TO WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: Dungeons & Dragons / Baldur's Gate 3 Verse. Dorian, heralding from the mysterious and frightening mageocracy of Thay, is a necromancer of tremendous and nigh on impossible talent. Scion to House Pavus, an exceedingly wealthy, prodigious, and exceptional family, Dorian, too, had tasted the unparalleled pleasures that come with upper echelon life. While not a Red Wizard himself, his family — an obscenely well tailored and distilled bloodline — were chosen by these wizards to sit in the Council of Zulkirs. This Council served as Thay's second governing body, an assembly that led the nation beside the militaristic Red Wizards.
Growing up, Dorian had rebelled incessantly against his parents, taking poorly to his schooling and squandering often his ability with the dead. Corralled, he found himself effectively imprisoned, forbidden to leave the estate if not for some manner of study. In time, this bubbled to strain his relationships, his father regarding his heir with a sort of thinly veiled rancor. However, when Dorian refused to take a wife, to continue cultivating a bloodline of maddening magical ability, the bond between son and father irrevocably snapped — and father, through spellcraft, vied to change him.
Enraged, Dorian fled his homeland, a pariah, an outcast, and a stain to House Pavus and his sinister Thay. He seeks to prove his worth and to perhaps change his cruel country — but then, finding the tadpoled at Moonrise, endeavors to save the world first.
