Ed Grew up in an orphanage located in Georgia for most of his life. Making regular escape attempts but always being brought back. When Ed became 17 he signed up to join the army in hopes to escape the massive hole he was stuck in. From then on he was with the military, he saw it as his true family because they were the only people who accepted him. When outbreak began, Ed was immediately separated from his team and forced to venter out on his own. meeting hundreds of kindhearted people and plenty of people who wanted to use and hurt him in which they did. Ed was scarred for leaving a group that he wanted no part of anymore and lost his best friend not long after. Ed gathered a few from the group he was in at that time and attacked slaughtering an entire town just to get revenge and that's when Ed dropped off the radar for A few months leaving eventually he resurfaced but he was broken, barely spoke and when he did it was to threaten someone or give someone the last words they heard before sending them a piece of lead now people know him as "Specter" or the "Reaper of Russia" as he doesn't show any emotion anymore and he introduces himself as Specter.