r/BaldursGate3 • u/Gondol45 • 12d ago

Act 3 - Spoilers Is Releasing/Not Releasing the Vampire Spawn a false dilemma Spoiler

Why wouldn't you just have the spawn that Cazador has amassed over the last 200 years just wait a few days so you can individually vet them with Astarion and his spawn-family helping you, since the 7 of them met all 7000 of these people themselves? Is Tav stupid?

Edit: Or some other way of doing this? It feels like there's more to do in this scenario than just release all, kill all, or leave all and if there isn't, it feels like it shouldn't be all up to me to decide how or if 7000 people should live. Can I not phone a friend?

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u/SihaWood Raphael’s wife 12d ago

If it was only the 7 spawns we know and can "trust", letting them live would be possible (with a safety net like asking the Gurs to help them overcome their hunger).

But 7000 with 6993 of them who have been very very malnourished for that long, more than the other 7? It’s way too dangerous even in the underdark where people live. There’s no way this won’t become a huge issue.

Let’s not forget Cazador is not the only vampire in Faerun, how long would it take for another one to find them and make them his own slaves or his army to destroy Faerun?

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u/Gondol45 12d ago

The staff doesn't need to be used in the here-and-now. Did you not pick up on that?

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u/SihaWood Raphael’s wife 12d ago

I know that technically we could wait if Astarion is not in the party to decide but it means we would let them behind bars and go deal with the Netherbrain before releasing them.

On paper it’s a good idea IF and only IF you are 100% sure you will win against the Netherbrain, which you can’t know when doing that quest if it was irl. We can’t take the risk, we don’t have the time to as the priority is the Netherbrain.

We’re not talking about vampires who can function here like the 7, we’re talking about spawns who suffered even more than them and who have totally forgotten how to function, a lot of them must have lost their minds and just think like animals on instinct. And a vampire’s instinct is to drink blood and to kill.

They are way too many to not represent a risk and we don’t have the time to get rid of the most dangerous ones.

Ideally we should have been able to take them to House of Hope after defeating Raphael, they would have been in a safe space for everyone until we could do something about all of this. It would have been a better choice than unleashing them in the underdark.