Can You Save Zombie Astarion In Baldur's Gate 3?

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is very character-heavy with several routes for each of the player's allies and companions to go down. They all follow their own, unique arcs, and it's possible for a player to sway one character towards their «bad» ending while pursuing the best ending for another. There are also many subjective choices which can change the direction of a character's story — for example, there is always a sacrifice when players decide whether to kill or save Shadowheart's parents.

Players will likely be familiar with the choice in Act Three regarding helping Astarion become the vampire ascendant or talking him down from succeeding Cazador. However, a lot of players will not have seen the consequences of him not being there in the first place, and there is technically a third outcome for him if he is not recruited. Characters like Lae'zel and Shadowheart give the player several chances to recruit them — so are players able to make amends for these consequences and perhaps give Astarion another chance in ?

A lot of casualplayers may have never encountered Astarion as a zombie. In Act 3, Cazador uses Astarion and all of his vampiric siblings as sacrifices for his ritual. If by this point Astarion has already been killed — perhaps by the hands of the player on the beach or after being handed to the Gur, or after being ignored completely, then Cazador will raise his corpseto use instead. As shown in a Reddit post by Lorien431, this will cause him to appear in this confrontation as a zombie.

Unlike the living — or perhaps regularly undead -Astarion, as a zombie, he cannot be helped out of the ritual. Upon Cazador's death, he will also be killed. Many will see this as a bleak ending to Astarion's story in their evil playthroughs in , and not think much more about his fate.

Something strange about Zombie Astarion is that he appears to work differently compared to any other non-companion NPC in. As previously mentioned, encountering Astarion in this state can only occur when the player