I wonder if the dark urge and Orin are related somehow, like siblings or parent/child or maybe of the same race, making the dark urge a shapechanger although the dark urge doesn't remember being a shapechanger.
I don't know. Six more days, and I'll finally be able to stop all the wondering and conjecture.
Definitely not related by family because the Dark Urge can be any race so a lot of that wouldn't work. But they do share a connection...they are both connected to Bhaal...the god of murder. They both appear to be avatars of Bhaal.
As for shapeshifting...well, at later levels the Rogue assassin class is supposed to get a disguise ability...and since dark urge rewards seem geared mainly towards rogue assassins(class of Bhaal) I suspect that following through with the dark urge will also reward some kind of item or ability that allows us to properly shapeshift as well.
