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=== Orin's betrayal === | === Orin's betrayal === | ||
The Urge joined forces with {{CharLink|Bane (God)|Bane's}} Chosen {{CharLink|Enver Gortash}}, and together, they formulated a plan to steal the {{ | The Urge joined forces with {{CharLink|Bane (God)|Bane's}} Chosen {{CharLink|Enver Gortash}}, and together, they formulated a plan to steal the {{IconLink|size=20|Crown of Karsus Faded.png|Crown of Karsus}}, an ancient arcane object of immense power, and subjugate an [[Elder Brain]] with it in order to create a soulless army to destroy the world with.{{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Scrapbook of Letters}} by The Dark Urge, Enver Gortash}} After recruiting {{CharLink|Ketheric Thorm}}, {{CharLink|Myrkul|Myrkul's}} Chosen, Orin joined the three in the raid to plant the Crown on the brain beneath [[Moonrise Towers]]. | ||
It was during this time that Orin saw her opportunity and struck, driving a dagger through the Urge's skull and planting an [[Illithid]] tadpole in them.{{ref|[[Morphic Pool]], lines spoken by the Netherbrain when confronted by the Dark Urge and their companions.<br>"''You placed the Crown upon me in the depths of Moonrise Towers, and there I was born. (...) Your plan was devious, your cruelty unparalleled. I would have followed it, were your mind not destroyed by your sister."''}}{{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda}} by Enver Gortash}} With her former rival left to die and a tadpole devouring their brain, Orin took the Urge's place as Bhaal's Chosen and third member of the conspirators.{{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Elder Brain Domination}} by Ketheric Thorm}} Orin would prove undisciplined in her role, however, as her bloodlust could not be contained, and rapidly grew to be disliked by the other two who saw her as little more than a necessary nuisance to their plan.{{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Journal of Enver Gortash}} by Enver Gortash}} At some point between the betrayal and the events of the game, Ketheric and Orin tricked {{CharLink|Minthara}} into a trap where she murdered her allies and captured her. She then used a tadpole to convert Minthara into a [[True Soul]]. | It was during this time that Orin saw her opportunity and struck, driving a dagger through the Urge's skull and planting an [[Illithid]] tadpole in them.{{ref|[[Morphic Pool]], lines spoken by the Netherbrain when confronted by the Dark Urge and their companions.<br>"''You placed the Crown upon me in the depths of Moonrise Towers, and there I was born. (...) Your plan was devious, your cruelty unparalleled. I would have followed it, were your mind not destroyed by your sister."''}}{{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda}} by Enver Gortash}} With her former rival left to die and a tadpole devouring their brain, Orin took the Urge's place as Bhaal's Chosen and third member of the conspirators.{{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Elder Brain Domination}} by Ketheric Thorm}} Orin would prove undisciplined in her role, however, as her bloodlust could not be contained, and rapidly grew to be disliked by the other two who saw her as little more than a necessary nuisance to their plan.{{ref|{{SmRarityItem|Journal of Enver Gortash}} by Enver Gortash}} At some point between the betrayal and the events of the game, Ketheric and Orin tricked {{CharLink|Minthara}} into a trap where she murdered her allies and captured her. She then used a tadpole to convert Minthara into a [[True Soul]]. | ||