Name: Brooklyn Age: Ancient Contact:withpanache Other Characters: Tony Stark, Marcus Rowntree, Loxley (and Sabine as a side character) Interests: Now you can't kill him off screen.
Okay well the real answer is that canonically, Dorian's attention is turning to the rehabilitation of Tevinter, so Tevinter-things would be great to get involved in, especially in levering off Corypheus from his throne before all of Southern Thedas just pummels the everliving shit out of his home country. He would also get involved in some research elements, given that he is a magical prodigy in this way, but his focus will primarily be centred on ways to bring Corypheus down, and I imagine his assistance here to be more background, i.e., some language interpretation, some book reading, more a means to make other RP happen. I think it would also be neat for his research focus to veer towards spell-creation and theory, seeing as my other Research character can't do that shit and my other mage character isn't a nerd.
But mostly he just wants to throw down, and maybe not do war crimes about it.
CHARACTER
Name: Dorian Pavus Canon/OC: Dragon Age, canon character. Journal:liberalum Race: Human Nationality: Tevinter Occupation: Heir to a Magister's seat in the Imperium, technically. Division:Dorian Research, for now. Age: 35, and doesn't look like he's aged a day.
History
Citation: World of Thedas.
born in 9:11 to Magister Halward and Lady Aquinea of House Pavus, an influential family of noble lineage in the Tevinter Imperium
9:20: as a child, immediately shows promise, with his Circle tutors writing back to his father that he surpassed students some few years older than him, which also led to some difficulties, in that Dorian was a relentless bully about it
Dorian is expelled Circle to Circle, until forced to attend a smaller order known for its strict Andrastian disciplines, which lasts three months before he disappears
discovered by Magister Gereon Alexius (a friend of Halward's) in a brothel in the elven alienage, incredidrunk and in the midst of a self-destructive spiral
Alexius yanks him out of it, and becomes his mentor for the next four years, setting Dorian on a better path towards becoming an Enchanter of Minrathous
Dorian is on better terms with his family, who would really like it if he came home and got married, but concedes to his success
9:35: Alexius' wife is killed by darkspawn, and his son, Felix, is injured and infected by the Blight, which compels Dorian to abandon his duties and return to help Alexius find a cure, a fruitless endeavour that wore on them all for the next two years
9:37: after a heated argument, Dorian abandons the Alexius family
he resumes disappearing too into equal parts obscurity and scandal
9:38: Halward literally hires thugs to drag him home and attempt a blood magic ritual to change his personality and alter his sexuality @_@/
Dorian escapes and renounces his family for good
two years later, Magister Alexius stood in the way of the Inquisition recruiting the rebel mages in Redcliffe. Through Dorian, they learned of Alexius' ties to the Venatori
after helping them overthrow a trap arranged for the Inquisitor, Dorian was permitted to remain with the Inquisition
he has basically just worked as an agent of the Inquisition for the past five years, lending his knowledge as a Tevene mage, his skills as a researcher, and his abilities as a mage to the cause
he fell into a serious relationship with a giant Qunari and grew as a person
and then the Exalted March thing happened, and the Inquisition became a difficult place to be. Which was fine, until Dorian decided his powers of influence were being diminished by the hour as war crimes were enacted on Tevinter civilians in the push forward. He packed his favourite books, linked arm with Benevenuta, and left without a word--
--and turned up in Riftwatch!
Personality
Dorian is irreverent and sassy and colourful and exuberant and also all the negative versions of those things, depending on your tolerance level. Day to day, he is almost aggressively entertaining, like it's the main weapon in his social arsenal or he's decided it's his job to banish back the boring. This humour can run from warm to cold, from kind to nasty to really poor taste, and act as shiny deflection if a conversation strays too personal. He does impressions that are poor in delivery but sharp in content, he narrates, he has one-sided conversations, and he also makes fun of himself.
He will be quick to tell you that he is a pariah of his own society, and this is somewhat true. He has never been able to stay in one spot for long, his estrangement from his family is deep and shadowy, and his sexual orientation is just one more inherent thing that isn't acceptable by their standards. He is equally aware of the ways he is the same -- his elitism, his fashion, his affect, his familiarity with court and politics. He has other trappings that are more instinctive than he's fully aware of, such as his discomfort for public reference to homosexuality and his blasé dismissal of slavery when compared to poverty. Because he sees himself enlightened as compared to his countrymen, it takes more time for him to learn the ways in which he has room to grow.
But he has grown in the past few years. The alternative is to become set in his ways and self-destructive, which is a tendency he has more consciously fought against since cleanly breaking from his family, and falling in love with Iron Bull. He still is prone to self-sabotage, drinking in excess on occasion, and avoiding the help of friends by deciding he doesn't want to be in debt to anyone anymore ever again so there. Maturity is easing him away from these instincts.
He comes from a city of sharks, and is not one himself. That doesn't mean he doesn't know how they work. In the Tevinter Imperium, he'd been starved of something to fight for. A mixture of disillusionment for its inherent corruption and blindspots for social problems that don't adversely affect him such as a slave-based economy and the pervasive feeling of never fitting in have all stopped him from trying, really. However, with Corypheus making strides in damning Tevinter's soul for good, he is interested in saving it after all.
Opinions & Affiliations
TEVINTER: Dorian has had time to confront the ways in which his home country is a bit shit, and has come around on things like slavery is bad, actually, even when compared to ordinary poverty. He harbours the ridiculous notion that Tevinter can be redeemed. It's embarrassing.
MAGES: Defaults to some unnuanced pro-mage stances with regards to Southern Thedas. The whole system seems ridiculous to him, and what goods a Templar you can't boss around?
BLOOD MAGIC: It's bad.
THE QUN: He's in love with one (1) qunari, but remains wary of the Qun, probably even more deeply thanks to his romantic ties.
THE INQUISITION: Hostile territory.
Adaptation Notes
n/a
Strengths & Weaknesses
Dorian is a mage of formidable and demonstrable talent, with all the makings of becoming a great, powerful Magister in a cutthroat magocracy, if not for literally everything else about him.
SPECIALISATIONS AND SPELLS: Dorian now has the Necromancer specialisation and knows well the Storm skill tree, and the Spirit skill tree.
He has access to all basic elements on less elaborate levels, such as being able to light a candle or cool down water, and he can create minor sustained glyphs of fire, ice, and storm. This is one of those small RP quirks I used to do back in the day that I'd like to keep so I am mentioning it here in case it's no longer kosher.
RESEARCH: Dorian has a surprisingly mathematical, experimental mind for magic, and is equally interested in developmental research. He assisted Magister Alexius in time-magic theory, for instance, and later in game canon, expresses an interest in messing with Eluvian mirrors. He likes smart solutions over punchy solutions, but will punch if he has to (and he feels like it).
BLINDSPOTS: As a Circle mage (Circles mage?), Dorian is limited in knowledge as to culturally alternative kinds of magic, such as that specific to the Dalish, shapeshifter magic, and so on. He has no skill in blood magic, for virtue of steering clear of anything that makes demons a real possibility, and the belief that it is the last resort of a weak mind.
Inventory
a mage staff, suitable for combative spellcasting
the clothes on his back
some books
a horse named Merlot
dat ass
the Alexius Birthright, given to him in game by Felix, now a Grey Warden.
Motivation
He has been an Inquisition agent for five years, and is only leaving because his position is becoming increasingly untenable. His commitment to the cause is solid.
Also he's going to marry Alistair and become Queen of Ferelden.
dorian pavus. dragon age.
Name: Brooklyn
Age: Ancient
Contact:
Other Characters: Tony Stark, Marcus Rowntree, Loxley (and Sabine as a side character)
Interests: Now you can't kill him off screen.
Okay well the real answer is that canonically, Dorian's attention is turning to the rehabilitation of Tevinter, so Tevinter-things would be great to get involved in, especially in levering off Corypheus from his throne before all of Southern Thedas just pummels the everliving shit out of his home country. He would also get involved in some research elements, given that he is a magical prodigy in this way, but his focus will primarily be centred on ways to bring Corypheus down, and I imagine his assistance here to be more background, i.e., some language interpretation, some book reading, more a means to make other RP happen. I think it would also be neat for his research focus to veer towards spell-creation and theory, seeing as my other Research character can't do that shit and my other mage character isn't a nerd.
But mostly he just wants to throw down, and maybe not do war crimes about it.
Name: Dorian Pavus
Canon/OC: Dragon Age, canon character.
Journal:
Race: Human
Nationality: Tevinter
Occupation: Heir to a Magister's seat in the Imperium, technically.
Division:
DorianResearch, for now.Age: 35, and doesn't look like he's aged a day.
History
Citation: World of Thedas.
Personality
Dorian is irreverent and sassy and colourful and exuberant and also all the negative versions of those things, depending on your tolerance level. Day to day, he is almost aggressively entertaining, like it's the main weapon in his social arsenal or he's decided it's his job to banish back the boring. This humour can run from warm to cold, from kind to nasty to really poor taste, and act as shiny deflection if a conversation strays too personal. He does impressions that are poor in delivery but sharp in content, he narrates, he has one-sided conversations, and he also makes fun of himself.
He will be quick to tell you that he is a pariah of his own society, and this is somewhat true. He has never been able to stay in one spot for long, his estrangement from his family is deep and shadowy, and his sexual orientation is just one more inherent thing that isn't acceptable by their standards. He is equally aware of the ways he is the same -- his elitism, his fashion, his affect, his familiarity with court and politics. He has other trappings that are more instinctive than he's fully aware of, such as his discomfort for public reference to homosexuality and his blasé dismissal of slavery when compared to poverty. Because he sees himself enlightened as compared to his countrymen, it takes more time for him to learn the ways in which he has room to grow.
But he has grown in the past few years. The alternative is to become set in his ways and self-destructive, which is a tendency he has more consciously fought against since cleanly breaking from his family, and falling in love with Iron Bull. He still is prone to self-sabotage, drinking in excess on occasion, and avoiding the help of friends by deciding he doesn't want to be in debt to anyone anymore ever again so there. Maturity is easing him away from these instincts.
He comes from a city of sharks, and is not one himself. That doesn't mean he doesn't know how they work. In the Tevinter Imperium, he'd been starved of something to fight for. A mixture of disillusionment for its inherent corruption and blindspots for social problems that don't adversely affect him such as a slave-based economy and the pervasive feeling of never fitting in have all stopped him from trying, really. However, with Corypheus making strides in damning Tevinter's soul for good, he is interested in saving it after all.
Opinions & Affiliations
TEVINTER: Dorian has had time to confront the ways in which his home country is a bit shit, and has come around on things like slavery is bad, actually, even when compared to ordinary poverty. He harbours the ridiculous notion that Tevinter can be redeemed. It's embarrassing.
MAGES: Defaults to some unnuanced pro-mage stances with regards to Southern Thedas. The whole system seems ridiculous to him, and what goods a Templar you can't boss around?
BLOOD MAGIC: It's bad.
THE QUN: He's in love with one (1) qunari, but remains wary of the Qun, probably even more deeply thanks to his romantic ties.
THE INQUISITION: Hostile territory.
Adaptation Notes
n/a
Strengths & Weaknesses
Dorian is a mage of formidable and demonstrable talent, with all the makings of becoming a great, powerful Magister in a cutthroat magocracy, if not for literally everything else about him.
SPECIALISATIONS AND SPELLS: Dorian now has the Necromancer specialisation and knows well the Storm skill tree, and the Spirit skill tree.
He has access to all basic elements on less elaborate levels, such as being able to light a candle or cool down water, and he can create minor sustained glyphs of fire, ice, and storm. This is one of those small RP quirks I used to do back in the day that I'd like to keep so I am mentioning it here in case it's no longer kosher.
RESEARCH: Dorian has a surprisingly mathematical, experimental mind for magic, and is equally interested in developmental research. He assisted Magister Alexius in time-magic theory, for instance, and later in game canon, expresses an interest in messing with Eluvian mirrors. He likes smart solutions over punchy solutions, but will punch if he has to (and he feels like it).
BLINDSPOTS: As a Circle mage (Circles mage?), Dorian is limited in knowledge as to culturally alternative kinds of magic, such as that specific to the Dalish, shapeshifter magic, and so on. He has no skill in blood magic, for virtue of steering clear of anything that makes demons a real possibility, and the belief that it is the last resort of a weak mind.
InventoryMotivation
He has been an Inquisition agent for five years, and is only leaving because his position is becoming increasingly untenable. His commitment to the cause is solid.
Also he's going to marry Alistair and become Queen of Ferelden.
Dorian assists a weary traveller through the Frostback Mountains, and only vaguely and by reflex considers shoving her off a bridge.
Dorian zaps a bear a lot and Mia Rutherford hits it with an axe. They then make charming conversation.