I've had it with AA and his stupid kisses. Wherever you go, nothing but those seem to be the topic. That being said, not everything has to be a metaphor for sexuality, sometimes sacrificing 7000 people for a quality of (un)life upgrade is simply sacrificing 7000 people for a quality of (un)life upgrade, which is not such a great thing to do.
Though, I have to wonder if you took a look at the epilogue party at all. While romanced Astarion's epilogue is pretty lacklustre because it seems to be missing the middle portion, un-romanced Spawn Astarion embraces the night and his vampiric nature, using his skills in a positive way by being a hero-adventurer. The letter the Gur (the monster hunters) send him express admiration for him, and inform you how they have started to modify their methods of subduing vampires in a way that helps their now vampiric children to deal with their hunger. I won't go into detail about the insanely good spawn-ending of my Astarion-Origin, because I feel everyone here must be sick of me gushing over it by now - but overall the "good" / spawn path leads to Astarion accepting his nature and, if you let the other spawn live, leads to the possibility of allowing other non-evil vampires to live among other people. Where is that a bad ending or bad messaging?
Also, shouldn't in your analogy curing vampirism be a bad thing?
Last edited by Anska; 21/02/24 12:34 PM.
