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

Well you serf's argument against freedom is exactly the one Dorian uses in defence of slavery. People are better off as slaves of families like his own, who treat them well, than struggling away poverty stricken in some slum or alienage.

However, education has been the great leveller of society, helping people to raise their eyes above the daily grind. My great, great grandfather was an extremely poor farm worker, who struggled daily against starvation for himself and his family, and never learned to read or write. He never travelled more than a few miles from his birth village in his whole life. I know these things because he dictated his memoires to his grand-daughter who looked after him in his old age and was one of the first generation of those who benefitted from universal education. Her son and grandchildren went to university. Two hundred years on from his birth, I have been involved in educating others so they can reach their true potential in life and have visited many other places, moving away from the place of my birth. Two hundred years may seem like a great deal of time but not when you consider how many generations and centuries passed before him when his ancestors were likely no better off or literate than himself.

Someone has to provide the impetus for change. Dorian is fighting corruption with the aid of the Lucerni, which is a considerable step forward from it being just him and Maevaris standing alone against the rest. I just rather like the idea of him also honouring his former mentor and his friend Felix, who whilst a mage was always more gifted as a mathematician and viewed as little better than a Soporati by his grandfather, by continuing to champion the cause to which Alexius once devoted himself.

I must admit I'd be interested to see if his mother ever becomes more than some anecdote and stereotypical noble mother who shows little demonstrable affection for her children and leaves their care to the servants. He does mention visiting her during his time in Tevinter when talking to a friend or romance where he was gone for the entire 2 years, so clearly he tried to build bridges. I did wonder if now Halward is out of the way, his mother might actually be different in her attitude towards her son. Halward tried to maintain that Dorian was too much like him and whilst that probably does disservice to Dorian, may be that is how it seemed to his mother as well. He says that his parents hated each other's guts and his mother seemed to drown her sorrows in drink whilst Halward was alive but it would be a nice twist if with him gone, she showed a completely different side to her character rather than continuing to be portrayed as some cold, insensitive, ambitious woman with little real affection for her son.