Baldur's Gate 3 Fans Are Sleeping On A Great Ending For Astarion
Astarion Being Cured Of Vampirism Is One Of Baldur's Gate 3's Rarest Scenes
Larian is continuing to celebrate Baldur’s Gate 3’s third birthday by pouring over player data, revealing what we’ve been getting up to in our playthroughs. That includes looking at what we’re not doing, showing off some of the least popular decisions in the game.
Sticking with this theme, Larian just dropped 10 of the rarest scenes in Baldur’s Gate 3. Many of these aren’t too surprising - like a tragic ending for Lae’zel, or a backup NPC in case you offed another - but one of these rare scenes is one that many fans would be dying to see: Astarion getting cured of vampirism. The only problem is that you can only do it under very specific circumstances.
Want To Cure Astarion Of His Vampirism? You Have To Either Play As Gale, Or Romance Him
Larian shows us the scene briefly in its rundown of the ten rarest scenes in Baldur’s Gate 3. As you can see, Gale bestows the cure to Astarion as the God of Ambition, but there’s more to it than that.
For starters, God Gale is actually very reluctant to dish out cures like this. If you’re playing as Astarion yourself without romancing him, he will shoot you down. But if you do romance him, he can cure you - and ascend you to godhood right alongside him, which I would argue makes Astarion very much not a vampire anymore.
The only other way to make Gale willing to cure Astarion is to play as him yourself. It guarantees that the God of Ambition will be a little more helpful overall, since otherwise, he’s happy to sit back and do pretty much nothing. Which, in fairness, doesn’t make him much worse than any of the other gods, I guess. But chucking a cure to your besties isn’t too much to ask for, surely?
As for this being quite a rare scene, it’s probably because very few of us actually do Origin character playthroughs, instead opting to make our own custom characters. With that said, when I do see people playing as a companion, Astarion and Gale are a popular pairing. Bloodweave is also a great ship name, it has to be said.
What does shock me is that very few of you have adopted a child with Wyll! Okay, it involves Karlach almost definitely dying because you and Wyll have to stay in Baldur’s Gate rather than go into Avernus with her… but I love my daughter, Lily Aurora Ravengard. Also, more of you should romance Wyll.