#baldursgate3

If you have Astarion in your party and go fight Cazador, he will always bind Astarion to his ritual and you will need to hurry up and save him, similar to Aylin in a soul cage. Also there will be a hidden timer and if you fought for too long and didn't save Astarion, Cazador will complete his ritual and kill all the spawns, including Astarion.
However if you never ever started that scene and just attacked Cazador from far, he will not get Astarion! That also means no ritual active, no runes, no legendary aura around him - none of that. He is still an annoying pest, becoming a mist which is easy to miss and all that, but no near as unpleasant as he could be.
This worked for me during the patch 7. I killed all his entourage, got him almost dead and then made a mistake of getting Astarion too close to him, which started the cutscene and the ritual. However that wasn't unfixable, he had almost no hp left, so I just spammed magic missile onto him, because no matter legendary evasions and any other buffs that one spell has 100% chance to land on the target.
As soon as Cazador is dead, Astarion is automatically free and can help to fight the leftover bats.

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