Doug's former partner and friend, a Chicago businessman and gang leader. 42 years old. Five years ago, Des facilitated Chelimantan's incarceration in a psychiatric hospital by taking control of his assets. Despite this, Dupre often secretly turns to his former comrade for help, sometimes through blackmail. Des and Aldo have a long-standing mutual dislike for each other. 

Desmond is a timid, cautious, but no less dangerous man, still afraid of Doug and keeping an eye on him. Behind his excessive prudishness, one can discern a trace of Chicago's underclass, from which he rose precisely thanks to his connections, and he is loath to lose his influence. After rumors of a series of murders, he remembers that his sworn friend lives in the city where the incident occurred...

Once a respected scientist, now he is a mad hermit wandering the lands of Regna. He was the first to raise Hone, but later abandoned her at the Citadel due to his growing problems and fear of harm.

He looks like a hybrid of a human, a rat, and a dog, collaborating with both spiders and humans for his own survival. Most of the community views him with hostility, so he often finds himself accompanied by rewbolts, who use his mobile home as transportation.