Powered by a Spirit of Vengeance, Scything is possessed of supernatural resilience and mystical abilities. First emerging as a dark vigilante hunting the seamy underbelly of Harbor City pursuing a personal vendetta, Scything eventually put paid to the Inverted Triangle Crime Syndicate and it's various shadowy endeavors, and moved on to bigger venues.

For many years Scything's Modus Operandi was to simply appear on the scene someplace where he would proceed to wage a violent and deadly assault upon the wicked, and then promptly fade away again once his work was done. He was also known to mysteriously appear to take part in various super-battles against dark forces and powerful evils. In those earlier years, Scything put in several appearances fighting alongside Justice Incorporated and the team's later successor NewGen to fight against dark supernatural threats such as Incantrix, the Vereux Vaudau, and Revelations Awakening.

Years later, someone claiming to be Scything but with a somewhat different appearance and exhibiting inconsistencies with previous Scything encounters, showed up and eventually joined the Millennial Men. The mystical expert Legend forwarded the opinion that this version of Scything is an entirely different man possessed by the same Spirit of Vengeance, and conjectured that the previous host may have been killed or simply stopped being a willing host. Whatever the case, the "new" version of Scything wanders less than the old, is less violent, and is more social...but is still big on being dark and mysterious and comes and goes as he pleases.