Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s Astarion was almost a very different race Larian StudiosAstarion is one of the most popular companions in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, but the developers have confirmed he was initially planned as a different race. As it happens, players are happy that the developers decided to change their decisions on Astarion\u2019s race. The discussion surrounding the topic was initiated by a Reddit user who posted, \u201cAstarion was originally a tiefling! (Larian at GDC 2024).\u201d They also posted a screenshot from GDC where the developers showcased an image of Astarion as a tiefling. Several players joined the conversation as they were happy that Astarion did not end up as a Tiefling. One such user commented, \u201cI\u2019m glad they made the change though, I wonder if any of the other companions were something\/someone else during development?\u201d Another user chimed in, \u201cThis is so weird\u2026. interesting, but super glad they didn\u2019t go this direction with Astarion.\u201d One player also claimed, \u201cTiefling Astarion reminds me a lot of Rolan. Love Rolan but having two catty tieflings would be too much so I\u2019m glad we got our pale elf.\u201d Finally, one of the players stated, \u201cWas this before they cast Neil Newborn? I can\u2019t imagine his voice coming out of a tiefling.\u201d Therefore, it\u2019s fairly safe to say that players are happy Astarion is not a Tiefling in the game. If you are not aware, Astarion is a High Elf in the game and this race fits his character. Players feel that a Tiefling would not match his personality at all and Neil Newborn (the voice actor of Astarion) would feel out of place as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s Astarion was almost a very different race Larian StudiosAstarion is one of the most popular companions in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, but the developers have confirmed he was initially planned as a different race. As it happens, players are happy that the developers decided to change their decisions on Astarion\u2019s race. The discussion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}