The Tragic Life of A.M. Donia

The Tragic Life of A.M. Donia is a biography written about the last years of the life and the eventual death of August Magnus Donia, known as the Baron of Donia. The book was written by his son Ygo August Donia in 2010, shortly after the death of his father.

Personality
August Magnus Donia (February 12, 1946 - July 30, 2010) was a man of man many words, he said much but at the same time, he didn’t reveal much about himself. He remained a mystery for the remainder of his life and even more so in death, as he died rather suddenly and without an obvious reason. The self-styled baron was a rich and wealthy man who made his fortune in business. A deeply religious man, he was at the same time a communist politician and founder of the LCP and the 1980’s. He built Castle Donia in the Emerald Mountains, his most ambitious project and his self-claimed “lifework”, and he was the patriarch of the powerful and influential Donia Clan. Donia is described by those who know him as a large, burly and powerful man, tall and heavy, yet elegant, energetic and classy. A true force of nature, who was considered highly attractive to the ladies and reportedly highly unloyal to his wife much younger wife, Dalia Muhammed (1965).

Married life
This infidelity lead to many tensions in his family, in which the family was divided into two sites; at one side the baron and the children that took his side, at the other side his wife and the children that sided with her. These two stubborn people were reportedly close to divorce, when daughter Dalia Donia revealed her pregnancy by the Baron’s political enemy Pierlot McCrooke. It was the year 2009, and in this new crisis brought together the family. For a short period of time, Donia and McCrooke were on closer terms, but the short-lived marriage of McCrooke and Dalia was reportedly unhappy because of the large age-difference (McCrooke was only 11 years younger then his own father-in-law and actually 8 years older then his mother-in-law Dalia Muhammed). Daughter Dalia divorced her husband and then lived with her infant son the household of her parents.

Reality bites
Donia had always been an impressive figure. Whenever he entered a room, all air was sucked out of that room. He was unstoppable and irresistible, someone who could not be ignored or denied. On the outside, he was a happy man. Happily married, a semi-successful politician and even, for a short period of time, a Member of the Congress. He was the Deputy of Tourism and Leisure, elected as a congressman with 8.1% of Lovians voting for him. From the outside everything seemed to work out for A.M. Donia. Reality was entirely different. The baron was a very unhappy man, a man tormented by nightmares from his shady past which eventually got to him. Rumour has it he gained his tremendous wealth in an illegal way, some say by being involved with the mafia and other claim he got rich over the backs of others or even by committing a murder and inheriting a fortune from a distant relative. Throughout the last years of his life he regularly suffered from bouts of depression and melancholia along with periods of great euphoria. He could be kind and generous, compassionate and friendly to those dear to him, his friends, family and loved ones. He was usually in control of his emotions. However in the last year of his life he sometimes flew into a violent rage and turned into a monstrous caricature of his former self. His personal doctor, Francis Cavorchian, has told the press in an interview A.M. Donia was under heavy medication which may have caused side effects changing his mood.

Father
A.M. Donia was, by all accounts, a bad father, who tried his best but was unable to build a durable and sincere relation with any of his children. He made a horrible role model; he even boasted to his son Ygo about his many conquests out of marriage, when Ygo was only a teenager. He never really cared much for his family and children, even though they loved him and always were seeking for his approval in everything they did. He was a distant father who left home early, came back late if he returned home at all after work. He pushed his children to do their best, pushed them to the limit, hired personal trainers and teachers for them and had some of his more docile children home-schooled while he send away others to boarding schools abroad to teach them some much needed and absent discipline. He was never unreasonable or abusive, he simply set a bad example for his children and lacked essential parenting skills, since his own father was absent during his youth and his mother was an alcoholic. He tried to do better but tried so hard he failed. Considering his own upbringing, it was inevitable. Bound to go wrong. ===