Deathengel is a Planetar living in a host th help them survive. The host is a human male, born about 500 years ago. It is unknown whether or not he still has enough of his ego within is mind, or it was fully taken over by Deathengel.

In the first century of his captivity, he took to law enforcement. He wanted to do solve as much injustice as possible until he could return to the Halls of Justice once more. As time went on, however, he had begun to become disillusioned, feeling that evil was just around the corner wherever he looked.

By his second century on the planet, he turned mercenary, as he could no longer feel a direction