About vampire spawn: that is interesting. So Astarion by all rights should be a better zombie. I can see the outcry of the fangirls
Not quite zombie like, but he should be much stranger than he is. Even when the tadpole somehow suppresses all his weaknesses (but doesn't protect from negative status effects for some reason), Astarion would still be undead which gets totally ignored.
He doesn't sleep, he doesn't breath, he doesn't tire, his hunger is not compareable to the hunger of a living being and you could cut of his arm and not only would he not feel anything, the arm would also regrow. He also wouldn't have felt anything when he was scarred, nor would the scars be permanent, unless maybe that was done before making him a spawn, but considering his backstory that is not the case. It would also be highly questionable if he could even have sex or feel anything (physical) during it because his body is a dead piece of flesh, nothing more.
Jaethal from Kingmaker is a much better representation of an undead, and still was humannized a lot.
