Companions React to Dead Astarion Baldur's Gate 3. You can see Baldur's Gate III Companions React to Dead Astarion Cutscene following this video guide. Baldur's Gate III is a role-playing video game developed by Larian Studios.
@@YelMalanta Scrolls of Revivify are one of the most videogame-y things in the game. They can't undo plot death at all, and they're handed to every character like candy, which is not something D&D revivals typically are. ...The fact that it works on Astarion at all might be a bit of a lore-break, honestly. And this might be an old-school thing, but normally, I think elves in general are harder to revive from death than other races.
@@OneTrueNobody well I’d assume it’s for gameplay purposes, and the game knows that, I’m pretty DoS2 had a mode where you couldn’t resurrect or at least the revive scrolls were very very rare, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they add spice to this game like that.
@@YelMalanta It's absolutely for gameplay purposes, as is omitting the very expensive 300 GP diamond requirement for Revivify, which poofs upon casting, and the even more expensive component consumption of the higher-level spells.
@@OneTrueNobodyThe elf thing may be a hold over from prior editions. At the very least, neither the elf racial features nor revival spells mention anything about this.
So, after killing him you drag his corpse back over to his beadroll before casually going back to sleep, and then at some point wake up and change his clothes before morning.
@@xTwilightWolvesx what if you pick up his corpse, use it as a zombie, and end up blowing it up with barrelmancy? Or just straight up throw it into the Chasm?
Nah, apparently whatever you do he still ends up in Cazador's mansion for the ritual, even if you killed him somewhere, you can find his corpse later in the mansion for the ritual, and it goes away once Cazador is dead, so there's really no escape from him even if you kill him, Cazador brings him back for his ritual, he only gets peace when you kill Cazador, and hopefully before he ascends or otherwise his soul is sacrificed to hell to be tortured for eternity alongside his siblings and 7000 spawns. Yeah, Astarion really can only get away by killing Cazador before the ascension.
I appreciate there lack of care for his death considering this is a thing that happens early on where none of them really bonded. It shows how much more meaningful their care for each other later on is since not too long they wouldn’t make a second glance at their death before
I had never even considered the possibility of straight up killing him. I had assumed if you picked the "Stake him" option, it would miss and there would be more dialogue options lol
I had missed and he just says “you wretch!” and runs off. I’m assuming that eventually he would get captured by his siblings and would end up in cazador hands
I love this dialogue because it feels like an actual conversation, not just a back and forth between Tav and the exposition dumper of the day. Just a bunch of characters chatting and sharing their thoughts together.
How polite of Astarion to change into his regular attire after being killed. Sigma Grindset Tip: Don’t let being dead stop you from looking presentable.
It's wild how some companions in this game can be all the way from "That one vampire that tried to bite me when I started" to "My greatest ally and lover"
The death that _no one_ seems to cover is what happens if you fail at pulling Gale out of the portal at the start. As far as I can tell he's just _gone,_ and no one in the party says anything about it. So weird. It might be worse than this stake-through-the-heart scene, because at least here there is a body to mourn.. 😟
@Vora_Vixen yeah I did this my first time playing assuming he was just a nautaloid ship part or something. Then I saw people talking about Gale and I was like "who?"....
I like that they took the time to put astarion's corpse on the bedroll, and then they took the time to dress him up with his adventuring outfit and keep him on his bedroll
For those wondering why the scroll of revivify can’t revive him, ALL (or at least almost all) spells that revive something (not animating it) require the soul to be free and willing, in this case you killed him so he obviously wouldn’t want to come back.
Me encouraging my brother to role play to the fullest extent, and not let the fact that its a videogame get in the way of him doing what he wants: :D My face when he actually kills astarion: D:
Considering that you can respec all companions into anything, it doesn't really matter that much. You could change Gale into a rouge and play as a wizard xD @@MrNote-lz7lh
When i delated him to the bounty hunter, the day he dissapeared from the camp shadowhearth sayed: " - I will miss Astarion, but my neck wont." My girl!
My goodness, I was expecting something more...well, something other than this. The exact "Oh no, anyways" in a single conversation, anyhow, poor Astarion.
It's interesting, since the tadpole basically undoes everything that would characterize Astorian as undead. Thus, is Astorian truly undead when its in his head or was he restored to life?
@@UMCorian It hasn't really restored him to life, though. The tadpole didn't turn him into a live elf, it just stripped him of some of a vampire's weaknesses. He still needs to consume blood, has "all of a vampire's hunger," and is as wicked and power hungry as any vampire (at least as far as you'd be able to tell by the time this scene plays). According to some of his dialogue, he's also cold to the touch, has no reflection, and would smell like a corpse if he didn't always wear cologne, but those are comparatively minor things. If anything, the fact that he can now walk in the sun and enter people's houses without an invitation makes him a uniquely dangerous undead and especially important for a cleric of Kelemvor to destroy. The cleric would also have a duty to hunt down Cazador and destroy all of the spawn he has under his thumb. I wonder what that quest will be like with Astarion dead...
@@memenazi7078people like gale even if he hides he is a ticking bomb tho , and people like shadow heart even if she hides she is a sharrean , your only upfront companions are lazel , karlach and probably minthara, you get what you see
@@walabixha1746 the difference with gale or shadowheart is that they aren't acting like a**holes (even when gale is actualy a thermonuclear bomb and shadowheart essentialy in-universe equavilent to a demon worshipper), hell even laezel is tolerable even tho she's a c*nt just cuz she's not nearly as simped about i don't really hate astarion, it's more the simpery he gets and that people cope and pretend he's not a d*ck (also have to censor the swears even if it sounds cringy cuz i don't want youtube to hide the comment)
Yes yes, he's mad about it then forgives you 😂 just like he can kill you and you can be mad at him when you're revived but then you're back to being buddies. What a lovely bunch this party is.
@@mrjones2721 You stake him when he tries to bite you at the camp for the first time. You need to pass a check to land the stake, but it's not a very difficult check.
lol i just did this. first he pulls a knife on you, ok, i guess i can forgive it since it was a generally tense situation just after the ship crashed but now? like bruh just say that you need blood instead of trying to pull a fast one, we could have figured something out
I guessed he was a Vampire when I first met him and told my friends if he tries anything I would take him out. Then they all got mad at me for going though with it... apparently I am the bad guy for not let the elf bite me.
Started the game knowing nothing about it. I was rp-in Rhian Gosling, my m8 - JoJo (joseph joestar). That necksucking attempt on JoJo literally killed me for half an hour, I can't breathe and was worried if I die IRL.
@@avashnea lol no he doesn't. He stops if you pass a skill check to convince him. And it gets harder as you get weaker, meaning either he deems you easier prey the weaker you are, or he DGAF that you're clearly in danger. I actually like that though. Kinda poignant when you realize how much his story is actually about consent and bodily autonomy. I'm mad that we don't see this evolve at all over time, I'd love to see how Act 3 Romanced Astarion treats feeding on Tav compared to this. You know, assuming you don't ascend him and turn him into a soulless ubercunt.
@@IRedpunk The first time it was obvious WHY he did it and it was justified self defense,. He thought you were with the ones that kidnapped him. The 'second time' he had just been freed from 200 years of mental and physical abuse, was starving and desperate. He COULD have just grabbed and pinned you down, draining you dry and ran off. But he didn't, he immediately backed up and agreed to only bite you with you permission. A promise he kept from then on. You Astarion haters love to ignore what actually happens in game and make up your own bullshit excuses. Fuck off.
I love love love love love this game, but I wish there would have been more scenes where you have all of your party members talking like this. I know there's endless permutations and it's a lot to ask, too much, but when they are all talking to each other it feels a lot more like they all know each other and have dynamics outside of you. Sometimes as it is it feels a bit like it's just Tav/Durge talking to everyone. One thing that would've been awesome is a Wyll/Karlach romance happening if you didn't romance either 😊
Ouch. This hurts so bad. I am so attached to him, this genuinely makes me want to cry. Ofc I understand the player and the party's actions here, but having played through the game where he became a cherished friend... this is heartbreaking
FR. Especially with how hurt he looks. I mean obviously not just ouch you stabbed me hurt, but you know how much it means to him if you accept him as a vampire, you know if you play the Origin for him that he had a nightmare about Cazador right before this and was trying to work through some slavery stuff, you know he's genuinely scared of you reacting badly to him admitting he's a vampire even without the bite itself being what catches your attention... Like, he actually looks like a kicked puppy. Like he dies thinking, oh gods, I survived so much, just to get killed by a friend because I was hungry. Like okay yes you can argue he deserves it and Tav's reaction is pretty natural, but god damn I want to hug him.
Apparently no. This is one of the few irreversible "plot deaths" where a companion cannot be brought back. (Another one is if you send Lae'zel on to the Creche alone.)
after completing the game by saving all companions including Halsin and Minthara, I'd say I'd gotten rid of Lae'zel, Astarian, and Minthara naturally if I hadn't decided to do a morally good run.
then just don't recruit him if you don't want him in your game at all. none of the companions are required. you can ignore them completely or, if you do meet them, refuse to join up with them
You actually can't revive him if you succeed in killing him, you can only revive him after fights, but in cutscenes like this, nah. Unless you bring that temple down on his head yes you can revive him after that, but the moment you stake him yourself you lost him forever, gotta redo your whole playthrough again if you want him to stay in your party.
@@Karomix3 I see. Just kind of silly tav could be revived after astarion drains them of blood, but astarion can't be if tav stakes him. XD "Ah! Thank goodness you're here, astarion. You looked a little... _ill_ last night."
Ow astarion. Now you're gonna breathe your last, so please, feel the present moment and before all, don't hyperventilate (can I rub a sugar on your wounds ?)
@@stars-and-cloudslike he also could have just asked Tav to protect him instead of the whole manipulation plan he had . I would have been happy to protect my boy, all he had to do was ask my character for help, he really didn’t have to go to all that trouble lol
@@Lunakitty1234 I agree haha even when he wanted to bite us, I was like "just ask?" not like his vampirism was any mystery lmao. I suppose he is so used to being denied everything he needs and wants he just thinks he needs to take it, there is no way he'll be given it so there's no point in asking.
@@stars-and-clouds makes even less sense if you play as a good person . He sees you helping pretty much anyone that needs help. Obviously a good character would have no problem protecting him if we actually knew about it. Maybe he thinks a good person wouldn’t want to help a evil monster like him and so he didn’t think asking for protection was an option. Thinks he doesn’t deserve kindness so thinks forcing out of you via manipulation is better than nothing.
