Before 1994, the named demons in the popular religious texts had free will in hell opposed to the will-less nameless grunts. During the overthrow of SATAN the majority of these named demons were torn to shreds and killed with angelic weapons by the grunts, erasing them forever. Handler is one of the named demons, barely escaping eternal death, most of him being scarred from the holy fire that was going to erase him. He wants to free SATAN and get all of the grunts back under his control so things can back to the way they were... and maybe get his body restored to the glorious form it once was.