#mageborne

“Better Orlais fear you than dislike you,” he says, his tone soft despite the relative seclusion of the balcony. “Respect will grant you distance to act, to command. Were you disregarded as an annoyance our plan would become far more difficult.”

       “I’m surprised you tolerated that at all. Personally I would have burnt them asunder if they were talking to me like that, but luckily for them, they weren’t.” They referring to Lord Seeker Corin and his gaggle of Templars. Cassandra’s insistence that it wasn’t like the Lord Seeker to behave in such a way made little difference to Clancy; the man was arrogant and idiotic to put it nicely, and truly Clancy was surprised the Inquisitor managed to stay so calm.

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“Cassandra tells me you were at the Conclave to negotiate. If I may ask, did you truly believe that there could be peace between the mages and Templars?”

oh boy, i think about this a lot. a lot.

to be short about it : dorian has a very FLASHY fighting style. this is evidenced in his dialogue with solas, if you drag the both of them around. he’s very prone to showing off, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

beyond that, however, it should be noted that ( my, and many others, because it’s effectively canon ) dorian is a specialized PYROMANCER / NECROMANCER hybrid. i’ll write out a post of his ridiculous moveset another time, but around him the air burns hot in battle. ridiculously so. you may also hear a spirit or two screaming every now and then —— uh, don’t pay too much attention to that. regardless, it’s also noted in game that he uses a nullification enchantment to remove ambient magic to make things BURN HOTTER.

all this is to say : dorian multitasks, quite a bit. he has a mastery of his mana and isn’t afraid to show that off, and isn’t afraid to utilize that to its fullest potential in battle. this also means that he MOVES. a lot. almost constantly. dorian is a dynamic person in general, often moving / pacing / never standing still, but in battle you will never find him standing still. his movements are almost dancer like, in some ways, in that they are graceful and fluid. however, they are also generally HARSH and AGGRESSIVE at the tail end, punctuated with vibrant flares of gestures and magic and sheer movement.

it’s worth it to note that dorian isn’t particularly nimble for all that he’s constantly moving. he’s not very FAST. he covers quite a bit of ground, generally speaking, and he has great reflexes, but in a race he’ll almost always lose. he’s more about endurance than speed ( in modern verse he was probably a long distance runner in high school but that’s not really related —— ) and if he’s cornered too quickly by a rogue, he’s definitely in trouble. his movements are fairly broad, not refined, because he’s not trained to be a dancer. he’s trained to be a MAGE, and a fearsome one at that.

so in general : dorian honestly kind of just has fun with his fighting style, and he’s incredibly fun to watch. maybe not the best technical caster in the world, because he didn’t learn magic in a technical manner —— HE WAS A PRODIGY and developed his own style as he grew up. because he’s stubborn like that.

DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF MY MUSE’S … ( accepting ) 

—MOUTH.

    HER MOUTH TREMBLES. What a silly question. And yet ... the waver of her lips is not amusement, but rather the telltale signs of emotion on the brink of slipping forth. She tells him what she thinks he wants to hear -- that she won’t tell him not to go, that she won’t try to stand in the way ( how could she? She was nothing to him). And yet ...

Solas sees no need to break said silence. It is a companionable silence, rather than the awkward lull in a conversation neither party wanted. He sits and sketches, or reads, or begins to prepare the next fresco, only speaking if he feels the need to share something.