind donating some blood.
• Astarion: When you're still full of that Netherese bile? I'll pass, thank you.
• Astarion: Besides, I have someone else to nibble on. And they are delicious.

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(If the player is romancing Astarion, and Astarion became an ascendant)

• Gale: So, Astarion. I hear your relationship has taken on a new aspect recently...
• Astarion: My life has taken on a new aspect. It is only natural that my relationships change as well.
• Astarion: As the Vampire Ascendant, I can grant my lover immortality, and bind them to me forever.
• Gale: I trust you speak of the bonds of love, and not the shackles of servitude.

Gale/banter and Karlach

(While in plains)

• Gale: I don't suppose you've any clue where we are in relation to Waterdeep?
• Karlach: From this distance between Elturel and Baldur's Gate, I'd say... a long way away.
• Gale: Ah. That will make getting word to my mother rather tricky.
• Gale: No matter - what she doesn't know can't hurt her. Not at this distance, anyway.

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(At Forest)

• Gale: Nothing like a brisk stroll through the forest to invigorate the spirit.
• Karlach: I was just thinking the same thing, but less poetically.
• Gale: And without so much as a stirring from our tadpoles.
• Karlach: A girl could get used to this.

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(At Blighted Village)

• Karlach: Looks like this town was ransacked - by soldiers, if my eyes don't deceive me.
• Gale: Quite cruelly, too.
• Karlach: Must've been an awful day for the people who lived here.
• Gale: If nothing else, I hope it was a mercifully short one.

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(In the Underdark)

• Karlach: Just when I was getting used to the sky again...
• Gale: Fear not, Karlach. Sun, moon and stars will still be there waiting for us.
• Karlach: Meanwhile, this place is pretty spectacular, isn't it?
• Gale: No book or painting could ever do its strange beauty justice. But perhaps our stories might, when we return to the surface.

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(At Grymforge)

• Gale: The architects who built this must have been remarkable. A pity their vision didn't stand the test of time.
• Karlach: All's not lost. I mean, just look at this place.
• Gale: You've quite the knack for finding the bright side of things, haven't you?
• Karlach: Hope keeps you going.

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(Near Rosymorn Monastery)

• Karlach: Man, adventuring is thirsty work.
• Gale: There used to be a monastery in this region known for producing a wonderful ale.
• Karlach: That sounds like heaven! Wait. Used to?
• Gale: Oh, yes - long ruined, I'm afraid. No chance of a frothing pitcher awaiting us there, but still - at least your thirst for knowledge is quenched.
• Karlach: Ugh.

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(On the road to Shadow-Cursed Lands)

• Gale: Do you feel that? A darkness, pulling at the strands of the Weave.
• Karlach: You'll still be able to do your wizard thing, though, right?
• Gale: Of course, but that doesn't make the shadows less dangerous.
• Karlach: Joy.

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(At Shadow-Cursed Lands Forest)

• Karlach: Doing all right, Gale?
• Gale: Oh, you know... Still alive and kicking, despite being surrounded on all sides by an endless manifestation of darkness and decay...
• Karlach: I feel it too. Here if you need a pick-me-up.

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(At Last Light Inn - Cellar Shrine)

• Gale: A hidden shrine, dedicated to the Moon Maiden herself. Even amidst this darkness, Selunites are stubborn enough to cling on.
• Karlach: Pretty beautiful, isn't it?

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(At The Waning Moon)

• Karlach: Huh. A brewery. Why does Reithwin Ale ring a bell?
• Gale: It was known to be quite the tipple - a cask or two still exists, if you know the right alekeep...
• Karlach: You must have good taste. Not me. Can't afford it.
• Gale: A common misconception. Even the simplest of flavours are elevated by the choice to appreciate them. Don't deny yourself such pleasures.

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(At Reithwin Tollhouse)

• Karlach: Whoa! Almost slipped there.
• Gale: You wouldn't be the first, I'd wager. It's been some time since these walkways felt the carpenter's hammer.
• Karlach: You gonna catch me if I eat a brick?
• Gale: With my reflexes? I'd catch you before you so much as stubbed a toe.

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(Approaching Moonrise Towers)

• Karlach: Ready to enter the belly of the beast?
• Gale: It's the stairs I'm dreading. I shall close my eyes, and pretend I'm climbing my own, far superior tower in Waterdeep.
• Karlach: In that case, welcome home.

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(At Moonrise Towers Docks)

• Karlach: We're not taking a boat to Baldur's Gate, right?
• Gale: And give the Absolute free reign to use us as target practice from the banks? I think not.
• Karlach: Phew. My mum always said the Chionthar was unlucky.

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(At Mind Flayer Colony)

• Gale: It strikes me that, for a mind flayer colony, there are remarkably few mind flayers about the place...
• Karlach: Squiddies have gone to war, is my guess.
• Gale: On the Absolute's behalf? Now there's an alliance I'd have been quite happy without.

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(At Danthelon's Dancing Axe)

• Karlach: Wouldn't mind a dancing axe of my own.
• Gale: A simple movement charm wouldn't be too hard to apply to such an object. I could conjure one up for you if you like?
• Karlach: Yes! I like!
• Gale: Very well then. Once the city is saved, Karlach's Kinetic Cleaver will be first on my list.

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(At The Blushing Mermaid)

• Karlach: Man, it's good to be home. First round on who?
• Gale: She who thirsts buys drinks the first.
• Karlach: You won't pin me down with a rhyme, wizard!
• Gale: She who declines gets the worst of the wines.

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(At Sorcerous Sundries)

• Gale: Look around you. Indulge your curiosity. Sorcerous Sundries is the finest purveyor of magical miscellany for miles around.
• Karlach: Where's the axes?
• Gale: What they sell is far more precious than mere sword or shield. They sell knowledge, ingenuity, the wisdom of mages past.
• Karlach: Sounds like more your thing than mine.

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(At The Counting House)

• Gale: They say wealth offers a form of magic. Alas, it's one I've rarely dabbled in.
• Karlach: Nor I. Never had more than a few coppers in the city, and any soul coins in Avernus went straight to Zariel.
• Gale: Make no mistake. Souls are sold for coins up here as well. All too cheaply, in most cases.

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(If the player is romancing Karlach; after act 1 romance scene)

• Gale: You know, Karlach, there are other ways to express love beyond run-of-the-mill physicality...
• Karlach: Ugh. Are you going to try and teach me about exceptional uses for a mage hand or what?
• Gale: Actually, I was thinking of poetry.
• Karlach: Oops, sorry. But... now that I think of it... is mage hand especially hard to learn?

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(If the player is romancing Karlach; after act 2 romance scene)

• Gale: I've always felt flames to be a rather perfect expression of love, Karlach.
• Gale: Passionate, primal, capable of bestowing the most life-affirming comfort, or inflicting the profoundest damage.
• Karlach: That's... pretty nice. Never thought about it like that. But now I will.

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(If the player is romancing Karlach; after act 3 romance scene)

• Gale: Am I to understand that you are in love now, Karlach?
• Karlach: I sure am. If there's hope for me there's hope for anyone.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 1 romance scene)

• Gale: Karlach... a hypothetical question for you:
• Gale: If someone - not me, of course - detected a hint of romantic interest in them from another, unnamed individual, what might that someone do about it?
• Karlach: Whoever it is, just talk to them, Gale. And leave out the hypotheticals.
• Gale: Talking. Right. I'm good at that.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 2 romance scene)

• Karlach: So, Gale - got any book recommendations for me?
• Gale: You can read?!
• Karlach: Very funny. Yes - I can read. School put me off big boring tomes. Sometimes I wonder what I'm missing.
• Gale: Say no more - I'll find the perfect book for you. I might even lend it to you from my library in Waterdeep.
• Karlach: Ooh! Something with magic, please. And no devils.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 3 romance scene)

• Karlach: How's the orb treating you, Gale?
• Gale: Oh, quite well as a matter of fact. Since it was stabilised, it's been humming along nicely.
• Gale: I have noticed one adverse side-effect. I seem to be losing hair in some, er, unexpected places.
• Karlach: I can only imagine.

Gale/banter and Lae'zel

• Gale: Tell me, Lae'zel, when you say we might be 'purified' at your crèche, what does that mean exactly?
• Lae'zel: A ghustil will affix the zaith'isk, the purifier, to our heads.
• Lae'zel: Its magic will quell the parasite in an instant.

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• Gale: That zaith'isk you mentioned intrigues me. Care to tell me a bit more?
• Lae'zel: An intricate device, crafted by mlar - our most gifted artisans. I am sworn to say no more.

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• Gale: Your prowess in battle is remarkable, as is your battle stance itself.
• Lae'zel: Hrath ajak - a technique known to few outside K'liir. Shall I teach you?
• Gale: I'll pass, thank you. I prefer Abjuration over acrobatics.

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• Lae'zel: You've a particular way with words, Gale. Perhaps oration suits you more than battle.
• Gale: They're not mutually exclusive. The Weave is served best with a dash of eloquence.

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• Lae'zel: You strike me cleverer than most istiki, Gale. Multiple tutors, I should guess.
• Gale: Many a wise man and woman indeed. Waterdeep is the home of myriad scholars.
• Wyll: Ah, the City of Splendours. Spent a whole Fleetswake there with my father. What a delight.

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• Gale: Tell me, Lae'zel, what is it like on the Astral Plane? Your home realm intrigues me.
• Lae'zel: Githyanki lay their eggs on other planes. They cannot mature in the Astral.
• Lae'zel: I will only be welcomed once I obtain a mind flayer's head.

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• Lae'zel: Tell me, Gale: what is your interest in the Astral Plane?
• Gale: Time. Or rather: the absence of it. In the Astral Plane, everything is eternal.
• Lae'zel: It will be my home soon enough, should Vlaakith will it.

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• Wyll: Who's in charge of the mind flayers, Lae'zel? Is there a squid king or something?
• Lae'zel: No. Each ghaik is servant to an elder brain. No king unites elders - only their collective tyranny.
• Gale: A mind flayer monarch, imagine that. Such a thing could shatter worlds.

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• Gale: I was wondering about your queen, Vlaakith. What tales of her reach us are terrifying, but I suppose that's not how you would describe her.
• Lae'zel: Vlaakith is unity: fear and beauty, life and unlife. Eyes like onyx, teeth like daggers. There is none more perfect.
• Shadowheart: Sounds vile. I assume the meaning of 'perfect' was lost in translation...

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• Shadowheart: What if this crèche doesn't work out, Lae'zel? What if your kin fail you?
• Lae'zel: If I can reach the crèche, my kin will provide - any failure will be mine alone.
• Shadowheart: If you say so. Just don't expect me to put all my eggs in the same basket.
• Gale: That expression must sound curious to a githyanki ear, given the way they're birthed.

---

(In Shadow-Cursed Lands)

• Gale: I hoped Moonrise would give me answers, but at every twist of its corridors I find only more questions...
• Lae'zel: Our goal is clear, is it not? We defeat the remaining Chosen and the elder brain they control.
• Gale: Ambiguity does not come naturally to you, does it Lae'zel? Your life must be far simpler for it.

---

(At Shadow-Cursed Lands Forest)

• Gale: No day, no night. It's as though time itself has abandoned this place.
• Gale: Similar to the Astral Plane in some ways, wouldn't you say, Lae'zel?

(If you've been to the Astral Plane, and Lae'zel was with you)

• Lae'zel: Hardly. The Astral Plane is threaded with light and silver, life-giving and wondrous in all directions.
• Lae'zel: Nothing like this dismal abyss.

(Else)

• Lae'zel: Hardly. It is said that the Astral Plane is threaded with light and silver, life-giving and wondrous in all directions.
• Lae'zel: I've never set eyes on it. But I promise it is nothing like this dismal abyss.

---

(At Ruined Battlefield)

• Gale: Blast scars. Spell and sword alike were used to ravage this battlefield.
• Lae'zel: Imagine the glorious din of it all - the streaming banners, the charging knights, the piles of severed limbs and heads.
• Gale: I'd rather not, if it's all the same to you.

---

(At an abandoned house in Shadow-Cursed Lands)

• Lae'zel: What is this...? This place makes me feel sad. Melancholy.
• Gale: Ah, so you're susceptible to the tragedy of a broken home. Maybe you've more in common with us weaker beings than you thought...
• Lae'zel: There's no call to be insulting.

---

(At Moonrise Towers)

• Gale: Not to diminish our efforts, but it was rather simple getting here in the end, wasn't it?
• Lae'zel: The obstacles ahead of us promise to be higher still -
• Lae'zel: - which will make the pleasure of overcoming them all the more potent.

---

(At Moonrise Towers Oubliette)

• Lae'zel: The right of these prisoners to die in mortal combat was stolen from them.
• Gale: Hardly the worst atrocity the Absolute's committed.
• Lae'zel: One of many, but by no means the least. To die properly is a matter of honour.

---

(At Mind Flayer Colony Tadpoling Centre)

• Lae'zel: A tadpole nursery, as on the nautiloid. We must not leave it intact.
• Gale: Quite right. So long as the attempt won't leave us similarly dismantled...
• Lae'zel: Caution is commendable. Boldness is extraordinary. In this case, I recommend the latter.

---

(At Rivington)

• Lae'zel: Cowards at every turn in this community. In githyanki society, they would be retrained - or culled.
• Gale: Condoning the slaughter of the weak? Not the most charitable perspective to take.
• Lae'zel: I am observing, not condoning. A meaningful difference.

---

(At Baldur's Mouth)

• Lae'zel: Drink, dance, and song. Tu'narath's residents are known to partake in all three. Substantially.
• Gale: Is that so? I assumed there to be little time for frivolity amongst all the fighting.
• Lae'zel: Eternity is long, Gale. Long enough to pursue endeavours beyond combat.
• Lae'zel: Githyanki write symphonies, craft liquors, paint frescos. When they aren't in fierce battle with ghaik, of course.

---

(At Bloomridge Park)

• Lae'zel: These children and their pets lack discipline. Were they githyanki, I'd recommend further training.
• Gale: Not everyone approaches the raising of their young with such militaristic vigour.
• Lae'zel: That is the very purpose of training - to determine which children shall be warriors, and which are suited to other roles.
  
• Lae'zel: As for the unruly animals - they would make for nutritious marching rations.
• Gale: That's certainly one way to make them behave...

---

(At Felogyr's Fireworks)

• Lae'zel: Fireworks - a particularly gnomish field of art, no?
• Gale: Indeed. More than simple craft, it's a way of life for some of them.
• Lae'zel: That may explain why most gnomes possess such short fuses.
• Gale: Lae'zel! Was that a joke?
• Lae'zel: Only if you found it funny.

---

(At Philgrave's Mansion)

• Gale: There's magic here, but it's of a rancid, impure form. Nothing like the true Weave at all.
• Lae'zel: This is why I appreciate a sharp blade to a ball of fire or a bolt of lightning. The Weave is inconsistent, unruly.
• Gale: The Weave is constant, but its users? Anything but. We must be on our guard.
• Lae'zel: A githyanki warrior hardly needs to be told that.

---

(At Harborview Park)

• Lae'zel: These flowers are quite vivid - not to mention, pungent. Not to my liking.
• Gale: Are there no flowers in Tu'narath?
• Lae'zel: In the City of Death, the mlar cultivate the fruiting bodies that sprout from the corpses of the slain.
• Gale: I'd rather get them from my florist in Waterdeep, if it's all the same to you.

---

(At Water Queen's House)

• Lae'zel: Githyanki gish sail skiffs through the Astral Sea, an ocean far larger than Umberlee's.
• Gale: Does the Astral Sea come with an equally irritable goddess?

(If Lae'zel no longer loyal to Vlaakith)

• Lae'zel: Vlaakith holds dominion over the entire plane. And 'irritable' does not even begin to describe her.

(If Lae'zel is still loyal to Vlaakith)

• Lae'zel: Vlaakith holds dominion over the entire plane. And she is not 'irritable' - she is ruthless.

---

(At Szarr Palace)

• Gale: I always wondered what a vampire's lair would look like. Can't say I pictured it being quite this... theatrical.
• Lae'zel: I find it surprisingly similar to Queen Vlaakith's aesthetic.
• Gale: That makes sense. She does have a flair for the dramatic.

---

(If the player is romancing Lae'zel; after act 1 romance scene)

• Gale: I'm surprised you're permitted to choose a partner outside of your own people.
• Gale: I can't imagine Mother Gith would approve. Doesn't she prefer us lesser species enslaved? Or eviscerated?
• Lae'zel: We are to use and misuse each civilisation in the stars, in every way we know. I do not conquer by blade alone, Gale.

---

(If the player is romancing Lae'zel; after act 2 romance scene)

• Gale: I've been pondering something, Lae-zel. Why is it that githyanki have belly-buttons, when they hatch from eggs?
• Lae'zel: I did not grant you permission to gaze upon my midriff.
• Gale: I - I wasn't gazing, merely observing. Though that can hardly be said for a certain someone else...

---

(If the player is romancing Lae'zel; after act 3 romance scene)

• Gale: Tell me, Lae'zel, is it common for githyanki to fall in love?
• Lae'zel: Love. Is that this feeling in me, then? This ... passion to peel every layer of one's heart to see what light and shadows lurk there?
• Lae'zel: Githyanki have playmates. Thrill-partners. But I'd never heard anyone profess love, nor read of it in our slates.
• Lae'zel: I doubt I am the first githyanki to... to feel this way. But few would ever declare it.

---

(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 1 romance scene)

• Gale: Indulge me, Lae'zel. As someone unfettered by Faerûnian beauty standards, how would you appraise my appearance?
• Lae'zel: Your beard looks like the hairy tufts upon the psurlon, the largest of wormkind that slither our skies.
• Gale: I suppose that's a bad thing? No - don't answer that.

---

(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 2 romance scene)

• Gale: So, Lae'zel - have you ever been tempted to use psionics in your, erm, romantic endeavours?
• Lae'zel: Only once. Did you know, In low-gravity settings, githyanki can maintain aerial suspension for hours at a time?
• Gale: Fascinating - I think the archmage Tasha described a spell with similar effect. I really must look that up...

---

(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 3 romance scene)

• Lae'zel: Gale, I've heard you talking in your sleep. Your mate needs better rest for our journey.
• Gale: And deprive them of the pleasure of hearing my nocturnal postulations? I'd never be so cruel.
• Gale: The mind absorbs much while we believe ourselves dormant. To lie beside Gale of Waterdeep is positively educational.

Gale/banter and Shadowheart

• Shadowheart: You seem to know a good deal about our condition, Gale.
• Gale: Everything, really - not to put too fine a point on it.
• Shadowheart: A humble specimen, aren't you?
• Gale: On occasion.

---

(After long resting twice)

• Shadowheart: Still no symptoms?
• Gale: No signs of tentacles so far.
• Shadowheart: The same... except for a knot of worry in my stomach that's in no rush to go away.
• Gale: That I can relate to.

---

(Referring to what Gale said after recruiting Shadowheart (EA only))

• Shadowheart: What did you mean before, Gale? 'A woman with shadows for eyes', you said.
• Gale: Merely that if the eyes are the mirror to the soul, yours have dark curtains across the mirror. No offense taken, I hope?
• Shadowheart: Not necessarily. I haven't made my mind up about you yet.

---

(Referring to what Gale said after recruiting Shadowheart (EA only))

• Shadowheart: You seemed quite forward with your compliments earlier. We'd only just met.
• Gale: Seize the day, I say. More now than ever.
• Shadowheart: Careful you don't pull a muscle in your haste.

---

(At Emerald Grove)

• Gale: The road to Baldur's Gate is a long one. Who knows how long it'll take these folks to get there on foot?
• Shadowheart: If they make it. They're slow, vulnerable. Half or more will die long before Basilisk Gate.
• Gale: Doesn't seem to trouble you a jot.
• Shadowheart: What good would it do for me to be troubled? We can't save them all.

---

(At Last Light Inn)

• Gale: Whatever I expected to find lurking in this cursed gloom, it certainly wasn't this. A glimmer of hope amidst the darkness.
• Shadowheart: That's one way of looking at it. You could also say it's a prime target - the one pocket of light in the gloom.
• Gale: Pragmatism, thy name is Shadowheart. You're not wrong though - best we keep our sojourn here to a minimum.

---

(At Last Light Inn - Cellar Shrine)

(If Shadowheart is still loyal to Shar)

• Shadowheart: Imagine being compelled to hide a shrine in a land that is actively hostile to you and your goddess. Utter pigheadedness.
• Gale: Tenacity might be a kinder word for it.
• Shadowheart: I'll leave the kinder words to the softer hearts.

(If Shadowheart no longer loyal to Shar)

• Shadowheart: A Selûnite shrine. It would've made my blood boil, once, just to look upon this...
• Gale: You are lucky to have left that anger behind.
• Shadowheart: I don't know... the anger was simple. I understood it, found comfort in it. Now I don't know what to believe.

---

(At House of Healing Morgue)

• Gale: Look at this place. Such horrors defy description...
• Shadowheart: Silence can be best. Give it a try sometime.

---

(At Gauntlet of Shar)

• Gale: Even shaped by shadow as it is, Sharran architecture has a kind of beauty to it.
• Karlach: Beautifully intimidating. This place was meant to scare people into submission.
• Gale: There you go, cutting right through the ephemera to the heart of the matter. Your finest quality, I think.
• Karlach: And here I thought I rubbed you the wrong way.
• Gale: Nothing wrong with a bit of friction now and then. You help me keep my mind sharp.
• Karlach: Aw. Thanks, pal. I think.

---

(At The Lodge)

• Gale: The Society of Brilliance has quite the reputation. Even Waterdhavian academics refer to their works from time to time.
• Shadowheart: They talk a great deal but do very little. Which may be for the best.
• Gale: I take it you're not inclined to study the wonders of the underdark?
• Shadowheart: Its inhabitants and cultures? Maybe. Its fungi and cave slime? No thank you.

---

(At The Blushing Mermaid)

• Shadowheart: Not too downmarket of an establishment for you I hope, Gale?
• Gale: Not at all. Why, some of the finest artists and musicians began their careers amidst stale beer and sticky floors.
• Gale: There is poetry to be found in even the dingiest of holes.
• Shadowheart: Remind me to not attend any poetry recitals with you.

---

(At Bonecloak's Basement)

• Gale: My, my. Well I'll say this for the Bonecloaks - they know their mushrooms.
• Shadowheart: Perhaps they should expand their horizons - too much time obsessing over fungi seems to leave a bit... well, like them.
• Gale: A by-product of their profession. Few can spend a lifetime inhaling fungal spores without turning out a bit muddled between the ears.

---

(At Bhaal Temple)

(If Shadowheart is still loyal to Shar)

• Shadowheart: Why must the Dead Three be so obvious and ugly with their decor? Blood and bones. Bones and blood. Pointy nonsense. Now Lady Shar - she has panache.

(If Shadowheart no longer loyal to Shar)

• Shadowheart: Why must the Dead Three be so obvious and ugly with their decor? Blood and bones. Bones and blood. Pointy nonsense. At least Shar had some panache.
• Gale: As did Mystra's home on Elysium. Her ribbed vaults and buttresses created a magic entirely of their own. Not to mention her pleasure domes...
• Shadowheart: Heh. 'Pleasure dome'.
• Gale: It's a perfectly legitimate architectural feature!

---

(At Steel Watch Foundry)

• Gale: Gondian artificers might lack a certain worldly wisdom, but there's no doubting they're masters of their craft.
• Shadowheart: You're a child at heart, Gale, admiring wind-up toys and clockwork trinkets.
• Gale: I admire any who follow their curiosity to novel and unexpected means. This is how the world changes for the better.

---

(At Morphic Pool)

• Shadowheart: The end must be near. No regrets, Gale? You may have been better off staying inside that boulder...
• Gale: Unlikely. Had I stayed there much longer, the orb would have reduced it to rubble. Besides, think of all the fun I'd have missed out on.
• Shadowheart: Fun? Well... yes. I suppose we did manage to make the best of things.

---

(If the player is romancing Shadowheart; after act 1 romance scene)

• Gale: So... Shadowheart. Such a name implies yours is a difficult heart to find.
• Shadowheart: It's not that hard to find. Perhaps any difficulty is more telling of you, Gale.

---

(If the player is romancing Shadowheart; after act 2 romance scene)

• Gale: When we met, Shadowheart, your gaze seemed to linger in the distance on some unseen goal, some insubstantial purpose.
• Gale: I notice now, your gaze settles on something, or someone, much closer.
• Shadowheart: Is it that obvious?
• Gale: Of course. There's nothing escapes a wizard's powers of observation.

---

(If the player is romancing Shadowheart, and Shadowheart chose Selune)

• Gale: I must tell you, Shadowheart, the bathing waters here leave much to be desired.
• Gale: The ablutions offered at the Temple of Beauty in Waterdeep are far superior. And they have the most excellent soaps.
• Shadowheart: Hmm. I was wondering why you always smelled like a wealthy dowager.

---

(If the player is romancing Shadowheart, and Shadowheart chose Shar)

• Gale: So, you decided to bind yourself to your goddess, Shadowheart...
• Shadowheart: That's ironic, coming from you.
• Gale: I'm sure. But you might have learned from my experience. The gods demand more than vows when calling followers to the altar...

---

(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 1 romance scene)

• Shadowheart: Isn't it so, that every time you speak as you cast a spell, you're endeavouring to call upon Mystra?
• Shadowheart: I'm surprised she still listens to you.
• Gale: She has no choice - she's sworn to hear all magic users. Even me.
• Gale: I'm sure she at least stuffs her fingers in her ears to muffle my invocations.

---

(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 2 romance scene)

• Gale: When you've loved a goddess - as I have - people often think you less experienced in the ways of romance.
• Gale: It's true, for a time I neglected the physical in favour of celestial euphoria. But our relationship was no less real for it.
• Shadowheart: 'She just lives on another plane.'

(If Shadowheart chose Selune)

• Shadowheart: Only jesting. I'm in no position to judge - especially after what happened with Shar.

(If it is known that Shadowheart is a follower of Shar)

• Shadowheart: Only jesting. I know all too well what it's like to pine after a goddess...

(If it is not known that Shadowheart is a follower of Shar)

• Shadowheart: Only jesting. I'm sure you're a force to be reckoned with.

Gale/banter and Wyll

• Wyll: Was a time I tussled with hill giants without breaking a sweat.
• Wyll: Now, a mere werebear could swat me halfway to Amn.
• Gale: Strange things are happening to us. What festers in our minds may well impel our bodies.

---

• Wyll: You're an impressive fighter, Gale. You should consider a new name.
• Gale: I take it you have some suggestions?
• Wyll: 'The Wizard Wonder!' Or how about, 'The Master of the Weave'?
• Gale: Tempting. But I think we might already have the maximum number of theatrical titles.

---

• Lae'zel: You strike me cleverer than most istiki, Gale. Multiple tutors, I should guess.
• Gale: Many a wise man and woman indeed. Waterdeep is the home of myriad scholars.
• Wyll: Ah, the City of Splendours. Spent a whole Fleetswake there with my father. What a delight.

---

(If it is known that Gale is imbued with the orb)

• Wyll: I admire your courage, Gale.
• Gale: Thank you. Any particular reason?
• Wyll: Between the orb and the bug, you've got more than your fair share of unwelcome passengers.
• Gale: What can I say? Mother always taught me to be a gracious host.

---

(After encountering Auntie Ethel)

• Wyll: Ethel mentioned Netherese magic. What in blazes does that mean?
• Gale: Magic from the fallen empire of Netheril. Ancient, exceedingly dangerous, and quite unrivalled.
• Astarion: Wonderful! I'd hate to be destroyed by any common old magic.

---

(Near Rosymorn Monastery)

• Gale: These cragged hillls make for weary soles. I see why most headed inland prefer the smooth sailing of the Chionthar.
• Wyll: More importantly, the land west of here suffers under a terrible curse.
• Gale: You've seen it for yourself?
• Wyll: I've glimpsed that doom during my travels, but never dared get close.
• Wyll: If we continue this way, we may get too close for comfort.

---

(At Shadow-Cursed Lands Forest)

• Wyll: What a dismal forest. Monsters could be lurking behind any and every tree.
• Gale: We'd be wise to fear the trees themselves. It feels like the forest itself longs for our destruction.
• Wyll: Frustrating, that.
• Wyll: Monsters, I can fight. But I can no more sever these shadows than I could the wind or the sun.

---

(At Reithwin Town)

• Wyll: I've known goblin raiders to slaughter entire villages and strip them for loot - but I've never seen one ravaged like this.
• Gale: It's hard to imagine anyone who'd willingly inflict such devastation, be they zealots, marauders, invading armies... A sign of far worse to come, I fear.

---

(At Reithwin Tollhouse)

• Gale: A tollhouse like this would only be merited in the most prosperous of settlements. This was once a thriving trade route.
• Wyll: Should it be any wonder? The Chionthar's waters carry merchant vessels from as far east as Berdusk.
• Wyll: And they wouldn't have brought just trade goods, but song, dance, and custom. Riches of the mind and the spirit.
• Wyll: So much was lost when the darkness fell.

---

(At Mason's Guild)

• Gale: The masons here thought they were building something to last. How wrong they were.
• Wyll: Perhaps it's a blessing that none of them survived to see it fall to the shadows.
• Gale: No need for such a grim assumption. Halsin helped many to escape these shadows before the town was consumed.
• Wyll: Then some masons were more blessed still, if they could put their talents to use elsewhere.
• Wyll: Perhaps some of their work even graces Baldur's Gate.

---

(At House of Healing)

• Wyll: This was a hospital? Feels more like a prison.
• Gale: A common enough interpretation. Sickness has a nasty habit of making you feel trapped, if only within the confines of your own body.
• Gale: I once spent weeks convalescing in the Hospice of St Laupsenn after a nasty bout of ruddy pox. For all their kindness, leaving that place behind felt like freedom to me.
• Wyll: I've always relied on the kindness of the healers and menders of the Coast. Better a cleric's healing touch than a chirurgeon's scalpel.

---

(Approaching Moonrise Towers)

• Gale: Moonrise Towers lies ahead. We're nearing the Heart of the Absolute, I'm certain of it.
• Wyll: Then let us push forward, heads high, weapons in hand, and turn this tower to rubble.
• Gale: Your confidence is encouraging but a little premature. Let's keep our eyes on the task ahead. Or eye, as the case may be.

---

(At Moonrise Towers)

• Wyll: This is no aimless horde - the Absolute's forces are organised. What do you make of it, Gale?
• Gale: All enemies have some chink in their armour, no matter how much they like to believe themselves invulnerable. That's what we must find.
• Wyll: And if we don't find any clear weakness?
• Gale: Then we hope our mutual strengths are enough to dominate them. Or, we die nobly in the attempt.

---

(At Moonrise Towers Prison)

(If you rescued Mizora)

• Wyll: Of course Mizora was Zariel's captured asset. How did I not see it coming?
• Gale: It's in a devil's nature to conceal the truth - you can't fault yourself for that.
• Wyll: I've been pacted for seven years on, Gale. I should be able to read between Mizora's lines by now, no matter how narrow the gap.

(If Mizora isn't there)

• Gale: Not a devil in sight. How disappointing.
• Wyll: I doubt a few iron bars are sufficient to hold one of Zariel's.
• Gale: True enough. But an illithid pod? That would probably do the trick.
• Wyll: I wager you're right. Ah, Gale - what a pleasure to see a genius' mind at work.

(Else)

• Gale: How long have you been pacted to Mizora, Wyll?
• Wyll: Seven years. Seven years of hunting the monsters of the Sword Coast - and seven years of Mizora's tight leash.
• Wyll: And seven years of wondering if I'd ever rid myself of her - or if I even should.

---

(While assaulting Moonrise Towers)

• Wyll: This is it, Gale - today, we annihilate the heart of the Absolute's power. The bards will sing of our victory here.
• Gale: Entirely unnecessary. Though if they are so inclined, I might be convinced to share a stanza or two of my own for inspiration.

---

(At Baldur's Mouth)

• Gale: The history of the city itself is captured in the archives here - a fascinating resource.
• Wyll: I wonder what those archives will reveal about us a hundred years hence.
• Gale: Only the most excellent and complimentary things. With some encouragement from us, of course.

---

(At Guildhall)

• Wyll: It might seem a bit ramshackle, but this place has a boastworthy bar.
• Gale: A bar is only as good as its cellars. Which vintages can we expect to find on their racks?
• Wyll: Here, a bottle is judged more by its ability to crack heads than the quality of its contents.
• Gale: Ah. If that's the main criteria then I shall reset my expectations accordingly. Water it is.

---

(At Morphic Pool)

• Gale: Whatever the outcome of what's just ahead, it will be the stuff of legends.
• Wyll: In that case, someone needs to survive to tell the story.
• Gale: My money's on you, Wyll.
• Wyll: I'm betting on all of us.

---

(If the player is romancing Wyll; after act 1 romance scene)

• Gale: If your natural charm isn't quite up to scratch, Wyll, there are magical means of adding a little flourish of charisma.
• Wyll: A kind offer, but I think I'd rather pursue things the old fashioned way.

---

(If the player is romancing Wyll; after act 2 romance scene)

• Gale: I knew you were a graceful man, Wyll, but I hear you're quite the dancer too.
• Gale: I've been known to trip the light fantastic myself. Mine was a popular hand at the annual Blackstaff's Ball.
• Wyll: I'd have love to have witnessed it, Gale. I wager you are as elegant on the dance floor as you are on the battlefield.

---

(If the player is romancing Wyll; after act 3 romance scene)

• Wyll: I'm probably going to regret this, but Gale - if I'm to be wed, would you like to make a speech?
• Gale: You've asked the right wizard. My oratory skills have left many a wedding guest weeping in their seat.
• Wyll: Promise it will last less than half an hour?
• Gale: I can promise it will feel like less than half an hour...

---

(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 1 romance scene)

• Gale: Have you noticed any attachments of the more, erm, romantic variety flourishing in our camp, Wyll?
• Wyll: I think I'm not the right person to be asking.
• Wyll: I can recognise a troll's silhouette on a far horizon, but I wouldn't know a flirtation if you whacked me alongside the head with it.

---

(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 2 romance scene)

• Gale: I've heard that in Baldur's Gate, 'wizard' is also a term used for one who eschews their more, ahem, carnal desires. Is that true, Wyll?
• Wyll: Where are we going with this, Gale?
• Gale: Oh, nowhere. I just think it a rather cruel misnomer. Not at all reflective of the glamour wizarding life affords.

---

(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 3 romance scene)

• Wyll: I used to believe the beauty of first love was unable to be surpassed.
• Wyll: But Gale - you are so much more tolerable now you've found your second.
• Gale: I'll take that comment with the sincerity and good will I assume it was intended.

Gale/banter and Halsin

(At Last Light Inn)

• Halsin: Last Light Inn - hearth aglow and lanterns lit, just like a hundred years ago!
• Gale: I imagine the vista was more idyllic back then. As were its patrons' chances of surviving the walk home.
• Halsin: Still though, when you are expecting nothing but desolation, even a small glimmer of hope fills the heart.

---

(At an abandoned house in Shadow-Cursed Lands)

• Gale: Home and hearth, reduced to ruins. The shadow curse stole more than the light from this place.
• Halsin: That is why it must be stopped. Imagine, a whole century of life and love, denied the chance to ever take place.
• Halsin: Whole generations were denied their chance to flourish. I must put this right, for them.

---

(At Reithwin Town)

• Halsin: To think, long ago, the druids feared this market town would grow into a city, and threaten nature's realm... little did we realise what the true threat was.
• Gale: Divination is a skill few can master. The rest of us must simply muddle along, content to view the past with a clarity the future rarely offers.
• Halsin: Perhaps I can yet turn hindsight into foresight - provided the curse is lifted. A better way for all.

---

(At Grand Mausoleum)

• Halsin: I never favoured tombs - nothing but vanity. Upon death, mortal remains should be returned to nature, to nourish and replenish itself.
• Halsin: To seal away that which a person no longer needs is to lessen the Oak Father's bounty for all.
• Gale: I'm not sure Ketheric Thorm would prove the most bounteous of bodies...
• Halsin: Yes, you are right. He is one sort I would rather seal away forever, to prevent his rot from causing any further harm.

---

(At Wyrm's Rock Fortress)

• Halsin: Brickwork and stonework - this place is far out of balance with nature. But the Oak Father will reclaim this all, eventually.
• Gale: Not too soon, I hope. I've a craving for a soft bed, a hot bath and a large glass of Arabellan Dry - none of which I've ever found hidden under a log.
• Halsin: You may thrive, but what of other life? A city is no place for wild creatures.
• Gale: City's teem with life. Rats, pigeons, flies - they count no less, for all their more pestilent qualities.

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(If the player is romancing Haslin in act 3)

• Gale: Wildshaping must sprinkle some spice on your love life, Halsin.
• Halsin: Indeed it does. Did you never experience such delights with Mystra?
• Halsin: I hear the gods enjoy taking on the form of swans, horses, eagles and the like when visiting with mortals.
• Gale: Oh no. Quite the opposite, actually. She mostly preferred our interactions to be abstract and incorporeal. Most invigorating.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 3 romance scene)

• Gale: Halsin, you must have accumulated considerable wisdom on matters of the heart in your long life.
• Gale: Anything you'd like to pass on to a strapping, love-struck wizard such as myself?
• Halsin: Dispensing advice on matters of the heart would be like swapping boots - what suits me may be a poor fit for you.
• Gale: Ah. Well, there's no faulting that logic. At least you didn't tell me to 'be myself'.
• Halsin: Oh no, perish the thought. That can be outright cruel advice to offer in certain cases.

Gale/banter and Minthara

(At Rivington)

• Gale: Pigeons, gulls, sparrows - these streets make a fine hunting ground for a tressym like Tara.
• Minthara: In the Underdark, we have packs of winged hounds to deal with vermin like your precious Tara.
• Gale: Flying hounds? Come now - you're pulling my leg, aren't you?
• Minthara: Yes I am. It is the bats that would make a meal of her.

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(If the player is romancing Minthara; after act 2 romance scene)

• Gale: I'm glad to know you have a softer side, Minthara. I was beginning to think you rather heartless.
• Minthara: Loving another is not soft, wizard. It is one of the hardest things a person can do.
• Gale: So you admit you've found love! How delightful - I'm happy for you both.

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(If the player is romancing Minthara; after act 3 romance scene)

• Gale: I found an empty bottle of venom in camp, Minthara. Safe to assume it was yours?
• Minthara: Indeed. I have been dosing my partner while they sleep by my side.
• Minthara: They refuse to take it in their food, but I must build up their immunity in case we ever visit Menzoberranzan together.
• Gale: Let's never speak of this again.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 2 romance scene)

• Minthara: You've been smiling like a fool of late, wizard. Explain yourself.
• Gale: I've found love. Surely even you wouldn't begrudge me some happiness.
• Minthara: All I will say on the matter is that you were wise to lower your standards from the godly to the ghastly.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 3 romance scene)

• Minthara: Do you have elder siblings, wizard?
• Gale: You're about to say something awful, aren't you?
• Minthara: In Menzoberranzan, after a house has two sons, every subsequent male-born child is slaughtered at birth, as it is useless, even for breeding.
• Minthara: You have the aura of a third child about you.

Gale/banter and Jaheira

(At Bhaal Temple)

• Gale: Gods, who knew such a vile abcess lurked in the bedrock of the city. The very stone reeks of misery and despair.
• Jaheira: A sad shrine kept by the lunatic and the lost. The last time I was here, I promised myself I would die beneath open sky. I have not changed my mind.
• Gale: Nor should you. Far better to feel a cool breeze on your skin than whatever foul expirations blow through these halls.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 3 romance scene)

• Jaheira: So you wish to be a god, Gale? You know the wizard Irenicus attempted the same thing, by leeching divine blood from a Bhaalspawn.
• Gale: Aha, transfusion! An interesting strategy. Hard to get hold of a god's blood, of course, but if one could...
• Jaheira: He managed it. After murdering my husband, and torturing my friends and I for half a year.
• Gale: Did I say interesting? I meant terrible, of course. A terrible strategy...

Gale/banter and Minsc

(At Sorcerous Sundries)

• Minsc: Minsc has never trusted places such as this. Too much of a wizard's power can be simply packaged and picked up.
• Minsc: Well, picked up by all but Minsc. When he touches the many delicate little jars, oh how the wizards shout and stare!
• Gale: Fear not, Minsc. You have a wizard at your side who positively encourages such curiosity. You'll fit right in.
• Minsc: Obliged, wizard. Should we find our way to a weaponsmith, Minsc will rough you up a little - so that you too can fit in.

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(At Water Queen's House)

• Minsc: Umberlee - her clerics possess a nasty streak as wide as her oceans.
• Gale: So their reputation suggests - especially among the good folk of Waterdeep. I'm curious to learn how you fell foul of them...
• Minsc: 'Blasphemy', said the temple priestess. But Minsc says: do not give horns to your statues if you do not wish the visitors to try and make them toot.
• Gale: Yes, that would probably do it.

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(At House of Hope)

• Minsc: Gale! You will perhaps able to explain where Boo has not - what exactly is the difference between a devil and a demon?
• Gale: A fascinating question, one that boils down to which criteria we choose to apply. Are we speaking about the physiological? Theological? Etymological?
• Minsc: Eh. Just how-to-kill... -ical.
• Gale: Oh. Then for your purposes, they are exactly the same.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 3 romance scene)

• Minsc: Gale. Minsc worries you might send a fireball up his butt, with all of this stringy hair in your face.
• Gale: Is that why you keep your head shaved? I assumed it was a custom of some sort.
• Minsc: Oh, no! Most warriors of Rashemen wear long battle-braids, weighed down with stone. Minsc can show you, when next we camp?
• Gale: Thank you, but I'm more wizard than warrior. I'm not sure my scalp would stand up to such a plaiting.