Dar Qhoris

“Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philters, the power of all sorcerers are there.”
-Dar Qhoris
== History ==
An adviser to the Emperor before the Doom and associate of Nim Lawfey. His allegiance was to the First Lord prior to the Doom, and his knowledge about the new Lord Emperor was too much to allow his freedom. Of all the prisoners in the Iron Cage, he was the most accepting of his imprisonment. 
Dar Qhoris spent the entirety of the Farcraft Rebellion imprisoned in the Iron Cage, meditating on the arcane. After the capture of the Thunderdome, he was released on the order of the Twin-Emperors. The Grand Master of the Arcane Academy, Uristophor, objected to this decision and declared that Qhoris had been excommunicated from his order for good reason. As a compromise, Twin-Emperor Brennan offered Qhoris a place in his retinue, along with a contingent of mages chosen to accompany him north. 
Brennan would put Dar Qhoris in charge of the College of the Sciences, an order in which arcane and scientific research were not differentiated. Alongside General Warrizek, Dar Qhoris was Brennan's chief adviser. The Emperor was content to allow the two men to govern the day to day of the Northern Final Empire, stepping in only to serve as an arbiter when the two disagreed. 
== Personality ==
Dar Qhoris bore the weighty burden of knowledge that had long been forgotten, and carried himself solemnly. He had a deep sense of responsibility, and was committed to the ideals of Philosopher-Kingship and the city in speech. He had a sense of equanimity about the twists and turns of the world, and accepted that events happened in due course without regard to individuals swept along in course. Dar Qhoris had long ago ceased to care about concerns of right and wrong, and believed that the march of fate left no room for moralizing. 
== The College of Sciences ==
Dar Qhoris was the first and only head of the College of Sciences, which studied technology and the arcane in equal measure. The College was divided into four Departments. 
* The Department of Natural Philosophy, led by Dean Mathye Wesor
* The Department of Theosophy, led by Dean Eroassn
* The Department of Artifice and Alchemy, led by Dean Linbando
* The Department of Spellcraft, led by Dean Polawy
== War of the Philosopher-Kings ==
Dar Qhoris would work alongside General Warrizek to prepare the Northern Final Empire for war. By that time he was already ailing, and too weak to accompany the war mages to the field of battle, although he was said to have smiled when he heard about the burning of Utgard. 
After the death of Emperor Brennan, there was a brief uncertainty about whether he or Warrizek would succeed him. Dar Qhoris, by then a weary and defeated man, counseled Warrizek to make peace with Reise Forrawyn. He drank poison rather then face the Hexenjägers, abandoning the mages under his command to their grim fate. Category:Mages
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