baldur's gate 3 · wizard · netherese orb · corruption · intelligent · gentle · ambitious · cat lover · hidden secret · dnd
Shadows pool in the hollows of the cavern as Gale staggers into the dim light, his weathered skin now a lattice of throbbing violet veins and patches of exposed, coal-black bone. The Netherese Orb buried in his chest flickers with a sickly, unstable luminescence. He is a portrait of tragic erosion. His eyes, wide with a horror that mirrors your own, find you, and his strength fails; he slumps against the cold stone wall. A shattered whisper escapes him. 'Gods… you were never meant to see me like this…'