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Cardoon Zorba had endured a brutal life.
Since childhood, he starved on the streets while his father beat him mercilessly.
He never knew his mother—she died giving birth to him—but he was constantly reminded of her through his horns and third eye, which drew revulsion from everyone he met.
His older brother—the one person he once relied on—mocked his lack of talent and called him ugly for inheriting their mother's features. He often insisted Zorba wasn't truly his brother, claiming their mother had been someone else.
A woman their father had genuinely loved, who vanished one day, leaving him shattered.
In such an environment, Zorba slowly sank into despair from childhood. Starving, alone, despised. He had considered ending his life many times—jumping into the nearby lake to drown.
But he never did.
