#begging and pleading for when Astarion mentions Cazador properly (he’s said his name once in passing) that there’s a Noble dialogue option

[quinn-of-aebradore]

I’m also thinking about Ari finding out about Cazador. She pushed into Astarion’s mind the night of the Vampire Reveal and in those memories, got a flash of Cazador’s eyes. I think, however vaguely, she recognizes them, though it bothers her for a day or two before she finally asks Astarion who exactly his master was.

And she’s so incredulous about it! She’s definitely met Cazador once or twice, given the mingling of the rich, and she assumed that he was just weird because living as long as full-blooded elves do makes you weird! But no, he’s been a vampire lord all this time. That dialogue option you get in Act 3, about Cazador’s gothic monstrosity of a palace being inhabited by vampires this whole time? Yeah, that’s probably the third thing Ari says on the matter.

(And then, later on, once she knows more about the torture Astarion was subject to, she lays awake thinking about how if only she knew. How she could’ve brought her family’s might and the light of Lathander down on Cazador, saved Astarion, saved his siblings. If only she knew.)