“… it ain’t worth it.”
Any idea if something other than a power grab was on the table for Gallywix? I know he has a history of cycling through “I’m alone in the world, I don’t need anyone” and “wish someone would love me”. Wonder if Xal played into that somehow.
I do wonder if we will find out Gallywix was doing something sort of good in his own evil way.
Maybe Xalatath offered him to keep Undermine has his own fiefdom in her service - sparing it from the total destruction that others would surely face.
One thing that sparked my curiosity is during the boss fight, Gallywix says:
“you chumps owe me”
As if he did something for us that we don’t know about and he doesn’t want to say.
probably not, the time to build up gallies motivations was during the campaign and they didn’t do it.
I kinda wonder if Gallywix just recognized a fellow scammer when he saw one and was holding onto the repaired Dark Heart instead of handing it over right away because he figured it would give him leverage and keep Xal’atath from just having him disposed of once she had what she wanted. That’s kind of her M.O.
Theoretically, as long as he still had it he could potentially demand whatever she’d promised and threaten to hand it over to us instead if she reneged on her part of their deal.
His “you chumps owe me” line seems to be keyed to adds spawning in during the fight, so I think that’s just him calling them. A lot of the mobs and other bosses in the raid who aren’t explicitly Darkfuse are supposed to be goblins who personally owed Gallywix, as he called in all of his debts to protect him after losing his leverage on the other cartels cost him most of the manpower he had in Undermine.
I swear the game said this explicitly somewhere. Did it not and I just imagined that was the case because it seemed clear?
I only remember she directed Gallywix to the Black Blood. A similar if same deal to the Nerubians. 
I do not recall it being said explicitly, but I also just assumed a scammer knows a scammer, and Gallywix was holding back until he had an exit strategy of his own planned, and he thought the Ethereals coming for the Heart was Xal’atath calling his bluff.
Maybe it does make it clear somewhere!
I remember the scene when he realized it wasn’t the case, and how emotional they both were. Xal lost her cool and became enraged, while Gallywix looked genuinely hurt when she abandoned him. He did say “we” can fix this to try and appeal to Xal. As opposed to “I” can fix this. Meaning he might have had some delusions about the situation.
“Cartels divided… can not survive… what is to come.”
I think it’s supposed to be his hobgoblins. Funny enough, there’s no goblins that show up to aid Gallywix in his fight, it’s all mechanicals and oafs. Every true goblin either died or abandoned him (like that one idiot with the mice.)
That was an interesting piece, him looking genuinely hurt.
It’s fitting. He treated everyone around him as tools to be used and discarded when their usefulness reached an end… And eventually got the same treatment.
Additionally, Xal saying “But I’ll enjoy watching them tear you apart” was quite cruel. Reminded me of the post-Ansurek fight where she said “I just wish you had lasted a little longer.”
God, Xal is such a horrible creature. I love her.
It kind of struck me as Gallywix figuring that with him backed into a corner and her deprived of the Dark Heart, she’d surely help him out because now they had the common ground of both being in a desperate predicament.
Only for her abrupt departure and final words to swiftly disillusion him of that assumption and yank away that last thread of hope as quickly as he’d grabbed onto it.
The true reason why Xal’atath rejected Gallywix was not because she wanted to see him squirm, but because she did not want to be a loot pinata like so many before her. After all, she knows what the PC’s are capable of. There is a reason why she calls the PC shadow priest her ‘favourite’ and never left their side. Until the PC shadow priest filled her full of Sargeras corruption and dumped her in their bank.
And thats all there is to it…just pure evil talking and being cruel while she herself is completly useless.
Because, i love how she says “Ho i wont help you since you failed me” i was like “yeah right thats as if you had done anything anyway girl…”
I love how people can like such chars that are just monolithic evil and just have no sympathy
How can you genuanly “love” a person who just dont even know the meaning of such a word? There is literally no gain with such person, it just seek to end the whole existence, no power gains, no bright future etc…
I’ll let you in a little secret, just don’t spread around, okay?
A person can like evil characters. They are characters, not real people.
Thats have nothing to do with “like or not like” a character, it have to do with a character being just a monolhit and have the personnality of a rock.
The goal of Xal’atath and her projects etc are just not something you can “buy” because again, there is no future in them.
Its always what i found super silly when you had the Twilight Hammer, the guys worship deities that will just bring their death…thats just not logical at all.
In Lovecraft, you do have such worships on Azatoth which only goal is to just end all existence, but its clearly stated that Azatoth is worshipped by clinicly mad persons only.
Its as if you worshipped a black hole…the thing have no emotions, no love toward you, it will only destroy you and yet they worship it…but irl nobody worship black holes which shows how the idea of such a thing is dumb.
Sometimes people just like characters because they vibe with their design and/or personality. Personally I’m interested to see where the story with her goes even though I know eventually shes gonna turn into a loot piñata.
It’s about the journey, not the destination.
I like Xal because she’s a manipulative, sassy evil entity. Not because I buy into her designs.
Well, as i explained in another thread and i will keep saying it : Xal journey is about failing.
I am sorry but, what did she do after destroying Dalaran really? (Which she did not accomplish on her own she had help)
She is inept without her dark heat it seems, all she do is floating around talking and staring, thats what i say when i say “thats all there is”
The char claims to know everything, but did you see her prouve you that she do? Because from what we saw, she needed the help of a mere goblin, to fix an artefact of the Void while she is a Void entity.
She seems to be all but talk.
Xal’atath is still real to me, gosh dang it!!!
She likely promissed nothing, but gave him everything lmao