Dionus

Dionus was a House Military soldier during the War in Heaven who defected following the Battle of Golgalith and founded a clinic for the study of temporal diseases on Gulliver's Rest. As a Homeworlder, he had a level of innate skill at telepathy.

Early life
Dionus was "churned out" by a breeding engine of the Great Houses. He spent some time as a mindless drone of the House Military, (AUDIO: Eternal Escape) working as an Interrogator. He committed a number of atrocities against prisoners on the order of his superior, not even considering the question of whether they were innocent. The victims of his interrogations included a number of Homeworld deserters who had been tracked down by agents of the Houses and returned to the Homeworld for trial. (AUDIO: Call Me Ishmael)

However, he was traumatised by General Sandus's lack of concern about the natives during the Battle of Golgalith. He developed a conscience and ran away in a stolen timeship with his wife Susit and their two children Meren and Egar. (AUDIO: Eternal Escape)

On Gulliver's Rest
They settled on the planet Gulliver's Rest where Dionus began to run a clinic for those affected by temporal diseases as a result of the War. He was visited by a Mother and Father of Faction Paradox who offered to help run his clinic in exchange for sole ownership of a "temporal anomaly" which they had predicted would materialise on Gulliver's Rest someday. He refused them, and in retaliation they erased his wife from history; Dionus carried on with his life believing himself a single father of two. A member of the Friend later arrived on Gulliver's Rest and offered to help run the clinic, something he accepted. (AUDIO: Eternal Escape)

Dionus was once unexpectedly visited by a man calling himself Ishmael who travelled in a strange egg-shaped ship. Ishmael was a member of the Order of Tarth'Rioshim who had been having strange dreams of the life of a noble "doomed lover" straight out of a fairy tale, Dra'Heem. Delving into buried memories inside Ishmael's mind, Dionus revealed to him that his memories were simply of his original life, while, as a result of the War's impact on Urok'Sharn's timeline, in the current version of history Dra'Heem had been abandoned as an infant and raised by the Order of Tarth'Rioshim as Ishmael. As a result of this revelation, Ishmael broke off from the Order and swore to protect beings from parallel timelines, instead of hunting them down as was the Order's practice. (AUDIO: Call Me Ishmael)

Flight from Gulliver's Rest
Eventually, however, General Sandus's Fifth Time Fleet arrived on Golgalith, followed in short order by Enemy timeships and the Faction's ritual barges. Running out of the clinic with Meren and Egar, Dionus tried to make his way to the warded bunker where he had hidden his timeship. They encountered the Faction Paradox Mother whom Dionus had met earlier. Erasing Egar from time with one blow of her shadow-weapon, she taunted him with the idea that it could all have been avoided if he'd agreed to the Faction's earlier offer, but, having forgotten Egar, he dismissed her retort as meaningless lies.

By the time he made his way to the timeship, his one surviving child Meren had briefly been replaced by one called Tara before disappearing from his mind completely. He departed in the timeship unable to remember anything but the Battle of Golgalith he believed he had just run away from — poised to start all over again by settling "somewhere nice", "out of harm's way, where the War can't find me" and building a family there, which he would believe to be his first. (AUDIO: Eternal Escape)