Jul 25, 2025
Just drow things; the tamer side of drow parties. "Charhylniss." (From "Menzoberranzan, City of Intrigue.")
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Just drow things; the tamer side of drow parties. "Charhylniss." (From "Menzoberranzan, City of Intrigue.")
Nobody asked for it, and I did it anyway! Or
I counted all Baldur's Gate 3 resident NPCs so you don't have to
And then I made a whole anthropological study about it Spoiler, I guess, but honestly does it count? (pun intended)
For those that don't have the DND add-on "Astarion's Book Of Hunger"
Here is some lore on Astarion's "family"
Astarion is not very fond of Violet. I believe none of them are.
And Cazador is called a "Vampire Infernalist"
Astarion's Book of Hungers is finally here... And it's suprisingly decent!
TW: Spoilers I guess
So as the one who put a Hermaeus Mora on her pfp (with a reason!) I of course ran to check the book and swallow it in one take read it ASAP, and what I can tell you, it provides some enriching lore for our lovely bloodthirsty vampire.
And by the way, Stephen Rooney is listed in credits as text designer!
I will very shorlty write important snippets from it (related mostly to Astarion).
Cons of the book: - Unfortunately, the book focuses mainly on pre-BG3 timeline and custom campaign in that particular timeline, so there are zero addittions for post-BG3 canon and lore.
Pros of the book - everything else! Which is: - Lots of vampires: it was shown that vampires are indeed super common among the nobles in the High Society. They attend balls and dance among the mortals. - Astarion's timeline: we finally have the proper dates. 1261 DR. Astarion Ancunín is born in Baldur’s Gate. 1300 DR. The vampire Cazador Szarr turns Astarion into a vampire spawn. 1492 DR. The events of Baldur’s Gate 3 occur. - Introduction of Rat's Run: Astarion's favourite tavern where he was "hunting" the most. Rat's Run is a tavern with bad reputation - the laws of city don't work there, the tavern's master is a disguised rakshasa, it's a place sailors and smugglers and any other criminal of all kinds loves to visit, it's their own little haven. We remember Astarion's words from the game that on most part his victims were all like this, now we also have more info on that. - A bit more of the information about Cazador and his other six spawns. I think this won my attention for good, because there is a lot to uncover. 1. Cazador Szarr is listed as vampire mage infernalist who worship Mephistopheles, and because of that Harvester devils were regulartly visiting him. (to prevent any argument I think it's worth to point out: It was Cazador Szarr who sold his own soul to the Archdevil, thinking that the consequences won't reach him because of his vampirism. Mephistopheles loves to prove such arrogant individuals wrong. Ascended Astarion does not sell his own soul by performing the ritual, because just performing the ritual does not create/sign a contract, and AA never signs anything, as the "selling one's soul" performs only with the name's sign, paper and ink with the devil witness, as we saw in Mizora's scene with breaking Wyll's contract). (upd: It is not written in this precise book, I forgot to warn, but rather as a conclusion of all the canon information I gathered. I will write sometime later a proper post about it!) 2. An illustration of spawn Violet flirting with a Harvester Devil (with Astarion, exasperated, standing behind). Proper introductions of other spawns with interesting details, such as: 1.1 Astarion wasn't the first spawn of Cazador, but actually his second one. 1.2 First spawn was Aurelia, a tiefling. Third - Pale Petras, was human. Fourth - Violet, was an elf, ''She relishes tormenting her siblings and strives to please her master''. Others listed as "recent spawns": Leon, Dalyria and Yousen. 1.3 Confirmed that Astarion indeed was once an elf magistrate.
(also, noticed how in this book DnD alignments are still used all over the stats, everybody is evil lmao)
There is also an illustration of Aurelia and Violet who lured a victim specifically for Cazador to feed upon, them all smiling. - Little insight into the relationship between Cazador's spawns. Honestly, I've been thinking about writing a big post about them and now I have even more material for that. Because if you ever imagined them all being friendly or at least tolerating each other's existence, or all "being victims in one dire situation"... forget about it lol. One of the scenarios for custom campaign in Rat's Run is that Astarion can hire some vampire hunters to kill Violet, but her revealing this plan and turning them back on Astarion. Or it is Violet from the starters plans to kill Astarion by the reason of "her jealosy", according to Astarion himself. Astarion says "she thinks I want to humiliate her at every turn". Just like I imagined - you cannot expect rainbows and sunshines blooming between them all. We had bits of proof in game too, and again, even more info now. - Astarion is friendly with one of the Rat's Run tavern patrons, a kenku agent of the Guild named Roka. "The vampire spawn occasionally hunts individuals Roka has designated for elimination." - And just bunch of Astarion's quotes I think many will find funny or just enjoyable lol So, that's somehow it. Overall I think it's quite good addittion to what we already have. And I will run preparing a post about other six Cazador's spawns with more lore now presented.
15 Signs Ascended Astarion Is Deeply in Love ❤️🔥
(Quotes from the Game)
"Anything for you, my darling."
"You're the one that I want - the one that I love."
"Who's to say I don't? I'm willing to share all of this with you. What's that if not love?"
"Aeterna amantes. Lovers forever, until the world falls down."
"Little love, whatever could be the matter?"
"Ask me anything, and it will be yours."
"I may have power, but it would be nothing without you. You complete me. And together, we are unstoppable. So Heavens help the fool that tries to get in our way."
"Just when I thought I couldn't love you any more."
"We'll travel the lands together, tasting everything Faerûn has to offer. Perhaps we'll find somewhere we'd like to stay for a century or two - perhaps not. We have a beautiful, bloody future to look forward to, my love."
"We are sovereigns. My sole endeavour now is to make this world yours and mine alone."
"You wouldn't just be some spawn - you're far more than that to me."
"I'd never hurt you. I love you."
"Of course I will, and you'll drink mine. I can't wait to taste your lips after you've tasted me."
"No, everything I want is standing right here."
"And I am blessed to share it with you, my love."
Positive videos about Ascended Astarion on my channel: I am Kitty 💕🦇
btw vecna is a lich, the way they defeated him in season 5 MAKES LITERALLY NO SENSE!! You cannot defeat a lich by killing the body alone, if it's phylactery is not destroyed, it won't die.
for a show that incorporates dnd so heavily into its material, there are so many inconsistencies. (especially when it's being marketed to freaks and dnd players)
Put together by Mystxmomo Thanks to @mogruith for the MASSIVE amounts of editing done and the offering of virtual photography. @abracadav-r
Here it is. This is a Vhaeraun lore document that covers near everything regarding him. This thing is absolutely massive, going over his character, the larger timeline of his backstory, his church & any known settlement they have, any known canon follower that he has, and (given the influence he supposedly had on it at a deity) what of Ilythiiri history that could be found in the text.
Everything is cited by book it was released in, page number within that book, and what edition that book was intended for (as some information IS given out of order of release date to make it coherent.) So if something catches your eye, it should be easy enough to find it and build up on what information we couldn't include. Likewise, there's a table of contents on the main page of the document, and at the start of every document tab. So should you need to get to something quickly, you can do so.
The only thing we left out are things from novel books. So Evermeet: Island of the Elves, Daughter of Drow, War of the Spider Queen, and The Lady Penitent are all excluded, save for a few spare quotes here and there. I would like to include them one day, but that would require sitting down and doing a deep mark-up through the books to find EVERYTHING regarding him within them. So... That can wait, for now.
Credits and acknowledgements:
Put together (information gathered) by ME. HI. HELLO. Thanks to @mogruith for the MASSIVE amounts of editing done and the offering of virtual photography. She opened the books and basically went page by page to make sure everything matched. @abracadav-r for helping dig up the sheer amount of sources needed in this (Which I cannot stress enough. Was a lot, I would have missed stuff without their input), and contributing art. @perlumierre for drawing specifically for the doc, along with other art used with permission by @darkseldarine, @everybodyloveshippos, @heykellz, @irch-shadowmancer, @sshot, and @echofables commission by yearniing-drawdealer
There are still some things we want to add to it eventually. I would like to get around into getting information on the towns he has shrines in, the monsters he's able to summon, and information on the stones he has as favored. Likewise, we actually have a few more pieces of art planned for the document (of which will get highlighted when they're added, so I assure you they will not be missed)
However, for now? .... It's done. Other things can be nit-picked with time, and I'm excited to finally be able to showcase all of the work that ended up going into this.
If you enjoyed this document or found it helpful, consider giving everyone that contributed to it a look. Other than that? Enjoy learning about one of Forgotten Realms most interesting deities.
Hey guys, I can't be the only one who refers Drizzt Do'Urden as Drizzy T right?
