The portrait appeared to be of his friend, Ismark, but that was impossible - the age of the portrait and its frame aside, Ismark had never had clothes like those in the portrait, nor worn his hair like that, nor looked so happy and untroubled, and most certainly had never stood in a sunlit garden - but was still clearly, indisputably the exact likeness of his childhood friend, Ismark Kolyanovich. One event caused his patience to come to an end, when he came across a portrait in Strahd's study.
Many of these people killed themselves or made failed attempts to escape, but Doru held out hope that if he was patient, a more opportune time to escape would arise. While the majority either fell to madness, accepted their new roles and new powers, were cowed into subservience, or otherwise indeed broken, a small number retained most of their own will and sense of self. This meant that his fate was to become one of Strahd's vampire spawn, and was locked in the crypts for months and months until Strahd deemed it time to release them, assuming that they were all either fully broken or at least would not do something foolish like rebel against him again. Though none of the mob ever made it out of the castle alive, Doru was one of the survivors. Though the wizard managed to hold his ground for a considerable amount of time, the mob consisting of peasants and a couple guardsmen had no such luck. When the wizard came through Barovia with promises of being able to lead them against Strahd and defeat him, his words and power stirred Doru's idealism and he joined the wizard in the assault on the castle.
While his father tried to curb his idealism with heavy doses of realism, his friends, and especially Ismark, listened to and encouraged many of his ideas. Doru had chafed under Barovia's air of misery and hopelessness, and wished for ways to make life better in some way, even if only slightly. Doru was born and raised in the village of Barovia, where he was childhood friends of Ismark and Ireena, and set to inherit the priesthood from his father once his father grew too old to keep up his duties.
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