How many years has it been? He cannot remember, nor does he care.

He does not even have a name anymore. Over the years, he has been called many names, none of them in a flattering manner. But his enemies all recognized him as simply the avatar of death.

Once he was Matthew Gardner, a up and coming lawyer, married to his high school sweetheart, Sharon Howlett.

But he was betrayed by her, which led up to the events through time that made him the eternally tortured existence that he is living now.