Dorion Dumas/Dialogue

The following is a transcript of Dorion Dumas's dialogue.

General Dialogue
"[Player]: The others respect you quite a bit. How did you end up becoming their supplier? I used to be a miner in my younger years. I only got where I am through mutual cooperation, daring to try new things, and more than a few very lucky breaks with a patron in the Merchant class. I’ve made certain to never forget my roots in manual labor. For quite a while, I’ve been sort of the unofficial voice between the other Workers and the Nobility. I never wanted things to turn to violence, but they used every method imaginable to protect their control over the Ambraine and property from peaceful change.  [Player]: So, what did you try to do?  Among other things, we tried to institute a Worker’s union, overseen by an official elected every year. I actually ran for the position myself, you know. I didn’t even ask for much, just some common-sense protections for the Workers.  [Player]: I take it you didn’t win, then? Any degree of change frightened the Nobles. I was labelled a radical, a madman. The nobles split the city against one another, twisted rules to suit them, and possibly even stole ballots...In the end, a Noble was elected to the position. He changed nothing. The other Nobles decided that, as he was doing such a good job in their eyes, no further elections needed to be held. That was nearly 5 years ago. And then, even when we discovered the danger Old Sirocco was in, he refused to take action. So, we held demonstrations. Nothing violent. We just did enough to slow all work to a crawl. We thought this would be enough to get their attention... Instead, it drove the Nobles into a fury. They imposed martial law, confining our people to the lower districts, and unleashed their warriors on any who would not work or obey the curfew...And still, they refused to move the population from our doomed city. In the end, the old saying was proven true. “Those who make peaceful change impossible, will find violent revolution inevitable”. This could have been prevented...But the Nobles refused to change course. They were so afraid to lose even just some of their wealth and privilege, that they preferred to do nothing, and lost all of it anyway."

- Dorion Dumas