Orin

Orin the Red
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	145 (Balanced) 208 (Tactician)
Weight	75 kg (150 lb)
Initiative	+7
Ability scores
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 18 (+4) 22 (+6) 17 (+3) 14 (+2) 16 (+3) 19 (+4)
Proficiency bonus	+4
Saving throws	Str +4 Dex +10 Con +3 Int +6 Wis +3 Cha +4
Conditions
Legendary Resistance: Incapacitation Tactician	+10 to your next saving throw against being Incapacitated.
Features
Ambusher	+1 to Initiative rolls.
Crimson Weapon	Add your ability modifier to the damage of offhand attacks.
Darkvision	Can see in the dark up to 12m.
Evasion	You receive less damage from spells or effects that require a DEX save.
Exploit Weakness	Creatures hit with Bloodthirst receive Vulnerability to Piercing damage.
Fast Hands	You gain an extra Bonus action.
Immutable Form	Immune to having your form changed. +5 to saving throws against being Banished.
Legendary Action: Murderous Retort Honour	Use a Legendary Action to immediately strike back at your attacker.
Improved Critical	The number you need to roll a critical hit while attacking is reduced by 1.
Magic Resistance	Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Opportunity Attack	Automatically attack an enemy moving out of your reach.
Perfect Sentry	Cannot be Surprised.
Prey Upon the Weak	Crimson Mischief deals an extra 1d4 Piercing damage against targets with 50% or fewer hit points.
Reliable Talent	Ability checks with proficient skills have a floor of 10.
Superior Padding	You take 1 less Bludgeoning damage.
Uncanny Dodge	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.

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. 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, and enjoys, in a arguably playful way, toying with her victims.

History

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. Desperate to become Bhaal's Chosen, Helena attacked Orin. Orin defended herself and killed her mother instead.

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. The Urge, on the other hand, understood that Bhaal cared only for the quantity of murder performed in his name.

Betrayal

Yearning for respect and status, but dismissed by her fathers 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'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.

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

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.

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 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:
  • Bloodthirst
  • Orin's Netherstone

Achievements

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

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.

Spoiler warning! This section reveals interactions with The Dark Urge.

Meeting one of Orin's impersonations for the first time earns the Inspirational Event Personal Relations (Haunted One background).

Once the player triggers two of Orin's transformations from the list above, all other potential disguises will be the actual NPCs henceforth.

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  Orin masquerading as Rowan, a Flaming Fist

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  Orin impersonating Gyldro, a smith

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  Orin posing as a journalist named Lens

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  Orin pretending to be a dying Stone Lord Thug

Gallery

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  Character portrait by Edward Vanderghote.

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  Orin standing over a captive Lae'zel companion.

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  "Come to me, Father. Set my flesh to your unholy purpose."

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  Orin's model.

Related literature

• Manifesto
• Concerning Orin the Red
• Blood-Envy for the Unworthy
• Experiment on Cruor

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]}

External links

Orin on the Forgotten Realms Wiki