Dathan Alaris was an Enaran and member of a minority group called the Regressives. Dathan had a forbidden relationship with Korenna Mirell, an Enaran female who belonged to a majority of Enarans who opposed the view of the Regressives. Dathan and Korenna would rendezvous late at night when he would climb into her bedroom window. Dathan discreetly attended the presentation ceremony where Korenna received her citizenship award. Like all Regressives, he was to be resettled to Peshar, a faraway province on Enara. At one point, Korenna was assigned to work on a resettlement line, facilitating the transport of Regressives. While she was working there, she discovered, to her shock, that Dathan was to be sent away. The night before he was to be resettled, he told Korenna that her father, Jareth, w