Oin Lightbringer

Oin Lightbringer is the dwarf cleric the party in Welcome to the Show.

## Appearance

Oin is the shortest member of the party, being a dwarf. He has pale skin, green eyes and a buffed figure. He also has brownish hair, mustache and beard with gray accents. The gray accents fill out all of his hair when he goes giant. He wears a suit of armor with gold trim and chest plate. He carries a large shield and a spiked gauntlet.

## Personality

Oin is a very stoic, judgemental man. He observes near-constantly and forms opinions about everyone, typically in the negative. Due to having severe trust issues and fearing growing close to people, Oin keeps everyone at arm's length and keeps his thoughts to himself, except to criticize people. He is unquestionably the most withdrawn and sullen of the party.

Possibly due to isolation, Oin has little to no social skills and has no remorse about manipulating others, as shown by his manipulating the party's dreams. He is very stubborn and does not like others disagreeing with him, to the point of being comparable to a petulant child. When the party stands up to him, he shuts down and refuses to speak unless absolutely necessary, and simply follows the others around in an almost sulky fashion.

## Early Life

Born as Vorgrin Vineblight, his mother passed away during childbirth. This caused his father to fall into a deep depression and become alcoholic, as well as causing his fellow dwarves to view him as cursed. The god Olidammara saw this as an opportunity, and bestowed upon Vorgrin a bad luck curse, causing anyone who came in physical contact with him to experience a bout of bad luck to various degrees of severity. Because of this, everyone avoided Vorgrin and he was dubbed "The Cursed Child." This left Vorgrin to grow up very much alone, as his father basically held him responsible for his mother's death.

At some point in time, the king's son suffered a fatal accident. Due to his known curse, Vorgrin was blamed for his death and a price was put on his head, causing Vorgrin to flee his home. After an unknown amount of time, he met Olidammara and was taken under his wing. He began a new life in direct service of the trickster god, and shed his old name of Vorgrin Vineblight, instead taking on the name of Oin Lightbringer.

## Abilities

As a cleric, Oin is the primary healer for the party. He tends to spend his time and energy keeping the party alive and buffing them with white magic. That said, he is also a tank, able to take ridiculous amounts of damage and keep going.

Offensively, Oin is very dangerous. Aside from his infamous punch, he is able to use punishing spells like Harm and Flame Strike, dealing incredible damage to enemies when in combat. He does not often use strategy, but his damage-dealing capacity renders this almost moot.

Being no nonsense makes Oin an excellent observer. He will often be the first to spot problems, and is ALWAYS the first to offer criticism of stupidity.

Since the realization that Arkoth was intruding upon their dreams, Oin takes it upon himself to master auto-hypnosis to allow himself to enter the dream world at will and protect the party (or so he made it seem). This comes with the bonus of making him a ridiculously fast reader as he is able to memorize books almost instantly.

## Relationships

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### Jeminya Malum

As a fellow warrior, Jeminya and Oin tend to stand on equal terms in combat, and there seems to be a quiet respect between them. In the episode "The Crisis," Oin speaks to Jeminya about her recent experience with death and the current psychological turmoil she goes through, acting as a sort of counselor and aiding her in working out her problems. She is surprised to learn that his moral leaning is chaotic neutral.

### Amber Hawthorne

Oin and Amber tend to stand side by side in battle, with him typically using his buffing spells directly on her. Amber is attached to Oin as she sees him as a battle companion and friend, and she considers him as part of her horde.

### Faerthurin

Faerthurin and Oin do not have much of a relationship, as they do not speak directly very often. They will support each other in battle, but not much more than that as they are equally no nonsense in personality. Later episodes show Fae displaying a mounting dislike for Oin and his manipulative ways.

### Ivan Windstrummer

Oin is perhaps the only party member who is not affected by Ivan’s friendly and cheerful personality. In fact, he has been seen to find Ivan quite confusing, such as when he attempted to save Ivan from Arkoth’s nightmare and Ivan wouldn’t abandon the people in the dream.

### Kross Dalgo

To say Kross and Oin have a strained relationship would be mild. Oin has several times brought Kross to task about his behavior and actions, even getting physically forceful when necessary. Of everyone in the party, Oin is easily hardest on Kross. Kross dislikes Oin, but still seems to trust him and his combat abilities.

### Jalerom Tanlaial

Oin is typically disapproving of Jalerom as the man can get into just as much trouble as Kross. Jalerom himself seems somewhat frightened of Oin, and will occasionally rub at his ear from the memory of the times Oin has yanked him around by it. As the series progresses, though, Jalerom shows less and less hesitance to stand up to Oin, eventually outright calling him and his arrogant behavior out outright, having grown fed up with the dwarf's refusal to speak to anyone about anything, including his plans, and expecting others to simply fall in line with his actions. Jalerom still shows some measure of trust in Oin's judgement, but becomes far less tolerant of his standoffish conceit.

### Rose Emeraldsong

Rose does not have much of a relationship with Oin at all. Neither is prone to talking much, and neither is inclined to form friendships, so they very rarely interact outside of sharing the role of healer.

### Lucid

Like with everyone else, Lucid does not like Oin very much. Oin seems to have no real opinion about Lucid.

### Reyin Dalgo

Initially, Oin had no interaction with Reyin when the party first met him. Reyin became quite curious about the dwarf as for two days straight, he did not say a word to anyone. He made attempts to initiate some sort of friendly conversation with Oin, even trying to share some cake and cookies he had from some friends, to no avail. Eventually, however, Oin did speak to Reyin when the boy was worrying deeply about his father and Amber. Reyin basically hangs off of Oin's every word, and Oin opens up to the boy, indirectly admitting to some rather strong insecurities. Reyin comes to adore Oin, a sentiment that seems quietly reciprocated.

In the Mage's Magnificent Mansion, Oin's attendant takes Reyin's form.

### Simula Malum

Like the rest of the party, Oin does not think much of Simula at all. Once she is forced to join the party, he is of the mind to keep her under constant watch. His exact thoughts about her are unknown.

### Ravvas Arkanen

Oin displays little to no trust in Ravvas from the very beginning. He seems to be constantly keeping an eye on the man, and shows the same level of heavy judgment towards him that he once displayed towards Kross. When Ravvas slays Suviel, Oin actually has a strong emotional reaction to it. He states that seeing that happen made him give up on his personal dream of being free of his curse and starting over with no memories, showing how deeply shaken he truly had been, and he then proceeds to use the powerful Miracle spell to put Ravvas into an enchanted slumber. For several nights, he alone interacts with Ravvas through dreams, displaying a level of depression and near-apathy in these conversations and admitting to not knowing what exactly he is looking for. Ravvas makes it clear in these interactions that he now has even less trust in Oin as a result of his actions, refusing point blank to tell him anything useful as he suspects that as soon as he does, Oin will simply kill him and be done with it.

Eventually, Oin is pressured into releasing Ravvas from slumber. After killing Lolth, Ravvas grabs Oin harshly by his ear, tells him clearly that his actions endangered all of them and possibly killed Rose, and warns him that if he ever endangers his friends' lives again, he will simply slit his throat and be done with him. Oin shows little reaction to this beyond apathy. The two never manage to become friends.

When Ravvas's betrayal is revealed, Oin has the least reaction to it as he is the only member of the party who never befriended Ravvas in the first place.

### Rime Bowerstone

Of the entire party, Rime holds the greatest respect for Oin. She trusts his judgement above everyone else's as she sees him at the least emotional of the group, and when the party is separated from Directian and thus Zeadrel, Rime asks Oin to be her "wielder" for as long as necessary. Oin agrees to this, and becomes Rime's commander of sorts. As they travel together, the pair show a kinship that Oin has never really shared with anyone prior. They converse more easily than they do with anyone else in the team, and Oin gives Rime advice about becoming a better person. Rime is likely the most open bond Oin has ever formed with someone else.

## Trivia

* Dr Wolf has stated that he intentionally created Oin to be a character he disagrees with, which is why they are near polar opposite in personality.
* Oin's reveal as Vorgrin Vineblight remains one of the largest twists the series has put forth.
* Oin is implied to have a memory nearly as good as Faerthurin's, as he will hold onto details that the rest of the party glosses over and then bring them up to unexpected advantages.
* Oin is the only member of the party who never became friends with Ravvas.