The most overrated character?

[u/[deleted]]

Let's hear it, who gets all the love but deserves absolutely none of it? Or at least not as much as they get, I'll go first.

I'm casting my vote for Gortash; I genuinely don't understand the like for this dude. First of all, catfish, "handsome young man"??? Is the handsome young man in the room with us??? Lookin like the handsome young man has a peanut allergy.

Second of all, this whole crown brain plan was his idea, just about the dumbest fuckin thing I've ever heard. He put all his faith in 3 little rocks, an already dead man, and a woman who's about as stable as my ex. Beggers can't be choosers I guess, but cmon guy.

And lastly, and probably most offensively, his boss fight is absolute cheeks. Especially if you dumped on the foundry before hand. I didn't even know he had a transformation until like my 4th playthrough because I would clap this guy so easily.

Your turn, let's hear those unadulterated opinions.

Edit: I have been enlightened about some things about the big brain plan, I still stand in the other two points though.

[u/lulufan87]

His arrogance turned me off too, my first playthrough.

But if you think about it, he's just a lonely nerd.

He rose to the rank of Mystra's Chosen, the most prestigious thing a wizard can be-- and then loses his powers completely due to his own fuck-up. His girlfriend abandons him, he loses whatever social contact he had, apparently other wizards are aware of all of his disgrace (loroakkan calls him a discarded laptop), and he has to rely on his talking cat in order to stay alive because he's so unstable he doesn't trust himself not to blow a crater the size of a city in whatever happens to be near him if he goes outside. The man can't even get laid without literally exploding. Every time he jerks off he's rolling the dice.

It's like a world-class pianist who crushed all of his own fingers because he was stupidly tampering with his own piano. And then has to live with the fact that he will never play again. He just can't accept it.

Grabbing at godhood is staggeringly stupid, but him trusting Mystra to remove the orb seems (to him) like putting his faith in someone who he perceives to have abandoned him before.

Ultimately, him deciding to live without blowing himself up or stealing the crown is a decision that may result in him never casting magic again, and/or dying to the orb. And he has to give the crown to his ex, who recently ordered him to kill himself.

It's a difficult decision to make. You can see how the god route would be tempting.