Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion The romance with Astarion pulls you over to the "dark side".

Yes, this scene is not well developed. The whole point of this second meeting with Oblodra is to show the difference between the behavior of Astarion the lord and Astarion, to whom the "lordship" was broken. And this scene was written, as I think, primarily for Spawn Astarion, in which case there are no inconsistencies, and even her line "Never say never" looks much more "appropriate" than when she says it to Ascended Astarion. You can also drink her dubious brew and get "unstable blood", Tav's pools of blood will periodically involuntarily catch fire during combat, maybe for someone who likes to "play with fire" it's fine, in other cases it will only hinder you and your companions in combat. Astarion amusingly scolds you in this case (no cutscene, just a small line), but no interesting cutscene with vomiting or any other "suffering" of Tav is provided, just a small "bah-bah", which can damage Oblodra's property, and she will attack you herself and call the guards. Lord doesn't always warn you right away, sometimes other companions will try to talk you out of it and interrupt his line ("Astarion Spawn" is sure to say he "doesn't want you to get hurt"), but if you do pick up the smut, it's pretty spectacular.


Yes, the voice is simply marvelous! I have never heard a more expressive and beautiful voice before, the richest intonations, how the timbre varies depending on Astarion's mood and the situation... Exquisite, aristocratic speech, to understand Astarion in the original without subtitles you need a high level of English (and it helps to tighten English, because half of the pleasure is lost in translation). I looked up the meanings of the words that Ascended Astarion uses, they are all "ancient" compliments that were used among the nobility somewhere before the early 19th century. For example, "consort" is a wife, more often in the sense of "consort of a king or emperor" (that is, by becoming a spawn of Astarion, you're actually marrying him). And animations, of course, his movements and poses are the most vivid and characteristic of all the companions.


There's a book in Cazador's castle that talks about certain blood diseases, and that it would make a vampire sick if he bit one. What does the drow tell Astarion?