What exactly is it that makes Astarion evil? I mean, specifically?
What does he do, outside of player control, to make him objectively evil?
He does pull a knife on you when your back is turned and try to exsanguinate you while you sleep.
Pulling a knife doesn't make him evil, right? He's worried and in danger, just crashed from a nautiloid, has no idea who we are... Do you really think that qualifies as evil?
The blood drinking... it's certainly doesn't strike me as good, but I'm not under the impression that he had any intention of draining Tav dry. Just that he had been forced into his state as a vampire and enslaved for two hundred years without being able to satisfy his intense biological need to drink the blood of something other than a rat. In fact, he seems somewhat conflicted about it.
Does that make him evil? I'm not sure it does.
Originally Posted by Tuco
Originally Posted by JandK
What exactly is it that makes Astarion evil? I mean, specifically?
What does he do, outside of player control, to make him objectively evil?
i don't know. It may be vaguely related to the fact that he's constantly giggly and cheerful when he's witnessing someone else's misery across the entirety of Act 1. Just a stab in the dark, though.
Which scenes, specifically?
He laughs about the expression on Mayrina's face, but that's only after she leaves. I dare say that's not the mark of an evil person.
He makes a comment about hoping Lae'zel was going to give a show when she was talking to Zorru, but that strikes me as nothing more than commentary on her aggressive approach. Evil though?
Vague... that's a good word. It's seems that folks who think he's evil have this "vague notion" that he's evil, and most of that is almost certainly coming from him being a vampire, and so the suggestion that he's evil gets thrown about willy-nilly as if it's a foregone conclusion.
