To be fair. A Vampire Lord who is immune to the sun, has illithid powers with none of the setbacks and can command a whole army of mind flayers is quite the formidable force.
No doubt, but not quite on par with Ioulaum. Not much trumps ancient Netherese Archwizard who has transformed into an Elder Brain Lich besides other ancient Netherese Archwizards. Astarion is lacking the whole reality warping magical bullshit that goes along with being an Epic Level (i.e. beyond lvl 20) spell caster.
@@xenthalus As far as I know. Now that Mystra is back again wizards cannot cast above 9th level spells. So I doubt any living or not Archwizards of Netheril would be able to keep their power.
@archonofcommorragh1221 Depends on edition and lore of stories about characters. I'm a 2e/3.5e enjoyer who never cared as much for the newer, watered down editions. In both 2e and 3.5e there are rules for "Epic Level" spellcasting which represents mages who have pushed beyond typical mortal limits. Also lore wise, in various older books and short stories you have many examples of ancient Netherse Archwizards casting odd, unique spells that fall outside the standard level system. A prime example is Larloch who under multiple iterations of the goddess Mystra has been given consent to develop spells far outside normal bounds, some of which could potentially end the entirety of Faerun.
@@xenthalus Cool story but that is not current Faerun. No mage in the current lore has access to that level of power and that includes any surviving Netherse wizards, Chosen like Elminster, Szass Tam etc. And it is irrelevant with the DnD edition although one can claim that the lore is such because of it.
Be Astarion. Become Ascended. Romance Shadowheart to have the Chosen of Shar/Selune under your thumb. Gale would have been an option, but Gale has a pesky ex and an orb that makes making him a spawn difficuly((( Dominate the Absolute. Turn Shadowheart just to be completely sure. Make sure you keep the mind control of both Wyll and Wyll's dad for the easier transition of power. Enjoy having the whole Baldur's Gate under your control.
"Alright guys, that fight was tough eh? Now, to get on with some real hard work- civic infrastructure! Summon a town council meeting, we have some planning permission forms to submit for my approval!"
It's from the Canadian series 'trailer park boys 'and he is he's superintendent of the park ..great actor who does a great job playing a career alcoholic.. "S-see ? I do not have a drinking problem.."
And on that note how sad is it that Loki got his throne but also lost EVERYTHING and now is forced into the thing he feared most, being forever alone. 😢😢😢
Tbh I’m surprised people don’t point out how similar Loki and Astarion are more often. There’s a line from the Loki TV show that I feel sums up Astarion really well. “I don’t enjoy hurting people. I do it because I have to. Because I’ve had to. It’s all part of the illusion. It’s a cruel trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear…[I’m] a villain”. To which Mobius replies “I don’t see it that way”. That’s Astarion. He’s VERY multilayered. And I will stand by the assertion that his true alignment is neutral, not evil. He only hurts people because he has been hurt so much himself and it’s how he tries to cope with his trauma. He feels a need to hold power over others because he is terrified of being hurt and controlled again like he was for so long. It’s an act to make himself seem stronger and scarier than he actually is. And yes, acting out of fear rather than more malicious motivations doesn’t excuse the bad things Astarion does. But (at least in my opinion) it does separate him from being a true villain such a someone like Cahzador. I don’t think he truly takes pleasure in others pain just for the fun of it, even if he often acts like he does. What he actually likes is punishing people he believes deserve it…and sadly that’s a lot of people because Astarion has some major trust issues for pretty obvious reasons. However, something that I think is really interesting about Astarion is that his alignment can change a lot depending on what your Tav decides to do. He can be swayed to either side. You can lead him down a path that turns him into a fully fledged power-crazed villain, or you can help him to heal. And while he may not have a full redemption arc and become a goody-two-shoes like some of the other characters are…He does become a much kinder and more good aligned person. Astarion is only a villain if you see him that way. But in the end, your own kindness or cruelty is what will decide his fate. Kinda the same deal with Loki. He became more heroic because someone finally decided to give him some tough love and see him as something other than evil. But he could just as easily have become more evil if he was made to feel he had to be. I adore neutrally aligned characters tbh. There’s always so many layers to them. 😊
I did this on accident 😅. Astarion kept saying we should control the brain, so I did! Turns out he just becomes your slave 🥲. No ending romance scene either.
@@tyliwoodrow2774 LMAO! I love Astarion but he definitely is the epitome of "I didn't think this through" sometimes. I can see a completely loyal and loving Tav doing this then realizing the gravity of the situation.
Sad to see what he becomes if he isnt guided by a good tav. Everything that made him relatable and redeemable just dies when he ascends or becomes the absolute. I will never understand the people who simp and romanticize that version of him
@@th0rne_999 no, that would require me to do a playthrough of every single origin character, and the only one i’ve completed is astarion. currently on shadowheart. i am planning to keep my saves for all the elderbrain battles tho, just in case.
Dude I just finished the game and I’m so surprised that this was even an option tf. I realized at the end they were playable characters I didn’t even get in my camp and the end felt extremely smoothly. Like I didn’t feel like I was missing a character at all the story went through without any weird stuff even if I miss like 3 characters
no thats volo's fake eye, u can get ur right eye replaced with it to gain a "see invisibility buff" and its always that blue with the red circle kinda color.
Baby grew strong. Darn it, they grow up so fast. My sweet child. BUT STRONGEST OR NOT I'LL BEAT YOUR ARSE IF YOU DON'T RESPECT YOUR LOVER ! Tav deserves respect.
@@kitten_with_bad_breath embrace the cringe or submit to it. I decided to embrace it. The ones that suffer the most from it are those pointing it out , and submiting 😈
I just dont like that this option forces you to turn your companions into mindless thralls. Astarion and Minthara are constantly supporting you take control, they wouldve happily ruled with you 😢
@@THEBLACKELLEWOODS yeah that's what happened to me. You get a choice to stab Orpheus and take over control of the brain for yourself (it kinda offers you power) and then this scene plays out but with Tav instead. Your whole party seems to lose all personality and stumbled around like zombies
Its more like a hive bee mind brain they get dead erased taken over Body alive mind controlled dead like puppet tool slaves like with the once in star trek the Borges was it
This would look so worth it if he never met Cazador again prior to this, and he just casually walks in his place with the whole of Absolute behind his back... overkill.. but something I'd love to see
lol, me and my partner are on our first play through since December 8th and we only just started the battle at Moonrise. And we've pretty much forsaken our social life since then, except for the Christmas time😅. I wonder how people managed to go through so many play throughs - and that's only playing, not designing it!
@@BlaiddydTempest that’ll explain it! Thank you! Darn I was hoping that was his eye color. I remember a scene where he laments not remembering his original eye color and thought of it when I saw this.
Yeah, **SPOILERS BELOW** Either let the Empror kill Orpheus and absorb his power, allowing the Emperor to take control of the brain and then betray the Emperor. Or do the same to Orpheus by freeing him and letting him become the mindflayer then betray him as he wrestles with the brain. I think there's another way with Karlach becoming the mindflayer too but haven't done that.
I don’t think I could stomach an evil run as tav or Durge but maybe as Astarion it will be more appealing. As Tav and Durge I feel responsible for all the companion characters and need to do my best for their sake. But if I’m Astarion just gotta look out for myself.
How much power can one man possibility want?
Astarion: Yes
The only thing that's missing is Vergil's Coat and a sword fight with a worthy Dante stand in.
And a Plastic Lawn Chair™️.
Love this character. All of them are well made but him 😂 I Wanna eat that tadpole, I wanna ascent as a lord, I want that death bringer weapon.
All.
Date Gale as astarion he can becomes a ascended full vampire god
@@GZF4that’s interesting never thought of that especially for role playing
Well. No one is hurting him again. 😂
My KING 👑
Lmfao! Understatement of the CENTURY
Until the next party of adventurers comes along.
It would makes him most cruel ruler in fact. I dont see how is this good.
None will ever will!
To be fair. A Vampire Lord who is immune to the sun, has illithid powers with none of the setbacks and can command a whole army of mind flayers is quite the formidable force.
No doubt, but not quite on par with Ioulaum. Not much trumps ancient Netherese Archwizard who has transformed into an Elder Brain Lich besides other ancient Netherese Archwizards.
Astarion is lacking the whole reality warping magical bullshit that goes along with being an Epic Level (i.e. beyond lvl 20) spell caster.
@@xenthalus As far as I know. Now that Mystra is back again wizards cannot cast above 9th level spells. So I doubt any living or not Archwizards of Netheril would be able to keep their power.
@archonofcommorragh1221 Depends on edition and lore of stories about characters. I'm a 2e/3.5e enjoyer who never cared as much for the newer, watered down editions. In both 2e and 3.5e there are rules for "Epic Level" spellcasting which represents mages who have pushed beyond typical mortal limits. Also lore wise, in various older books and short stories you have many examples of ancient Netherse Archwizards casting odd, unique spells that fall outside the standard level system.
A prime example is Larloch who under multiple iterations of the goddess Mystra has been given consent to develop spells far outside normal bounds, some of which could potentially end the entirety of Faerun.
@@xenthalus Cool story but that is not current Faerun. No mage in the current lore has access to that level of power and that includes any surviving Netherse wizards, Chosen like Elminster, Szass Tam etc. And it is irrelevant with the DnD edition although one can claim that the lore is such because of it.
Lyssa Von Zarovich
Be Astarion. Become Ascended. Romance Shadowheart to have the Chosen of Shar/Selune under your thumb. Gale would have been an option, but Gale has a pesky ex and an orb that makes making him a spawn difficuly((( Dominate the Absolute. Turn Shadowheart just to be completely sure. Make sure you keep the mind control of both Wyll and Wyll's dad for the easier transition of power. Enjoy having the whole Baldur's Gate under your control.
Genius
Not to ruin the fun but too bad you can't play anymore after this. This game needs an open end
nah
Last step: profit
Big brain moves
Me after taking over the world: "In my name... Allright folks, let's start opening up some trade routes, let's fix this shit."
Gotta rebuild my city!
"Alright guys, that fight was tough eh? Now, to get on with some real hard work- civic infrastructure! Summon a town council meeting, we have some planning permission forms to submit for my approval!"
the only correct sequel is a city simulator
@@courtneystampcrab With rock'n'roll!
“How a Realist Hero Rebuilt Faerun”
Astarion went full Palpatine there.
Pretty much paplatine creepy laugh is missing and his lightning
I was waiting for, "I am the Senate!". lol
😆👏👏👏👏👏
dew it
LMFAO!
I just realized that the guy falling down the stairs doesnt spill a single drop of his beer
Mad respect to that guy
It's from the Canadian series 'trailer park boys 'and he is he's superintendent of the park ..great actor who does a great job playing a career alcoholic..
"S-see ? I do not have a drinking problem.."
@@aaronhumphrey2009Also a cross dressing Bi-sexual with a guy who sells himself for burgers 😂
@@aaronhumphrey2009did* a great job, unfortunately.
Mr. Lahey ~ "I am the liquor"
The guy actually died
He's got that "Loki on the throne of Asgard" (image from the comics) vibe going.
aaaand you have just pinpointed why I love Astarion so much
And on that note how sad is it that Loki got his throne but also lost EVERYTHING and now is forced into the thing he feared most, being forever alone. 😢😢😢
Tbh I’m surprised people don’t point out how similar Loki and Astarion are more often. There’s a line from the Loki TV show that I feel sums up Astarion really well.
“I don’t enjoy hurting people. I do it because I have to. Because I’ve had to. It’s all part of the illusion. It’s a cruel trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear…[I’m] a villain”. To which Mobius replies “I don’t see it that way”.
That’s Astarion. He’s VERY multilayered. And I will stand by the assertion that his true alignment is neutral, not evil. He only hurts people because he has been hurt so much himself and it’s how he tries to cope with his trauma. He feels a need to hold power over others because he is terrified of being hurt and controlled again like he was for so long. It’s an act to make himself seem stronger and scarier than he actually is. And yes, acting out of fear rather than more malicious motivations doesn’t excuse the bad things Astarion does. But (at least in my opinion) it does separate him from being a true villain such a someone like Cahzador. I don’t think he truly takes pleasure in others pain just for the fun of it, even if he often acts like he does. What he actually likes is punishing people he believes deserve it…and sadly that’s a lot of people because Astarion has some major trust issues for pretty obvious reasons. However, something that I think is really interesting about Astarion is that his alignment can change a lot depending on what your Tav decides to do. He can be swayed to either side. You can lead him down a path that turns him into a fully fledged power-crazed villain, or you can help him to heal. And while he may not have a full redemption arc and become a goody-two-shoes like some of the other characters are…He does become a much kinder and more good aligned person.
Astarion is only a villain if you see him that way. But in the end, your own kindness or cruelty is what will decide his fate. Kinda the same deal with Loki. He became more heroic because someone finally decided to give him some tough love and see him as something other than evil. But he could just as easily have become more evil if he was made to feel he had to be.
I adore neutrally aligned characters tbh. There’s always so many layers to them. 😊
@@pinkdruid2347asterion is also like spike from buffy sassy not a pushover
@@pinkdruid2347but loki come close too lokis ballad songify
Yes your Astarionness🛐
Azzy: On your knees...
The world 🌎: ... yes sir!
I’m on my knees,for Azzy.
@@JasmineGeminiDragonthat sentence made me feel stuff I didn't know existed before 😂
🥹 👏 👑
Yes your Sexiness
The only missing is My Durge naked on his lap.
Great minds think alike
"A kindred spirit"
Down bad
Lame
Yuck 🤮
I wonder what happens if you let him Ascend, let him make Tav a spawn, and then Tav becomes the Absolute.
Well he will just be under your control like all the companions!
Tav takes control of him and becomes his Cazador 2.0. Spawn or no spawn, as long as that tadpole is still in his brain, he is Tav's slave.
@@sunnyhill7919 when youre playing for absolute tav he still talks like he intends to take over without you so yeah the shittiness is mutual
I did this on accident 😅. Astarion kept saying we should control the brain, so I did! Turns out he just becomes your slave 🥲. No ending romance scene either.
@@tyliwoodrow2774 LMAO! I love Astarion but he definitely is the epitome of "I didn't think this through" sometimes. I can see a completely loyal and loving Tav doing this then realizing the gravity of the situation.
"In my name, darling" would've been top tier lol
I love Astarion ❤️ but I giggled bc that gave me, "All. HAIL. PLANKTON" vibes 😅😂
LMFAOOOO FRRRR😂😂😂😂
Same!
All hail the magic conch 😂😂😂
My boy won the game awards. ❤ Absolute legend and definitely fitting.
Gale was most played, Shadowheart was most romanced.
Sad to see what he becomes if he isnt guided by a good tav. Everything that made him relatable and redeemable just dies when he ascends or becomes the absolute. I will never understand the people who simp and romanticize that version of him
Yes, in Astarion's name, he is ABSOLUTE
still waiting on someone to make a comp of every origin character saying the line.
i swear to god i will make it if no one else does
Have you made one yet?
@@th0rne_999 no, that would require me to do a playthrough of every single origin character, and the only one i’ve completed is astarion. currently on shadowheart. i am planning to keep my saves for all the elderbrain battles tho, just in case.
@@luckystiff5695how about now?
chop chop gamer boy we are waiting
@@luckystiff5695have you done it yet
Dude I just finished the game and I’m so surprised that this was even an option tf. I realized at the end they were playable characters I didn’t even get in my camp and the end felt extremely smoothly. Like I didn’t feel like I was missing a character at all the story went through without any weird stuff even if I miss like 3 characters
Bro just has a pet brain chilling as his right hand doggo.
It's a cat.
I laughed way too hard at this :D
Even with his incredible timing, there is a genuine heart that he delivered his lines with
Has anyone else noticed we get a peek at his original eye colour here???
no thats volo's fake eye, u can get ur right eye replaced with it to gain a "see invisibility buff" and its always that blue with the red circle kinda color.
nah that's just the fake eye you get if you let Volo try to extract the parasite
But why do I want to jump in his lap tho?😂😂😂
finally, someone else kept Us the brain puppy
You don't know how happy I am to see somebody else who calls them brain puppies! 😂
Us seems more like a brain kitty to me. I mean, it literally has an illusion spell to make it look like a kitty
1. It's a kitty, NOT a puppy.
2. Us is precious and must be protected at all costs
@@MizuMing Except Us is a cat. Not a puppy.
@@WobblesandBean They 'disguise' as a cat, because dogs aren't allowed in the city. Nothing larger than a peacock is allowed. 👀
Baby grew strong. Darn it, they grow up so fast. My sweet child. BUT STRONGEST OR NOT I'LL BEAT YOUR ARSE IF YOU DON'T RESPECT YOUR LOVER ! Tav deserves respect.
Agree!
Cringe
@@kitten_with_bad_breath embrace the cringe or submit to it.
I decided to embrace it. The ones that suffer the most from it are those pointing it out , and submiting 😈
@@Fregorite copium
‘In my na-‘
Every Tav in existence: ‘Say no more🛐’
I feel like he would never ever make a choice to make his face change like that.
The only thing I noticed is that his feet can't completely touch the ground, which is so adorable
Love me a soft, healing Astarion but power hungry Astarion is just my bread and butter
Assended Astarion, becoming the Absolute. What a powerhouse.
*"And thus saith Ao: Beware of a psychopathic power hungry hellbent dude named... Astarion."*
More like Asstarion 😅
I just dont like that this option forces you to turn your companions into mindless thralls. Astarion and Minthara are constantly supporting you take control, they wouldve happily ruled with you 😢
omg does this even happen to your lover?
@@THEBLACKELLEWOODS yes, it's the worst fucking ending. I couldn't believe how rushed it felt
@@estoyboy oh that's insane. I know characters have individual endings. i assume that doesn't happen in the event that Tav becomes the absolute?
@@THEBLACKELLEWOODS yeah that's what happened to me. You get a choice to stab Orpheus and take over control of the brain for yourself (it kinda offers you power) and then this scene plays out but with Tav instead. Your whole party seems to lose all personality and stumbled around like zombies
Its more like a hive bee mind brain they get dead erased taken over Body alive mind controlled dead like puppet tool slaves like with the once in star trek the Borges was it
The growl of his voice!!!!
Yes KING!!!
i also took volo’s eye on him lol. he looks so cute with it???? omfg that man i swear 🥵
Vampire lord with squiddy powers must be insanely powerful
He skipped looking like Neil and went straight to looking like Jason Isaacs. 😂
I can see it
welp, i am already on my knee, Your Highness~
the way my knees INSTANTLY COLLAPSED from beneath me-
Oh wow... doesn't he just look... gorgeous.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who gave Gortash's outfit to Astarion.
Oh...Your Highness.
In case you care, the clip at the end is Lahey from Trailer Park Boys.
I’m instantly on my knees 😂
You heard the man! In his name 🛐
THE MEME FLIPPING GOT ME 😂😂😂
His " name" was so adorable❤
Ascendent Vampire powers on top of being the Absolute. An't nobody touching him😅
If you gave him a mirror, do you think he'd regret becoming the absolute?
Yes. He still cares about being beautiful.
He looks so much like Legion over here. 👀🥵
"I am....inevitable" *snaps fingers*
This man awakens something in me
sergiant, we have skuls on our caps? are we the baddies?
Skuls are just there to simbalise that we do not fear death 💀
THE WAY HE SAID IT PLEASE I WANT HIM SO BAD 😭
Man, that delivery...
Kain, is that you?
I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE WHAT THIS SCENE REMINDED ME OF
I'm glad I'm not the only one that heard it.
"Astarion, get back in the flasssk!"
This would look so worth it if he never met Cazador again prior to this, and he just casually walks in his place with the whole of Absolute behind his back... overkill.. but something I'd love to see
Keith Richards has really let himself go.
He straight up said “UNLIMITED POWAAAAAHHH!!”
YAS QUEEN
theres so much content I literally cannot play it to see it all and have to youtube it. how did Larian do so much in 6 years?
lol, me and my partner are on our first play through since December 8th and we only just started the battle at Moonrise. And we've pretty much forsaken our social life since then, except for the Christmas time😅. I wonder how people managed to go through so many play throughs - and that's only playing, not designing it!
Ao watching one man obtain all this godly power: “nuh uh”
He is sitting on Patrick Starr 😢
I smiled seeing that Us was just chilling with Astarion
The two precious that *must* survive all playthroughs
Astarion (spawn/ascended I don't care)
Us
Everyone else? Death is an option
'Spoilers'
Meanwhile the spoilers are in the title and thumbnail
That’s kinda badass looking honestly.
I know right?
Off topic but his right eye is not red - kinda blueish hazel? Hard to tell. Is that his natural eye color?
It's the fake eye from Volo! Perfect to see invisible enemies! And it look really good on him
@@BlaiddydTempest that’ll explain it! Thank you! Darn I was hoping that was his eye color. I remember a scene where he laments not remembering his original eye color and thought of it when I saw this.
Fitting for his character
The only last thing that he need to learn is how to sit like Obi Wan.
MY WILL BE DONE
WILL BECOME
WILL BE PRAISED FOREVER
I think he's evil, guys, i dunno...
Whatever you say beautiful 🙇🏾♀️
Suddenly he isn't very Neil Newbonny.
Omg ! His right eye ! 🔥😍🔥
All Hail Church Mosquito Boi!!!
Astarion approves
I am using him right now, second play through, couple hundred hours….. Can’t believe, how the time flies, these days.
He starting to look like Thanos
Bro looks like hes about to go out to collect some magic stones.
His eyes were blue 💜
Why is he 10x hotter!!! Why is evil Astarion HOTTER!!! 😂❤
Its like when the brother sits on the throne in little Nicky lmao
All Astarion is missing 9 corrupted broken pillars behind him while he waxes on about fate.
This edit always makes me laugh 😂
You got Volo's eye on him :D i like it
Now THIS is the true evil ending that will put the universe on notice lol
Thanks for the spoiler in the title. You’re really helpful with the tag at the beginning. Consider anyone scrolling past your video. Rude
Shet you can be a vampire ascended all you want but not this, I want you handsome astarion 😂
Haven’t played this game - but giving me “Evil Matt Smith / Doctor Who” energy 😯
Is it possible to control the brain without being turned into mindflayer?
Yeah, **SPOILERS BELOW**
Either let the Empror kill Orpheus and absorb his power, allowing the Emperor to take control of the brain and then betray the Emperor. Or do the same to Orpheus by freeing him and letting him become the mindflayer then betray him as he wrestles with the brain. I think there's another way with Karlach becoming the mindflayer too but haven't done that.
@@jenni5104 what about with Gale, because I've reached the part in his story where he's talking about keeping the crown of karsus
@@kassjazzy No. That doesn't work.
Screw Bhaal, i’m conquering the world in my name!
Jim Lahey Trailer Park Supervisor
WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SON
Astarion got me wagging my tail fr
His eyes are two different colors
It is absolutely worth it
To hell with the ascension.😅 THIS is POWER 💪😈 thanks a lot for uploading this, dear 😊
Damn you would think that he would be able to find himself a good esthetician with all of Baldurs' Gate under his thumb
Getting that Legacy of Kain ending. nicce.
DADDYYYYYY
I don’t think I could stomach an evil run as tav or Durge but maybe as Astarion it will be more appealing. As Tav and Durge I feel responsible for all the companion characters and need to do my best for their sake. But if I’m Astarion just gotta look out for myself.