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/stromboul 1d ago
Also we have no indication that Cazador (I think?) for how long Cazador knew how to actually finish the ritual. I get the sense that he didn't knew everything and he was piecing it together as the years went buy. The experimentation on the back of his spawn, maybe doing some partial rituals, not being sure how many he needed to capture, etc. And he didn't want his spawn to know he was doing it so they wouldn't rebel and kill him (exactly like he did to his master)