#lady cazador

[4dr3n4lin3]

send better assassins next time

[cake-warlock]

Hey so remember how in Baldur's Gate 3 Cazador had a niece that he made a vampire when she was 13? Then locked in the attic for years bc she hated him? Here's Amanita Szarr! Ingame we don't find out what happened to her, but I hope she got out and is plotting to murder her family

[perpetualprocrastinationisme]

As much as I love watching siblings being absolutely devoted to each other like Julian, Mark, Helen, and Alec are to theirs or even the loving affection between siblings like Kit and Mina, what I'm really looking forward to in TWP is this:

"Tiberius hid," said Drusilla. "In the barn." "It wasn't hiding," said Ty. "It was a strategic retreat." "It was hiding," said Dru.

And this

Drusilla, wearing an overly long cotton skirt that reached her toes, rolled her eyes. "I can't believe you're going," she said to Julian. "The minute you leave, Livvy and Ty start treating me like a servant." "Servants get paid," Ty observed.

Because those were such real sibling moments! I don't want Ty or Dru to be arguing and mad with each other by no means in TWP. But I just love these small moments that remind you that they really are brother and sister even though they look nothing alike.

[astarions-wife]

Amanita Szarr, theory and history:

-We know that she was the niece of Cazador, summoned to him at 13 and forcibly turned into a vampire (vampire spawn? It’s never confirmed if she’s a true vampire or a spawn).

-It’s said her entire extended family was there, watching as he summoned and turned her. It’s mentioned somewhere that she lived out of the city in a country estate, raised by her servants. Her parentage is unknown, though clearly one of them was the sibling of Cazador, since Amanita is his niece by blood.

-She resisted at first, being locked away in the attic for a year before she eventually gave in to drinking human blood out of starvation, resulting in her killing and drinking a captive that was sent up there.

-This is when she rejected the Szarr name, and declared herself “Lady Incognita”, hiding her past likely out of guilt, and disgust for what they’d made her.

-She stayed in the attic by choice after this, and wrote her “little histories” as she called them.

-Amanita/Incognita was turned in 1477, the game takes place in 1492. It’s been 15 years since she was turned, though considering vampires don’t age—she’s still a 13 year old.

-She’s responsible for the books “Diseses of the Blood”, “The Tourmaline Depths”, and “Vampires before Vellioth”.

-These books are about diseases that vampires can get, ancient tunnels below the city, and a list of vampires that came before Vellioth (Cazador’s former Master).

-Bonus fun fact, there is in fact a random ring called “Tourmaline Ring” in BG3. The ring doesn’t have any function, and I was able to locate it for sale at a vendor in act 1, but it’s still an interesting coincidence.

-Her book “diseases of the blood” can be located in the House of Hope, though she’s very clearly not among the souls there, so it’s unknown how it arrived to such a place.

Potential Theories on what happened to her:

-In the ballroom of the palace, there are two doors. The door to the kitchen is open, and the ladder here leads to the attic where you can find the multiple hidden doors that contain the rooms Amanita stayed in (for at least most of her years), as well as the torture room she was turned(?) or at least kept in for awhile.

-The dining room is closed off. The only way to access this is to send a companion into the kitchen to hit a button. This button closes off the kitchen door, and opens the dining room.

-Considering there aren’t any bodies in the kitchen, and the only servants in the house are in other rooms nowhere near the ballroom, it’s clear that someone had to open/close the door.

-There are bodies in the dining room, all of which were guests summoned to the party that evening. One of them was “hired” to play music, but Cazador’s werewolves brutally murdered all the party guests.

-It was definitely not Cazador or the other spawn responsible for opening/closing doors. By the time you get to the palace, it’s ritual night—and all the other spawn are captive in the basement with Cazador, awaiting the final piece (Astarion) to complete it.

-It’s possible that Amanita is the one responsible for controlling the doors at the party, though unconfirmed if she killed anyone (it seems more likely the job of the werewolves).

-Could Amanita have been sent down to be the “host” of the party, since Cazador obviously wasn’t around to play fake-noble for the day? It’s unclear, but I do suspect she (might) have been connected.

-In the dining room you can move the fancy chest to find a hatch to another part of the basement. Noticeable here is that Astarion doesn’t have any voice lines about this as he does the other one, though it’s safe to assume he also doesn’t know this existed (and when were the Spawn ever allowed in the dining room anyway?)

-The basement here leads to a very famously broken puzzle, that no one has solved (supposedly support says it’s broken, hoping it’s fixed one day soon).

-The key to this hatch is found in the attic, so it’s safe to assume Amanita was connected to this too? However without confirmation, it’s hard to say for sure. And would you really go through a puzzle that hard just to find her corpse if she was dead? Doubtful, in my opinion.

-It doesn’t seem that she’s one of the spawn connected to the ritual. She never mentions any of it in her writings, and some of her earlier attic notes very clearly detest Cazador, so she’s not holding back her emotions/thoughts at all.

-She was also allowed, and given human blood. None of the seven original spawn were fed human blood, and none of the seven thousand spawn were fed at all. She was likely only given this treatment because she was his niece.

-I don’t believe she escaped the palace in general, even with her book in the House of Hope. I feel like Raphael would’ve said something about knowing a Szarr, or we would’ve found more than a book tossed in a pile.

-Talks of escape were usually noted in the palace, with Leon (one of the spawn) having been plotting in a journal to have his daughter escape, but she was inevitably killed before this could happen.

-Amanita never discusses leaving. She seems like she feels as though she can’t be normal ever again with what was done to her, and chooses to stay there so she doesn’t have to face the world.

-I believe (perhaps in delusion) that Amanita is still alive. Perhaps she’s hidden away in the basement. Perhaps she’s hiding in an unknown part of the castle, truly we don’t know—but I do believe she’s alive.

-Side Note: It was a theory that she could’ve been turned into a scroll, as there’s a scroll in the palace that mentions “for my sins, I’m ink on this page until you free me”, however it’s not signed. Amanita/Incognita was very clear on signing her work, and the scroll isn’t anything you can use/interact with, so this theory is largely since debunked.

-Feel free to add onto this if I’m missing anything! Amanita is one of my favorite unknown characters, and I really want to know more about her!!! :)

[myheartismadeofstars]

I am choosing to believe that Lady Incognita/Amanita Szarr:

Is a True Vampire (I believe this is connected to the "Family Rites" she refused to participate in)

Made her Uncle's life HELL while she lived with him

Made a deal with Raphael to force him to help her escape (this is why neither her, nor her body are in the house. no idea what he wanted from HER but that would explain why her book is in the House of Hope. Perhaps it was connected to the blood illnesses, as that's what her book is about?)

Is still alive and out there, living her best life as an immortal 13 year old.

Is a sarcastic and petty little shit

Is a TOUCH insane if she abstains too long from human blood

When she MUST hunt for humans, she prefers the "vulnerable child" ploy, and prefers creepy older men who are a little too friendly with her

Tries to be good, but it's not really in her nature. She settles for Neutral

Killed the others in her family, but was unable to kill Cazador for Reasons

Is Cazador's next of kin, thereby inheriting the house after his death

Makes a special trip to Baldur's Gate after learning of his death SPECIFICALLY to burn the mansion down and leave (yes she still attempts this if Astarion ascends lmao)

Would be very grateful to Astarion if he killed Cazador and stayed a Spawn (perhaps willing to make him a True Vampire if asked) but is extremely jealous and bitter if he ascended

[reinwinters]

I have ADHD and I am hyper focused on this story. Enjoy. Tyrus and Lady Incognito from BG3, Story by @asterdurge

I promise to make a cute picture in the future, but for now enjoy the angst.

[umbralsong]

Lady Incognita

Cazador Szarr's "niece" is named Amanita Szarr. You can find her story scattered throughout the palace's attic, dungeon, and the House of Hope. She was a girl who grew up near Anga Vled raised by old servants. At 13, she was brought to visit her uncle in Baldur's Gate...

The day her entire family exposed themselves as vampires.

Alternate Text: An east Asian girl with medium-brown skin and dark brown then red eyes looks away from the viewer. One with brown, facing away. Twice with red and shoddily cut away dark hair, looking away in despair and notably darkened, red, downcast eyes and short hair. Once more with darkened eyes and a cloak and red eyes to match, long dark hair flowing from her hood.

Unfinished, but hey. I want to show fellow artists that things just don't come to you. Sometimes, you have to work the lines and paint until they do. Use Glaze to protect your art from AI scrapers.

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The city palace, straddling the wall between the Upper and Lower City, was more than creepy, it was somehow chilling.

Cazador Szarr the Avid rose to power in 1296. She stayed at the estate for at least four months before she was killed. She was turned in Kythorn 1477, 15 years before the start of the story.

'Uncle' Cazador made me a vampire, but I refused to participate in the family rites. He gave me the Hunger but he could not break my will. He had Blovart imprison me in the attic. I weakened. They sent up human blood, and eventually I drank it. For a year, they stopped sending anything. I tore at the walls in frustration. Then they sent up a bound captive.

Cazador's favorite punishments are cruelty, hunger, and isolation.

His staff, "Woe:" The gentle tap-tap-tap of a staff on stone sparked terror for all in Cazador's palace. It signalled an approaching storm, and all they could do was shrink into the background and pray its wrath would not fall on them. His dagger, "Rhapsody:" Cazador's love of poetry arose after he read on the naked stomach of a dead child in his homeland. The child was hung from the lowest branch of a tree. Cazador read the poem, and looked at the child, and he knew that here was the artform for him.

Her coffin is on a wooden table overlooking a window. There are chains by her bed, a candle, and a skull. There are three skeletons in the attic, one headless with a crossbow and garlic cloves in their cage.

I succumbed. I am a vampire, and damned. I curse the name of Szarr and reject it. Now I stay in the attic by choice and write my little histories. I am Lady Incognita. Amanita is no more.

I think the snippets of her story were so impactful because of the complete betrayal. The fact her family were never around. The fact they lied for her entire life. The fact they forced her to transform, which we know from Astarion's partial ceremorphosis dialogue is incredibly painful:

Player: Unlike you to be so unwilling to receive a new power... Astarion: That was before I knew the cost. Before I knew it meant transforming into some grotesque beast. I remember how it hurt when I turned to a vampire. My body writhed and warped while I was utterly helpless, the grip of death owned my heart as it beat its last. I - I don't want to turn into anything else. I can't do that again. I can't watch my body be taken over. Player: You're afraid? Astarion: I'll happily murder my way to whatever powerful artefacts we can make use of. Point at the back and I'll stab. Just don't ask me to sacrifice my body. It hasn't been mine for so long.

We know thematically there is a parallel between vampirism, abuse, and sexuality. Cazador appeared to lose interest in his 'niece' altogether. Nonetheless, he locked her into an eternal childhood under "true vampirism," never to grow to adulthood, and denied her a "typical" life forevermore. There is something particularly grotesque about that.

Astarion: Nearly two hundred years and I never came back. Not since the night I woke up down there. I had to punch a hole in the coffin and claw my way through six feet of dirt. Then when I finally broke the surface, retching up dirt and congealed blood, Cazador was waiting. From that day on I was his. Until today. Player: You were never his. Whatever he had, he took by force. Astarion: Maybe, but he did take it. There's almost nothing left of the person I was. Just a name on a rock. For nearly two centuries, I stalked the streets like a ghost while the person I was lay here, dead and buried. Now I need to figure out who I am. What I want.

We find The Tourmaline Depths in the room beneath Cazador's room. She wrote Diseases of the Blood to tackle vampiric illness. She wrote the names of ruling vampires, their titles, and their successors. She is, what, 28?

I like to think she knew all of Cazador's secrets, from the corpses in the suspended cages to his dungeon. I'm impressed by her mental fortitude in the face of such odds as a child and young woman. I'm impressed she chose to do what she loved, escaped, and became such a relevant figure in the study of vampiric physiology. I wish we knew her better. I wish we had the opportunity to meet her.

She is the historian who sullies his name and documents his endless crimes. She escaped. Cazador underestimated her.

[tadfool]

Amanita is really living rent free in my head rn, she's such an interesting character to me despite how little we actually know about her. She's permanently 13, she may or may not be a true vampire, she was turned against her will and tried to resist until she physically couldn't any more, she's Cazador's niece, she might be an orphan, she didn't know Cazador was a vampire until she was 13, she's a historian, she did research on blood diseases and how they affect vampires who drink infected blood, she's vanished without a trace, she might have a connection to the unsolvable puzzle in Cazador's mansion, she seems to have gained some notoriety outside Cazador's immediate circle since at one point she's referenced as "the vampire only known as Lady Incognita"

[thebalancedangel]

Cazador: So what are you doing here?

Amanita: Oh, you know, just, flying around.

Cazador: Flying around?

Amanita: Flying around.

Cazador: Thwarting my plans?

Amanita: Thwarting your plans?

Cazador: Are you?

Amanita: No.

Cazador: Good, 'cause that would be bad.

Amanita: How bad?

Cazador: I'd have to kill you.

Amanita: That's bad.

Cazador: Indeed.

[4dr3n4lin3]

joshurila vs sashua. who will win the oc x canon war (sasha belongs to @endymionad)

[barbatusart]

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[aroace-cat-lady]

It doesn't matter how much time passes, I'm never getting over the fact that the first thing Kit thought when he saw Ty, a guy who was literally holding a knife against his throat, was beautiful.

[astarions-wife]

Okay buckle in, this might be the most out of pocket theory I’ve ever had, to date.

Amanita Szarr/Lady Incognita writes that she’s in the ballroom the night she’s turned, surrounded by all the living Szarr’s. These include: her grandmother, her cousin, her great aunt, and her uncle—Cazador.

She will go on to mention that Cazador has that same cousin, named Blovart, imprison her in the attic. Now you may have seen my post questioning who Blovart is related to, as if they’re Amanita’s cousin, this means that either Cazador has another sibling (who is not alive judging by her note), or this child is… Cazador’s. If Cazador had a child and Amanita is his niece, that means Amanita and Cazador’s child would be cousins… see where I’m going with this?

Now based off this, and the fact that she says she was raised by servants, we can infer that Amanita’s parents are dead, which I find very interesting. As it seems to show, if I’m correct, that there’s a very interesting tree happening here. In order of relatives and inheritance descending, we would have:

-Her great aunt, Cazador’s Aunt.

-Her grandmother, which seems unlikely to be Cazador’s mother, so perhaps on the other side of the family?

-Cazador, her canonically confirmed uncle.

-Her cousin Blovart, either the child of one of Cazador’s siblings (assuming he had more than one) or Cazador’s child themself.

-Amanita herself.

Do you see the pattern? As if they’re keeping one person alive per family generation/side of the family? For this, I almost assume that Blovart is Cazador’s child, because it seems so odd to me.

So now to the end of the theory. What if this was the plan with Victoria, Leon’s daughter? What if, since Cazador was planning to ascend and kill all the spawn, Victoria was the one he would “keep” for this next line of the family? He seems to have gotten younger when it comes to turning people, perhaps as a way of furthering control… or perhaps he intended on keeping Victoria human until she eventually grew old enough to have her own family, which he would probably kill (considering what happened to Amanita’s parents).

I could be looking at this totally wrong, but I can’t stop thinking about it now.

TLDR: Cazador might have had/had a canonical child and a twisted plan to keep the family line going.

[nikomedes]

im not immune to amanita szarr aka lady incognita. yeah her cool rebellious vampire name sucks but she’s 13, man, they turned her ass at 13 let her get a little deviantart with it. i hope she’s in the next game and i hope she’s the weirdest fucking little vampire girl in the world and i hope she bullies astarion regardless of life path but ESPECIALLY ascended astarion. and i hope she wears heelies while she does it

[reinwinters]

@asterdurge I thought it would be cool to make a classic looking front cover for your fic.

[3lenorec]

Ok, so this is 'Nita, a Bard Tav I made based on Amanita Szarr/Lady Incognita. Having a little wibbly-wobbly headcanon fun. Somehow, she escaped the palace, got snatched up by the Mindflayers, tadpoled, and is is having a good run so far, with her bestie "fuck Cazador" partner-in-crime Astarion and the other companions.

But I've a question for ya, Tumblr. Her situation is kind of...unique. I'm at a bit of a loss as to whether she would romance anyone ( I mean probably not, but?) or just remain platonic with all the companions. How would a permanent 13 year old elf vampire who has existed for 28 years feel about being surrounded these people? Especially after escaping such a lonely existence? I would imagine she'd be vexed, at best. Anyone have thoughts?

(p.s. sorry she looks mopey here, but she's struggling with making big decisions. plus, the lighting was nice)