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| description = Orin the Red is the {{FRWiki|Chosen}} of Bhaal, the leader of the Bhaalites in the city of Baldur's Gate.

'''Orin the Red''' is the Chosen of {{CharLink|Bhaal}} and one of the leaders of the enigmatic [[Cult of the Absolute]] and serves as one of the main antagonists in [[Baldur's Gate 3]].

A daughter of [[Bhaal|Bhaalspawns]] and a devout practitioner in the arts of murder and pain, Orin has painted the streets red in her father's name for many years. Still to be caught thanks to her shapeshifting abilities, she now prepares to make out of Baldur's Gate the biggest bloody offering to her father yet.

Hinted at first though notes, she is properly introduced at the end of Act 2 as one of the conspirators of the cult along with {{CharLink|Ketheric Thorm}} and {{CharLink|Enver Gortash}}. Through cunning and murderous devotion, she and her allies have established a solid Bhaalite foothold in the city of [[Baldur's Gate]]. Now, empowered by a {{SmRarityItem|Orin's Netherstone|netherstone}} and with cult's plans in motion, she intends to paint the city crimson with blood in a mighty offering to Bhaal.

Raised believing she was fathered by {{CharLink|Bhaal}} himself, Orin was in truth born of an incestuous relationship between {{CharLink|Sarevok Anchev}} and his daughter {{CharLink|Helena Anchev}}, intended to be the perfect offering to the Dread Lord.{{cite text|name=incest|A page from Sarevok's book|[[Sarevok Anchev]]}} Though he routinely mistreated and abused them, both Helena and Orin worshipped and loved Sarevok, enduring the hardships of growing up as a Bhaalite. Orin received the bloody teachings of Bhaal, becoming in time the youngest Unholy Assassin to follow the steps of god of Murder. Such was her gift in killing that she was anointed Bhaal's Chosen.

The Urge joined forces with {{CharLink|Bane (God)|Bane's}} Chosen {{CharLink|Enver Gortash}}, and together, they formulated a plan to steal the {{SmRarityItem|Crown of Karsus}}, an ancient arcane object of immense power, and subjugate an [[Elder Brain]] with it in order to create a soulless army to destroy the world with.{{cite text|Scrapbook of Letters|The Dark Urge, Enver Gortash}} After recruiting {{CharLink|Ketheric Thorm}}, {{CharLink|Myrkul|Myrkul's}} Chosen, Orin joined the three in the raid to plant the Crown on the brain beneath [[Moonrise Towers]].  

It was during this time that Orin saw her opportunity and struck, driving a dagger through the Urge's skull and planting an [[Illithid]] tadpole in them.{{ref|name=morphic|[[Morphic Pool]], lines spoken by the Netherbrain when confronted by the Dark Urge and their companions.<br>"''You placed the Crown upon me in the depths of Moonrise Towers, and there I was born. (...) Your plan was devious, your cruelty unparalleled. I would have followed it, were your mind not destroyed by your sister."''}}{{cite text|Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda|Enver Gortash}} With her former rival left to die and a tadpole devouring their brain, Orin took the Urge's place as Bhaal's Chosen and third member of the conspirators.{{cite text|Elder Brain Domination|Ketheric Thorm}} Orin would prove undisciplined in her role, however, as her bloodlust could not be contained, and rapidly grew to be disliked by the other two who saw her as little more than a necessary nuisance to their plan.{{cite text|Journal of Enver Gortash|Enver Gortash}} At some point between the betrayal and the events of the game, Ketheric and Orin tricked {{CharLink|Minthara}} into a trap where she murdered her allies and captured her. She then used a tadpole to convert Minthara into a [[True Soul]].

If the Dark Urge is picked as a player character, they are found by {{CharLink|Kressa Bonedaughter}} instead, saved from death and held captive in the [[Mind Flayer Colony]] for some time as she experiments on them,{{cite text|Clasped Book (Moonrise Towers)|Balthazar}} until they are shipped away on the [[Nautiloid]] during the [[Prologue]].{{cite text|Journal of Magthew Budj|Maghtew Budj}}

Though Orin is not present in the first act of the game, her involvement in the plot is alluded to when the [[Absolute]] attempts to take over the party's mind and they see a vision of her Chosen shortly before being repelled by the {{SmRarityItem|Mysterious Artefact}}. The player character can also see a vision of her manipulating an enthralled Minthara when first meeting the latter in the [[Shattered Sanctum]].

Orin first appears alongside Ketheric Thorm and Enver Gortash in the Mind Flayer Colony beneath [[Moonrise Towers]]. An argument breaks out between Gortash and Ketheric and is stopped from becoming a fight due to her intervention. Having successfully kidnapped {{CharLink|Ulder Ravengard}}, she also takes the opportunity to plant a tadpole in the duke's eye as part of their plan to take over the city. She then joins the other Chosen and uses her {{SmRarityItem|Orin's Netherstone|netherstone}}, ''the Lash of Bhaal'', with them to order the [[Netherbrain]] to march the Absolute's armies on [[Baldur's Gate]].

Upon entering the [[Lower City]], Orin will kidnap a member of the party unbeknownst to the rest of the group. Who she kidnaps, when and how it's revealed depends largely on the player character's relationships with their companions. Orin will confront the party and announce that she holds a hostage, demanding they deal with Gortash first and face her in a duel, winner takes all. This encounter initiates {{Quest|Rescue Orin's Victim}}.

In order to get Orin's netherstone, the group will need to visit the [[Murder Tribunal]] in the [[Undercity Ruins]] as the [[Temple of Bhaal]] is open only to those deemed worthy by Bhaal. At the tribunal, the party is welcomed by Sarevok Anchev. He will reveal how the Bhaalists survived the events of years prior, as well as his connection to Orin as her grandfather. If confronted by The Dark Urge, he further elaborates on Orin's involvement in their fall from Bhaal's grace, excited at the prospect of a Bhaalspawn duel in the ranks of the cult. He will require offer passage to the Temple of Bhaal if the party proves to be worthy by becoming an [[Cult of Bhaal#Unholy Assassins|Unholy Assassin]], which requires impressing the tribunal with a killing prior and then the sacrifice of a celestial being. Alternatively, the party can simply decide to fight Sarevok, a prospect he welcomes eagerly. Either given as a worthy Bhaalite or looted from Sarevok's corpse, with the {{SmRarityItem|Amulet of Bhaal}} in hand, the party can finally confront Orin.

Alternatively, if the party used {{SAI|Speak with Dead}} on Helena Anchev's corpse they can discover that she betrayed Orin on Sarevok's orders. Revealing this to Orin causes her to completely lose focus on killing her kidnapping victim. If the party then choose dialogue options without ability checks, Orin will become enraged and call on Bhaal's power to transform into the [[Slayer]]. However, the party can also choose to taunt her further by succeeding a {{Ability Check|Deception|25}}, {{Ability Check|Persuasion|25}}, or {{Ability Check|Religion|25}}, which cause Orin to completely break down since she is unable to cope with the truth. Bhaal will then speak to her through the giant skull in the back of the room, commanding her to fight and unnaturally twisting her body to force her into the Slayer form. Regardless of the outcome of the conversation, Orin will attack when it concludes.