[Reply refers to this post.]Just to make sure we’re all on the same page: I made that bit up.

[Reply refers to this post.]Just to make sure we’re all on the same page: I made that bit up. There is currently no dialogue option for resurrecting Astarion while he’s still “alive”. If you want to get technical, 5e resurrection spells only work on the dead-dead, not the undead. The only exception to this is True Resurrection (9th-Level Necromancy). So if you wanted a lore-friendly answer instead of a game mechanics one, that is likely the reason why the Talking Skeleton can only bring our undead friend back from the dead-dead. …That and Larian is centring Astarion’s content on his vampiric nature and don’t want players circumventing that by having a Talking Skeleton shuffle that vampire back onto his mortal coil, but I digress. I’ve put my headcanon under the cut.Basically, I wanted to come up with a rationalisation that gives an in-world reason for why this incredibly powerful Talking Skeleton cannot resurrect Astarion that 1) went beyond the usual, “Well, Astarion’s undead, isn’t he?” and 2) didn’t touch on game mechanics and player convenience. So I made the [possibly il]logical leap that Astarion’s soul and body were still cleaved together. There is nothing I can find—granted, from a very cursory search through the 5e Monster Manual—about the soulfulness or soullessness of vampires or their vampire spawn.* So it’s possible BG3 vampires have souls tied to their deceased bodies, which sounds quite morbid, but Roisia would absolutely love for that to be the case because it could help advance her understanding of what transpired with her father’s faulty resurrection. That would be a win for her in her book! Sorry Astarion!* Now, see, if this was The Elder Scrolls, I could say that since you can soul trap vampires in-game, that could be proof enough that vampires have souls. Those souls are just damned! But alas, we are outside of my wheelhouse. -- source link

More pics about