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A daughter of [[Bhaal|Bhaalspawns]] and a devout practitioner in the arts of murder and pain, Orin has painted the streets red in her father's name for many years. Still to be caught thanks to her shapeshifting abilities, she now prepares to make out of Baldur's Gate the biggest bloody offering to her father yet. | A daughter of [[Bhaal|Bhaalspawns]] and a devout practitioner in the arts of murder and pain, Orin has painted the streets red in her father's name for many years. Still to be caught thanks to her shapeshifting abilities, she now prepares to make out of Baldur's Gate the biggest bloody offering to her father yet. | ||
===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
Hinted at first through notes, she is properly introduced at the end of Act 2 as one of the conspirators of the cult along with {{CharLink|Ketheric Thorm}} and {{CharLink|Enver Gortash}}. Through cunning and murderous devotion, she and her allies have established a solid Bhaalite foothold in the city of [[Baldur's Gate]]. Now, empowered by a {{SmRarityItem|Orin's Netherstone| | Hinted at first through notes, she is properly introduced at the end of Act 2 as one of the conspirators of the cult along with {{CharLink|Ketheric Thorm}} and {{CharLink|Enver Gortash}}. Through cunning and murderous devotion, she and her allies have established a solid Bhaalite foothold in the city of [[Baldur's Gate]]. Now, empowered by a {{SmRarityItem|Orin's Netherstone|Netherstone}} and with cult's plans in motion, she intends to paint the city crimson with blood in a mighty offering to Bhaal. | ||
===Gameplay=== | ===Gameplay=== | ||
* Orin is a level 12 | * Orin is a level 12 {{FRWiki|Changeling}} boss and one of the main antagonists in the game. | ||
* First mentioned in [[Act One|Act 1]], she is introduced in [[Act Two|Act 2]], and properly encountered and fought in [[Act Three|Act 3]]. | * First mentioned in [[Act One|Act 1]], she is introduced in [[Act Two|Act 2]], and properly encountered and fought in [[Act Three|Act 3]]. | ||
* Fighting her is required in order to obtain her Netherstone and proceed with the story. | * Fighting her is required in order to obtain her Netherstone and proceed with the story. | ||
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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]]. | ||
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* {{MdRarityItem|Experiment on Cruor}} | * {{MdRarityItem|Experiment on Cruor}} | ||
* {{MdRarityItem|Illasera, the First}} | * {{MdRarityItem|Illasera, the First}} | ||
* {{MdRarityItem|Kudos on the Murder of Gortash!}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Kudos on the Murder of Gortash! (no tribunal)}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Letter from Orin}} | * {{MdRarityItem|Letter from Orin}} | ||
* {{MdRarityItem|Letter with Sticky Red Blots}} | * {{MdRarityItem|Letter with Sticky Red Blots}} | ||
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[[Category:Followers of Bhaal]] | [[Category:Followers of Bhaal]] | ||
[[Category:Available to Speak with Dead]] | [[Category:Available to Speak with Dead]] | ||
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