Orban
Last updated 2026-03-31
Orban is an open-world NPC in Mondstadt. He can be found at the Dragonspine Adventurer Camp.
Following a certain dialogue branch for the first time rewards one Black Tassel.
Location
Orban's location
Additional context
Profile
(To be added.)
Appearance
Orban is depicted as a robust older man with a muscular build, fair weathered skin, and short silvery-grey hair styled cleanly. He has a well-groomed pointed beard and dark grey eyes beneath salt-and-pepper eyebrows. His confident posture reflects a disciplined demeanor. Attire includes a practical olive-green vest over a white shirt, brown patterned details, and loose dark chocolate brown trousers tapering into sturdy knee-high boots. He accessorizes with green fabric bands on his wrists and a wide tan leather belt.
Quests and Events
World Quests
Idle Quotes
A single sword...
- "A single sword is more than enough."
Dialogue
- Orban: What is it?
Duel
- (Opens Genius Invokation TCG match interface)
- (If the player loses the match)
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- Orban: Guess this wasn't a waste of time — my head's back in the game.
- (If the player wins the match)
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- Orban: I think this match has given me some inspiration for my forge-work... Thank you.
- (Unlocked after completing Archon Quest Interlude Chapter: Act IV - Paralogism and World Quest The Festering Fang)
About these Dragonteeth...
- Orban: Ah, I was hoping you'd swing by. Yes, about those Dragonteeth... Oh, I see you've already finished gathering them up.
- Orban: When you were off exploring, I ended up hitting a slight snag over here... No matter what I hit this Dragontooth with, I simply cannot take so much as a sliver off of it.
- Orban: I've never seen anything like this before, so I had someone talk to Mr. Albedo to see how we should deal with these materials.
- Orban: And so, if you look over yonder, you'll see that Mr. Albedo had Miss Sucrose send over a Runestone. It's right on the Alchemist's Crafting Bench.
- Paimon: A Runestone? What's that got to do with our Dragonteeth?
- Orban: Well, according to what Miss Sucrose relayed to us from Mr. Albedo, we need to give the material some special treatment before we can use it to forge weapons.
- Orban: One of said methods is to have one Dragontooth absorb dragon-related "vitality," then use the vitalized Dragontooth to treat other Dragonteeth.
- Orban: As for what Miss Sucrose said about the Runestone... Ah, yes, she said it was "a relic left to the Knights of Favonius by a wandering troupe that helped Mondstadt rebel against the old nobility a thousand years ago."
- Orban: The flautist of that troupe once fought against a monster known as "Bakunawa" in the Mare Jivari. This Runestone was carved from its body...
- (If the player has completed Event Story Quest Night-Wind Letter in Iktomi Spiritseeking Scrolls: Volume I[verification needed])
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- Paimon: Eh? Wait a sec, if Paimon's memory isn't failing her, didn't Citlali tell us that the Mare Jivari was created by Sanhaj's battle with the Abyss... five hundred years ago?
- Are we sure the troupe's story is from a thousand years back?
- Orban: Haha, how could it be apocryphal? That wandering troupe's story of heroism has long since been recorded in the "History of Kings and Clans."
- Orban: Anyway, Mr. Albedo said that this Runestone contains "infinite vitality," similar to that of a dragon.
- Orban: All you need to do is use the Crafting Bench to absorb the vitality of the Runestone with the Dragontooth, then we can get to forging our weapons.
- Paimon: That sounds impressive... as expected of Albedo...
- We'll have to thank him later.
- Orban: Alchemy's truly something else, huh... How does one even absorb "vitality" from a thousand-year-old stone?
- Who are you?
- Orban: My name is unimportant, only my work is.
- Orban: Have you heard of the weapon named Cool Steel? It's the sword of the adventurer Herman, who was once famed throughout the continent. I forged it for him.
- Orban: ...Though a number of people praised it quite highly, it was one of my more ordinary forging projects.
- Orban: For me, the most important weapon is the next one I'm making...
- Orban: That one alone deserves to be remembered as part of my legacy.
- Why are you here?
- Orban: For a weapon. One that is destined to be remembered by all who hear its name.
- Orban: You can make as many mundane weapons as you like, and they would all be meaningless. That's the life of a blacksmith, not that of a weaponsmith.
- Orban: A true forgemaster needs only to build one famous weapon.
- Orban: I will use my life's worth of skill and sweat to forge that weapon. Once it is complete, all Teyvat will remember it — and me.
- Orban: It is for that reason that I am here on this mountain — for it contains the materials that I have been searching for all this time.
Materials?
- Orban: I've tried forging weapons from all kinds of materials. But each and every one of them has turned out to be completely unexceptional.
- Orban: This has led me to understand the limitations of ordinary ores...
- Orban: Take this polearm with you. It's just a test piece that I forged once upon a time — but for the average person, it should make a fine weapon.
- (Obtain
Black Tassel ×1)
- Nothing.
- Orban: If you've got nothing for me, then don't waste my time.
Trivia
- Orban may be named after Orbán, a Hungarian iron founder who made large-calibre cannons used by the Ottomans to break through the Theodosian Walls.
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Orban |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 乌尔班 Wū'ěrbān |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 烏爾班 Wū'ěrbān |
| Japanese | ウルバン Uruban |
| Korean | 오르방 Oreubang |
| Spanish | Orban |
| French | Orban |
| Russian | Орбан Orban |
| Thai | Orban |
| Vietnamese | Orban |
| German | Orban |
| Indonesian | Orban |
| Portuguese | Orban |
| Turkish | Orban |
| Italian | Orban |
Change History
Released in Version 1.2
Version 5.6
- New dialogue was added after completing Archon Quest Interlude Chapter: Act IV - Paralogism and World Quest The Festering Fang.
- Added a Genius Invokation TCG Duel for Orban.
- Orban was released.
References
- ↑ Twitter: EN VA Self Announcement (Archived)