Talk:Slave Knight Gael/@comment-31664784-20180705150339

An interesting lore implication I just noticed: Gael has an executioner's sword, but also has his hood concealing the entirety of his face. In history official executioners were thought to conceal their faces during their executions as a means of retaining anonimity. This could mean that before becoming an undead slave knight, Gael was originally an executioner.

This in itself has significant implications toward Gael's motives and personality. The original Gael we see is a quite but friendly old man that goes to extreme lengths to help his adopted niece; not someone you'd expect to be a merciless killer. Perhaps he fled to the painted world because he got sick of killing? Perhaps he did all this work as a means of atonement? Perhaps even he wanted us to kill him, knowing we would honor his plan and thinking he deserved it?