Like all of the Hollow Gods, The Steel Prince is the result of a Leviathan shard bonding to a Threstian at the moment of death. Its obsession with order and domination suggests that the Prince was once a military officer, though no amount of training and discipline could protect him from a fiery death as his planet ripped itself apart. Now all that is left of whoever the Prince once was is a void of anger, fear, and pain, and the desire to make everything hollow.