Orin

	Deathbringer of Bhaal
Orin the Red
	Stats
	Level 12
Race	Human
Type	Humanoid
HP	145
AC	16
Size	Medium
Weight	150lb
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
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.

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
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 is voiced by Maggie Robertson.
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.
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.

Gallery

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

External Links

Orin on the Forgotten Realms Wiki

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