Astarion's Story Arc In BG3 Proves The Good Guy Finishes Last
features a variety of routes to customize each playthrough, allowing for a range of morality depending on how many evil or good choices are selected. Naturally, these choices lead to different endings for individual companions, not just the overall story ending. However, morally good endings aren't always the best ending for each character, especially when it comes to Astarion, and they can instead lead to making sacrifices that hurt them in order to help others.
[Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3.]
gives the choice between experiencing the game from the perspective of an Origin character, or creating a custom character and recruiting the premade characters as companions. Once these characters are recruited to join the party, their personal quest lines become available. While most of the personal quests aren't required to beat the game, it can be worth completing them for the consequences they bring for their respective characters.
The morally good ending for Astarion is not letting him take Cazador's place in the ritual to become an Ascendant Vampire. While this gives Astarion the benefit of being free from Cazador's control and lets him keep the others used in the ritual alive depending on dialogue choices, he'll remain a Vampire Spawn for the foreseeable future. The full consequences of keeping Astarion as a spawn aren't revealed until the end of the game, but only if the Absolute is destroyed.
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There are a few hints about what will happen to Astarion when he doesn't ascend that are hidden in dialogue options. After the early bite scene that reveals his vampiric condition, there's dialogue that asks if being a
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