Shoutout to Baldurs Gate 3 for having a magical girl transformation sequence but instead of a teenager in a short skirt it's a lesbian aasimar paladin in full plate about to open 13 cans of fucking whoop ass
Have been going through thousands of unlabelled music tracks in game files, so thought I'd share some vampire-themed spoils that aren't on the OST.
I absolutely love this track, and I think part of it plays when you defeat an enemy while Cazador's main battle theme plays (after the little you-killed-a-foe fanfare). Not sure whether the full track plays anywhere else; don't care; it's awesome.
(The background music when you are exploring the mansion.)
Bits of it play in Cazador's arena during non-combat interactions, and the second half / chorals kick in during the ritual.
I haven't managed to catch this in the game, but the track fascinates me. The first bit replicates a part of the ritual theme (and appears in other Cazador medleys I am not posting because they are repetitive). However, 40 seconds in we get a fairly soft but uptempo version of instrumental "I want to live". I think with some degree of confidence that it's the same arrangement of "I want to live" that plays as a background for Ascended Astarion's sex scene. So maybe as a whole this is meant to be Ascended Astarion's theme but never got used?
Fun fact: in the dialogue file for this scene, the developer context notes (for voice actors) for Astarion's outburst after failing to turn Karlach in this video literally describes it as "narcissistic rage".
I would say Karlach dodged a bullet (more like nuclear warhead) here. The people we should feel sorry for are the normal Tavs who get turned into a spawn and end up under full control of a raging narcissist forevermore.
(Those times when Lord!Astarion assures Tav that he will let them become a full vampire in time, by the way? According to the developer context notes, he "doesn't really mean that")
What a dumpster fire of a relationship.
havent seen anyone else share the special romance scene karlach and astarion have if you ascend astarion, it would be hilarious if it wasnt for the fact that hes so extremely cruel to her afterwards due to it taking a huge hit to his pride and he blames her for it. before this he insisted that she couldnt hurt him when she told him to be careful so lol
Am I right in thinking that there is no way of continuing the romance with Ascended!Astarion without accepting his "offer" to turn Tav into vampire spawn?
It certainly seems that way from the post-Black Mass dialogue files. But at the same time Lord Astarion's final romance dialogue file seems to have branches that involve asking him to turn Tav at that point. Or even him going to Hell with Karlach when she is played as an origin character (and Karlach can't be turned into a spawn at all). So I'm starting to question my sanity and would appreciate a confirmation.
(BTW, before anyone gets too excited, it really doesn't look like content blocked by a bug but rather character options they writers have probably decided against due to them being frankly a bit OOC.)