Dorthea Pellinar

**Race:** Human

**Origin:** Tevinter Altus

**Class:** Spirit Healer

**Level:** 5

**Player:** Lee

**Dorthea Calpernia Pellinar** is a Tevinter mage and politician, currently serving as the Senator representing House Pellinar as part of the Vyrantium delegation to the Magisterium. She is a member of the Lucerni party and a research assistant at the Circle of Minrathous.

## Biography

### Early Life and Education

Dorthea Calpernia Pellinar was born as the only daughter to two members of the Tevinter Altus class: Livia and Lucius Pellinar XV from the city of Vyrantium. The family was shaken when Livia Pellinar died in childbirth with Dorthea, making her the lady of the House at birth and what she would train to be her entire life. The family got accustomed to having only one parent so she had a fairly quiet childhood with fancy parties, trips to their family’s Minrathous and Qarinus Apartments, and the easy life of upper-class mages.

The most terse part of the household was the relationship between her twin older brother’s Lucius XVI and Markus who have both vied to be the heir apparent for the family’s seat in the Magisterium since birth. Dorthea, ended up being closer with her brother Markus and would the twins to study at the Vyrantium Circle for several years where to become a full-fledged Enchanter. While her brothers focused on offensive forces of the arcane, Dorthea spent her time practicing the art of healing and maintaining a symbiotic relationship with the Fade and seek to better understand it. While many mages avoid spirits and demons, Dorthea, curious as she is, often welcomes communion with them to learn more.

### Vyrantium

Things turned for the worse when their father got involved with the Venatori Tevinter Supremacy cult, and he pressured Markus and Lucius XVI to join as well, in order to appease their father and prove their worthiness as heir. Her brothers flew South while her father stayed in Vyrantium on Venatori business which she did not agree with and was warned about from the spirits she communed with, pushing her deeper into her own studies of spirits and the Fade as a thaumaturgical researcher at the Circle of Vyrantium.

Not long after, she would receive word that her brother, Markus had went rogue, Lucius XVI was killed by Inquisition scouts and her brother who was found would become a prisoner of war turned agent of the Inquisition in the Anderfels. Once Corypheus was defeated, her presumably still living brother, Markus, was still missing in action and her father was taken out by the Antivan Crow, Lucanis Dellamorte, who had been taking some of his organizations’ contracts on former Venatori leaders.

Bereft but not surprised at her father’s blessing, Dorthea moves to the family’s Minrathous appartements to take up her father’s seat in the Magisterium, as her brother is nowhere to be found and their branch of the Pellinar family was in possession of the family birthright, a silverite amulet with ruby inlays and a diamond vial containing the ashes of the family’s their twin magical founders, Calpernia Aurelia Pellinar and Lucius Aloysius Pellinar.

### Senator Pellinar

The amulet cedes power to her, allowing the young Magister to take her seat in the Magisterium where she would fall in with the Lucerni party after a somewhat terse first meeting with Magister Dorian Pavus, on account of his involvement with the Inquisition that had killed one brother and imprisoned and presumably killed the other. She would eventually bond with the party leadership and become a loyal member of the Lucerni party. Considering she is, as far as she knows, the only living member of her sector of the family, she has thrown herself fully into work instead of giving herself the time to grieve and consolidate her emotions regarding the losses of the past three years of her life. When not working in politics, Dorthea would also go to be the research assistant of Senior Enchanter Matthieu Sebastian Trevelyan at the Minrathous Circle to work on advancements in Fade research. She oftentimes serves as an go-between for the Circle to the Lucerni party due to her connections there and focuses her politics on ways to reform Tevinter in peaceful and productive ways, in contrast to that of her national supremacist father and brothers.

## Vox Neglecta

As a member of the Lucerni party and part of the progressive bloc in the Magisterium, Dorthea has been seen as an up-and-coming figure in Tevinter politics, much like many of the upstart or newly-inherited senators of the Lucerni. The party's leadership in Senators Maevaris Tilani and Dorian Pavus have turned increasingly to Dorthea for both technical assistance and as a representative of the Vyrantine nobility.

In the wake of Galen Verres' failure to announce the Lex Imperia Abolitio, Senator Pavus has turned to Dorthea to lead the inquiry into his disappearance.