Oh Btw If You Hook Up With Wyll Laezel Tries To Bang Gale And Is Completely Unsuccessful LOL

oh btw if you hook up with wyll lae’zel tries to bang gale and is completely unsuccessful LOL

You know what? It’s fine. You will tell me when you’re ready.

every day i have to see people legitimately thinking gale is the “problem” in his background. and that a goddess of magic who literally does this shit to multiple people needs their protection from A VERY MUCH HUMAN wizard. your words are truly as empty as your head. 

baldur’s gate but i’m an idiot p.2

OH BOY 

Finally got the wizard man’s romance to work (so cute <3) 

TL;DWR - Gale’s revelation is about the Netherese orb, in his mind that is the most pressing issue and retelling his story about him & Mystra is just laying the groundwork, ergo he doesn’t really realize how hurtful it is for the player until he’s thought about it after the fact 

And I’ve seen the romance before of course but having played through it myself I’m realizing how the fandom has really focused in on the “heyyyy kinda sorta slept with Mystra, y’know the goddess?” part of the morning after revelation (which is totally fair it’s kind of a gut punch tbh and I’m glad that his apology does seem genuine when he realizes it was a rude move) when Gale himself is focused on the whole Netherese orb. In fact, going through it again I don’t think the revelation is about Mystra (for him) it’s about the orb; which is not how it’s framed if you ask the fandom in general. For Gale, it really seems like the story about him and Mystra is more-so laying the groundwork for what he thinks is the real big bad, we need to talk ™ issue: the Netherese time-bomb in his chest. 

And when you look at that interaction from that perspective, the way Gale is looking at it, the scene makes a lot more sense. In the interaction, I chose the dialogue option along the lines of “MAN it sucks that you’re telling me about a previous lover in the next morning” and Gale responds with “Well if it makes you feel any better the affair didn’t last long.” 

Again, if you’re seeing this revelation as being ABOUT Mystra and Gale then that line seems like a really OOC & rude response from Gale. But if you bear in mind for him that retelling is just to set the stage then the line make a lot more sense. I think that he genuinely is so focused on the orb and how much of a danger he is to the player (especially after sharing a night of delights with them) that he doesn’t clock that right now the Mystra thing is the most hurtful thing for the player to hear. He says in the apology that he needed to tell the PC and thought it would be worse if they were told later rather than sooner. And if you are still of the mind that “well he didn’t have to talk about Mystra”  then consider 1. it’s Gale, he’s a storyteller, he’s definitely going to tell the whooooole story 2. he tells the whole story in the non-romance version of the conversation too, for him the Mystra aspect of his story is the groundwork.  There’s even in-game reasoning for why his brain would work that way, the man’s INT is 16 and his WIS is 11.

in conclusion, wizard man is a good storyteller but is still a man, still very fallible. Fallible enough to get so caught up in telling his story, caught up in trying to be as honest as possible that he doesn’t realize until after the fact that his words could have been incredibly hurtful. 

i was curious if you could recommend any books/resources for learning Norwegian? (or just your favorite language resources in general) thank you!

Hi there!

In terms of books like textbooks:

The Mystery of Nils (A1/A2) and Mysteriet om Nils (B1/B2) are pretty great imo.

Norwegian Tutor from Teach Yourself has been an absolute life-saver for grammar

Also from Teach Yourself is Norwegian Short Stories, which has vocab lists for each story

Enjoy Norwegian is good for higher intermediate (although I've never really clicked with it)

Another one I never clicked with but is used in a lot of language schools is På Vei (A1/A2 level)

Some other resources:

Lesnorsk norskkurs - texts from A1-B2 level

I do actually think the Duolingo course is okay tbh (the audio's sometimes a bit strange, but as far as free resources go it's really good imo!)

Memrise is also a popular resource: here's a link to the first of their Norwegian courses (never clicked with it myself, but a lot of people like it)

Lingohut is also pretty good!

CALST is awesome for helping you learn to speak specific dialects

I’ve not tried using it, but Bnorsk seems to be a website where you can learn Norwegian for free

I also take classes on italki (if you're interested in giving it a go then lmk so I can give you a referral code and get you a few dollars off your first lesson. I've also taken lessons from a number of tutors and can maybe help you find the best one for you)

Here's a bunch of Norwegian instagram accounts you can follow

This is a website with set expressions and idioms in Norwegian

Bildetema is good for vocabulary - you see pictures with the Norwegian words next to them, and you can click on them to see how they’re pronounced. There are lots of different topics too!

ung.forskning.no is quite good if you're like B1 level and interested in science because the articles are quite short and basically made for younger readers so the language isn't so difficult (a number of them also have corresponding podcast episodes, so you can read the article to learn a bit about the topic and then listen to the podcast)

Podcasts:

Norskpodden is a good podcast for learners as they also have a transcript

Lær Norsk Nå! is also aimed at learners

Norsklærer Karense has her own podcast too

I quite like Smartere på 10 minutter as well because it's interesting and it's short and the presenter speaks in clear Oslo dialect. If you're still not used to listening in Norwegian, you can slow it down to half speed.

Oppdatert is also not too long, the presenters speak quite clearly and it’s about current affairs

E-books

While I absolutely do not endorse the author's awful transphobic views, I know a lot of people are interested in reading the Harry Potter books as a way to expand their vocabulary, and it sure would be a shame if you could find all the PDFs free online and not have to give money to that aforementioned author. (Side note: the translator uses "omforladels" as a translation for "sorry" which like no actual Norwegian person apart from maybe in some dialects uses ever)

You can also search ebooks by language (including Norwegian) and download them for free from here (definitely 100% not illegal in any way shape or form *shifty glance*)

If you prefer to buy Norwegian ebooks actually legally, you can do so here.

Youtube channels:

Special shoutout to Norwegian Done Easy because Markus is my italki tutor and he's awesome (plus I'm featured! So you can see my silly little face Norwegianing as hard as it can!)

Norsklærer Karense (I'm uhh not actually a fan BUT she has lots of useful videos for like A1-B2 level. There's also a lot of useful information about culture and moving to Norway and integration and test-taking)

Preben's Norwegian Academy (he's from Nord-Norge, so you get some dialect exposure too)

Norskkurset (it's not updated for a little while but there are some good videos there!)

Norwegian Teacher Karin (another one that's not updated for a while but still has some good videos)

Norwegian With Tor (for a little Tromsø dialect)

Hope that's enough to get you started/keep you going! Let me know if you have any questions :)

I thought you might’ve wanted to mingle with the others.