A man is a vessel of enormous stores of magical energy that grow the more he gains in strength. His biological father is, for lack of a better word, Death. Death is actually the perfect name for his father, the word "biological" isn't. However, Death and his Mother were given together in marriage, while Death met her and they had their union under another name. This old man was born in 1938, in Berlin, Germany, right before the second World War began. Although he is seventy six, he appears to be no more than his mid-forties. Reinhardt Schtauffen is a kind hearted, extremely spry old man who has many peculiar interests. 

He is a master of poisons, embalming, medicines, ways of martial combat and assassination, among other things. When the mysterious events started recently, he found himself as strong and healthy as he was during the prime of his life. He also could somehow know if someone was evil good, or anything between just by sensing their presence. He may also exact powers on the dead bodies he discovers in order to rise them as skeletal, or ghoulish servants, and sometimes he can create "Frankenstein" monsters for more difficult tasks. 

He was blackmailed by a Corporate Executive Officer he worked for so he would act as his assassin. Reinhardt was in a deep wilderness area, which had blocked out any satellite imagery through mysterious means, and prevented any outside communications or electronics. Knowing this, Reinhardt easily took down all his boss'es thugs and hunted him down as he ran for his life into the woods.