Abysmus was a creation of Atrocitus who he considered his father and was formed eons ago. He was created shortly after the Five Inversions were killed whereupon his "father" molded a being from the bones of marooned travelers. However, Atrocitus deemed that there was a fatal flaw within his "son" which sicked him. The flaw was actually the fact that Abysmus felt empathy for other living beings which was a trait that his creator did not desire. This made the demonic alien deem his creation useless for his purposes. Disgusted with Abysmus, Atrocitus beat the life out of him and threw him within a buried grave. Atrocitus claimed that he had buried him at some point in the past several centuries ago. This was because Abysmus was deemed an abysmal failure that was consigned to the soil of the p