one of the major villains in "men at arms", he is an impoverished aristocrat whose ancestors lost all their money through drinking, gambling, and, in the words of gaspode "chasing anything in a dress... "his" dress". a hopeless romantic, he dreams of restoring the ankh-morpork monarchy; when he discovers that carrot ironfoundersson is a descendant of the ankh-morpork royal line, he conspires to give him the throne. when he obtains leonard of quirm's "gonne" (the discworld's first gunpowder-fired weapon), he becomes progressively more insane, accidentally killing a clown. after an "accident" in which a dwarf artifacer is killed by the jealous gonne, which fears he will make more, a frightened d'eath takes his evidence to dr. cruces, who listens quite kindly until "he" touches the gonne and kills young edward.