About

Goostarion, sometimes spelled Goosetarion, is a fictionnal character imagined as the sassy mind of Astarion, from popular videogame Baldur's Gate 3, inside the body of a goose. First coined by Astarion's voice actor Neil Newbon during an interview, it became widely adopted by the fandom as a character of its own, spawning fanarts and animations.

Origin

On April 3rd, 2021, a 2-hour-long livestreamed interview with voice actor Neil Newbon and director Kirsty Gillmore was conducted on Twitch, mainly about upcoming RPG video game Baldur's Gate 3. During a Q&A session with questions asked by viewers, one of them addressed to Newbon, was read by the host as follows: "Out of all your characters, which character do you think would be a very chaotic goose?". To which Newbon answered: "Can you imagine a goose Astarion? A Goostarion?". He then proceeded to do some voiceline from the game in the style of a goose and honking at times, while everyone else was laughing. A clip from that moment was uploaded to Newbon's own Twitch channel^[1] on that same day.
A YouTube upload by Iridium was made on April 23rd, 2021 (shown below):

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In the same vein as Moushley, fan arts were made of the character, as well as references to the Untitled Goose Game

On January 26th, 2024, YouTube user Rexy Studio posted a video of themselves metting Newbon at a convention with a puppet version of Goostarion (shown below):

Fan Arts

Videos

External References

^[1] Twitch – Goostarion clip