Bro I need to vent real quick but Jim was a huge asshole to Mccoy in Operation: Annihilate! when he accidentally blinded Spock when he didn't need to take the risk to and Jim got super angry at him like BITCH it was literally YOU who pressured him to go faster and he RELUCTANTLY COMPLIED and then you BLAMED the man who was already feeling guilty enough when it was ALSO YOUR FAULT (and Spock's as well tbh lol) like bitch ass mf ik Spock is your love ig but don't act like Mccoy didn't care one bit as less as you do...
Some of the men are not pleased with your plan. They will incite others against you. For the plan to succeed, our forces must be united. If word gets out, if even one of them informs Cousland, it will be your head on a plate. I say this with all due respect, ser.
Refreshing my vampire lore and, ohhh boy, I'd forgotten about this (which as far as I know has not been explicitly retconned by 5e...):
"Spawn in turn have the same ability to create children in their own image, and they command these children as they are in turn commanded by their creator." - Libris Mortis: Book of Undead (3.5e)
"A [vampire spawn] may create and enslave spawn of its own." - Monster Manual (3.5e)
I laughed. I mean I knew they had that ability in 2e, but to be fair vampire spawn as a different category to vampire didn't quite exist at that point.
They might not be able to do this any more, because 5e nerfed the hell out of vampire spawn, and Larian's taken that at face value, but at the same time, again, there's nothing in the 5e Monster Manual vampire entry to explicitly say spawn can't still do this. It says vampires can and has nothing to say on spawn not being able to. Which yes, technically means they can't, but as it doesn't actually say that and considering that they've always been able to until now...
If you somehow died of complications before meeting the requirements, then you wouldn't have turned. And back in BG2 they could make their own spawn, and I think BG3 should be held to its predecessor's standards... Look, let me have this; the concept that the only reason you didn't have a very awkward morning after talk if he kills you is because Astarion, purely by chance, didn't kill you in a specific way is sending me. Especially because he clearly wouldn't have known that was even a possibility (Cazador's misinformation campaign continues!). Can you imagine how awkward it would be at camp that morning?
The "how do you think our travelling companions taste" conversation would take on a whole new layer too.
Edit: actually thinking on it, the tadpole is canonically repressing some of his vampiric abilities, so if we ignore the 5e retcon then that also might also explain things.