Dorian Havilliard · The full story
What survives the collar
He was collared, worn and used for the better part of a book — and then he walked back into Morath on his own.
The prince
Dorian Havilliard is Crown Prince of Adarlan, son of the King who took the continent, and for most of the first book he is the least dangerous person in any room he walks into. He reads constantly. He is charming about it. He is kind in a court where kindness is a liability, and he gets charged for it every single time. The first real decision he makes is the offer at Endovier — win the tournament, serve four years, walk out free — which is a decision his father would never in his life have made. The second is a puppy he was supposed to have quietly put down, handed over at Yulemas with three pounds of candy. Fleetfoot. He is not being strategic. That is the entire point of him.
The collar
Sorscha keeps his secret and helps him try to hold the magic down, and the King has her beheaded in front of the court for it. Then he locks a Wyrdstone collar around Dorian's neck and lets a Valg prince in. Queen of Shadows opens inside a point of view that does not know its own name. That is the part that does the damage. We know exactly who is in there. He doesn't. He is present for all of it — awake, watching his own hands — and the book makes us sit in that with him for a long time before Aelin gets an immunity ring onto his finger and grief over Chaol does the rest. He takes the collar off himself.
He goes back in
With Aelin taken, Dorian draws Wyrdmarks on a floor and calls up the spirit of Gavin Havilliard — the first king of Adarlan, his own ancestor — who tells him the last Wyrdkey is sitting inside Morath, and that Damaris will sort truth from lie on the way. So he teaches himself to shapeshift and walks into Erawan's fortress alone. Sit with that one for a second. Morath is built out of the exact thing that took him apart, and he goes in by himself, wearing other people's faces, with nobody coming for him if it goes wrong. He comes out with the key. Nobody asks him what that cost, and he does not offer it.
Endovier, again
All three Wyrdkeys gathered, the Lock has to be forged, and forging it kills whoever does it. Aelin argues him into doing it with her so the dying is split between them and they might both come out. Gavin's spirit arrives through Damaris and takes Dorian's share instead. They forge it at Endovier. The salt mines. The place he stood in the first chapter of the first book, well-dressed and out of his depth, offering a starving nineteen-year-old a deal. He ends the series as King of Adarlan — outlawing slavery, giving the conquered kingdoms back their own borders, taking apart piece by piece the machine he was raised to inherit.
What survives the collar
A cosseted prince, a Valg prince, and every single thing he chose afterwards.
The Endovier offer
He rides to the salt mines and offers an enslaved assassin a deal — win his father's tournament, serve four years, walk away free. The first decision he makes that his father would not have.
Fleetfoot
For Yulemas he hands over a puppy he had been about to have put down, plus three pounds of candy. She names the dog Fleetfoot. It is the kindest thing anybody does in that book.
His magic wakes
When a mind-shattered Celaena goes at Chaol, Dorian's power erupts and freezes the strike mid-air. He saves his friend and discovers in the same second that he is everything his father outlawed.
Sorscha
Hurt using magic in secret, he is patched up by a palace healer who works out what he is and keeps it to herself. His first private thing, entirely away from the court.
The collar
His father beheads Sorscha in front of the court and locks a Wyrdstone collar on him. A Valg prince takes the body, then the memories, then the name.
The immunity ring
Aelin and Chaol come into the throne room to get him out. She forces the immunity ring onto his finger, and that is the first crack in the demon's hold.
Tearing it off
Believing Chaol dead, he fights out from underneath the Valg and rips the collar off his own neck. Then he and Aelin lock hands, ice into fire, and end the King of Adarlan.
The glass castle
Grief and raw power bring the entire castle down. Aelin throws a canopy of fire over Rifthold so the falling glass does not kill the city underneath it.
Hello, witchling
Sent to raze Rifthold, Manon Blackbeak finds him and tells him to run instead. He owes her a life, she does not explain herself, and neither of them ever quite drops the joke.
Gavin, and Damaris
With Aelin taken, he summons the spirit of the first Havilliard king, who tells him the third Wyrdkey is at Morath and points him at a sword that knows a lie when it hears one.
Morath, alone
He teaches himself to shapeshift and walks into Erawan's fortress by himself — wearing other faces through the place that made his collar, hunting the last key.
The Lock at Endovier
The Lock is forged at the salt mines where the series started. Aelin makes him share it so they might both survive, and Gavin's spirit steps into his half of the dying.
King of Adarlan
He takes the throne his father poisoned and starts taking it apart — the slave trade ended, the occupied kingdoms handed back, a century of conquest unwound.
“Hello, witchling.”
“As for Celaena, you do not have the right to wish she were not what she is.”
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