Slykak has been fighting in a guerrilla war against an implacable Tyrannical Interdimensional Regime for many years. All his family and loved ones are long dead, but he does what he can to carry on the fight year after year, decade after decade, century after century. He has a great power of regeneration and has been forbidden to enter the Realm of the Dead. It is often the case that all around him die and weeks later he finally regenerates from the bloody mush he had been reduced to. Only to find that all is ashes and waste, his friends and the enemy long moved on.