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bg3scenarios · 5 months

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Cazador: My (512M) spawn (239M, 367M, 349M, 402M, 371 F, 302 F, 363 F) have unionized

#cazador szarr #cazador #astarion ancunin #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 cazador #bg3 leon #pale petras #bg3 aurelia #bg3 dalyria #bg3 violet #bg3 yousen

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astarions-wife · 5 months

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Okay so looking at the facts, Astarion says he was “one of Cazador’s first” spawn, which makes sense considering it was ~200 years prior, which puts this at 1294 for his turning. However he says “one of” which implies he wasn’t the very first, meaning one of his siblings was before him.

Through the game, we can rule out a few of his siblings as being first. Leon canonically has to be the last, as I doubt that Cazador brought another spawn into the mix during the last 10~ years. Leon has a human child, that he had prior to vampirism, and with both the favorite spawn ledger, and Victoria’s appearance, we can assume she’s likely between 8-10 in that general range. The favorite spawn ledger goes for (six) years, with Leon being 5/6, and Violet taking one year. This can easily imply he has only been a spawn for six years, and also says that given Victoria’s appearance, she was probably only 2-4 when brought to Cazador’s palace, but that’s a story for another time.

Pale Petra’s tells Dalyria in the inn that it’s been “a hundred years of eating rats”, so he was probably turned in the late 1300s, judging by this. Dalyria on the other hand was a physician to the Parliament of Baldur’s Gate, and given that the medical group she speaks of wasn’t founded until the early-ish 1400s, it’s likely that she was found during this time period.

This leaves three: Yousen, Violet, and Aurelia. Now I highly, highly doubt that Yousen was the first of the spawn. A gnome is an odd choice for a vampire spawn in the first place, so he likely wasn’t the first. This would leave Violet and Aurelia, although given one of my previous posts about Violet (found here), Violet likely wasn’t the first—the shadow curse was founded in the past hundred years if I’m not mistaken, and considering the evidence seems to lead her here, she was probably around the same time as Petra’s, perhaps a bit before.

This leaves Aurelia as the first spawn, which makes sense to me. She seems the most anxious, the most scared. She’s the only one who truly, truly begs you for help if you talk to her once Cazador is gone, and centuries of trauma would do that to anyone. Therefore, my ranking is as follows, in order:

-Aurelia

-Astarion

-Yousen

-Violet

-Pale Petras

-Dalyria

-Leon

I know their ages are different, but timeline wise this puts Leon as the youngest, and Aurelia as the oldest—which it doesn’t mean anything, but it’s interesting to think this, considering they’re the original two who are sent after Astarion at the Elfsong Tavern.

As always, this is completely in theory! Only a few of them have concrete evidence, so let me know if I’m missing anything—and feel free to use this for writing or lore as you see fit!

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secretlyaraven · 20 days

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The Dollmaker

#baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #my art #astarion #astarion ancunin #cazador szarr #vampire spawn #bg3 fanart #bg3 yousen #bg3 violet #bg3 aurelia #bg3 leon #bg3 dalyria

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fangsandfeels · 5 months

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Got hit with more thoughts about spawns and Cazador...

...and naturally, I'm posting it here because I'm no longer a functional human being.

I remember the lingering question that Astarion seemingly being only one of the spawns using seduction to lure victims in. At least, there is no menition of other’s doing so, except for Petras. So, why is that? Why Astarion was the only one?

In my opinion, it stems from Cazador’s very particular choice of victims. In all these years, he acquired only seven spawns (except for the thousands of Turned nobody knew about), and almost all of them used to be accomplished or talented people:

- Violet, a beloved and talented songbird from Reithwin;

- Dalyria, a respected doctor working in the Parliament;

- Leon, a sorcerer (a spell modifiaction he came up with shows how good he is at his magic);

- Astarion, a magistrate with a promising future, centuries of life ahead of him, and a beauty worthy of a thousand paintings.

Following this tendency, we can assume that Yousen, Aurelia, and Petras also were similarly talented or good at something enough to attract Cazador’s attention and make him envious.

The bastard thinks very highly of himself. He calls himself the most intelligent and beautiful creature out there, and spends hours writing letters to other vampire lords, trying to convince them of his grandeur. He attempts to inflate his ego, making it finally big enough to overcompensate for his miserable inferiority complex, in any way he can: so, whenever he spies someone with a talent or potential, someone who might be better than him at anything, he snuffs them away, adds to his collection, and then breaks them over and over, making them believe that they’re nothing. He is the father who gives them purpose; they are his spawn who owe him everything; and everything they have belongs to him.

And maybe, aside from tortures, and humiliation, and gaslighting, and forcing “siblings” to hurt each other, he came up with one more way to break them - when he forces them to hunt, he forces them to use everything that made them special, loved, respected, and admired for the most gruesome things.

- Violet, previously a talented singer whose voice was fondly remembered up to Reithwin’s fall, using her voice to catch attention; using her image and charm to lure people into the palace to their death.

- Dalyria, picking her victims around apothecaries and temples that responded to the people's suffering by closing doors in their faces, seeking out refugees and ailing citizens low on coin, offering to help them, kindly inviting them to “her place” (if we take Karlach’s family as an example, finding a healer who would agree to help a less-than-wealthy family is quite a problem at the city).

- Leon, using his talents and magic to nab people from the street, to drag them to Cazador without a fight while knowing that he will never be able to use the same power against the bastard himself.

- Astarion, a previously sophisticated, proud, and beautiful elf, stripped of his dignity and pride, using his body to either seduce poor young and inexperienced souls (fulfilling their image of an ethereal and caring lover) or let himself be pawed at by drunkards and brothel-goers.

I don’t think any of Cazador’s choices were accidental. I don't think he had to roam the streets at night, looking for potential candidates; that he ever Turned any of them by chance.

They all caught his eye at some point, became an object of his obsession, and then fell victim to a scenario where they were confronted by a promise of salvation - and each time, it made Cazador giddy with excitement and a sense of self-importance. He took them away from the world because he could. He will twist and shape them to his whim because he can. And then, he will take everything from them, reducing them to miserable wretches because this is who they should be, compared to him.

They will belong under his heel, scared, helpless, and obedient, worshipping him and fearing him. Forever.

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #bg3 astarion #bg3 dalyria #bg3 leon #bg3 aurelia #bg3 yousen #bg3 petras #bg3 violet #shit-hunter the diva

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tadpole-apocalypse · 6 months

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Cazador’s spawn…i just think they’re neat …

#bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #baldur’s gate #baldur’s gate iii #astarion #pale petras #vampire spawn #my art #bg3 dalyria #bg3 violet #bg3 leon #bg3 yousen #bg3 aurelia

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rolyleritae · 16 days

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#fanart #my art #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate fanart #bg3 #bg3 cazador #bg3 astarion #bg3 leon #bg3 dalyria #bg3 aurelia #bg3 violet #bg3 petras

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the-phantom-otaku · 3 months

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This is something I've thought about off and on for a while now.

How do y'all think Astarion's spawn siblings would react upon finding out he actually has a real, genuine lover? I know we have very little to go off of, so answers are definitely going to vary, but I wanna hear 'em regardless.

Idk why but I feel like half would go, "Wait, he actually pulled a partner?? How?" bc they just know him as that smart-mouthed asshole they share a room with. They're just surprised that the guy they know to be a real jerk somehow got someone even when not hiding his true colors.

And the other half who know him better would be like, "Oh, that's great! I'm glad Astarion found someone."

Edit: Adding some more specifics.

I think Petras and Yousen would be in the 'WTF" camp. Petras bc it's clear he and Astarion don't get along and even Astarion says he could've been better to Petras. I imagine he all but screamed, "You managed to pull that?!" while pointing at Tav. Yousen bc he's a dwarf and we know how Astarion treats Dwarves. Edit Edit: I mixed up gnomes and dwarves. I still think he treated Yousen like shit bc he still reminded him of a gnome.

Dalyria and Aurelia I feel like would be happy for him. Dal bc she does seem to care for Astarion to some extent (and likely for her other spawn siblings, too). Aurelia I have little justification for other than I like to think of her as the oldest, so seeing him find someone even after all the pain and torture gives her hope for herself. She's also glad to see him happy bc she's likely witnesses some of his worst moments (while experiencing them herself, too).

Violet and Leon are the oddballs I'm unsure of. Violet gives me mischievous younger sibling vibes, tho, so perhaps she's happy but absolutely not above exaggerating her surprise to get under his skin. Leon I feel hasn't spent a lot of time with him or the other spawn, so maybe he's just kinda like "cool idc". It sounds like he only spent maybe a year in the spawn bunks before going back to the favored room. Or perhaps him only getting a brief taste led to him having a negative opinion bc he never got to know Astarion.

Anyway, those are my thoughts and reasons.

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asidian · 3 months

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Ghosts in the Halls

by: Asidian

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Gen, Astarion & Victoria, Leon & Victoria

Warnings: unreliable narrator, dramatic irony, implied/referenced torture, outsider pov

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Some nights, while Father is out working, Victoria hears screams through the lovely wallpaper, somewhere deeper in the building. Sometimes it's a lady, but more often it's a man; he has a higher pitched sort of a scream, quite distinct indeed, and it goes on for hours on end.

"I think Lord Szarr has a poltergeist," Victoria tells Father one day, as he slips in around sunup.

"Oh?" says Father, and he sounds tired and a touch distracted. "What makes you say that?"

"Well," says Victoria. "They're meant to be loud, aren't they?"

"Yes," says Father, and he draws the word out, slow and a touch uncertain. "That's so. Has someone been talking to you?"

"Oh, no," says Victoria. "But there's always a man screaming. He's quite loud about it."

And Father looks at her for a long moment before he reaches out to set a hand on her head. It's not a hair ruffle, not quite – he just rests it there. "A poltergeist, surely," says Father. "Best try to ignore it, if you can."

#fanfic #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #bg3 leon #bg3 victoria #dalyria #bg3 violet

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alpaca-clouds · 2 months

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Cazador's Spawn Headcanons - Pt. 2

Okay, based on what I posted yesterday, let me go a bit into how I think Astarion's relations with his siblings were.

As I said, my headcanon is that Yousen was created just three years after Astarion, because Cazador intended for them to be rivals. And he was quite successful with that. They were. And Yousen was also quite willing to partake in "punishing" Astarion, whenever he got the chance to do so. But again, Yousen was also punished not that rarely basically because he so willingly killed his victims - rather than bringing them back.

Violet was a bit more hesitant about partaking in everything, especially in the punishment of her siblings. She quickly fell in line though, when it came to doing her job. There was not a lot of trust between her and Astarion, but at least the relationship was not as bad as with Yousen.

Pale Petras meanwhile just completely drank the coolaid. He thought that actually Cazador did want good for them and to make them more powerful. Also he was... well, he is an idiot, but he also knew that it was wise to just do what was expected from him. He also considered Astarion an idiot for still managing to piss off Cazador all the time. (And he totally did not get that Astarion could literally not do right by Cazador.)

With Darylia we actually know a bit more about her motivation. She saw all of this very much as a scientific excercise. And in my headcanon one of her favorite quote was "for the greater good".

Now, Aurelia was the "weak one". She went into total shock mode after she had been turned. She was not responsive and absolutely not willing to do Cazador's bidding, which is why Astarion very much identified with her and became protective of her, going so far as to take some of her punishment. However, this ended up biting him in the ass, as after a while she went on to blame him for her mistake to evade Cazador's punishment.

Leon... Well, I have a bit of a story for Leon. But... I think I will save that one for later.

#baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 aurelia #bg3 yousen #bg3 darylia #bg3 petras #bg3 violet #cazador szarr

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sebaurouge · 2 months

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Sovereign of Summers Lost Chapter 11 AO3

18+ Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion Origin fanfiction.

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“What is that?” he asked after a full minute, but probably less, of being ignored.

“It's a coffin,” sighed Violet.

“Yes, I can see it's a coffin. What’s it doing here?”

“Hatching.”

“Hatch- hatching? Gods, woman. Is there someone in there?!”

She looked up at him like he was slow. “Obviously.”

Astarion’s feet insisted he retreat but his curiosity didn’t let them take him more than a few steps away. He really wasn’t sure how he felt about being so close to a corpse, or disturbing somebody’s final resting place.

“Dare I ask what you are doing with someone’s coffin?” He really hoped for a sane answer, he’d even take a half-sane answer. What in the ever loving fuck.

“Waiting. Waiting for the blessing to quicken” she lamented with a sigh, still cuddling with the casket.

Blessing? “Violet?” he called out with all the delicacy one would approach a lunatic wielding a knife. “Whoever's in there. Are they a vampire? Or, about to be?”

#baldur's gate 3 fanfiction #bg3 fanfic #bg3 fanfiction #astarion fanfic #astarion fanfiction #SOSL #cazador szarr #bg3 violet

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lenjaminmacbuttons · 4 months

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A Normal Girl Sleepover Where Girls Do Normal Things

nooo, that duck is Too old

I hope I unleashed something weird!

old duck here!

A Normal Girl Sleepover is based on various Environmental Story Clues in Cazador's Palace, primarily the Favoured Spawn Ledger. The Favoured Spawn room USUALLY belongs to Leon and his daughter, but there is one point in time where Violet is the favorite, and in other notes Violet is shown to be...scary and mean, to say the least. So I wanted to see how a roommate situation between Scary Mean Vampire Violet and Innocent Living Child Victoria would play out :3

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She yanked the bedsheets free from her face. “Papa, help me!”

“Whiny bitch!” Violet snarled. Her hands seized on Victoria's suddenly exposed face and ripped away the rest of the sheets. Victoria flung her bare feet at Violet's middle, but Violet pinned down her thighs with knifepoint knees and pinned down her wrists with a wrought-iron grip. The thudding and shouting at the bath wall crescendoed, accelerandoed, cries and protests and arguments in equal fervor to her fearful wails, and Violet’s teeth were at her neck.

And they stopped.

Her father’s shouting and fighting with the others didn’t stop. But Violet stopped. And Victoria stopped. She could feel the points of her fangs, tapered to finer points than they looked—fine enough to pierce at the slightest of movements. A feather-light sting at the curve of her throat. If she moved, if she breathed…

“Victoria? Answer me, darling, please—”

Violet exhaled, loud and hot on Victoria’s skin. The hair on the back of her neck prickled.

“Thinking creatures.”

Violet spoke without removing her mouth from Victoria’s throat. Her lips were wet, leaving cold spots everywhere they touched. She breathed out again, hideous feverish nerve-wracking sensation, and sat up. She was straddling Victoria’s hips and she looked down at her like a cat at a wounded moth.

“Please, please, Violet, tell me she’s all right. Victoria, tell me you’re all right.”

“Shut the fuck up, Leon.”

Violet jerked her head toward the wall. “Answer him.”

Victoria swallowed her fluttery breath and called out, “I’m fine, Papa.”

“She’s fine, Leon,” Violet affirmed, her tone sickly sweet again. “We’re best friends now. She might not want to share a room with anyone else anymore.”

There was some more muttering and irritation from the other spawn after that, but Victoria didn’t hear it. Violet had her hands where her lips had been, and gently trailed the back of her knuckles through the drying saliva, and Victoria could hardly think of a world existing at all outside the terrified pump of her pulse against those cold fingers.

“Unfortunately, it’s true,” Violet pouted. “Father forbids us to drink the blood of stinking creatures. And if I start to shed your blood, I might not be able to resist sucking you dry.”

Victoria pursed her lips and tried to breathe through her nose, tried to control her heartbeat, tried to seem brave. “So there. You can’t hurt me.”

Violet bared her fangs. “But I can scare you.”

Victoria didn’t look at the fangs, just kept her eyes fixed on the bright apple red, and didn’t close them. If she closed them, she knew it’d push tears out, and she would not cry today. She was brave.

“Untie my corset, Vicky,” Violet ordered softly. “It’s what best friends do for each other. Isn’t it?”

#talkyllama #authorllama #bg3 #bg3 violet #javelin-woman #old duck i will put a link to momentarily #anyways thank youuuuuuuuuuuuu for the ask and also for the tag and also for being lovely mwah mwah ily

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bg3scenarios · 3 months

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Cazador: Remember

Cazador: You do not just live to serve me

*Cazador puts on chef coat*

Cazador: You also live to serve tables 2, 3 and 5

Astarion, Violet, Pale Petras & Aurelia: What?

*Cazador puts on chef hat*

Cazador: 3 rare ribeyes, 6 rare filets

Aurelia: What is happening?

*Astarion shrugs*

*Cazador rings bell*

Cazador: Order up, bitches!

#cazador szarr #cazador #astarion ancunin #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 aurelia #bg3 violet #pale petras

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astarions-wife · 5 months

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I’ve made several posts about Lady Incognita/Amanita Szarr, and all the vampire spawn (Astarion’s Siblings)… so I felt it was good to put it in one place.

Introducing my labor of love, perhaps the biggest sign of my autism diagnosis, the vampire spawn archive 💕🫶🏻 where I have documented ALL the known lore, and popular theories. Yes, this includes all the notes, books, and photo references!

Think I’ve missed something? Message me here, send me an ask, or comment below—I prefer having proof of anything canonical, but if it’s a theory or something, send me your ideas! Nothing is too wild or outlandish, considering the game.

Share, reblog, and have fun!!

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lizieltallary · 5 months

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Chains.

Day № 21 of Inktober. A4 notebook, ink

#baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #bg3 #baldurs gate fanart #astarion #astarion fanart #inktober #leon #pale petras #dalyria #aurelia #yousen #violet

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tadpole-apocalypse · 3 months

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Gonna sketch a spawn every day this week!

Day 1 - Violet

#baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 violet #vampire spawn #my art

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swirlmup · 3 months

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Part 4/4 of The Magistrate!

Part 3 here!

Part 1 here!

Thanks for reading everybody! I hope you enjoyed!

I speculated a lot with myself on which of the principle spawn I thought might've come before Astarion, but eventually I decided on Violet because she's slightly more unhinged than Astarion, and that made me believe she likely endured a few more years of torture than him. Plus various tidbits of research suggesting that vampires tend to prefer the taste of their own race(she's also an elf like Cazador and Astarion), and the means by which Cazador would have his principle spawn collect prey(seduction, and what's more archetypically disposed to seduction than a female?). Thus, here we are lol.

#art #fanart #comic #fancomic #bg3 #astarion #cazador #violet #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #cazador szarr #body horror i guess?#that do be a lot of splinters in his hands #love frilly clothes soooo much #too bad they were probably burned after cazador brought him back to the palace lol

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