Larian Studios

Hello Larian, I'm a big fan of your game and I appreciate all the hard work you've put into it. I especially love Astarion, he's been my favorite character since the early access. However I was a bit let down by his ending. I feel like he deserves a better outcome based on his choices.

Don't get me wrong. I understand that he's a vampire spawn and he has to deal with the consequences of his condition. But it was disappointing to see what he gets in the end as the outcome of rejecting the ritual and the corrupted power after all along the adventure with him. And the way his ending is presented in a humorous tone of fleeing from the sunlight feels out of place and insensitive. It's like his suffering is a joke to others.

I'm not asking for a fairy tale-like happy ending or something unrealistic. I wish his storyline ended with finding a cure for his sunlight sensitivity if he doesn't ascend. Or maybe you could change his ending scene to make it more respectful and fitting for his character arc.

I know you have a lot of things to work on and you can't please everyone, but I hope you can consider updating his story or ending like you did for Karlach. I think Astarion is such a complex and interesting character. Thank you for reading this and for making this amazing game.

I'm with you on that.

In "good" ending it feels like he is treated like a joke at the docks (really with I could punch Gale), Tav just standing there looking at the love of HER life running for HIS life. I mean, come on, let her run after him or cover him or do something productive. Then if you're lucky and you actually get the conversation after that, the options provided are very lackluster and he has very little to say.

The "bad" ending is no better with the dialogue options provided. For the game that prides itself on a variety of choices, in reality there aren't that many that matter or acknowledged afterwards.

The epilogue as a whole stinks, how lazy is it that after 90+ hours of playing you get just a few minutes of closure? I don't know, add some slides at the end if you can't manage anything better. Very disappointing.

I still haven't gotten to the end yet because of how disappointing I read it is. His main objective was, firstly, to get rid of Cazador and, secondly, to be able to live in the sun after years of darkness. After reading many posts during the EA era, I thought the key to getting that ending was in Thay's book of Necromancy and the scroll of true resurrection. I thought that because that was the only way the book would be relevant after he didn't need it to get rid of Hunter anymore, but when that didn't happen ... I wish I had let the book rot in the ruined town because the ghoul's spell isn't worth it. There are multiple options to make him sun-resistant or even let him have an ending when he rejoins his brothers and sister in the Underdark, but what we get is just... horrible after all the character growth he experiences during the game.

You make a good point, especially since there are means to cure his condition of being a Vampire Spawn with either a True Resurrection or Wish spell. Wish would be the more thematically interesting because you would need to choose - out of ALL the things it could do - to cure Astarion of Vampirism. Assuming you could only do this ONCE and you would need to find a creature willing to provide the spell for you - and there are GOOD creatures that can do that, and very evil ones.

So, yeah it feels like an opportunity lost.