[Taryon blinks a few times.] Is that different from a zombie? Or...well, I never heard of one. Is it basically a vampire, but less powerful?

[He notices the fangs, the blood drinking...that's basically what vampires do. What else is there that Astarion ought to do?]

They have advanced medicine here. Maybe they must...address the curse in some roundabout way that the science of our worlds hasn't discovered yet.