Dorian's solar-eclipse plan

Dorian’s solar-eclipse plan turns a rare astronomical event into a means of taking sunlight from the world and announcing a new age for the gifted. As the century’s eclipse approaches, he declares that gifted people will no longer remain hidden; during the eclipse, he absorbs sunlight from around the globe, deliberately limiting the darkness to one day while making human suffering part of his revenge.

Announcement and stakes

Before the eclipse, Dorian presents the coming darkness as a political turning point. He says that gifted people need no longer live concealed, and offers the public a stark choice: fear them or join them. The eclipse of the century becomes the deadline attached to that declaration, the moment when the age of the gifted will begin.

His warning is directed not only at the public but at the heroes who might resist him. He predicts that they will lose everything if they try to stop his side. The announcement therefore links liberation, intimidation, and impending conflict: Dorian describes his followers as being set free, while making clear that the change will not depend on the heroes’ consent. The eclipse is both a natural event and the public threshold of his intended order.

The eclipse at Seahill

Dorian watches the moon begin to cross the sun from the top of Griffin Enterprises Tower, identified as the tallest tower in Seahill. The elevated vantage places him above the city as the eclipse starts, but his plan extends far beyond the local scene: the sunlight he will take comes from around the globe.

The physical progress of the eclipse marks the plan’s movement from declaration to action. Dorian’s observation of the moon crossing the sun is followed by his account of absorbing the sun’s radiation. When the moon has completely covered the sun, he describes night taking over. The sequence makes the eclipse more than a backdrop: its visible stages accompany the widening scale of his action, from a man watching the sky in Seahill to a supernatural act affecting sunlight worldwide.

Taking the sunlight

As the eclipse unfolds, Dorian’s body glows with the sun’s radiation while he absorbs every ray he can. He describes light from around the globe coming to him in a blast, making the scope of the event explicit: he is not merely taking what reaches him in one place, but drawing on sunlight from across the world. Once the last sunlight has entered his veins, his vision is tinged with a glow and a subtle current runs over his skin. The bodily details register the power he has accumulated without changing the central consequence for everyone else: the earth is left in darkness.

Dorian sets a limit on that darkness. He intends it to last for one solid day, not indefinitely, because he does not want to doom the planet by holding the light until plants wither and nature slowly dies. This restraint is not compassion for people: he explicitly wants them to suffer as his people have suffered, and sees keeping them alive as necessary to that purpose. The plan thus joins a stated boundary with a stated cruelty. He will not let the world’s ecology die, but neither is preserving it an act of mercy.

Revenge and the gifted age

The eclipse plan gives Dorian’s political promise a physical form. He announces an end to secrecy, then takes the sunlight that ordinarily sustains the world, making the arrival of the gifted’s new age inseparable from imposed darkness. His language of freedom sits beside his threat to the heroes and his intention to inflict suffering on humanity; the contradiction shows that the change he proclaims is not simply emancipation, but power asserted through coercion.

The one-day limit sharpens that purpose. Dorian distinguishes between destroying the world and keeping it alive in order to make it endure a period of suffering. The eclipse therefore concentrates his grievance into a temporary, worldwide crisis: sunlight becomes both the source of his newly gathered power and what others are made to lose. The event’s decisive turn is not only that the sky darkens, but that Dorian makes the darkness an instrument of revenge and a declaration that the gifted will no longer remain in the shadows.