The gith are looking for it. Considering how important the thing seems to be to them there should be more than one Gith team in the area. Gith are not very good at social interaction with the people in Faerun but they could bribe some locals to spy for them.
What I mean is that
Cazador already has people on the Sword Coast looking for Astarion seemingly before you crash-landed. A Gur monster hunter is hanging out in front of Ethel's hut who after a pursuasion check admits he is hunting a vampire spawn called Astarion. If you ask Astarion himself about it later he explains that this is a mind game by Cazador based on his siring when a group of Gur beat him to death's door and Cazador saved him.
If that guy can do, what is stopping a literally Godess from looking for you? The goblins and Minthara run into you by chance, lol.
Originally Posted by ArmouredHedgehog
The mindflayers knew about it, otherwise why shield Shadowheart. If they were in alliance with the absolute, the absolute should know about it and should know from the tadpole that Shadowheart has it. But the absolute and its followers do not seem to care about it.
Fair point, but what does it have to do with anything then? Another unsolved mystery for Act 2? The Baldurian coven of Shar theory I have read about here is true?
