Dorian Manning

Dorian Manning

Dorian Manning (b. most likely 70's) was the main antagonist of the Skandar Series. He was the former head of Silver Circle and Hatchery President, the father of Rex Manning and the husband of Rebecca Manning.

### Early Life

Dorian was bonded to a powerful silver unicorn that he hatched and bonded with on the Island. He was a born Islander and as such was raised in the ways of the unicorn and the Eyrie. As he was bonded to a silver unicorn Dorian was automatically also joined into the Silver Circle, an elite group of Silver riders who wield enormous influence.

Dorian met his wife Rebecca, a Fire wielder who was bonded to a unicorn named Cloud Blazer. They got married and had one son named Rex. Following in his family’s tradition Rex also got a silver unicorn himself and also joined the silver circle.

The Manning family suffered great tragedy when the Weaver killed Cloud Blazer and as such Rebecca was heartbroken. She barely lived a year after this as she became incomplete without her unicorn. This sent Dorian into a deep rage at Spirit Wielders in general. Starting a life long campaign that would have dire consequences for the entire Island.

As head of the Silver Circle Dorian threatened all of the Spirit Wielders until he found one who he could cohearse and control into doing his bidding. He got the Executioner to kill every single unicorn under the Spirit element and imprisoned their riders in the Island prison.

With this done Dorian began systematically getting rid of the Spirit Element from the Island, from renaming the town of Five Point to Four Point, making it illegal for Spirit Wielders to even try the Hatchery door and even forbidding anyone from mentioning the Spirit Element.

This worked quite well as some people didn’t even know much about the Spirit element despite it being only about fifteen years. Dorian and the Silver Circle kept notes on every single person whom was destined to try and door but failed due to being a spirit wielder.

After this time Dorian became head of the Hatchery.

### 2022 Year at the Eyrie

Dorian is one of the first people Skandar meets on the Island, as head of the Hatchery he is the one who oversees the Hatching and guiding people with their new unicorns.

He helps to sort all the new riders into their allied element along with the instructors who welcome the new students to their elemental families.

Dorian later appears when Joby Warsham goes missing from his tree house. He assumes that he was helping the Weaver and wants to arrest him. He acts very condescendingly toward Instructor O’Sullivan and acts suspicious when Skandar and his quartet suspect that the Weaver may have kidnapped Joby. Before anything happens Flo comes up with an excuse and they leave.

Later on after Skandar had confronted the Weaver and managed to foil her plans Dorian is furious when he hears of Skandar being a spirit wielder and even more so when Commodore McGraff writes it into Island Law that he is allowed to study under his allied element so long as nothing happens.

### Between 2022 and 2023

Dorian Manning is furious to know there is a Spirit Wielder among the Islanders again and is determined to arrest or kill Skandar by any means at his disposable. However, this makes him easy to manipulate by the Weaver.

Getting the idea from the Flame-Eyed Rider, one of his sentinels (whom happened to meet with and get the idea from the Weaver before hand) Dorian started rounding up and killing Wild unicorns in a misguided effort to weaken Skandar’s powers and stop him from using his mender powers to being the lost Spirit Wielders back to the Island, though Skandar himself did not know that he was possibly a mender at this time.

The second part of his plan involved getting Kenna Smith to the Island and finding her wild unicorn. After hearing that Skandar may be a mender he intended to exchange Kenna and her Unicorn and then give her the command to kill Scoundrel’s Luck, in order to have the only Spirit Wielder on the Island under his direct control

Around this time Rex Manning also joined the Silver Circle, as he too had a Silver unicorn.

At the Summer Solstice Dorian himself went to the main land, assumingly without his unicorn to speak directly with Kenna Smith. He explains to Kenna about Skandar, the Spirit Element and the things he had not told her during her last visit to the Island and that he wanted to take her to the Island to search for her own unicorn.

### Killing the Wild Unicorns

Dorian and the rest of the Silver Circle went on frequent hunting trips into the wild lands in order to capture and kill wild unicorns using the method the Weaver herself had given the Silver Circle in an underhanded manner.

When more and more unicorns started washing up and being found in the forest the Island starts to have more and more disasters on the Island, ranging from Deadly tornados to fire storms and floods. The only places mostly unaffected are the Eyrie, Four Point and The hatchery.

Later on in November Dorian, his Son Rex and the Flame-Eyed Rider go and collect Kenna Smith from her boat in the ocean. Dorian takes Kenna on the back of his unicorn to protect her. Though unknown to Dorian, the Flame-Eyed rider had intended to take Kenna to her Mother though couldn’t with Rex and Dorian and their silver unicorns.

Dorian keeps Kenna locked in the stronghold for months and gives her the Book of Spirit to study, having assumingly retrieved it from where Skandar had dropped it.

He continues killing wild unicorns and finally invites both Flo and Rex to their first killing of a wild Unicorn. Rex, Dorian and Flo watch on as a Unicorn named Silver Arrow fights an old wild unicorn and nearly kills it.

Flo bursts into the arena and rides the wild unicorn with Skandar out of the Silver Stronghold. Dorian is furious at this although he calmed somewhat by Rex who manages to keep him from taking Flo to the Silver Stronghold forever. He does however, have the foresight to go to the Eyrie and tell his version of the story before the quartet can.

With the instructors firmly on his side he continues the wild unicorn killings.

Later on Flo was told to prove her loyalty to the Silver Circle by allowing Silver Blade to kill a wild unicorn. She pretends to go ahead with this though intends to expose Dorian to the Commodore and her council. Dorian is a few steps ahead and on the day of the hunt Dorian pulls back the minute Skandar, Bobby and Mitchell come to defend the unicorns. Flo attempts to warm then but doesn’t on time.

Dorian appears before Nina Kazama and her council of seven when Skandar and his quartet are being accused of being in the forest. He accuses the nestlings of imagining the entire thing and almost gets into an argument with both Instructor O’Sullivan and Nina Kazama when she mentions Dorian’s wife. He storms off and stops his hunting parties in the forest when Nina stations her own guards out there.

As time moves on the Island becomes more and more unstable, while Dorian slowly realises what he had done in killing the wild unicorns though it doesn’t stop his hatred of Spirit Wielders.

When the lightning storm destroys the silver stronghold Kenna escaped as the Flame-Eyed man had intended.

When Skandar becomes possessed by the magic of the Island Dorian Manning wants to arrest him despite pleading from several people, including rather ironically Amber Fairfax. However Skandar isn’t arrested but instead isn’t allowed to ride Scoundrel at all until the Island is fixed.

When the Island is saved Dorian goes to the Eyrie where he is attacked and subdued by the Weaver. When he comes around he finds Skandar’s quartet and Kenna with her wild unicorn. Dorian begins to let his true nature show as he attacks the quartet whom are able to fend off his attacks, due to his lack of focus.

Rex attempts to talk his Father down, even pointing out that Skandar and his quartet managed to save the Island from the damage they had caused. When he attacks the nestlings yet again he is taken down by Instructor O’Sullivan who blasts him with a powerful jet of water, separating him from his unicorn.

When Nina Kazama arrived she had Dorian arrested and taken away where he could do no more harm. His son Rex was elected both head of the Silver Circle and Instructor of Air at the Eyrie in an attempt to bring closer unity between the two factions.

### Personality

Dorian Manning is a very proud man and usually has a very alluring personality around him. He commands authority with his positions of power on the Island, which is helped by both his silver unicorn but also his obedience he commands in others.

Dorian is clever but he has a very easy to set of temper which often clouds his judgement and often leads him to make bad and often disastrous choices leading to consequences far beyond what he sees. Such as killing the wild unicorns despite hearing the true songs.

Dorian has a charm that allows him to easily manipulate others. He was able to take Kenna in by appealing to her heart’s dream of wanting a unicorn as well as the instructors of the Eyrie by using his authority as the leader of the Silver circle.

However this in turn makes him easy to manipulate by someone smarter than him as the Weaver did by supplying him the method to kill Wild unicorns, knowing Dorian would and thus was able to use him to spread her plans.

Dorian’s worst personality trait is his outright prejudice and fear of Spirit Wielders; this isn’t without grounds as his wife was killed indirectly by the Weaver during the fall of the Twenty Four. She lived but became depressed and died later on causing his great grief to the point he was able to get rid of the Spirit Wielders and their unicorns from the Island for years, until Skandar brought it back.

Dorian does care for his son but he wouldn’t listen to anything he had to say as his hatred overpowered his love for his son to the point Dorian was arrested and Rex took his place at the Eyrie.

## Physical appearance

Dorian is a tall man with white skin and intense green eyes. His hair is most likely dark brown. He has silver tongue for his mutation.

## Relationships

### Rebecca Manning

Rebecca was Dorian's wife. She was a Fire wielder and Chaos rider until her tragic death in 2007. She fell into deep sadness after her unicorn Cloud Blazer was killed in 2006 by Erika Everhart, a Spirit wielder.

Although not much is known about Rebecca's and Dorian's romantic life, it is clear that Dorian loved his wife very much as he is still grieving over her death. Rebecca's death was Dorian's motive for getting rid of the Spirit element.

### Rex Manning

Rex is Dorian's son and only child. Although Dorian is said to care about Rex, their goals and intentions often clash with each other. Dorian is prejudiced against Spirit wielders and wants to get rid of them, while Rex is not this way. Rex tries to help his father to be more understanding and less judgemental, however Dorian mostly doesn't listen to his son.

### Skandar Smith

Skandar is Dorian's enemy. Even though Skandar himself didn't have anything against Dorian initially, when Dorian got to know that Skandar is allied to the Spirit element, it made Dorian despise Skandar. Dorian deeply hates Skandar for being allied to the Spirit element and thinks that Skandar shouldn't be allowed to train at The Eyrie. Dorian, along with some other Silver Circle members, tried to frame Skandar as the wild unicorn killer so Skandar would be locked up in prison. That didn't happen as Dorian was exposed at the one responsible for the unicorns' deaths.

### Kenna Smith

Kenna is Dorian's enemy and former ally. In the second book, Dorian was the one who came to The Island and offered Kenna to go to The Eyrie and get her unicorn. Kenna, of course, agreed as she dreamed of training as a rider her whole life. However, Dorian's true intention wasn't to help Kenna: his goal was to recruit her as Silver Circle's personal Spirit Wielder.

## Etymology

* Dorian is a name of Greek origin meaning "gift".
* Manning is a surname of norse word origin meaning "brave or valiant man".