History Characters / BaldursGateIIITheCultOfTheAbsolute

* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:If she becomes manic and breaks down when her grandfather's treachery is revealed, Bhaal steps in. "No more Orin" is explicitly said, before she is transformed forcibly into a mindless slayer.]]

* CainAndAbel: Potentially the Cain to [[spoiler:the Dark Urge]]'s Abel, whom she will even refer to as 'sibling' and 'her kin.' Averted if [[spoiler:the Dark Urge is played as being just as psychotic as she is]].

* AbhorrentAdmirer: When the Dark Urge subjugated and empowered the Absolute with the Crown of Karsus, it was impressed by their debauchery and plan to enact bloody conquest across all Faerun in Bhaal's name, so much that it would have followed the plan had Orin not betrayed them. With the Dark Urge either out of the picture or severely weakened enough to become a pawn, the Absolute defaults to enacting the Grand Design instead.

* AlienBlood: Something (or a lot of things) she's done to herself has resulted in her blood becoming contaminated. A companion Astarion will have to be browbeaten into doing so and it'll drop his approval significantly if you make him.

* AlienBlood: Something (or a lot of things) she's done to herself has resulted in her blood becoming contaminated. A companion Astarion will have to be browbeaten into doing so and it'll drop his approval significantly.

* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Trying to use ''speak with dead'' on his corpse after you his death will have you talking with his patron god Bane instead, who will inform you that Gortash's soul is now being punished within his divine realm for his failure.]]

* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Trying to use ''speak with dead'' on his corpse after you defeat him will have you talking with his patron god Bane instead, who will inform you that Gortash's soul is now being punished within his divine realm for his failure.]]

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* SitcomArchNemesis: Shares one with Astarion.

* ChekhovsGunman: She can be encountered again in Act 3 if you have agreed to take part in her experiment.
* LastOfHisKind: She is one of the last survivors of House Oblodra, a house who was hunted down due to their associations with illithids. Araj intends to restore her house to its former glory.

* MinionMaster: Balthazar has a huge amount of undead under his command, ranging from simple skeletons to ghouls and even a flesh golem. Like his fellow necromancer Presio from ''Baldur's Gate's'' [[VideoGame/IcewindDale sister series]], Balthazar can both speak through his minions remotely and imbue them with verbal scripts.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: The first phase of his second boss fight can be skipped if the player character succeeds in the Persuasion check to offer him to stand down before both fights with him. It won't stop him from fighting you as the Avatar of Myrkul, but it does shake his conviction enough that Myrkul decides to beckon him to him to make sure he doesn't buckle.

* StupidEvil: Downplayed, but [[spoiler: his plan for the Accelerated Grand Design is ultimately this. Granted, a big reason it didn't work out is because Orin ruined everything by getting rid of the Dark Urge, but enslaving an Elder Brain and trying to enslave the whole Sword Coast with it was only ever going to go one way - with him either killed by people trying to fight against it, or with the Elder Brain breaking free and killing him.]]

** [[spoiler:He considers Orin's unhinged bloodlust to be repulsive and counterproductive to his ambitions. As he states, he wants to lead Baldur's Gate, not scorch its earth. He's fine with murder, as evidenced by his relationship with pre-amnesia Dark Urge, but he sees senseless slaughter as stupid. He outright admits that one of the reasons he liked the Dark Urge is because they could actually control themself. He will always offer to work with the player character, even though they are a huge thorn in his side and he doesn't even know them if they're not the Dark Urge or Karlach, simply because he knows how much of a liability Orin is, and that she 'only cares for blood'.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Utterly repulsed by Orin's bloodlust. As he states, he wants to lead Baldur's Gate, not scorch its earth. He's fine with murder, as evidenced by his relationship with pre-amnesia Dark Urge, but he sees senseless slaughter as stupid. He outright admits a reason he liked the Dark Urge is because they could actually control themself. He will always offer to work with the player character, even though they are a huge thorn in his side and he doesn't know them if they're not the Dark Urge or Karlach, simply because he knows how much of a liability Orin is, and that she 'only cares for blood'.]]

* ChekovsGunman: She can be encountered again in Act 3 if you have agreed to take part in her experiment.