Baldur's Gate 3 PSA: Gale Will Still Kill You If He Explodes In Hell

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Gale is one of Baldur's Gate 3's more dangerous characters. He's a lovely guy, but if he pops his clogs in the middle of a crowded city, and you leave his body to fester, there will be nothing left but a crater after a few days thanks to the destructive force of the Netherese Orb in his body. Gale himself says he'll go somewhere with no one around and wait for his death if you don't help him, but what if you poofed him to another plane of existence?

Unfortunately, sending Gale's dead body down to the depths of Hell isn't enough to stop your game coming to an end, as Reddit user ThePawn08 discovered earlier this week. In the now deleted post (they made another one here), they explained that in an attempt to potentially stop Gale from killing everything within a 100-mile radius, they made Raphael an unwilling participant in sending his body to Hell.

Shortly before Gale went boom, ThePawn08 managed to get Raphael to spawn in their camp, as they hadn't run into him in the early game like most people do. During his visit, ThePawn08 cast a spell to silence Raphael to stop him from teleporting away, and then somehow managed to reverse-pickpocket Gale's dead body onto him without him knowing.

After the silencing spell wore off, ThePawn08 then talked to Raphael, who then teleported back to The House of Hope, completely unaware of the dead wizard he now has in his trousers. Unfortunately, after a long rest, ThePawn08's world was still completely decimated by the Gale bomb, as it seems like Larian understandably may not have taken into account Gale potentially going off on a different plane of existence.

However, something a little different does happen if Gale blows up in Hell, as instead of getting the cutscene you'd usually get when he goes boom in the normal world, ThePawn08 apparently just got a lengthy black screen for their effort. I guess you can technically class that as a new ending?

Incredibly, ThePawn08's experiment with Gale's dead body isn't the weirdest thing