Elia was born to an upper middle class family in February of 1998, to a father whom was a Deacon at the local Catholic Church, and a mother who served on the General Counsel board for the local corporate office of Lockheed Martin - often traveling for in-person conferences and out of state meetings. Elia grew up comfortably and well-fed, save for the overwhelming discipline inflicted by his father. As his mother was rarely at home due to her stringent work schedule and constant slew of traveling, the father had unprecedented reign over Elia's upbringing. The only facets of his foundation that truly stuck into adulthood was his Faith; notions of discipline and rigorous obedience to Earthly rules and laws were nigh forgotten. The only true power Elia answered to was his Heavenly father, the one he was born too was sorely resented.

As Elia approached college age, his father encouraged him to be a man of the cloth and join him in Deaconhood. Thereby, his out-of-touch mother pushed him to following her footsteps with Law School. Elia, growing up with a fascination of cars and working with his hands, instead opted for Mechanical Engineering. Attempting to get away from his father and Pittsburgh, Elia was able to win a full-ride scholarship abroad and moved to Germany to pursue his Master's. By 2020, Elia was offered a career position in a German robotic company in their R&D facility in Norway. Despite having to leave his significant other back in Frankfurt, Elia took the position and was relocated to the frigid north.

However, come 2021, Elia was blocked off from his lover, his friends, and the little communication he retained with his family. Stranded in Norway, a country steadily locking down under siege of the pandemic, Elia quickly resorted to his anti-authoritarian tendencies. Being among the rare few who protested in the streets, he rallied with other foreign nationals in the country. His rebellious disposition came to a focal point with the uncovered 'forced' vaccination, and the forthwith mutation of 21NS. He, among a few other "conscientious" citizens took to liberating the infected of their now-unwanted resources, from the clothes in their drawers to the food in their pantry. When the announcement of the carpet-bombing of cities came about, Elia fled the City of Asker - just outside Oslo - and made his way for Nyheim.