Daniel Shepherd was a former member of the Shepherd family, one of the four founding families of Shepherd's Glen. Son of founder Isaac Shepherd, he was drowned by his parent(s) at the age of 5 and brought to the Order's Lair underneath the Church of the Holy Way in Silent Hill as the first sacrifice of their family to their old god to keep Shepherd's Glen safe from harm. Considering the fact that one family member is killed every fifty years, he likely died the first year that the families left Silent Hill.