Lady Mari

Age: 21
Exaltation/Caste: Air Aspect Dragon Blooded

Affiliations: Haslanti League



Bio:

Born of unknown origins, Lady Mari was found and taken in by the esteemed and renowned engineer, Bjorn Gunnarsson as a babe. Raised among the machines and tools of her adoptive father's work, she grew to love and enjoy the simplicity of life among the complex machines.

Bjorn taught her everything he knew and watched happily as she surpassed it all quickly and rapidly. When she had mastered what he could teach her, he challenged her to create further and to design for herself. She met the challenge head on and soon produced machines many could only dream about. Mari created clocks capable of telling time across known areas of creation, running indefinitely with only a single winding. She made a complex elevator system to traverse the great workshop her father managed that could not only move between floors, but between rooms on each floor with multiple cars working in tandem, none ever colliding despite being on the same systems.

It was evident she would surpass the greatest engineers of the age and so Bjorn decided it was time to teach his daughter more than just metal, gears, and steam. He took Mari into the wild for a year, within which time the two built and fabricated a small airship, setting the keel and manufacturing the fittings. Bit by bit the ship was built, the copper pipes laid and the furnace set alight. When that was done, the ship was armed and provisioned. Upon the last day, the balloon was anchored and, with a simple turn of a lever, filled until the ship rose from the ground, into the sky.

The father daughter pair spent one more year upon the airship they had built, during which time Bjorn passed the final secrets of his trade to Mari and trained her in the use of the rare and unique Crossbow native to Haslanti. She learned the nuances of the weather and the trade of sailing. Different ports of call were found and her knowledge of trade and languages grew. When the year was done, they returned home laden with goods and with Mari's mind afire with knowledge. At the docks, Bjorn simply told his daughter that the ship and the fortunes they had made together were hers to do with as she wished. A simple, tearful goodbye was given between the two before the last of the crew and supplies were loaded on board the airship. From there, Mari knew that while the skies and horizons may hold untold mysteries and hidden fortunes, home was always to stern no matter where she went.



Appearance:

Even by Mortal standards, Mari is rather small. Standing at 5'4" with a small, petite frame, she hardly appears as imposing as almost every other Dragon Blooded to be found. Slight and nimble, she is quickly picked out of a crowd by her shock of red hair and the brightly polished brass goggles she wears over it, ready for quick use should she need it. She wears typical engineer's clothing in the form of breeches and a leather corset, overtop which she sports a type of leather jacket. Along one arm is the dragon tattoo she was found with as a child and at any given point in time she is covered in a variety of smudges, soot, grease, and/or oil from her work.



Potential Plot Hooks:

Probably has a few disgruntled engineers/individuals back in Haslanti of varying degrees.



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