Orin

	Deathbringer of Bhaal
Orin the Red
	Stats
	Level 12
Race	Changeling
Type	Humanoid
HP	145
AC	16
Size	Medium
Weight	150lb
	Passive features
	Ambusher Crimson Weapon Darkvision Evasion Exploit Weakness Fast Hands Immutable Form Improved Critical Magic Resistance Opportunity Attack Perfect Sentry Prey Upon the Weak Reliable Talent Superior Padding Uncanny Dodge
Character information
Family	Bhaal (father); Sarevok Anchev (grandfather and father); Helena Anchev (mother); The Dark Urge (half-brother/sister)
Allies	Enver Gortash; Ketheric Thorm
Enemies	The Dark Urge
Additional information
Voice actor	Maggie Robertson
Model

She hides her cravings to commit murder beneath these numerous masks, disguising her intentions and herself to lure unsuspecting victims.

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.

“	Come to me, Father. Set my flesh to your unholy purpose.	„
	— Orin the Red, during Act 3.

Interactions

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. Due to being a changeling, she can appear in front of the players under 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 attempting to obtain the Netherese Stones from her and Gortash.

Notable Loot

Crimson Mischief
Mutilated Carapace
Netherstone-Pommelled Bloodthirst:
- The moment you move it to your inventory it breaks into Bloodthirst and Orin's Netherstone

Achievements

First Blood
Kill Orin while her cultists are performing their ritual chant.

Trivia

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.
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: Crowd Control.
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.

Disguises

A gallery of Orin's disguises

Orin masquerading as Rowan, a Flaming Fist
Orin impersonating Gyldro, a smith
Orin posing as a journalist named Lens
Orin pretending to be a dying Stone Lord Thug

Gallery

Character portrait by Edward Vanderghote
Orin standing over a captive Lae'zel companion
Orin saying the line that is quoted by this page.

External Links

Orin on the Forgotten Realms Wiki

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