Orin/Combat

Overview

Combat

This page focuses on Orin's behavior during turn-based combat gameplay.

Attacks and abilities

Slayer Form

• All Slayer attacks and abilities. (See Slayer#Attacks_and_Abilities)

 Sanguine Animation ()

Nearby Blood surfaces transform into Bloodmarrow Skeletons under your control.

 Range: 16 m / 53 ft

Honour Mode

 Sanguine Lash

8d8 (8~64) Slashing

Sweep a warped appendage in front of you that  Bleeds targets and knock them back 6ft.

DEX Save

AoE: 4 m / 13 ft (Cone)

Humanoid Form

 Shroud Self ()

Wrap yourself in shadows to become  Invisible

 Range: Self

 Unsettling Visage ()

Exude pure terror, instilling Fear in your foes.

 Range: 9 m / 30 ft

Recharge: Per Turn

Allies

• Boon of Bhaal (only while Reapers of Bhaal are chanting)
• Death's Head of Bhaal Fustian
• Invoker of Bhaal Hivune
• Reaper of Bhaal Dhoria
• Reaper of Bhaal Eglantine
• Reaper of Bhaal Hiila
• Reaper of Bhaal Liya
• Reaper of Bhaal Ogga
• Reaper of Bhaal Snirr

Encounter details

Regular Encounter

Orin can be fought at the Bhaal Temple in the Undercity Ruins. For the fight, she takes the form of the Slayer (see Slayer for a list of its attacks). Orin begins the fight with either 7 stacks of  Unstoppable on Balanced difficulty or 12 stacks on Tactician difficulty. These stacks are refreshed by Boon of Bhaal at the end of every round, so long as at least 1 Reaper of Bhaal is still chanting.

The 6 Reapers of Bhaal start the battle with  Sanctuary and continually chant to activate Boon of Bhaal, which is represented by the giant skull over the Chamber's door. The Reapers of Bhaal do not directly participate in the fight until either Orin is defeated or their chanting is disrupted by conditions such as  Prone,  Silenced,  Hypnotised,  Fearful, or  Stunned.

If knocked off, Orin dies; even by using a non-lethal ability or attack that grants  Knocked Out when reducing a creature's to zero or one, such as  Pommel Strike.

Her Netherstone-Pommelled Bloodthirst and Altar Key remain on the floor and are retrievable.

If Orin did not kill her kidnapped victim during the dialogue before the fight, they are restrained on an Altar in the center of the room. A successful DC 25 Sleight of Hand check to lockpick their chains allows them to join the fight with whatever stats and weapons they had upon their capture; the Altar Key can also be used if it was pickpocketed from Orin or looted from her corpse. If the freed victim is then downed or killed during the fight, they cannot be revived by Withers or by casting {{SAI|Revivify, leaving them permanently dead and removed from the party as though Orin had killed them in the dialogue.

If using  Speak with Dead on Helena Anchev's corpse prior to the fight, which generally requires using the opening at the northeast end of the balcony in order to reach the Orin's bedroom before meeting Orin on the platform, they can discover that she betrayed Orin on Sarevok's orders. If telling Orin this and then taunting her further by succeeding a DC 25 Deception check, DC 25 Persuasion check, or DC 25 Religion check, Orin completely breaks down. Bhaal then forcibly transforms her into the Slayer Form, and gives her the unique buff  A Mist Most Scarlet.

In Honour mode, Orin has  Legendary Action: Sanguine Lash in her slayer form, allowing her to use  Sanguine Lash as a reaction once per round, which she applies only against foes who use melee attacks against her. She also has  Legendary Resistance against being incapacitated. The Boon of Bhaal gains a legendary action  Bhaal's Edict - if Orin roes not use her Sanguine Lash in her turn (i.e. party and allies made no melee attacks against her), the Boon of Bhaal forces Bhaal's Edict upon one the party members. If that party member is unable to kill another creature, they die upon ending their turn.  Death Ward does protect party members from Bhaal's Edict, although in this case they lose all of their current buffs and conditions as if they had briefly died.

Dark Urge Encounter (The Duel)

As the The Dark Urge, the player character can agree to a duel against Orin. The duel separate the player character from the companions. Orin is not granted the  Unstoppable feature during the duel and the Boon of Bhaal is not active. Dying during the duel does not result in an immediate game over, but impacts the personal story of the Dark Urge. Your allies then start fighting the normal version of the encounter against Orin and her cultists. While Orin does not heal any damage done to her in the duel, she gains the  Unstoppable feature which she normally has.

Depending on the party's choices in Act Two, Orin has different forms which the party can fight against.

If the Dark Urge has been granted the Slayer form, then Orin fights in her humanoid form. If conversing before the fight, the Dark Urge has the opportunity to transform into the Slayer through dialogue. If this option is taken, they can transform an additional time during combat, if the form is removed, rather than having to wait for a long rest. While in humanoid form, Orin dual-wields Crimson Mischief and Bloodthirst. She also gains one stack of  Murderous Strikes per successful hit. After gaining five stacks of  Murderous Strikes, she loses all stacks and can use her  Deathbringer's Assault to attack seven times. In Honour mode, Orin uses Deathbringer's Assault for her reaction with Murderous Retort when it becomes available.

If the Dark Urge does not have the Slayer Form, then Orin fights in her Slayer form. Her version does not function like a  Wild Shape or  Polymorph - reducing her to 0 hit points kills her. She also cannot use opportunity attacks as the slayer during the duel.

Tactics

This fight principally revolves around reducing Orin's many stacks of  Unstoppable. To accomplish this there are two main strategies:

1. By dealing enough separate instances of damage to burn through them all each turn and then applying substantial damage with subsequent attacks on the same turn. The easiest way to remove  Unstoppable is to use spells with many instances of damage such as  Magic Missile or  Scorching Ray. Magic Missile is particularly effective since it is guaranteed to hit and does not require a clear line of sight. Quirks of the initiative order can make accomplishing this more difficult than expected, e.g. if your Magic Missile caster goes last and your high damage party members go first. Thus you may want to go into this battle with flexible strategies, although the likelihood of initiative problems can be reduced by preparing with e.g. Elixir of Vigilance.
2. By stopping all the Reapers of Bhaal from chanting, which stops her from refreshing her stacks each turn. The Reapers of Bhaal cannot be directly targeted due to  Sanctuary but can be killed with area-of-effect weapons and spells (e.g. Smokepowder Arrows,  Fireball,  Ice Storm) or disrupted from chanting with conditions such as  Prone,  Silenced,  Hypnotised,  Fearful, or  Stunned. They can also be knocked off the platform with e.g. Arrow of Roaring Thunder, Smokepowder Arrows, and spells like  Thunderwave. Once all of the Reapers have been eliminated, Orin cannot refresh her stacks of  Unstoppable anymore, and any remaining ones can be removed through conventional attacks.

Alternatively, on lower difficulty levels the fight can be "cheesed" by knocking Orin off of the platform to instantly kill her. On Honour Mode Orin's Sanguine Lash can knock back multiple party members, and if they are near the edge of the abyss this can lead to their death.