Veldred Cotter was a Paladin who was driven by vengeance against the Shadow Lord for killing his sister. Nothing would stand in his way of achieving that goal.
When a magical blight started ripping through Sunclaw, three of the city's trusted leaders used a magical item that stopped time in its place and placed the souls of the entire city in a magical tablet. To ensure that time would never progress, the tablet needed to exist outside a branch of the time tree. Existing in this fourth dimension, the dream existed at all times simultaneously. When it was destroyed it ceased to exist across all time.