Chronomancer exiled from the court of The Kingdom of Lux for crimes of chronomancy. Foreseeing catastrophe, he turned to pulling younger versions of himself out of a million timelines and raising himself over and over to research the coming doom and try to avert it. Eventually he was tracked down by the Verdicts, and Gwin and Mulgwud Clockwright took the then-baby Esmund, Desmun’s latest version, and fled to raise Esmund in secret in the nearby Shepherd’s End.