[Dorian finds himself more and more interested in their world and the trappings of it. He wants to ask a million questions, and honestly, the idea of his being a bother doesn't even occur to him.

The lacquer of sarcastic supremacy drops as he asks his first earnest question.]

Who appoints you? If you and these others are meant to decide the fates of worlds, something I would assume would be the authority of a supreme deity, how are you selected?