If playing bg3 has taught me anything, it's that a lot of people don't know the difference between Magiatrates and Lawyers.
Astarion says he used to be a magistrate in the city. Not a lawyer. He wasn't the one speaking to a judge on behalf of someone, HE WAS THE JUDGE.
The definition of magistrate is a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offenses and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.(literally copy and pasted that definition from the dictionary)
He's not a "Your honor, respectfully, you weren't even there"
He's a "ew, this is so cringe, guilty"













