As one of the main villains in Baldur's Gate 3, Orin the Red is a truly malevolent archetype who seems driven purely by her own nefarious goals. Her voice actor Maggie Robertson is more sympathetic, however, and believes the character is as molded by what’s been absent from her life as what she’s been surrounded by. "She's never known love, she was never taught how to love," she adds. "That's a foreign concept to her. She has no idea what that even looks or feels. The only thing she knows is violence, so of course she is the way that she is." "She is lovingly bats***": Baldur's Gate 3 Orin actor says the antagonist provided her with some of the weirdest lines of dialogue she's ever had to record Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor says "I really like doing morally questionable things in video games" as a performer, but Dark Urge is too challenging as a player: "I'm trying so hard to be evil" Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor "didn't want" to record 1 of the RPG's most iconic lines at first "because I'm avoidant," but "just like God's favorite princess, I did it in my own time" This, as Robertson explains, is what allows her to look at Orin as a "sweet little thing" with "empathy and compassion," since the changeling only knows brutality. It helps she "has so much fun" being completely awful, to boot. Being a shapeshifter with a real bloodlust makes Orin a true agent of chaos. Her mimicry is powerful, but she has a tendency to abandon her disguise out of pure excitement for whatever evil she's in the midst of, giving Robertson and the narrative designers plenty of opportunities to indulge in their own darker sides. It's ground Robertson's familiar with since, as she points out, she tends to be cast as video game antagonists, also lending her voice to Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village and Lady Nicastro in The Lamplighters League. The key to doing these characters justice, she believes, is in sympathizing with their perspective. "It's very important you don't judge them," she asserts. "You have to be able to look at them with love in order to fully understand their whys and who they are." "I counted every box in Baldur's Gate 3": The real Baldur's Gate 3 completionist is the person who dug through the RPG's code to find every last crate, chest, and barrel