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== History == | == History == | ||
Orin was born | Orin was born of an incestuous relationship between [[Sarevok Anchev]] and his daughter [[Helena Anchev]]. 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.{{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. | 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. Orin defended herself and killed her mother instead. | ||
Orin served Bhaal directly under [[The Dark Urge]], though the two were at odds | Subsequently, Orin served Bhaal directly under [[The Dark Urge]], though the two were at odds about 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 cared only for the quantity of murder performed in his name. | ||
=== Betrayal === | === Betrayal === | ||
Yearning for respect and status, but dismissed by her fathers{{ref|"Cleanse the temple of Orin's girlish shrines and bring your primal slaughter back to Bhaal." - Sarevok Anchev}} and sibling, Orin waited for an opportunity to betray her kin and seize Bhaal's | Yearning for respect and status, but dismissed by her fathers{{ref|"Cleanse the temple of Orin's girlish shrines and bring your primal slaughter back to Bhaal." - Sarevok Anchev}} and sibling, Orin waited for an opportunity to betray her kin and seize Bhaal's favor for herself. | ||
Meanwhile, the Urge joined forces with [[Bane (God)|Bane's]] chosen [[Enver Gortash]], and [[Myrkul|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]]. | Meanwhile, the Urge joined forces with [[Bane (God)|Bane's]] chosen [[Enver Gortash]], and [[Myrkul|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. {{Ref|"'' 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}} | 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.{{Ref|"'' 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}} | ||
Depending on whether the Urge is a player character, the story diverges here. If the Urge is a player character, they are found by [[Kressa Bonedaughter]], held captive in the Mind Flayer colony beneath Moonrise for a time, and later shipped away on the Nautiloid from the game's introductory cutscene. | |||
If the Urge is not the player character, they are tortured and killed by Orin. Their corpse can later be found in the Temple of Bhaal beyond Orin's arena in Act III. | |||
After her betrayal, Orin took the Urge's place as Bhaal's chosen and third member of the Chosen Three. Still striving for regard from Bhaal, Orin proved undisciplined in her role and rapidly grew to be disliked by the other Chosen. | |||
== Events of Baldur's Gate 3 == | == Events of Baldur's Gate 3 == | ||