ONCE A MAN , A FATHER , A HUSBAND ——

NOW SEEN AS NOTHING BUT A MONSTER .

Synopsis:

Gar'zak used to have a family, a wife and kids. He used to be a kind, dutiful orc living an honest life. A man loved and adored by all, the very definition of a walking teddy bear. A man who loved to live and laugh, a man weak to sweets, a man with the spirit of a child. But one 'accident' in the mine where he worked lead to his tragic passing, and he was grieved by the entire town.

Fortunately (or unfortunately), the rubble he got crushed and buried under, the mine, was brimming with magic stones. Thirty long years of raw magic seeping into his body, preserving it, and he reawakened. With the same mind, the same loving heart and the same spirit, after all this time. Except, he didn't look the same, couldn't talk the same, couldn't return to his old life.

The same people he loved, the people he had known for decades, the people who had mourned for him— now ran at the sight of him, didn't recognise. Not even his wife and his two children, now all grown, recognised him. He longed to hold them, hug them, tell them daddy's back. But they drew their swords at the sight of him, terror visible on their faces. And Gar'zak broke. He returned back to the abandoned mine, forever scorned.

And that's how the undead orc came to be known as "The ghoul of the mines", his name becoming a tale of fear.