What about Astarion's past as a corrupt magistrate?
Only Digital Artbook, which is great, but beyond that it's foggy.

Article review of the demo BG3 by Rob Zacny:
"A disgraced nobleman who used his position as a local magistrate to serve a vampire clan by feeding them prisoners, he was eventually too corrupt even for them and was effectively sent to serve as the personal slave of a powerful vampire."

'Baldur's Gate 3' Tries to Capture the Chaos of D&D Gone Horribly Wrong
February 28, 2020
Presentation Baldur's Gate 3 demo by Swen Vincke

Apparently, the Swen Vincke quote was from here, but I haven't looked it up in full.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYSqQuqCAZI

Current information:
"Two hundred years ago, Astarion was a corrupt elite of Baldur’s Gate with a taste for power and a hunger for eternal life. It wasn’t long before these desires became a nightmarish reality. "
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He was definitely a magistrate once upon a time. We find out in the swamps after we meet the hunter. There's no point in lying now.

He chose a career of power, a magistrate. He was young by elf standards. He was going to move up the ladder.
I think he was trying really hard to bang Baldur’s Gate. Weaving intrigue and trying to get more power, wine, gold and glory. The vampire clan doesn't hire just anyone.

Now Astarion doesn't remember his eye color. I wonder such an important moment that indirectly affected his slavery to Casador he remembers?
Or perhaps remembers old notes that say that 200 years ago prisoners were strangely disappearing. And the sentences in court were sometimes, (despite his young age), too harsh. Because putting more behind bars (young, tasty thieves, for example) would mean more food for the vampires and more reward for Astarion.

I want this prequel incredibly badly. Or an investigative quest.

It'll probably warm the Earth for sure after it, but it's fun for me.
I'm gonna fry sausage on a fork like the gargoyle from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Because it's a brilliant.

I certainly won't love Astarion as a character any less, only more.
It's a terrific moral conflict and an interesting philosophical theme about fate, punishment, and mercy.

Courage is something that is sorely needed right now.

Baldur’s Gate isn't My little ?p?o?n?n?y?/vampire spawn, is it? Don't get me wrong. I love Rarity.
It's just DnD, BG3 is Dark Fantasy.

Astarion is not a fairy tale prince.
Many are already writing his dark side is a mask.

It's certainly fun&cute to see how people want to fix:

Medieval, pale, noble, dangerous, decadent, corrupt, power hungry, magistrate, hedonist, racist, lookist, elf, rogue, undead, neutral-evil, vampire spawn who got slaved, escaped the cage and wants everything in the world.

Fix/cure and play patty cake with him in the evenings. Well, you're a Dungeon Master, okay, if you like sweets. I rather prefer spice, the old school love-obsession, vampiric decadence from the villain.
Ascension exposed by some as a non-Astarion, sort of a potato on legs, and not evil part of Astarion's own canon-personality, such as it is. And going from neutral-evil vampire spawn to evil vampire Lord, Ascended, btw he's a pretty new creature after that, interesting to learn more.

I met Astarion on the beach when he literally had a dagger to my throat, was making pro-slavery comments about gnomes and humans, (and it's a pity what the scene in the mushroom colony was removed), and was generally hungry for slaughter. And power wanted, even as a living elf.

What a magnificent evil trickster.

Can we please have more attention and care, it's quite needy, to those players who just love its inner, wild, dark, charming mess.

Maestro, Stephen Rooney, are you there?

I'm not the only one interested in his backstory. Seeing his dark past and\or side (as a spawn too) will be a gift.

It's kind of risky when there's so much attention focused on BG3. (Maybe later?) But for example, Jaime Lannister pushed a kiddo off a tower with one hand.

I realize Larian has a lot on their hands, Minthara, patches, Epilogues.
It's just…

Please, pretty please

Last edited by LiryFire; 07/11/23 05:18 PM.