Fallout: How Glowing Ghouls Stand Out From Typical Variants
The Fallout universe is known for its diverse array of people and creatures dominating the mutated plains of the wasteland. The catalyst for many of the weird and wonderful species that are present within Fallout games is the radiation-soaked world that changes living things into grotesque, dangerous beings.
Of all the species that have become staples of the Fallout universe, not many are as popular and well known as Ghouls. Permanently marred yet defiant and proud, Ghouls offer a commendable amount of character to the world of Fallout in a plethora of ways. The Glowing variants do so on an even larger scale.
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While Ghouls can refer to both mutated humans and animals, the former are more prominently featured and remembered within Fallout lore. In the human context, a person can mutate into a Ghoul via the aptly named process of «ghoulification.»
Most Ghouls are humans who were unfortunate enough to not be in one of the many bomb shelter vaults that have become a staple of the Fallout franchise. The main contingent factor of the Fallout universe is a United States all-but destroyed by a cataclysmic nuclear war, known as the Great War, which took place in 2077. Directly surviving a blast is the most physically altering manner in which a person can transform into a ghoul, causing their flesh and bone to be exposed and all hair burned from their body, giving Ghouls a corpse-like appearance.
Those who are unlucky enough to become Ghouls via this manner are said to be more physically and mentally affected in their newfound existence, as the pain of new physical ailments combines with emotional anguish. With a lot of Ghouls unable to cope with this stark transformation
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