The story of how "Neil picked up a wildcat who did not let himself be taken in hand for 3 whole years," I think I see him right in this already lost cutscene(((
...Exhausted from hunger, he drank his own blood, but this did not satisfy his hunger. Even the most disgusting rat at this moment would have seemed to him a delicacy. There are traces of attempts to get out of his prison on his hands. He was covering his eyes that had forgotten what light was - Such an Astarion was seen by Сazador when he opened the lid of the tomb with the naughty spawn...