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|name | | name = Orin the Red | ||
|image | | image = Orin the Red.jpg | ||
| | | voice = Maggie Robertson | ||
| | | titles = Deathbringer of Bhaal | ||
| | | race = Changeling | ||
| | | family = [[Bhaal]] (grandfather and great-grandfather)<br>[[Sarevok Anchev]] (grandfather and father)<br>[[Helena Anchev]] (mother and sister)<br>[[The Dark Urge]] | ||
| | | level = 12 | ||
| | | hometown = [[Temple of Bhaal]], [[Baldur's Gate]] | ||
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| | | modules = | ||
| | {{Infobox statistics | ||
| | | child = yes | ||
| | | size = Medium | ||
| | | type = Humanoid | ||
| | | armour_class = 20 | ||
| | | hit_points = 145 | ||
| | | hit_points_tactician = 208 | ||
| | | movement_speed_meters = | ||
| | | movement_speed_feet = | ||
| | | weight_kg = 75 | ||
| | | weight_lb = 150 | ||
| | | hiddenlevel = 12 | ||
| | | str = 18 | ||
|initiative | | dex = 22 | ||
| | | con = 17 | ||
| | | int = 14 | ||
| | | wis = 16 | ||
| | | cha = 19 | ||
| dex_save_proficiency = yes | |||
| int_save_proficiency = yes | |||
| initiative = +7 | |||
| condition1_name = Legendary Resistance: Incapacitation | |||
| condition_description = +10 to your next saving throw against being Incapacitated. | |||
| condition1_mode = Tactician | |||
| feature1_name = Ambusher (+1) | |||
| feature1_description = +1 to Initiative rolls. | |||
| feature1_item = Studded Leather Armour +2 | |||
| feature2_name = Crimson Weapon | |||
| feature2_description = Add your ability modifier to the damage of offhand attacks. | |||
| feature2_item = Crimson Mischief | |||
| feature3_name = Darkvision | |||
| feature3_description = Can see in the dark up to 12m. | |||
| | | feature4_name = Evasion | ||
| | | feature4_description = You receive less damage from spells or effects that require a DEX save. | ||
| | | feature5_name = Exploit Weakness | ||
| | | feature5_description = Creatures hit with Bloodthirst receive Vulnerability to Piercing damage. | ||
| | | feature5_item = Bloodthirst | ||
| | | feature6_name = Fast Hands | ||
| | | feature6_description = You gain an extra Bonus action. | ||
| feature7_name = Immutable Form | |||
}} | | feature7_description = Immune to having your form changed. +5 to saving throws against being Banished. | ||
| feature8_name = Legendary Action: Murderous Retort | |||
| feature8_description = Use a Legendary Action to immediately strike back at your attacker. | |||
| feature8_mode = Honour | |||
| feature9_name = Improved Critical | |||
| feature9_description = The number you need to roll a critical hit while attacking is reduced by 1. | |||
| feature9_item = Bloodthirst | |||
| feature10_name = Magic Resistance | |||
| feature10_description = Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. | |||
| feature11_name = Opportunity Attack | |||
| feature11_description = Automatically attack an enemy moving out of your reach. | |||
| feature12_name = Perfect Sentry | |||
| feature12_description = Cannot be Surprised. | |||
| feature13_name = Prey Upon the Weak | |||
| feature13_description = Crimson Mischief deals an extra 1d4 Piercing damage against targets with 50% or fewer hit points. | |||
| feature13_item = Crimson Mischief | |||
| feature14_name = Reliable Talent | |||
| feature14_description = Ability checks with proficient skills have a floor of 10. | |||
| feature15_name = Superior Padding | |||
| feature15_description = You take 1 less Bludgeoning damage. | |||
| feature15_item = Studded Leather Armour +2 | |||
| feature16_name = Uncanny Dodge | |||
| feature16_description = When an attack hits you, you only take half the usual damage. | |||
}} | |||
}}'''Orin the Red''' is one of the chosen of the [[Absolute]]. She is a practitioner in the art of inflicting pain and a grandmaster of murder. Orin has killed for many years, but has yet to be caught, thanks in part to her shapeshifting abilities, which enable her to take the form of anyone. | |||
She hides her cravings to commit murder beneath these numerous masks, disguising her intentions and herself to lure unsuspecting victims. | She hides her cravings to commit murder beneath these numerous masks, disguising her intentions and herself to lure unsuspecting victims. | ||
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== Description == | == Description == | ||
=== Appearance === | |||
While in her changeling form, Orin has pale blue-grey skin with swirling, smoke-like plumes of red undulating across it. Her blond, braided hair falls to the backs of her knees in a fastening reminiscent of a flail. Her armour is bright blood-red, rigid and rough like chitin. | |||
=== Personality === | |||
Orin is cruel and sadistic, but artistic and creative in her own twisted way.{{ref|"''You kill beautifully, and have talents in your shapes' magics that I never will.''" - ''[[Concerning Orin the Red]]'' by [[The Dark Urge]]}} Her demeanour is immature and almost childish; Orin easily loses her composure when things do not go her way, enacts small rebellions against the authority figures in her life,{{ref|"''I need no coddling. I will send it back to Him, entrails and all.''" - ''[[Experiment on Cruor]]'' by Orin}} and enjoys, in a arguably playful way, toying with her victims. | Orin is cruel and sadistic, but artistic and creative in her own twisted way.{{ref|"''You kill beautifully, and have talents in your shapes' magics that I never will.''" - ''[[Concerning Orin the Red]]'' by [[The Dark Urge]]}} Her demeanour is immature and almost childish; Orin easily loses her composure when things do not go her way, enacts small rebellions against the authority figures in her life,{{ref|"''I need no coddling. I will send it back to Him, entrails and all.''" - ''[[Experiment on Cruor]]'' by Orin}} and enjoys, in a arguably playful way, toying with her victims. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
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When Orin was still a child, Sarevok secretly ordered Helena to kill her as an offering to the Lord Bhaal.{{ref|"What better offering to make to our Lord?" - [[Sarevok Anchev]] on Helena's attempted murder}} Desperate to become Bhaal's Chosen, Helena attacked Orin. However, Orin defended herself, and killed her mother instead. | When Orin was still a child, Sarevok secretly ordered Helena to kill her as an offering to the Lord Bhaal.{{ref|"What better offering to make to our Lord?" - [[Sarevok Anchev]] on Helena's attempted murder}} Desperate to become Bhaal's Chosen, Helena attacked Orin. However, Orin defended herself, and killed her mother instead. | ||
Orin served Bhaal directly under [[The Dark Urge]], though the two were at odds on the correct way of offering to him. Orin believed that the Urge "mutilated" their victims, and what their Father truly wanted was beauty and consideration in the kill. {{ref|''[[Blood-Envy for the Unworthy]]'' - Orin}} | Orin served Bhaal directly under [[The Dark Urge]], though the two were at odds on the correct way of offering to him. Orin believed that the Urge "mutilated" their victims, and what their Father truly wanted was beauty and consideration in the kill. {{ref|''[[Blood-Envy for the Unworthy]]'' - Orin}} The Urge on the other hand, understood that Bhaal only cared for the quantity of murder. | ||
=== Betrayal === | === Betrayal === | ||
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Afterwards, Orin took the Urge's place as Bhaal's chosen and third spoke of the Chosen Three. Yet still striving for regard from Bhaal, Orin proved undisciplined in her role and disliked by the other Chosen. | Afterwards, Orin took the Urge's place as Bhaal's chosen and third spoke of the Chosen Three. Yet still striving for regard from Bhaal, Orin proved undisciplined in her role and disliked by the other Chosen. | ||
== | == Events of Baldur's Gate 3 == | ||
=== Act Two === | === Act Two === | ||
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Orin can be fought at the [[Bhaal Temple]] in the [[Undercity Ruins]]. For the fight, she will take the form of the Slayer (see [[Slayer]] for a list of it's attacks). | Orin can be fought at the [[Bhaal Temple]] in the [[Undercity Ruins]]. For the fight, she will take the form of the Slayer (see [[Slayer]] for a list of it's attacks). | ||
While in Slayer form, she will have | While in Slayer form, she will have [[Slayer's Improved Extra Attack]], allowing her to make two additional attacks after attacking with her main-hand weapon. | ||
In Honour mode, she will have | In Honour mode, she will have [[Legendary Action: Sanguine Lash]], allowing her to use [[Sanguine Lash]] as a reaction once per round. She will also have [[Legendary Action: Murderous Retort]], which lets her make a reaction when attacked. | ||
{{SpoilerDurge|If playing as [[the Dark Urge]], and being granted the slayer's form, Orin will instead battle in her humanoid form. Note that when conversing before the fight, the Urge will have the opportunity to transform into the Slayer through dialogue. If this option is taken, they will be able to transform an additional time during combat (if the form is removed), rather than having to wait for a long rest. | {{SpoilerDurge|If playing as [[the Dark Urge]], and being granted the slayer's form, Orin will instead battle in her humanoid form. Note that when conversing before the fight, the Urge will have the opportunity to transform into the Slayer through dialogue. If this option is taken, they will be able to transform an additional time during combat (if the form is removed), rather than having to wait for a long rest. | ||
While in this form, she will duel-wield [[Crimson Mischief]] and [[Bloodthirst]]. After attacking five times, she will lose | While in this form, she will duel-wield [[Crimson Mischief]] and [[Bloodthirst]]. After attacking five times, she will lose [[Murderous Strikes (Condition)]] and be able to use her [[Deathbringer Assault (Orin)|Deathbringer's Assault]] to attack seven times. | ||
In Honour mode, her Murderous Retort | In Honour mode, Orin will use Deathbringers Assault for her reaction with Murderous Retort when it becomes available. | ||
}} | }} | ||
== | === Loot === | ||
* {{RarityItem|Crimson Mischief}} | * {{RarityItem|Crimson Mischief}} | ||
* {{RarityItem|Mutilated Carapace}} | * {{RarityItem|Mutilated Carapace}} | ||
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Once the player triggers two of Orin's transformations from the list above, all other potential disguises will be the actual NPCs henceforth. | Once the player triggers two of Orin's transformations from the list above, all other potential disguises will be the actual NPCs henceforth. | ||
<gallery widths="300" heights="200"> | <gallery widths="300" heights="200"> | ||
Fist Rowan.jpg|Orin masquerading as Rowan, a Flaming Fist | Fist Rowan.jpg|Orin masquerading as Rowan, a Flaming Fist | ||
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Lens Journalist.jpg|Orin posing as a journalist named Lens | Lens Journalist.jpg|Orin posing as a journalist named Lens | ||
Dying Thug.jpg|Orin pretending to be a dying Stone Lord Thug | Dying Thug.jpg|Orin pretending to be a dying Stone Lord Thug | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery heights="200"> | <gallery heights="200"> | ||
Edward-vanderghote-orin.webp|Character portrait by Edward Vanderghote | Edward-vanderghote-orin.webp|Character portrait by Edward Vanderghote. | ||
Orin with Laezel Captive.jpg|Orin standing over a captive Lae'zel companion | Orin with Laezel Captive.jpg|Orin standing over a captive Lae'zel companion. | ||
Orin Overhead Shot.jpg|''"Come to me, Father. Set my flesh to your unholy purpose."'' | Orin Overhead Shot.jpg|''"Come to me, Father. Set my flesh to your unholy purpose."'' | ||
Orin_Model.png|Orin's model. | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Revision as of 01:22, 17 January 2024
Spoiler warning: The following content contains unhidden spoilers for Act 3. |
Orin the Red | |||||||||||||
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Level 12 | |||||||||||||
Voiced by | Maggie Robertson | ||||||||||||
Information | |||||||||||||
Title | Deathbringer of Bhaal | ||||||||||||
Race | Changeling | ||||||||||||
Hometown | Temple of Bhaal, Baldur's Gate | ||||||||||||
Family | Bhaal (grandfather and great-grandfather) Sarevok Anchev (grandfather and father) Helena Anchev (mother and sister) The Dark Urge | ||||||||||||
Stats | |||||||||||||
Size | Medium | ||||||||||||
Type | Humanoid | ||||||||||||
Armour Class | 20 | ||||||||||||
Hit points |
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Weight | 75 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||
Initiative | +7 | ||||||||||||
Ability scores | |||||||||||||
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Proficiency bonus | +4 | ||||||||||||
Saving throws |
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Conditions | |||||||||||||
Features | |||||||||||||
| +1 to Initiative rolls. | ||||||||||||
| Add your ability modifier to the damage of offhand attacks. | ||||||||||||
| Can see in the dark up to 12m. | ||||||||||||
| You receive less damage from spells or effects that require a DEX save. | ||||||||||||
| Creatures hit with Bloodthirst receive Vulnerability to Piercing damage. | ||||||||||||
| You gain an extra Bonus action. | ||||||||||||
| Immune to having your form changed. +5 to saving throws against being Banished. | ||||||||||||
Honour | Use a Legendary Action to immediately strike back at your attacker. | ||||||||||||
| The number you need to roll a critical hit while attacking is reduced by 1. | ||||||||||||
| Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. | ||||||||||||
| Automatically attack an enemy moving out of your reach. | ||||||||||||
| Cannot be Surprised. | ||||||||||||
| Crimson Mischief deals an extra 1d4 Piercing damage against targets with 50% or fewer hit points. | ||||||||||||
| Ability checks with proficient skills have a floor of 10. | ||||||||||||
Superior Padding | You take 1 less Bludgeoning damage. | ||||||||||||
| When an attack hits you, you only take half the usual damage. |
She hides her cravings to commit murder beneath these numerous masks, disguising her intentions and herself to lure unsuspecting victims.
“ | Come to me, Father. Set my flesh to your unholy purpose. |
„ |
— Orin the Red, during Act 3. |
Description
Appearance
While in her changeling form, Orin has pale blue-grey skin with swirling, smoke-like plumes of red undulating across it. Her blond, braided hair falls to the backs of her knees in a fastening reminiscent of a flail. Her armour is bright blood-red, rigid and rough like chitin.
Personality
Orin is cruel and sadistic, but artistic and creative in her own twisted way.[1] Her demeanour is immature and almost childish; Orin easily loses her composure when things do not go her way, enacts small rebellions against the authority figures in her life,[2] and enjoys, in a arguably playful way, toying with her victims.
History
Orin was born to Sarevok and Helena Anchev, as well granddaughter to Sarevok, who had had incestuous relations with his daughter Helena. Both Orin and Helena worshipped and loved Sarevok, though he mistreated and abused them.
When Orin was still a child, Sarevok secretly ordered Helena to kill her as an offering to the Lord Bhaal.[3] Desperate to become Bhaal's Chosen, Helena attacked Orin. However, Orin defended herself, and killed her mother instead.
Orin served Bhaal directly under The Dark Urge, though the two were at odds on the correct way of offering to him. Orin believed that the Urge "mutilated" their victims, and what their Father truly wanted was beauty and consideration in the kill. [4] The Urge on the other hand, understood that Bhaal only cared for the quantity of murder.
Betrayal
Yearning for respect and status, but dismissed by her fathers[5] and sibling, Orin waited for an opportunity to betray her kin and seize Bhaal's favour for herself.
Meanwhile, the Urge joined forces with Bane's chosen Enver Gortash, and Myrkul's chosen Ketheric Thorm, forming the dead three. Using the Crown of Karsus that the Urge and Gortash had stolen from Mephistopheles, they enslaved an Elder Brain that was hidden beneath Moonrise Towers.
For a time, the Dark Urge was worshipped as a god at Moonrise Towers, but during or soon after a visit to the mind flayer colony beneath the towers, Orin finally saw her chance to betray them. Orin pierced their skull with a dagger and infected them with a modified illithid tadpole, making them the first True Soul and resulting in the Urge's amnesia. [6] She then left them in the Colony, later to be found by Kressa Bonedaughter, or if the Urge is not the player character, tortured and killed them, keeping their corpse for herself.
Afterwards, Orin took the Urge's place as Bhaal's chosen and third spoke of the Chosen Three. Yet still striving for regard from Bhaal, Orin proved undisciplined in her role and disliked by the other Chosen.
Events of Baldur's Gate 3
Act Two
Orin first appears alongside Ketheric Thorm and Enver Gortash in the mind flayer colony underneath Moonrise Towers. Using her Netherstone, the Lash of Bhaal, she issues the order to the Netherbrain to march the Absolute's armies on Baldur's Gate.
Act Three
The player first encounters Orin in the village of Rivington, right before entering Baldur's Gate. As a changeling, she can appear to the player under the guise of several identities (listed below). She tells the party that she is aware of their goals, even goading the player to be as violent and bloody as they can while they are attempting to obtain the Netherese Stones from her and Gortash.
Combat
Orin can be fought at the Bhaal Temple in the Undercity Ruins. For the fight, she will take the form of the Slayer (see Slayer for a list of it's attacks).
While in Slayer form, she will have Slayer's Improved Extra Attack, allowing her to make two additional attacks after attacking with her main-hand weapon.
In Honour mode, she will have Legendary Action: Sanguine Lash, allowing her to use Sanguine Lash as a reaction once per round. She will also have Legendary Action: Murderous Retort, which lets her make a reaction when attacked.
Spoiler warning! This section reveals interactions with The Dark Urge.
While in this form, she will duel-wield Crimson Mischief and Bloodthirst. After attacking five times, she will lose Murderous Strikes (Condition) and be able to use her Deathbringer's Assault to attack seven times.
In Honour mode, Orin will use Deathbringers Assault for her reaction with Murderous Retort when it becomes available.
Loot
- Crimson Mischief
- Mutilated Carapace
- Netherstone-Pommelled Bloodthirst - when picked up becomes:
Achievements
Disguises
Orin's shapeshifting allows her to innocuously follow the player as several different characters in the Wyrm's Crossing area. Among her disguises are:
- Zethino, the fey Master of Love at the Circus of the Last Days.
- Fist Rowan, a member of the Flaming Fist standing near the back of the donation barn.
- Lens, a tiefling journalist.
- Gyldro Angleiron, a blacksmith in the Rivington General.
- A wounded thug of the Stone Lord.
Once the player triggers two of Orin's transformations from the list above, all other potential disguises will be the actual NPCs henceforth.
Gallery
Related literature
Notes
- It's possible to identify when an NPC is actually Orin, they'll be level 12, though not have the large amount of hit points that come with that level, and have Legendary Resistance: Incapacitation.
- Orin can only be at one place at a time: if a disguised Orin stays in the visual range of a party member she can't take the appearance of other NPCs elsewhere and thus is effectively pinned in place. This way it's possible to talk to the other genuine NPCs without triggering Orin's apparitions.
- When a disguised Orin has been identified the player can attack the NPC. This will skip the NPC's dialogue and go straight to Orin's reveal who will vanish without giving her normal lines about Gortash. Even if the attack would have killed the NPC, Orin herself doesn't die.
- Orin's kidnapping and impersonation event during the quest Rescue Orin's Victim is not fully random; it appears to follow a priority system among the companions left in camp (that is, companions not in your active party), prioritizing companions that have the lowest approval with the player, from a list of 3 possible kidnapping victims: Lae'zel, Gale, and Halsin (or Minthara). She will not kidnap a romanced companion. If none of these companions are available, she instead kidnaps Yenna.
- At launch, the player could temporarily obtain Blade of the First Blood (a Shortsword version of Bloodthirst wielded by Orin) by killing Orin and looting her before the end of the battle, but this appears to have been fixed. [Needs Verification]
References
- ↑ "You kill beautifully, and have talents in your shapes' magics that I never will." - Concerning Orin the Red by The Dark Urge
- ↑ "I need no coddling. I will send it back to Him, entrails and all." - Experiment on Cruor by Orin
- ↑ "What better offering to make to our Lord?" - Sarevok Anchev on Helena's attempted murder
- ↑ Blood-Envy for the Unworthy - Orin
- ↑ "Cleanse the temple of Orin's girlish shrines and bring your primal slaughter back to Bhaal." - Sarevok Anchev
- ↑ " How much the worm has feasted since I slipped it into its skull. All that plotting, the years of dominating this temple - forgotten" - Orin in the Bhaal Temple confrontation
External links
Orin on the Forgotten Realms Wiki