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Revisiting my Spawn Astarion run whilst doing the Ascended route. Love both of them so much, and always miss the one when playing the other 🥲💕

Three years of Baldur’s Gate 3 — and Astarion would like you to know he’s the main event 😂💖

Wow, had to share this with you guys! ❤️

I love the idea of Astarion wildshaping into a cat. He is so feline to begin with, he really needed a cat form of his own. And now he has one.

This mod has just been released, and it allows Astarion to shapechange into a gorgeous vampire cat, with fluffy white fur and big red eyes.

He is absolutely adorable. I'd cuddle him all day - well, in any form actually 😂😍

Catstarion by RevolutionScribe

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/24013?tab=files

I've made a little review video for YT, if anyone is curious 😊

I just discovered this mod and I absolutely love it 😍

Finally, Tav can appear fully transformed — red eyes, fangs, paler skin, and even bite scars on their neck just like Astarion’s. It adds a level of immersion to the Ascended path that the base game never delivered.

On my first run, I remember waking up the morning after the “Live your final night” scene and feeling genuinely disappointed that my Tav looked exactly the same as before. It felt like such a huge missed opportunity, and ever since then I’ve been searching for a non‑glitchy way to give my character a proper vampire spawn (or vampire bride/groom☺️) appearance. For the longest time, I had to settle for changing eye and skin colour in the camp mirror.

But this mod by RevolutionScribe — one of my favourite modders — finally gives the full transformation I was hoping for. And it works beautifully.

Mod link:

Vampire Spawn Transformation – Fangs for Tav and Companions

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/23638

If you want to see a full visual comparison and how the transformation looks in‑game, I put together a short showcase video as well. It’s here if you’re curious:

https://youtu.be/HwObFrVdLxY

One of the things that struck me during my first playthrough was just how often Astarion expresses gratitude — and how he says it. I noticed it immediately, and I’ve kept coming back to it ever since.

All companions show appreciation when you support them, but I don’t think any of them say the words “thank you” as frequently or as sincerely as Astarion. He really says it a lot. He never overlooks the moments when you help him, show him empathy, or take his side. He always acknowledges it. It’s one of the most endearing aspects of his character — and also one of the most heartbreaking, when you consider how little care, support, or love he’s experienced over the past two centuries.

And there are two sides to Astarion’s gratitude.

The first comes from what he learned under Cazador. He sees life as an exchange: I do this for you, you do that for me. He doesn’t believe anyone would help him simply because they care. So when he thanks you, part of it is him saying, You did this for me, so now I owe you. I won’t forget that I owe you. That’s the only kind of relationship he’s ever known.

But as you travel together, something shifts. Slowly, quietly, another side emerges. Astarion becomes genuinely surprised — and genuinely grateful — when you help him again and again, even when it doesn’t benefit you. And he never shrinks from expressing that gratitude. He never hides it. He never pretends it’s nothing.

It’s a small thing, but it reveals so much about him.

So I thought this side of Astarion deserved a little tribute — and I ended up making one.

I also put together a short cinematic compilation of every time he says “thank you,” because I wanted to see the pattern clearly. If you’re curious, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SloyDS8hHFs

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Just what the title asks. In two hundred years, did no one outside of the Cazador household ever notice Astarion's scars and ask him about them? I mean, as Tav, the first time we sleep with him, we notice the scars and ask about them. And if someone else actually did ask him about them, and Astarion explained as he does to us that it was a poem, would not a single person be able to decipher it as infernal and give him the heads up?

He's not a details person though, darling 🥰

I love those rare moments in the game where Astarion falls silent for a moment deep in thought, or those moments when he makes some contemplative remark.

Night night everyone 🥰