

He returned home to find his land in ruin. After defeating it in battle, he realized he failed to look it in the eyes and failed his mission.

He followed the voice through the jungle until he stumbled upon his dragon. When he approached, the child disappeared. One day, he encountered a boy standing on a bridge.

He traveled the land freeing its people of bandits. It would take the form of a dragon and he must look it in the eye. One day, an old man convinced him to face his fears and discover what type of man he was.

He was struck with grief and ignored his duties as a lord. However, upon returning home, he learned his wife and son had passed to fever the previous season. He was granted Lord status by the emperor as a reward. Lord Isanagi Nakadai: In the feudal days of Japan, Isanagi Nakadai won several key battles for the emperor.He helps young hellspawns to fight their demon masters, in the hope that one day he can claim the throne of hell. By that deed, he became the first man to go to hell, and the first to become a Hellspawn. Later on it is revealed that Cogliostro is actually Cain, the biblical figure who killed his own brother out of envy. At first, it seems that Cogliostro spends his time training any young hellspawn who will listen to him, in the hope that they will turn from the dark path. Hell doesn't want him because he betrayed them. Heaven doesn't want him because he was once a servant of Hell. The reason Cogliostro is still alive is that he is stuck between heaven and hell. Cogliostro: A former hellspawn, he found a way to remove his armor, and thus ended the pact between he and his master.He was eventually slain by the demon hunter Angela. Upon realizing what had happened (which was helped along with him finding his own grave), John traveled throughout England, doing good deeds in the hope he would be redeemed. He was returned to Earth, several years in the future and clad in medieval looking symbiotic armor. For his past deeds of killing (and enjoying it), John was sent to Hell, where he, like others made a deal with Malebolgia. He was killed on a battlefield in Ireland by the King's bodyguards as he approached King Henry for forgiveness. He was released from service to Henry II after he and three others mistakenly killed the Archbishop of Canterbury (they mistook some angry words by the King as an order). He was a knight named Sir John of York, who fought during a civil war in England. Medieval Spawn: As the name suggests, this was a hellspawn of a medieval era.After refusing to use his powers to commit acts of terror on the world, Malebolgia sends another demon, Violator to force Simmons, now called Spawn, to use up his power and return to hell. Simmons discovers that his face still bears the wounds of his assassination (he uses a shoe lace to stitch his face together) and that his wife has remarried to his best friend, who was able to give her something Simmons couldn't - a child. He made a deal with Malebolgia, who unknown to Simmons, sent him five years into the future. He was murdered by his partner, Chapel and went straight to Hell. Al Simmons: As a human, he worked as a government assassin, until he had a change of heart.When the clock reaches zero, the hellspawn will automatically return to hell. Each time a hellspawn uses his powers outside of Hell, the clock which represents his energy, counts down by one click. Their time on Earth is also limited, as it is tied to their limited energy source. This deal usually backfires on the person, as Malebolgia normally sends them several years (or decades) into the future, after their deaths and clad in the Hellspawn's symbiotic armor. Most Hellspawns were once human, but were tricked into making a bargain with Malebolgia He would agree to return them to Earth, if they promise to return later on and become a Lieutenant in his army of Hell. Hellspawns are infused with dark energy, called necroplasm, when they are created, but this power is finite when outside of hell. The Hellspawn are controlled by Malebolgia, the supreme master of Hell, and are mainly used as an officer corps for his army of hell, although they were not created by Malebolgia and existed before him. The main character in the series, Spawn, is himself a Hellspawn. A Hellspawn is a creature from the popular comic book Spawn.
