2023-07-30 04:56:53
Orin the Red is “lovingly unbalanced”, and no, you can’t heal her.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is, wait, let me check…in 144 hours, and Larian has just officially introduced the third and final villain of the game’s ‘unholy triumvirate’. Orin the Red is an infamous knife-loving woman played by Maggie Robertson – RE8’s famous Lady Dimitrescu – and I think she’s going to do a lot of deeply undesirable things to me and the people I love.
“Orin is lovingly unbalanced,” Robertson says in the character introduction video (above). “You don’t know when it’s going to appear, you don’t know what form it’s going to come in. She’s incredibly cunning.”
Truculent is the right word. Robertson’s narration is superimposed over a video of Lae’zel, your beloved githyanki war mate, undergoing some sort of full-body osteopathic emergency. Its bones crack and shatter, its limbs twist, and its neck bends at angles evolution never intended. Don’t worry, because that’s exactly what happens when Orin drops his disguise and reveals himself. Lae’zel has probably been dead for days! Phew!
I know BG3 doesn’t have D&D’s alignment system, but let’s face it, Orin looks as chaotic as it gets. When she’s not donning the faces of your party members, she stands in ritual circles and summons creatures that probably aren’t very nice, rolls her eyes at her more measured evil allies in their daily meetings, and licks his knives. “She has a very intimate relationship with her guns,” Robertson says, “they feel real and personified to her.” I feel the same way regarding the laptop I write all my articles on.
I really like Orin’s vibe, and Robertson is – as always – a treat in the short snippets of vocals we’ve seen so far. In particular, I feel like the character’s presence will add a particularly potent atmosphere of paranoia to my interactions with the game’s players. The original Baldur’s Gate games focused on your attitude towards your party members (specifically the 2) and it will be interesting to build relationships with people while wondering if they have not, at one time or another, been kidnapped by your enemies.
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