Dorian Pavus Thread "He's More Handsome Than A Cockroach"

I suppose, if you now in the Winter Palace, Josephine will offer a drink to relaxation after a difficult day, and no dance scene. To starting the romance you need a kiss, and the dialogue option, that you want to start the romance. (My Trevelyan kissed him –Giselle scene–, but doesn't continue the romance, and I got Josephine at the balcony).

I would add that if you don't take the kiss scene with Giselle then it is still possible to start the romance. You just have to go back to talk with him and will be given the option of wanting to begin a romance (heart icon). You don't get a surprise kiss that way but you do get the messenger from Leliana telling you about his amulet and then it proceeds as normal from there. I would assume that you would need to have done the bedroom scene before the ball in order to get the dance but may be so long as you have done the amulet quest and the romance is still active then it qualifies. However, that is a bit chancy so I'd follow Nightscrawl's advice and make sure you are well and truly locked into the Dorian romance (bedroom scene) before the ball. By bedroom scene I don't mean you have to sleep with him. If you ask to slow things down, that still counts as locking in the romance.

Actually that is the way I like to imagine it. I was disappointed that slowing it down meant you never get a sex scene with Dorian but that fitted my Lavellan better, so I played through both versions and then head cannoned the sex scene happening a bit further along. I loved the fact I could go back and have a kiss whenever I felt like it and it became something of a ritual that I would get home from work, play a couple of hours before turning in and the last thing I would do in the game would be go back to Skyhold and kiss Dorian goodnight. It was a great way to see me through the long winter months.

I usually kiss Dorian goodnight as well; I really like that Bioware gave us a repeatable kiss scene. But frankly, I'd really like a repeatable sex scene, too! It all feels too short.

Yes, that is one of Dorian's romance lines. I think they fire randomly.

I think the reason I haven't seen it before is because I pretty much rushed through all the content asap.

Edit: pic added

I really wish the lighting in the library (well, ALL of Skyhold actually) was better. I keep hoping Dorian will wander over to one of the torches so I can see his face when we speak.

I like the line: "I think this makes the rumours somewhat true." I think it is amusing that in a way Giselle made the very thing she was concerned about actually happen through interfering. My somewhat shy Lavellan might never have got the courage to provoke that kiss if he hadn't been so incensed at what she said.

What I'd like to know is how all the supposed rumors actually started. Inqui also talks with Cass, Leliana, Josephine, Solas (ok, not this game), Varric, Cullen, Cole, and everyone else on a semi-regular basis. Yet, there are only rumors about Dorian. The two Orlesians in the Great Hall gossip about everyone. Did Giselle actually *start* these rumors in an attempt to get everyone incensed about Dorian and force the Inquisitor to do something? If so, well, yep, that totally backfired.

I... thought that was implied with the dialogue. If you take the option, "Oh? I'd like to know what these rumors are, exactly," she backs down when she realizes the Inquisitor isn't taking any of her shit. She doesn't like Dorian because he's Tevinter; she doesn't like that he has the ear of the Inquisitor; she would have been quite happy if Halward had just kidnapped him away (again).

Well, he does need to eat, sleep, and move around, so it's just a nice coincidence you find him in the library every time. I think he gets it when people stop talking when they notice him and what not.

Dorian's response during this whole scene is the primary reason I bring him along. Ponchard also comes across as much more vile in that scenario, with his not-subtle innuendo and suggestion.