This is the Dark Urge (evil ending, Absolute ending) + Ascended Astarion romance playthrough!
This game starts from Astarion’s choice against Cazador, so to watch what happens before, up till this point, please check the playlist: https://youtu.be/2oVNayHWk_s?si=hKFs5E70BAfpKTjw
Stop at video “Act 3 part 1” at the one hour mark, and continue with this video.
I wanted to record the non-Absolute ending first, but the last patch messed up the whole epilogue scene, so here we are with the Absolute one.
These are the choices that I know impact the game dialogue, and I did both before and in this video:
– Fixed Karlach engine both times
– Resisted Bhaal up till this point
– Not killed Isobel
– Romanced Astarion
– Shadowheart betrayed Shar
– Lae’zel pro-Orpheus
(In this video:)
– Astarion ascends
– Bhaalspawn become Bhaal’s Chosen
– Let Karlach become a mindflayer
– Betrayed her at the end
– Become the Absolute
Here are the timestamps:
00:00:00 Astarion ascends
00:07:00 Talking with Astarion post ascension
00:09:51 Facing the monster hunters
00:12:03 Cazador’s masters and names with ascended Astarion
00:16:00 Companions’ reactions
00:19:44 Ascended Astarion romance scene
00:23:14 The bite
00:25:30 Talk post bite
00:29:12 Talking about the future and being a spawn
00:31:02 Talk about us
00:32:55 Meeting Orin at the Bhaal Temple
00:36:41 Choosing Bhaal
00:41:30 Talking with Astarion post-Bhaal
00:42:32 Karlach and Shadowheart’s reactions
00:44:11 Jaheira attacks, Astarion reaction
00:46:27 Astarion’s reaction to Slayer form
00:46:53 Companions’ reactions after Bhaal quest
00:51:25 Chat with Sceleritas Fel
00:53:38 Start of the end and getting to the brain
00:55:20 Talking with Astarion pre-battle
00:56:18 Initial brain confrontation
00:57:20 Astarion comment
00:57:51 Talking about becoming a mindflayer
00:58:54 Astarion’s opinions
00:59:49 Karlach volunteering
01:00:54 Astarion about Karlach’s choice
01:01:34 Astarion calls you a spawn
01:02:22 Karlach transforms
01:04:31 Astarion comments the transformation
01:04:55 Astarion about the Upper City
01:06:26 Allies (Astarion and Bhaal’s forces)
01:08:55 Climbing the brain
01:10:18 The brain about your companions
01:11:06 Betraying Karlach and taking control
01:14:30 In Bhaal’s name
(The Astarion calls you a spawn option at 01:01:34 I think happens only if you are without any other options, so it happens only if you betray the Emperor, otherwise the dialogue will be overriden by talking about the transformation only)
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Oh my gosh! This video was something to watch😳 I’m not gonna lie I did feel some slight guilt with the sacrifice of Astarion’s siblings and the spawns but I would honestly still choose to Ascend him because I feel he deserves it after all those years or torture from Cazador and he won’t have to be in the sun or feel that immense hunger anymore. Also I do feel maybe it’s best if the spawns are….how to say this in the most pleasant way I can think of….put out of their misery living lives like that. Also seeing how Vellioth treated Cazador for all those years, draining his friend, impairment for 11 years, geez that’s just cruel😢 I don’t think or I hope Astarion would never do such cruel things.
I like how you showed the parties reactions after big events because I haven’t seen to many videos so that and I’ve been wanting to see what they say!
The part that really got me in this whole video is Tav accepting Baal’s offer and going down that dark path. Things just got so much darker afterwards! When Tav killed Karlech after everything she did I was like OH MY GOD😨😨 It’s funny because Astarion was rooting for Tav to take over but even then it looked like Astarion became controlled himself. Thank you for showing this video and these options because I honestly don’t think I could ever choose to be Bhaal’s Chosen, that whole path was just a little to feel for me😅🙏🏽
It kinda feels like the narrativr wants Durgr and Astarion to be together they even share a theme song its weirdly cute in a murderous way
I really like Ascended Astarion romance bcs my 'canon' Durge is hardly any better. Romancing anyone else just seems like doing a disservice to them. 😀
Also, your tiefling is gorgeous.
Wait… you can let him do the ritual without interacting with vellioths skull first?! I didnt know that!
He loses all respect for his "pet" … and even if I believe him that he still loves Tav I am not sure he'll ever see them again as an equal.
T_T this fucking game makes me sad about fictional boyfriends xD
Oh my GOD the way he called him "bad boy" 😳😳😳😳
The courser frantically flying over the "sire" killed me 💀💀💀
I'm so conflicted about ascended Astarion. I don't really like him. But I'm romancing Astarion as Durge and I want to be daddy Bhaal's chosen one but I feel like it would be unfair to take the power for myself while keeping Astarion as a spawn. Like, I'd be no better than Ascended Astarion in the sense that he sees Tav as a pet of sorts. And I really have no idea what to do lol