I am a zombie. Not Walking Dead zombie or anything in a horde. Hordes do not sound like a fun time. As long as I stay... fed, I'm all right and won't go that way. I've made arrangements with SWORD to obtain brains ethically here, and I switched to working as a medical examiner back home to do so there. But shockingly, I know, there's a general lack of ethical brain collecting among zombies in my world, even among people who mean well. The average Joe Zombie just doesn't have that kind of access to brains, and if it takes long enough, the self-control really starts going out the window. And that, I'm really hoping, does not lead to a zombie apocalypse in my world. But, seeing as I'm here, I'm focused on preventing that in this - your - world.
That's where a ring of power might help. They're supposed to grant power and authority over your race. Elves for the elves. But... for me, zombies. I want to make sure I can prevent innocent people from becoming edibles if any other zombies come through the tesseract. SWORD will do what they can, I'm sure. But it only takes one to start an outbreak, and we've seen that's happened with vampires and werewolves already. I don't want zombies in the mix.