Growing up in the outskirts, Lovell swore to crawl his way out of poverty using any means necessary. He lived his semi-ordinary life relying on his wits to survive in the ashes of the world that once was. With the constant threat of monsters and the fallout from war looming over humanity, the world turned harsher than ever before.
His mask of indifference shattered when he began to hear strange ravings and murmurs. He understood them to be warnings of impending danger. To resist what fate has in store for him, he seeks power by becoming a Dreadborn-those who resist the monsters born from fear with fear.