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Yeah, I can totally buy Astarion being a massive fan of Drizzt. I'd imagine he's read many of his tales over the past century. The guy is basically the embodiment of what Astarion had always wanted to be: a man who had the strength to break free of his chains and use that freedom to become a legend.
That's a really good point. Also while I don't think Drizzt was ever enslaved (I haven't read his first trilogy in years and then I didn't finish it) he was still controlled by the women of his houses. They're also both light sensitive, just to different degrees (I am reading the crystal shard right now, and Drizzt just straight up gets a photosensitive migraine including vestibular effects in one scene)
Also, Drizzt and Catti-brie sailed the Sword Coast as pirate hunters for 6 years (1358-1364 DR). Baldur's Gate, being one of the biggest port cities was surely their stop many times over that period. There's a large plausibility Astarion (on one of his hunts around the city's taverns) even saw Drizzt before, but due to being still under full control of Cazador, couldn't approach him as Drizzt would have cut a dangerous vampire spawn kidnapper to ribbons and Cazador, while cruel, wasn't one to put his toys in direct danger.
@@AbsolXGuardian I mean, enslaved for a male Drow is a relative term. They are a very misandric matriarchy and the men, essentially, are slaves in that society. So Dri'zzt very much understands the chains of slavery in his own right.
The "lavender eyes" and green cloak and twin scimitars were a dead give-away even before the GM mentioned the panther statuette. There's only one male non-evil drow with lavender-coloured irisis instead of red eyes.
And this comment made me laugh as I just NOW realized the height difference between my recent dnd and their romantic partner (a drow). Thank you for reminding me! It was an absolutely hilarious image 😂 (their height difference is also 9” much like the difference you pointed out, and also for context, my character is an exceptionally tall wood elf at 6’4” which is, again, why I laugh).
Drizzt Do'Urden is a heroic character from the Forgotten Realm novels (20 plus of them) that basically made a LOT of people play D&D around the 80's and 90's. Think of a combo Geralt or Rivia from the Witcher and in certain moments, Kratos.
I love the fact that he specifically chose to go after the Panther rather than the sword, rofl. Also, the _entire_ Drizzt fandom would have rolled Dark Urge playthroughs purely to kill Gale early and easily... as told by a friend of mine who is, in fact, a Drizzt fan.
So I have this headcanon that in some of the time Astarion had to himself between Cazador's abuse and torture, he'd think about the stories he'd heard of Drizzt and allow himself to fantasize about being rescued by him, even if he knew it would never happen. Then at some point after the events of the game and killing Cazador he realizes he HAS been rescued, just not in a way he could have ever imagined; not by a legendary hero but through his own determination, and the love and support of Tav and the rest of the party 🥲
Neil and Tim fighting over Guenhwyvar as Astarion and Gale will never stop being funny as hell. I’ve seen this clip maybe four times already and it’s STILL f**king HILARIOUS
My first playthrough I was a drow ranger because, honestly, I grew up with those books and am STILL a Drizzt fangirl at heart. This is honestly everything I never knew I needed and I want to hug everyone.
English isn't my native language but I can read with if I put a bit of effort. I'm into d&d since 3 years now, but never read any novel, book. Do you have a book, novel to recommend me ? Where to start ?
Indeed. apart from being a big BIG name around the Sword Coast, Gale would definitely know enough to recognize Drizzt, being a scholar who has read more books than probably everyone in the party. Karlach, since she knew Minsc, who was a legend over a damn CENTURY ago, would also definitely know & have her jaw dropped to the ground at meeting such a legend. Wyll, probably modeled his Blade of Frontiers persona after a good number of folk heroes, which definitely included Drizzt among them, so unlike his usual soft-spoken, cool, composed self, i'd imagine he would start stuttering as soon as he met Drizzt.
As someone that immediately started smiling whenever I saw even a slight mention of Drizzt in Baldur's Gate 3 in a random News Paper and some one off quote during the Minsc side quest in Act 3 I can say that I 100% understand the fan behavior
Fun fact: back in the day while playing Ultima Online and Everquest you would stumble upon many dark elfs / Drow that were based on Drizzt in RP, which became quite the running gag, because he was such a popular character. When I remember correctly this was also featured in the brilliant webcomic series "The Noob".
Total honesty, Drizzt is the whole reason i love DnD, reading his stories got me grabbing Dragon Magazine from the library and trying (and failing epically) to play Baldur's Gate 2 on my brother's computer
Okay. So my dad, who is a massive D&D nerd, now has some justification in naming me Drizzt lmao. Cuz this along with the joke in BG3 is fucking awesome to be able to talk about
I was watchign this live and i remember having the EXACT same reaction as neil about a half second before and it was like the spiderman meme it was so funny
within the context of the game,there's a very high chance that your average character class would have heard of Drizz't Dourden,especially if the books are canon to your campaign. I would have made Astarion roll an insight check (like at a 3 or something)
I wouldn't bother to have him roll at all. Astarion is a High Elf, born to a high class so likely well educated, and has been a vampire for 200 years already. And when he's chilling in camp, what is he doing? Reading books.
1:59 - she would poke out his lavender eyes and make jewelery with them, I guess 3:05 poor Gale 4:05 - omg, he's out of breath 6:40 - insert "Fight" in Mortal Kombat voice
@@SuccubiSage why? The way R.A.Salvatore spelled it in his novels is actually the very old English spelling of the name. And we are English. She alternates between wanting to be called Guenhwyvar and wanting to be called Guen anyway. It’s her choice.
@@CodeeXD not necessarily, in the other 2 games you could encounter the entire Companions of the Hall and kill them an take their stuff. You didn't keep it for too long before an NPC would hunt you down and take it but you could still do it
@@LightStreak567 No, he's describing Drizzt with the purple skin and white hair. But I noticed he was doing that for Tav, too, even though Tav is canonically a man, as well.
@@rainiermcbane2313 For Drizzt, I suspect he was trying to keep things vague so anyone knowledgeable in the party wouldn't immediately guess his identity (not that it stopped Neil lol). As for Tav, Tav is not canonically male-you can play them as any gender in the game. So, Mark likely used gender neutral terms so anyone listening could imagine their own Tav in the story.
@@hannahfreedman8295 Why keep Drizzt ambiguous. Why would the actors care if the elf was male or not? And Tav is canonically male. There is a picture of Tav in Blood in Baldur's Gate. He's a bald man (race unclear, but nothing monstrous; you just can't see his ears).
@@rainiermcbane2313 "Why keep Drizzt ambiguous?" For suspense, of course. And to make it more of a surprise when his identity is revealed. Why? Are you reading some nefarious nonbinary agenda into the DM's perfectly standard pronoun usage? Also, I really don't know what you're talking about saying that Tav is canonically a bald man. Have you had a chance to play the game yet? You can play a man, woman, or nonbinary person and there's plenty of options for hairstyle as well. You can even play a Dragonborn! If you haven't seen the character creator yet, there's a good guide to the different options here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N28wqvPP0iE.htmlsi=RgA4Xd9fMnZD-2x9 As you can see, you could create a bald man Tav if you want to. But there isn't really a default (unless you play Dark Urge, in which case the default is a male white Dragonborn).
@@XarkoCZ and? All you know is they met him, you didn’t have to know anything else lol it’s no different than a tv show, showing previews of the next episode. You still chose to click on the video and watch it. So, blame yourselves.
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