Baldur’s Gate 3 Astarion Companion Guide

BG3: How to recruit Astarion

Astarion can be found just west of the Nautiloid crash site. He will say that he found a Devourer and wants you to kill it. If you agree to his request, he will jump on your instead and hold a knife to your neck. You can then keep the peaceful route and pass several checks, and because of the parasite, you both will have visions of each other’s experiences.

Astarion will then be convinced that both of you are safe from transforming into a mind flayer for now. You can then choose to let Astarion join your party or let him be on his own.

BG3: Astarion Companion Quest – The Pale Elf

Astarion’s companion quest, The Pale Elf, starts as soon as you recruit him into the party. As you take a rest at your camp, a scene will play showing Astarion about to bite you as you sleep. You then find out that he is actually a vampire and he explains his situation. He then asks for your blood so that he can regain his vigor and continue to hunt down the blood of other animals instead.

If you allow Astarion to drink your blood, you will gain his approval. You then have to either pass a Persuasion (DC 5) or a Strength check (DC 7) to stop Astarion from sucking too much blood. If you fail the first time, you will have to do another Persuasion check, but it will be tougher (DC 15); if you fail the second one, you will run out of blood and die.

Seek out the devil Raphael

During one of your camp rests, you will see Astarion and his bare back which is showing scars that form a poem written in Infernal. Astarion does not know much about it aside from the fact that Cazador did it to him, but he suspects that the devil Raphael may know something about it. If you have done an intimate scene with him early on, you may have already seen these scars. Additionally, if you are playing as a tiefling, you can then be able to read the scars, but you will find out that they’re only fragments which appear to be part of something bigger.

Kill the Orthon

Make your way to the Thorm Mausoleum where you will meet Raphael once again. He then reveals that he wants you to kill the orthon named Yurgir inside the mausoleum. Once inside the mausoleum, you will have to solve puzzles through the Gauntlet of Shar. To make sure that you find Yurgir’s location, you can follow the displacer beast as it heads north-northeast.

You then have three ways of engaging with Yurgir:

• Follow the displacer beast to talk to Yurgir about his contract
  • Persuade Yurgir to find the thing that he missed
  • Persuade Yurgir to kill his minions and himself
• Don’t follow the displacer and approach Yurgir sneakily

Face Cazador Szarr

Make your way to the Szarr Palace and go through its halls until you find Cazador in his chamber. After a few dialogues, you will be fighting against him and his minions. Defeat him and he will be sent back to his sarcophagus to heal up. You will also need to defeat all of his minions so that you can open up the sarcophagus and prevent him from regaining health.

Once Astarion has Cazador on the ground, he will ask for your help. You will have different outcomes whether or not you help him with what he is planning.

Help Astarion

If you agree, he will ask you to use the parasite to look at his back so that he could see his scars. He will then plan to carve them on Cazador’s back so that Cazador can be sacrificed for the ritual as Astarion plans to do it for his own self. After doing the deed, Astarion will then proceed with the ritual and become the Vampire Ascendant.

Refuse to help Astarion

If you refuse, Astarion will still make his stance about the thousands of spawn that might kill several thousands more. You can persuade him (DC 18) to still go against it, and if you succeed, he won’t do the ritual, but he will still kill Cazador.

The other spawns that are not in the cells will wake up and ask Astarion what would happen next. With the Woe staff, you then get to choose on what to do with the rest of the other spawns locked in the cells:

• Kill them
• Release them to the Underdark
• Leave them in their cells

Interrupt the ritual

During the ritual, you can choose to stop Astarion from completing the ritual. Doing so will make your character kill Cazador. Astarion will get mad at you, then he will break the Woe staff and challenge you in a fight where you will have to kill him to win.

For both refusing to help Astarion and interrupting the ritual, Ulma and the monster hunters will meet you as well, but they won’t be hostile against you.

BG3: Astarion Personality and Preferences

Astarion has a twisted and sadistic nature which makes him enjoy choices that will inflict pain and suffering towards others. Because of how the parasite nullifies the negative sides of being a vampire, Astarion approves of any actions that would agree on using and keeping the illithid powers.

Astarion is also romanceable and to gain his approval, you will need to always have him in the party or in dialogues. If you let him suck your blood, you will gain a great amount of approval. It’s also best to leave Astarion behind whenever you think you would need to go for quests where you need to save someone or have to do a good deed as he generally would not get any approval from them, not to mention he might even disprove most of them.

BG3: Astarion Stats

Astarion is a Rogue with a Charlatan background. He is a High Elf which gives him access to High Elf cantrips, Darkvision, and Perception Proficiency. He has the following base stats:

• Str: 8
• Dex: 17
• Con: 14
• Int: 13
• Wis: 13
• Cha: 10
• Initiative: +3