Other Vampire Spawns of Cazador Szarr
I've been thinking about writing such post with full available information about six other spawns Cazador had besides Astarion. For what goal? To show you guys and perhaps remind that even though they all are "victims" it doesn't mean that they are innocent. In fact, when you learn their stories, you can see that nothing is univocal about them, especially about certain of them.
Aurelia, once a tiefling.
We start with this one because with recent released book "Astarion's Book of Hungers" we got to know that she was actually Cazador's very first vampire spawn. She is described as having a calm demeanor at the surface, however underneath it she was keeping many secrets. You can imagine that perhaps those were Cazador's secrets. She doesn't seem like the one who would disobey Cazador, but on the opposite being his devotee. In the same book we also have an illustration of her standing together with Violet, after them two brought another victim for Cazador to feed. Both of them are smiling, standing behind.
Pale Petras, once a human.
The third of the spawns (Astarion was the second among them all), described as being arrogant and stubborn, and also described as "always been an idiot" by Astarion himself. What's worth to mention is that his only wish after the end of the ritual (in which him and some others were sure Cazador wll grant them powers too) was "to feast" (on some mortals, isn't it, Petras?).
Violet, once an elf.
The fourth spawn, and if isn't she a star among them all /s. She relishes tormenting her siblings and strives to please her master. In the Book of Hungers she is shown to be flirting with devils. She has a conflict with Astarion, being jealous of him and what seems like paranoid, thinking he would do her wrong at every step. Planning to kill her sibling, such as Astarion again, seems like nothing to her. She is also shown together with Aurelia - and while it really can mean almost nothing, it can't go unnoticed. Her diary consists of her shenaningans: "Hee hee, the garlic in Yousen's bed gave him a nasty rash - serves him right for being such a whining runt. Now, if only I could get at that snob Leon and his brat of a daughter, but she's protected. Cazador must have a fine plan for little Victoria, I wonder what it is?" What's also worth to mention, once she was also honored to sleep not in spawn's common room, but in a separate one: this "honor" was granted only for the best hunters Cazador was choosing (alas for her, it seems to happen only once).
Dalyria, once an elf.
She was a physician general to the Parlament of the Baldur's Gate, now seeking to reverse her vampirism through desperate medical measures. How much desperate? Well, so much that she was absolutely ready to experiment on Leon's still mortal daughter named Victoria. From Dalyria's private diary: "...I believe a massive infusion of fresh, youthful blood may overwhelm the vampirism infection and enable my body to heal. There is one potential source of such blood here: Victoria, the as-yet pureblooded daughter of Leon Onufrio. Leon was a sorcerer before he was a vampiric slave, and has warned us not to prey upon Victoria as he has imbued her with a counter-curse in the event of attack - made her a necrotic booby-trap, as it were. I think Leon is bluffing."
And in fact, Leon wasn't bluffing. He indeed was as desperate, and he did put a curse on his own daughter. In the Palace we can only see the poor's girl dead body, surrounded by that exact curse aura. Dalyria did attempt to prey on Victoria and was the reason of her death, which you can get to know if you use "Speak with Dead" spell on Victoria - she says the name of Dalyria herself, as Victoria was lured in room by her.
Yousen, once a gnome.
Unfortunately, even with the new book we don't get too much information about smallest spawn. Nothing special is described about him, just being regular Cazador's hunter without much accomplishements.
Leon, once a human.
My personal favourite in the group. He was the most recent spawn. He had still mortal daugther Victoria who he tried desperately to save from the horrors of Palace and vampire life - Cazador seemed to have plans on Victoria and forced Leon to bring her in Palace. In fact, in order to be able to save her Leon has became Cazador's most successful hunter. He was granted the honor to have a separate bedroom way more frequently than anyone else - in list Favourite Spawn Ledger it is his name repeating again and again, with only Violet once outperforming him.
Other 7000 vampire spawns
I'm including them all to show you that those like Sebastian and gur's children were shown to trick you into thinking that literally every other vampire spawn under Cazador's control is an innocent victim of him and his spawns-hunters, which is simply not true. How can we tell? Astarion himself says that right in the game, telling you that he mostly hunted the outlaws, the criminals, scums. Those like Sebastian are the exception, not common rule. With his Book of Hungers we even know the place where Astarion hunted the most - tavern&inn named Rat's Run, where law does not exist. Other hunters were also told to hunt in the Lower City on those who "won't be missed", as hunting the usual commoners and nobles was only creating more trouble for them all and Cazador as well.
In the end, it does raise a lot of questions of how exactly all of that group could have suddenly became all friendly to each other. Even with finding out that Cazador has lied to them all and made them all a sacrificial spawns they wouldn't have turned 180° on each other. Giving the fact that the thousands spawns horde is also consists mostly of previous outlaws and now crazy hungry vampire spawns, do try to question yourself: was it ever a good idea to let them all now flee free to the rest of the world?
