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BACKGROUND
Dorian was born in Lancaster in the early spring of 1792, right at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, to parents Wilhelm and Mary Attwood. His father Wilhelm had sensed the rise of opportunities and spent quite a bit of his inheritance buying textile factories in the Lancashire area during the early years of the industrialization. As a result Dorian grew up with all the luxuries a little boy could want.
As his older brother was set to inherit their father's business, Dorian was free to do what he pleased with his future. Having always had a love of learning, it was not a hard decision to pursue a higher education. Wanting only the best of the best for their son, his parents paid the expense of sending him to the prestigious University of Oxford. There he spent the next decade or so earning his degree in general history and classical studies. In the years following his graduation he worked mostly with research and tutoring. Having spent so many years at school had made him restless, however, and as many other young upperclass men, Dorian spent his mid to late twenties enjoying life to its fullest. It was during these years he met the vampire that would eventually turn him.
Dorian was turned into a vampire somewhere around 1820, although the exact year and date has begun to elude him. The first years were rough, especially since his maker abandoned him very early on and left him to get adjusted to his new situation on his own. Bitter and resentful that he could no longer live the life he had wanted, Dorian relocated to London in the hopes of disappearing in the growing city. A rather wise decision, as it turned out, since the tall buildings and heavy smog machinery running on coal allowed him to venture out earlier. He slowly learned to live with his new affliction, which allowed him to lead something that could pass for an ordinary life.
STRENGTHS
Vampirism has other perks than simple immortality. All of Dorian's senses have been heightened by his vampirism, making him able to pick up on a lot of things that regular humans do not. For instance, he is able to see almost perfectly even when there is virtually no light present. He is faster, more agile and far stronger than a mortal man has any possibility of becoming, as well as more resistant to damage. Trying to hurt him when he is in prime condition might feel unnervingly similar to carving marble with a butter-knife. Any injuries he might sustain heal rapidly, even those that might have proven fatal to a normal human being. Minor injuries heal within seconds while more severe ones might take a few days to disappear completely. He is also completely immune to disease, even those that would normally have been transmitted through blood. Apart from the enhancement to his natural abilities, however, Dorian possesses no special perks or gifts that sets him apart as completely supernatural, such as flight, wall-crawling or mindreading. The only thing that might count as such is what you might describe as an ability to draw in prey by hypnosis, although it is more a sort of an alluring aura.WEAKNESSES
As most vampires, Dorian is extremely vulnerable to sunlight, to the point where stays indoors unless there is no chance of the sun coming out. Prolonged exposure might kill him, but an actual attempt to see if he could survive it has yet to be made. Sunlight or direct articifial light also tampers heavily with his vision since it is so sensitive. If his eyes have become accustomed to darkness and someone where to shine a light directly at him he would be rendered blind for at least a handful of seconds. There are certain poisons that will paralyze him, although not outright kill him, if applied in very generous ammounts. Argubly, his need to sustain himself on human blood is also a weakness, or at least a limitation, as there is very few discrete ways of doing this and it becomes problematic if he goes too long without blood. Even though he regenerates rapidly Dorian still feels pain, although he possesses a higher tolerance than a human, and might bleed out if wounded so badly he doesn't have the time to regenerate. The most efficient way of killing him would be decapitation, stabbing him through the heart or destroying his body beyond repair.
