Professor Arcanum was a crazed Lupravian scientist, infamous for his attempts to create life. Residing in a windmill, far from those who considered his grisly experiments to be unacceptable, his assistant was a hunchback known as Igor. He in fact had, following previous experiments, developed a violent, psychopathic alter-ego, Arcanum Unbound. His experiments reached fruition one night when he achieved the supposedly impossible. Reviving a sewn together corpse, he surpassed the process of undeath, this creature was truly alive.