@Spookie
Well he is the villain, but because of the difference in timeline of his childhood, this world is now different too.
We are all biengs of our biology and our environment. His redemptive aspect comes from the existence of a Duroa immune to black magic in this new world.
Regards to, did Yulan travel back too?
Well remember how he came and helped Violet out from bieng accused of getting a crony to humiliate her sister? That didn't happen in the last timeline. So how could things have changed this time if Violet just came back and hadn't made any changes to the...