At first sight, Oralle's motivations seem to be of the good-samaritan type, only wanting to help. She is mentioned in passing in a few conversations, where Illyria expresses that she misses Oralle etc. In fact, her motivations have little to do with kindness.

Throughout Oralle's life she was put down and insulted, and a hatred of elves began to to insinuate itself into her consciousness. She knew the advantages of staying on the good side of Queen Amlauril, however, and therefore helped the Elven Queen whenever she needed it. Through this, Oralle gained the incredibly rare permission to teleport to and from Evermeet freely, and soon left Evermeet to explore her own interests.

Oralle travelled around Faerun, seeking out the most powerful mages, learning from them what she could and then disposing of them when she no longer needed them.

She then travelled to the Underdark, making contacts among the dark elves in disguise as a powerful Matron Mother, most notably making contacts with the Beholderkin, something almost completely unheard of even in Drow society. She decided to aid the Dark Elves in their war against the Surface Elves, as much as she could, and under the Drow influence her hatred of the elves festered like an open wound, and she found herself helping to create dark, powerful spells of mass death and suffering, and aiding the Drow in several conquests.

She realised that she would need to get the elves at their most vulnerable, and she also realised that she could not possibly be seen helping the Drow. She concocted a plan in conjunction with the Beholderkin and the Drow, a plan which meant death and suffering for thousands upon thousands of elves. She created a beautiful, innocent seeming amulet, which in fact housed the soul of a Beholder, L'Sirr, who had been an abomination in the eyes of other Beholder because of the fact she had strange rings about her many eyes. L'Sirr would be connected to the Hive Mind, and would serve as a beacon to the other Beholder, who with the aid of powerful Drow mages would be transported to Evermeet to combat the Elves. In return, the Beholderkin would gain huge caverns which they could colonise and further the will of the Hive Mother in.

Oralle returned, with amulet in hand, to Evermeet, where a huge debate was going on about whether an unborn half-elven child should be allowed on the Isle, with her human father. The human was of no interest to her, but she sympathised with the half-elven plight, and put the word out that she approved of it. Resistance quickly fell, and the elven woman Sara, the unborn half-elven child Illyria, and the human Baran were allowed to stay on Evermeet under harsh restrictions.

Seeing she could perhaps benefit out of this in the future, Oralle continued to help the family, and protected Illyria from further attempts to remove her from the Isle. Under pressure from the council, she transported a dying Baran back to Faerun.

She heard Illyria's mother Sara was seeking passage off the Isle, and created a fiction that there was a way to get off Evermeet, through the Underdark. Indeed, Oralle was more concerned with Illyria, who also wanted to get off Evermeet. Oralle transported the three of them to the mainland. Sara left to pursue Baran, leaving Illyria quite alone. Oralle took pity on the girl, and decided to travel around Faerun with her, thinking she could eventually use an accomplice and another skilled mage.

But Illyria didn't have the skills to be a mage. Oralle found she was a skilled Divine spellcaster, but could not grasp some of the intricacies of magic. Oralle genuinely liked Illyria, and enjoyed travelling with the young girl. Once, she told Illyria why she disliked elves and tried to get the young girl to do the same, but Illyria would have none of it. She accepted that Oralle disliked most elves, but she knew there were good elves, such as her mother, and Getheril. They dropped the matter and never spoke of it again.

During this time, Oralle built a house in the village of Rayen, which she and Illyria used as a base of sorts. When they found ancient texts, or indeed anything, they would deposit it in Oralle's house. It became a haven of sorts, that they could always return to.

Oralle, who had been planning to use Illyria in her quest against the Elves, decided at the last minute not to, instead removing much of the amulet's enchantments and giving it to Illyria as a farewell gift (with an added enchantment which bound the amulet to her), along with an enchanted diary which Illyria could use to gather her thoughts. Oralle had recieved summons from the elven court on Evermeet, and decided that it was time to leave.

Telling the elves she had important business to attend to for the moment, she expanded her house in Rayen, and added magical portals to a Beholder Lair, the Underdark, and Evermeet. She had taken on Illyria's love of culture, and began to add to the already rather extensive library of information on diverse cultures. Despite her hatred of the Elves, she even collected information on Elven history and lore. Her library would have even made Illyria proud.

Despite Oralle's efforts to remove all enchantments from the amulet, L'Sirr's soul was still tied to it. Because Oralle had bound the amulet to Illyria, so was L'Sirr bound to her, and for some reason the two became aware of each other, and an ability to mentally communicate established itself.

Later, Oralle is hounded after by both the Drow and the Beholderkin for not fulfilling her promise, and she flees back to Evermeet using the summons as an excuse. Queen Amlauril realises something has changed within Oralle for the worse, and orders her that she is to leave the Isle for good. Oralle, who had relaxed her hatred of the elves, was enraged beyond all belief, momentarily losing herself to destruction and hatred. She killed over 20 elves in a rampage that had not been seen on Evermeet for years, and then transported herself back to her house nearby Rayen. She warded the house with the most powerful spells she could, and planned revenge once more against the elves and queen Amlauril.