r/BG3 • u/thealien73 • 2d ago
Cazador’s Plan Confusion Spoiler
Spoilers for the end of Astarion’s personal quest.
So Cazador needed 7000 souls for the ritual and he had 7 spawn hunting for him. Astarion was one of his first spawn and has been enslaved for 200 years.
7000/200 =35. They captured 35 people a year. I get that Cazador had to go slow so no one would notice people going missing… but 35 a year? That’s so few people, especially in a city the size of Baldur’s Gate. Not to mention the fact that Baldur’s Gate is a port-town, meaning there are people coming in and out allll the time. WOTC apparently gave the city a population of 125,000. That’s huge!!
Why did it take him so long?? Even if he only sent out one spawn a night, twice a week, and they had a 50/50 success rate, it should have been like 135 years and I’m pretty sure he sent them a lot more frequently than that
Of course, this is also the guy who had a plan “centuries in the making” that hinged on seven specific people and then sent those seven out into the world regularly. Oh and it DIDN’T actually hinge on those seven, he could have grabbed literally anyone including one of his sycophant servants to replace Astarion at any moment
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u/South_Front_4589 1d ago
35 a year is a pretty significant number. Especially when it only takes one wrong victim to lead to a more thorough investigation. The whole idea would be to make it slow and be careful who they pick.
They're also vampires. They feed on people. And I also expect they have a lot of uses for people in other ways. Not to mention a natural level of failure where victims die.