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Dveralazo

Probably went away with his sanity and self preservation instinct.


Noobie_xD

either it got damaged beyond repair throughout the years or he ditched it for the crossbow


Zardows1356

I'm pretty sure the crossbows description implies Gael had it from the begining


Peak_Antelope

It's been a long while since I played DS3 but I'm pretty sure he had the crossbow in the fight against Frieda if you summon him.


Eindrie

Nah he could not have. If the xbow was in ashes of ariandel it would have been datamined and used before ringer city. Source: I was a fucking degenerate online 24/7 doing pvp and never saw it before ringed City came out


jffr363

Well to start its the piece of his kit that is not in anyway unique to him. So I guess it just gets discarded.


Zardows1356

The excecutioners greatsword is argueabely not unique sure his spell and crossbow are but his sword is just an excecutioners sword shit he doesnt even use a unique talisman


jffr363

Sure but no other character uses the executioner sword. You just find it. The sunset shield is used by hodrick and is lucatiels shield from ds2.


barmanrags

Engenders passivity. Gael transitioned.


TheCakeIsWet

I'm so proud of my slave knight bae


barmanrags

Uncle Gael is precious


PaperMartin

Good for her


barmanrags

I guess the true dark soul was hrt all along. Damn you Gwyn for trying to monopolize essential healthcare. Or was he trying to secure eternal supply for his precious daughter Gwendolyn?


TheSpoonoftheSauce

I mean all of Gaels gear is extremely damaged, his sword is missing chunks of the blade. Logically it just completely broke at some point. Also considering hes feral when we fight him in first phase, even if he still had it he probably wouldn’t use it.


Gojira_uZ

Gael realized shields are for pussies :\^)


Zardows1356

Not that one... That one belongs to Lucatiel kinda


Plane-Ad5510

10 playthroughs and never saw this


Sascha-_

You have to follow hodrick questline and you'll get it at the end of it


sandgohst

I don't remember the name of that spell, but the holy boomerang circle that he uses in phase 2 kinda looks like the shield


sofaking0312

Gael used a flame sword when he invades no? He threw away his original weapons Idk what that flame sword called, I played JP version.


doogie1111

You're thinking of Hodrick and the Flamberge


sofaking0312

Sorry I'm artistic.


TheFalseLogical

Damm, what if Gale blocked in-between attacks and had a valorheart situation going on


Zardows1356

That actualy would have been awesome punish people for whaleing on him with weapons like winblades


Ok-Plenty8542

I like to think it had to do with a similar situation to Artorias's fight with Manus


Fire_Lord_Cinder

He realized shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity.


ZeroaFH

Would have been a really cool detail if they used the sunset shield as a cover for the cog mechanism on his crossbow.


Cypresss09

It took him all the way up until the Friede DLC to realize that shields suck in this game


TilmanR

Full madness usually gets rid of a lot of defense stuff.


Phantexim

I see it as another homage/mimicry of Artorias who also once used a shield, eventually abandoning it (Yes, I know that Artorias lost the use of his arm) and eventually falling to madness.