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BASIC PROFILE
Name: Dorian Pavus (Alias "Gideon" in The Real)
Age: 32 (30 in canon, two years unplugged!)
Canon: Dragon Age
Appearance: one; two
Extraction point: Mid-Inquisition, just post-Here Lies the Abyss. Canon notes are as follows:
Inquisitor: Female Dalish Elf, Jove Lavellan
Mages vs Templars: sided with mages ; mages are allies
Here Lies the Abyss: Stroud stayed in the fade ; Grey Wardens joined the Inquisition ; Hawke is alive
Dorian's personal quest was done, but as the Inquisitor was a woman, he was unromanced but had not yet started a relationship with The Iron Bull.
OVERVIEW
Personality: Dorian lives up to the name Pavus- Latin for "peacock". He is a vain, proud man, with a large ego and equally large vocabulary. He's self-absorbed to some, but to others he's someone to engage in playful banter with. He flirts willingly with anyone and everyone- despite being gay, he even flirts with women that he likes. It's all harmless fun, to him. He exemplifies how others see Tevinter in many ways- proud, a little decadent, and more than happy to make a show of himself.
He exemplifies the decadence of Tevinter, and though he is proud of his homeland, Dorian bears his status as a pariah with pride. He wants to reform his homeland, to see things changed. He's a noble man, of good intent, who is disgusted by the abuses of power in Tevinter, but believes his country can change for the better.
Dorian is a mage, and a good one, at that. He is more than happy to spend his time in the Skyhold library, tearing through whatever books he can find (though he finds some...lacking), and is excited to puzzle out magic. He has spent a good deal of his past researching magic, and approaches magic as something that one must engage for lifelong learning. He can come off a bit of a nerd sometimes, excited by new theories and ideas to puzzle out.
Dorian puts on a front of flawless confidence, but there is one area that is his Achilles heel- love. Dorian is used to Tevinter traditions- homosexual relationships being kept quiet and not accepted as true love. He is desperate for someone to love him, and to truly love him and be with him. He walks his own path, and refuses to deny who he is simply to avoid scandal.
Dorian is truly his own worst enemy- he sees his flaws very much as glaring character faults and hates himself for them very much. He struggles with his privilege and the things that he has been socialized to believe- he's Neutral Good from a society that socialized him to be Lawful Evil, essentially. He faults himself very deeply when he puts his foot in his mouth, and when he does that, he does it very well.
They say that people from Tevinter show no reserve- not in love or in war, and this extends to just the idea that the Tevene never do anything halfway. When Dorian makes an ass of himself, he makes a huge ass of himself. When he loves someone, he falls fast, and deeply. Conversely, when he hates someone, he will cut them out of his life completely, no matter who they were before they fell from grace in his eyes.
Dorian's greatest fear is listed as "temptation", and for him that's less the temptation of worldly things and more the temptation to become a typical Magister, to turn to blood magic in an effort to gain power to control others. He resists this as much as he can, but it's ever-present, things that have been socialized in him are impossible to shake off, sometimes, and he hates himself for it.
He does have faith, but he doesn't care for structured religion and Chantry mothers and fathers telling him how to live his life. This ties back, a bit, to his own views on politics. For Tevinter, Dorian's politics are radical and revolutionary- he believes that the Magisterium and Tevinter must change to survive, to be a country to be proud of again. It is his mission to see his homeland changed, or to die trying in his effort to redeem Tevinter. He speaks of Tevinter in a way that causes others to wonder if he hates it, but the truth is that Dorian loves Tevinter, very deeply. He's simply not blind to the litany of faults and flaws in his homeland.
But all in all, no matter what he's been born and raised to think, Dorian does the right thing. He has a good sense of right of wrong (or, more specifically, Wrong and The Opposite) and will do the right things when he can. He's just also someone who will do the wrong things for good reasons, so long as the outcome is ultimately good. I generally think of him as a Chaotic Good character- he lives life by his own rules and walks his own path, and proudly. He disregards tradition and social norms, despite the fact that it comes at a great cost to him.
Further personality details are listed below, in the "Real World" section.
Matrix: The Thedosian Matix used with permission.
Specific to Dorian: (this includes canon from the upcoming World of Thedas Volume 2, which hasn't quite hit the Wiki)
Dorian was a tempestuous child, who did amazingly well in school when he wasn't causing fistfights and being confined in solitary as punishment. He was bounced from Circle to Circle, expelled quite regularly for causing fights and being, generally, a nuisance. He was eventually pulled from schools and bounced from tutor to tutor, always causing some incident that wound up with him being sent home.
Finally, when he was 20, his father Halward sent Dorian to Minrathos, the capital city, to a strict religious school. Things seemed to be going well, but Dorian only lasted a few short months before he ran away. He was discovered in a brothel in the elven slums, and the man who found him, Magister Gereon Alexius, took Dorian in as an apprentice.
For the next four years, Dorian lived in Minrathos and flourished under the tutelage of Magister Alexius. He passed his examinations with ease four years later and became a fully-ranked enchanter at the Minrathos Circle. It is likely that this is where he met Rilienus, a man who Dorian wished to have a relationship with but was never elaborated on further than that. Dorian started to edge his way into law- attending debates and balls, but it was not to last. Alexius's son and wife were attacked by darkspawn- she was slain and Felix was infected with the Blight. Dorian and Alexius worked on highly experimental magic and eventually were able to figure out how to warp time to prolong Felix's life.
Two years later, following an argument, Dorian left the Alexius estate and drinking in the slums, avoiding his family's attempts to come and collect him. He eventually did return to the Alexius estate, only to find that Gereon and Felix were gone. Dorian fell back into debauchery and his family was eventually forced to essentially kidnap him and bring him home.
Dorian was kept at the Pavus estate was a near prisoner for several months, and Dorian's insistent refusal of taking a wife and keeping his sexuality private finally forced his father's hand. Halward turned to blood magic, something he had always condemned, in an effort to change Dorian, to make him acceptable. I do headcanon that they got in one unsuccessful attempt that Dorian resisted and burned the tattoo from his concept art into his skin. Dorian did eventually escape, and fled the country, with not a coin to his name and only what possessions he could carry on his person.
He drifted for two years, living off of money from distant relatives and lovers, until Alexius finally contacted him. Dorian made his way south, visiting several countries as he traveled, scraping by and selling his jewelry where he needed to.
Dorian wandered for some time, surviving where he could and trying to undermine the Venatori (a Tevinter supremacist cult), working his way to Redcliffe to reunite with Alexius, until he caught wind of the rift and the Inquisition. Dorian is first encountered when the Inquisitor heads out to close a rift between Thedas and the Fade, and he decided to join the Inquisition shortly afterward, on a mission to confront his former mentor, Magister Alexius. Dorian and the Inquisitor tried to negotiate with Alexius, but were accidentally sent forward in time by Alexius- to a future where "The Elder One" and his Venatori allies were successful. Dorian was eventually able to undo the spell, and he and the Inquisitor returned to just moments after they had been sent into the future, and Alexius surrendered, being taken into custody by the Inquisition.
Dorian decided to stick around, and was present for the attack on Haven by Corypheus, the so-called "Elder One", but survived and arrived with the remaining Inquisition at Skyhold. Shortly after his arrival at Skyhold, Dorian persuaded the Inquisitor to help root out a few remaining Venatori. After they were killed, the Inquisitor was approached with a letter saying that a Pavus family retainer would like to meet with Dorian. Dorian identified the handwriting as his father's, but agreed to go. There he disclosed a small bit his past to the Inquisitor, and spoke to his father alone for a short time. Dorian and Halward reconciled a bit, but Dorian remained with the Inquisition, and the relationship between the father and son wasn't completely mended and likely never will.
Following that, Dorian was taken to Adamant Fortress and there was hurled through a rift and physically into the Fade. In his world, Hawke lived, and they were all able to escape.
Real World: With moderator approval over Plurk, I would like to play that Dorian has been unplugged for two years, but residing in Antioch. He had no contact or knowledge of his other self who was previously accepted to the game.
Dorian's arrival was very difficult for him. He spent four months after getting on his feet just drinking and trying to cope. It was hard for him, at first, to accept that the reality he had known was false, but not as difficult as some. What really upset him was that the world he had devoted himself to building up and bettering was not his true reality. He was angry, and homesick, and spent four months in bars and drifting around Antioch, realizing that he didn't really have a place here.
In a fit of pique, at the insistence he leave his past behind, he dropped his old name and took on the moniker of "Gideon". He wasn't certain anymore who Dorian Pavus was, having been shaped so clearly by the events of his life. Gideon was an ancestor of his that he thought of fondly but never knew- he had no true attachment to the name, but it was significant. For him, that was enough.
He would have likely run himself into the ground, if it weren't for a barkeep named Bonne taking pity on him. She'd seen it a few times- the newly awakened who burn out trying to cope, and she offered him a job as a tutor for her three children, after talking to him and finding out he'd been very well-educated.
It only took two months after that for him to get his feet under himself. Teaching awakened the long-buried desire to be a teacher that he'd never had a chance to have, in Thedas. He found himself renting his own one-room building and opening a small school, teaching the inhabitants of the mining city how to read and write, and how to do simple arithmetic. Gideon was known as a patient instructor, who accepted both children and adults into his classes, and kept himself as busy as he could.
It took taking his life away from him, but Gideon, as he considers himself now, finally felt like he could breathe, free of the shadow of Tevinter and the Pavus legacy. He lived simply, for a year and a half, teaching and occasionally drinking at local bars with the miners.
Things couldn't last forever, though, and when the opportunity came along to expand his school to Zion, he decided to set out and make his way to the city, leaving behind a community he would always remember fondly. But Gideon never set down roots or allowed himself to get too attached.
Personality Changes: Gideon remains a sarcastic and charming man, but where Dorian was often pompous and grandiose, Gideon is slightly more sober and doesn't fight as much to put on a facade of friendliness. He can be a very, very sober man, at times. At others, he's jovial, happy, even. He's a bit of a tempestuous man, in that regard.
The loss of his "reality" and the subsequent rejection of his identity as "Dorian Pavus", have left Gideon a bit more bitter and sedate most times than Dorian is in canon. That isn't to say he's without his warmth- it's just more honest, and not as carefully constructed. He is more free with his emotions- and he feels them very deeply. When he laughs, it's honest mirth. He is more open when he is upset or happy, but at the same time, he's also more closed off with his past. After his first month, he stopped speaking of himself as Dorian and had not spoken of his past to anyone- which was accepted and encouraged.
Gideon lives more like Dorian did while on the road. He lives simply, and he's thankful just to have a bed, some nights. He doesn't mourn his past, anymore, nor does he let it hang over him. He is completely determined to the be man he always was, in his heart. He works very hard to shed the things that were socialized to him by Tevinter- to be deceptive and politically minded, and tries to embrace the boy he was before he had to adapt to survive in Tevinter. He makes it about halfway.
ABILITIES AND SKILLS
Anomalies: Dorian Pavus was trained as a necromancer! I also play him as having the ability to manipulate and conjure fire, and set fire land mines, and such. I don't play him as delving very much into controlling electricity or ice, or even healing beyond simple cuts and scrapes. He can do it a little, conjure ice cubes and zap someone a bit, but not much. He's also theorized and used (to a small degree) time magic- enough to help prolong Felix's life and return himself and the Inquisitor from one time point to another.
His necromancer skills are slightly different from "traditional" necromancy in that he doesn't actually resurrect dead bodies! Instead, he controls the spirits that are attracted to death and make them take on the form of the recently dead- including, if necessary, himself. He can also cause terror on the battlefield, and can curse enemies (I generally take this to mean like general video game curses but also the more sinister "bad luck" type of curses.
Skillset: Gideon teaches! Dorian was very highly educated in politics and history as well as magic, and took to it swimmingly when he wasn't being a rabble-rouser. He has a very adaptable mind and is very good at problem-solving and working out new and unknown magic.
He also can hold his own in a fistfight, and can fight with a staff.
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SAMPLES
Sample One:
His home was only three rooms- a living area, a bedroom, and a kitchen, and it was situated upstairs of the schoolroom. He had books- rare things- that he collected to teach off of, and down in the classroom was a large blackboard and slates for the students to practice on. Most days, if it was a reading and writing day, he would write up on the blackboard and help them to sound it out. Spelling was covered, and basic grammar, though he mostly focused on what they needed to get by.
These were not great philosophers. They were just honest, earthy people.
He didn't drink as much as he used to, though Gideon did enjoy a drink before bed some nights, he rarely went out with the intention of drinking himself into a stupor. That was something from another time, another life, even, when he first arrived here.
Life got easier, oddly. Better, for being here. He thought many days that though he lacked the luxury of his former life, things were better, now that he was a different man.
Gideon, just Gideon, was a good, more honest man than Dorian Pavus had ever been. He still had his secrets, still denied himself things- in nearly two years he had yet to have more than a few passing one or two night stands, but nothing serious- but on the whole, Gideon lived a good, simple life.
Odd, that it took taking his world away from him to free him from the shadow of Tevinter, of the Pavus name.
But here, he had a simple and good life.
The message came, and he mulled it over- an offer to come teach, to start a school in Zion. It took him three days, standing in front of the soot-dusted window of his bedroom, looking out over the haze at the smudged and filthy miners who made their ways to and from the mine shafts, that maybe it would be best to go. Lest Antioch become another Tevinter, another place that would bind him down and tie him to it.
Sample 2, from another game! Dorian visits a VR rendition of Tevinter.
OOC
Name: Dee
Age: 27
Contact details:
Characters already in Systemwide: None
BASIC PROFILE
Name: Dorian Pavus (Alias "Gideon" in The Real)
Age: 32 (30 in canon, two years unplugged!)
Canon: Dragon Age
Appearance: one; two
Extraction point: Mid-Inquisition, just post-Here Lies the Abyss. Canon notes are as follows:
Inquisitor: Female Dalish Elf, Jove Lavellan
Mages vs Templars: sided with mages ; mages are allies
Here Lies the Abyss: Stroud stayed in the fade ; Grey Wardens joined the Inquisition ; Hawke is alive
Dorian's personal quest was done, but as the Inquisitor was a woman, he was unromanced but had not yet started a relationship with The Iron Bull.
OVERVIEW
Personality: Dorian lives up to the name Pavus- Latin for "peacock". He is a vain, proud man, with a large ego and equally large vocabulary. He's self-absorbed to some, but to others he's someone to engage in playful banter with. He flirts willingly with anyone and everyone- despite being gay, he even flirts with women that he likes. It's all harmless fun, to him. He exemplifies how others see Tevinter in many ways- proud, a little decadent, and more than happy to make a show of himself.
He exemplifies the decadence of Tevinter, and though he is proud of his homeland, Dorian bears his status as a pariah with pride. He wants to reform his homeland, to see things changed. He's a noble man, of good intent, who is disgusted by the abuses of power in Tevinter, but believes his country can change for the better.
Dorian is a mage, and a good one, at that. He is more than happy to spend his time in the Skyhold library, tearing through whatever books he can find (though he finds some...lacking), and is excited to puzzle out magic. He has spent a good deal of his past researching magic, and approaches magic as something that one must engage for lifelong learning. He can come off a bit of a nerd sometimes, excited by new theories and ideas to puzzle out.
Dorian puts on a front of flawless confidence, but there is one area that is his Achilles heel- love. Dorian is used to Tevinter traditions- homosexual relationships being kept quiet and not accepted as true love. He is desperate for someone to love him, and to truly love him and be with him. He walks his own path, and refuses to deny who he is simply to avoid scandal.
Dorian is truly his own worst enemy- he sees his flaws very much as glaring character faults and hates himself for them very much. He struggles with his privilege and the things that he has been socialized to believe- he's Neutral Good from a society that socialized him to be Lawful Evil, essentially. He faults himself very deeply when he puts his foot in his mouth, and when he does that, he does it very well.
They say that people from Tevinter show no reserve- not in love or in war, and this extends to just the idea that the Tevene never do anything halfway. When Dorian makes an ass of himself, he makes a huge ass of himself. When he loves someone, he falls fast, and deeply. Conversely, when he hates someone, he will cut them out of his life completely, no matter who they were before they fell from grace in his eyes.
Dorian's greatest fear is listed as "temptation", and for him that's less the temptation of worldly things and more the temptation to become a typical Magister, to turn to blood magic in an effort to gain power to control others. He resists this as much as he can, but it's ever-present, things that have been socialized in him are impossible to shake off, sometimes, and he hates himself for it.
He does have faith, but he doesn't care for structured religion and Chantry mothers and fathers telling him how to live his life. This ties back, a bit, to his own views on politics. For Tevinter, Dorian's politics are radical and revolutionary- he believes that the Magisterium and Tevinter must change to survive, to be a country to be proud of again. It is his mission to see his homeland changed, or to die trying in his effort to redeem Tevinter. He speaks of Tevinter in a way that causes others to wonder if he hates it, but the truth is that Dorian loves Tevinter, very deeply. He's simply not blind to the litany of faults and flaws in his homeland.
But all in all, no matter what he's been born and raised to think, Dorian does the right thing. He has a good sense of right of wrong (or, more specifically, Wrong and The Opposite) and will do the right things when he can. He's just also someone who will do the wrong things for good reasons, so long as the outcome is ultimately good. I generally think of him as a Chaotic Good character- he lives life by his own rules and walks his own path, and proudly. He disregards tradition and social norms, despite the fact that it comes at a great cost to him.
Further personality details are listed below, in the "Real World" section.
Matrix: The Thedosian Matix used with permission.
Specific to Dorian: (this includes canon from the upcoming World of Thedas Volume 2, which hasn't quite hit the Wiki)
Dorian was a tempestuous child, who did amazingly well in school when he wasn't causing fistfights and being confined in solitary as punishment. He was bounced from Circle to Circle, expelled quite regularly for causing fights and being, generally, a nuisance. He was eventually pulled from schools and bounced from tutor to tutor, always causing some incident that wound up with him being sent home.
Finally, when he was 20, his father Halward sent Dorian to Minrathos, the capital city, to a strict religious school. Things seemed to be going well, but Dorian only lasted a few short months before he ran away. He was discovered in a brothel in the elven slums, and the man who found him, Magister Gereon Alexius, took Dorian in as an apprentice.
For the next four years, Dorian lived in Minrathos and flourished under the tutelage of Magister Alexius. He passed his examinations with ease four years later and became a fully-ranked enchanter at the Minrathos Circle. It is likely that this is where he met Rilienus, a man who Dorian wished to have a relationship with but was never elaborated on further than that. Dorian started to edge his way into law- attending debates and balls, but it was not to last. Alexius's son and wife were attacked by darkspawn- she was slain and Felix was infected with the Blight. Dorian and Alexius worked on highly experimental magic and eventually were able to figure out how to warp time to prolong Felix's life.
Two years later, following an argument, Dorian left the Alexius estate and drinking in the slums, avoiding his family's attempts to come and collect him. He eventually did return to the Alexius estate, only to find that Gereon and Felix were gone. Dorian fell back into debauchery and his family was eventually forced to essentially kidnap him and bring him home.
Dorian was kept at the Pavus estate was a near prisoner for several months, and Dorian's insistent refusal of taking a wife and keeping his sexuality private finally forced his father's hand. Halward turned to blood magic, something he had always condemned, in an effort to change Dorian, to make him acceptable. I do headcanon that they got in one unsuccessful attempt that Dorian resisted and burned the tattoo from his concept art into his skin. Dorian did eventually escape, and fled the country, with not a coin to his name and only what possessions he could carry on his person.
He drifted for two years, living off of money from distant relatives and lovers, until Alexius finally contacted him. Dorian made his way south, visiting several countries as he traveled, scraping by and selling his jewelry where he needed to.
Dorian wandered for some time, surviving where he could and trying to undermine the Venatori (a Tevinter supremacist cult), working his way to Redcliffe to reunite with Alexius, until he caught wind of the rift and the Inquisition. Dorian is first encountered when the Inquisitor heads out to close a rift between Thedas and the Fade, and he decided to join the Inquisition shortly afterward, on a mission to confront his former mentor, Magister Alexius. Dorian and the Inquisitor tried to negotiate with Alexius, but were accidentally sent forward in time by Alexius- to a future where "The Elder One" and his Venatori allies were successful. Dorian was eventually able to undo the spell, and he and the Inquisitor returned to just moments after they had been sent into the future, and Alexius surrendered, being taken into custody by the Inquisition.
Dorian decided to stick around, and was present for the attack on Haven by Corypheus, the so-called "Elder One", but survived and arrived with the remaining Inquisition at Skyhold. Shortly after his arrival at Skyhold, Dorian persuaded the Inquisitor to help root out a few remaining Venatori. After they were killed, the Inquisitor was approached with a letter saying that a Pavus family retainer would like to meet with Dorian. Dorian identified the handwriting as his father's, but agreed to go. There he disclosed a small bit his past to the Inquisitor, and spoke to his father alone for a short time. Dorian and Halward reconciled a bit, but Dorian remained with the Inquisition, and the relationship between the father and son wasn't completely mended and likely never will.
Following that, Dorian was taken to Adamant Fortress and there was hurled through a rift and physically into the Fade. In his world, Hawke lived, and they were all able to escape.
Real World: With moderator approval over Plurk, I would like to play that Dorian has been unplugged for two years, but residing in Antioch. He had no contact or knowledge of his other self who was previously accepted to the game.
Dorian's arrival was very difficult for him. He spent four months after getting on his feet just drinking and trying to cope. It was hard for him, at first, to accept that the reality he had known was false, but not as difficult as some. What really upset him was that the world he had devoted himself to building up and bettering was not his true reality. He was angry, and homesick, and spent four months in bars and drifting around Antioch, realizing that he didn't really have a place here.
In a fit of pique, at the insistence he leave his past behind, he dropped his old name and took on the moniker of "Gideon". He wasn't certain anymore who Dorian Pavus was, having been shaped so clearly by the events of his life. Gideon was an ancestor of his that he thought of fondly but never knew- he had no true attachment to the name, but it was significant. For him, that was enough.
He would have likely run himself into the ground, if it weren't for a barkeep named Bonne taking pity on him. She'd seen it a few times- the newly awakened who burn out trying to cope, and she offered him a job as a tutor for her three children, after talking to him and finding out he'd been very well-educated.
It only took two months after that for him to get his feet under himself. Teaching awakened the long-buried desire to be a teacher that he'd never had a chance to have, in Thedas. He found himself renting his own one-room building and opening a small school, teaching the inhabitants of the mining city how to read and write, and how to do simple arithmetic. Gideon was known as a patient instructor, who accepted both children and adults into his classes, and kept himself as busy as he could.
It took taking his life away from him, but Gideon, as he considers himself now, finally felt like he could breathe, free of the shadow of Tevinter and the Pavus legacy. He lived simply, for a year and a half, teaching and occasionally drinking at local bars with the miners.
Things couldn't last forever, though, and when the opportunity came along to expand his school to Zion, he decided to set out and make his way to the city, leaving behind a community he would always remember fondly. But Gideon never set down roots or allowed himself to get too attached.
Personality Changes: Gideon remains a sarcastic and charming man, but where Dorian was often pompous and grandiose, Gideon is slightly more sober and doesn't fight as much to put on a facade of friendliness. He can be a very, very sober man, at times. At others, he's jovial, happy, even. He's a bit of a tempestuous man, in that regard.
The loss of his "reality" and the subsequent rejection of his identity as "Dorian Pavus", have left Gideon a bit more bitter and sedate most times than Dorian is in canon. That isn't to say he's without his warmth- it's just more honest, and not as carefully constructed. He is more free with his emotions- and he feels them very deeply. When he laughs, it's honest mirth. He is more open when he is upset or happy, but at the same time, he's also more closed off with his past. After his first month, he stopped speaking of himself as Dorian and had not spoken of his past to anyone- which was accepted and encouraged.
Gideon lives more like Dorian did while on the road. He lives simply, and he's thankful just to have a bed, some nights. He doesn't mourn his past, anymore, nor does he let it hang over him. He is completely determined to the be man he always was, in his heart. He works very hard to shed the things that were socialized to him by Tevinter- to be deceptive and politically minded, and tries to embrace the boy he was before he had to adapt to survive in Tevinter. He makes it about halfway.
ABILITIES AND SKILLS
Anomalies: Dorian Pavus was trained as a necromancer! I also play him as having the ability to manipulate and conjure fire, and set fire land mines, and such. I don't play him as delving very much into controlling electricity or ice, or even healing beyond simple cuts and scrapes. He can do it a little, conjure ice cubes and zap someone a bit, but not much. He's also theorized and used (to a small degree) time magic- enough to help prolong Felix's life and return himself and the Inquisitor from one time point to another.
His necromancer skills are slightly different from "traditional" necromancy in that he doesn't actually resurrect dead bodies! Instead, he controls the spirits that are attracted to death and make them take on the form of the recently dead- including, if necessary, himself. He can also cause terror on the battlefield, and can curse enemies (I generally take this to mean like general video game curses but also the more sinister "bad luck" type of curses.
Skillset: Gideon teaches! Dorian was very highly educated in politics and history as well as magic, and took to it swimmingly when he wasn't being a rabble-rouser. He has a very adaptable mind and is very good at problem-solving and working out new and unknown magic.
He also can hold his own in a fistfight, and can fight with a staff.
Upload Capabilities:
Anomalous Skills: 6
Martial Arts: 2
Projectile Weaponry: 0
Technical Skills: 0
Wild Card: 2 (using these as his "teaching" skills for the purposes of play for the moment)
Martial Arts: 2
Projectile Weaponry: 0
Technical Skills: 0
Wild Card: 2 (using these as his "teaching" skills for the purposes of play for the moment)
SAMPLES
Sample One:
His home was only three rooms- a living area, a bedroom, and a kitchen, and it was situated upstairs of the schoolroom. He had books- rare things- that he collected to teach off of, and down in the classroom was a large blackboard and slates for the students to practice on. Most days, if it was a reading and writing day, he would write up on the blackboard and help them to sound it out. Spelling was covered, and basic grammar, though he mostly focused on what they needed to get by.
These were not great philosophers. They were just honest, earthy people.
He didn't drink as much as he used to, though Gideon did enjoy a drink before bed some nights, he rarely went out with the intention of drinking himself into a stupor. That was something from another time, another life, even, when he first arrived here.
Life got easier, oddly. Better, for being here. He thought many days that though he lacked the luxury of his former life, things were better, now that he was a different man.
Gideon, just Gideon, was a good, more honest man than Dorian Pavus had ever been. He still had his secrets, still denied himself things- in nearly two years he had yet to have more than a few passing one or two night stands, but nothing serious- but on the whole, Gideon lived a good, simple life.
Odd, that it took taking his world away from him to free him from the shadow of Tevinter, of the Pavus name.
But here, he had a simple and good life.
The message came, and he mulled it over- an offer to come teach, to start a school in Zion. It took him three days, standing in front of the soot-dusted window of his bedroom, looking out over the haze at the smudged and filthy miners who made their ways to and from the mine shafts, that maybe it would be best to go. Lest Antioch become another Tevinter, another place that would bind him down and tie him to it.
Sample 2, from another game! Dorian visits a VR rendition of Tevinter.