#to be fair i kinda romanced everyone at my camp... shadowheart wyll gale AND astarion. i did not mean to do this i was trying to be nice

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Update on your mod's BG3 playthrough:

Like seemingly everyone else in the Baldur's Gate 3 tag, I'm working on romancing Astarion (something about my concurrent reading of Carmilla, etc.)...

Which had me thinking about vampirism in general. Here's a book chapter that discusses the historical and literary evolution of vampirism as well as its transformation in science fiction settings.