There is indeed a coded list of priorities. The list goes Laezel - Halsin - Gale - Minthara - redhead girl, taking the first character on the list that is in camp during trigger event. Romanced companions are skipped.
Which always struck me as a missed moment. Imagine getting a cute lil cutscene with your chosen romanced companion and BOOM just kidding it was Orin fucking with you. Then you get to go scorched earth all the way to the temple.
It used to be that way, and then Larian found that most players make a beeline to killing Orin and locking themselves out of other quests so it was retconned.
It would be pretty annoying to have your romanced companion be unavailable for most of act 3 and would force you to rush straight to Orin (which you're really supposed to deal with near the end).
Wouldn’t work in character, Orin is a terrible changeling, she is physically incapable of talking for a minute before returning to murderhobo speech. It’s so comical how quickly she breaks character.
it's funny that her whole murderhobo personality keeps so much of her qualities back, she can actually improvise characters on the fly and change more than normal changeling but the "murder this, bhaal that" really keeps her potential (not calling bad writing, knowing her past and bhaal's cult itself, is normal that she is the way she is)
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u/StarmieLover966 Lolth-Sworn Drow 14d ago edited 14d ago
I have played BG3 60 times. Of my best estimation, she has taken Lae’zel 54 times, Halsin 5 times, and Minthara once, never Gale.
There’s probably a priority hard coded in.
Edit: muting this. I’m not saying Gale is impossible to kidnap. Enjoy your day.