His story is set some 400 years in the future in an apocalyptic world some time after Armageddon where the demon Phlegethonyarre has his servant, Abaddon the Angel of the Bottomless Pit, and their Undead Army of Nightmares (Necro-Soldiers, Zombies powered by Hell's Darklight) dominate and hunt all humans.

[1] Daniel's life was an abusive one for the young man: he killed his abusive/drunken father with a laser rifle in order to protect his mother and sister, Madrid.

Daniel's memories of his past are mostly filled with pain and anger, of being shocked with tazer-prods in prison or murdering a Crater-Gang thug by smashing the face-mask of his spacesuit with a rock.

Having died and resurrected as a Hellspawn, Daniel is at first lost in a blur of treacherous memory and whispers to do evil deeds and use his energy to violent ends.

The Hellspawn rises from the barren earth just in time to stop a large demon from killing his sister and her son Matthew.

In a moment of anger, he is confronted by his master Phlegethonyarre who admits to Daniel that his fate was sealed from the beginning and using his new necro powers consumes a part of his soul.

The hellspawn Daniel races against time to rescue Madrid and her son Matt from an army of 'Navkies'(undead children) under the command of Bune.