Young Gangelo was born into an aristocratic family in the Imperium and rose to prominence for his talents in alchemy, particularly original research. However, Gangelo’s pursuit of new recipes changed his life forever when a new concoction suddenly exploded, flattening his estate, seriously injuring Gangelo, and killing most of the members of his family except his younger brother, Agzul, whom Gangelo awakened to find had barely survived. 

A desperate Gangelo spared no concoction, experimentation, or school of black magic in his attempt to save his brother’s life, and finally succeeded in creating a new host for Agzul’s barely functional, fading body: a human, semi-insectlike creature to which Gangelo could safely transplant Agzul’s vital organs.

The creature, half-Agzul, half-monstrosity, managed to stand and move about with some independence, but discovery of Gangelo’s “experiment” forced the Imperium to prosecute and imprison the wayward alchemist as a threat to “public safety”. Agzul escaped the Imperium’s attention and teamed up with another unorthodox “scientist” named “Desmond”. The pair ultimately succeeded in breaking Gangelo out of prison, providing him a new life as Soulplunder’s chief alchemist.