Act 3 Astarion's romance (with approvals) & personal quest (spawn path) | Baldur's Gate 3

Final instalment of Astarion romance videos containing approvals/disapprovals from my "good" playthrough. These approvals are here to sate the curiosity of those who have maxed out the scale by Act 3 & those who still want to befriend him... more. There are other opportunities available, of course, but I also ended up maxing the approval out, so... that is it.

As usual I am including all conversations and such, as well as the resolution for Astarion's personal quest & romance scene that follows. As you can see not supporting ascension in previous dialogues doesn't impact the check when it comes to the final decision. So, if Astarion decided on his own to not ascend in your game, you probably didn't notice killing one or more of the other spawn while fighting Cazador (did you use Daylight, mm?).

I have also added the post patch 5 version of the ascension decision scene (music got updated after rejecting ascension with "I Want to Live").

Timestamps (the video turned out to be so long... oops):

WYRM'S CROSSING
00:00 - Arriving to Act 3
00:16 - The Gate is close (about the ritual)
02:52 - About the Astral Tadpole
03:37 - Arriving to Wyrm's Crossing
04:46 - Rivington (approval/disapproval)
05:42 - A SHAPECHANGER!
06:01 - Gur Camp
10:03 - Circus of the Last Days (approvals/disapprovals)
12:09 - Spawn encounter at Fraygo's Flophouse
17:05 - Wyrm's Crossing (approvals/disapproval)
18:44 - Wyrm's Rock (approvals)

LOWER CITY
20:09 - Arriving to the Lower City
20:32 - Lower City (disapproval/approval)
21:27 - "Party" victim in the sewers (disapproval)
23:15 - Aylin & Lorroakan situation (disapproval)
24:18 - Spawn attack at camp (approval)
28:56 - Necromancy of Thay resolution
29:30 - Lower city (disapproval/approval)
30:30 - Meeting Araj again (approvals)
36:33 - Devil's Fee & House of Hope (approvals)

CAZADOR'S PALACE
39:30 - Arrived at the palace
42:07 - Door's locked
43:02 - Speaking with Vilhelm
44:02 - Astarion's comments
44:45 - Godey
47:13 - Ballroom
48:10 - Defiled Chapel
49:34 - Vellioth's scroll
52:17 - Sebastian (approval)
56:29 - Conversation about the spawn
57:56 - Gur children
1:01:27 - What will Astarion do?
1:02:21 - Facing Cazador
1:04:43 - Deciding to ascend or not (approval) - patch 5
1:09:42 - What to do with the spawn?
1:11:24 - Aftermath conversation
1:12:18 - Speaking to Gur hunters

QUEST END
1:13:33 - Graveyard scene
1:19:04 - Next morning
1:21:34 - What are we to you?
1:21:56 - Patch 5 kiss
1:22:27 - The end (vibing in the new epilogue)

Whatever happens today, this game is my personal GOTY. :)