[center][h2][b][color=004b80]Drirga Ondronsdottir[/color][/b][/h2]

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[b][color=004b80]Race:[/color] [color=f26522]Dwarf[/color]

[color=004b80]Clan/Faction/Country:[/color] [color=f26522]Cragbow Clan, Dwarven Reclamation Army, Barak Varr hold[/color]


[color=004b80]Class Descriptor:[/color] [color=f26522]Dwarven Machinist and Engineer
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[color=004b80]Physical Description:[/color] [color=f26522]A female dwarf standing at 3 feet, 11 inches. She is muscled, burned, and calloused from her years laboring with machines. Her orange hair is organized into two long braids. [/color]

[color=004b80]Weapons/Armor and Gear:[/color] [color=f26522]Her weapons include a highly accurate and sighted handgun, a repeater handgun, and a heavy steel wrench meant for maintenance and melee. Other fantastic weapons can be built in her wagon. She also has a variety of light armor, but is currently wearing a series of steel plates and scales held together by cushioned and quilted leather.
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[color=004b80]Background:[/color]
[color=f26522]Drirga Ondronsdottir is the 29th child of Ondron Gearmaster, an engineer and machinist renowned higher than any other of the inventive Cragbow clan and highly regarded within the Engineers guild. The 250 year old Great Beard has completed innumerable technical accomplishments in his time, including enhancements to the Dwarven cannons, ironclads, submersibles, and gyrocopters. His legendary status has led to the clan tolerating his “eccentric” practices of near constant child rearing and always having a young wife, or even multiple young wives, by various means. The Ondronssons and Ondronsdottirs all grow up to work for him as gears in his workshops and foundries, competing viciously for their fathers grudging approval of their designs. Drirga relished the competition when she was young, but as she got older she realized the intense competition was more inhibitive than conducive to technological process. She started trying to build bridges with her brothers and sisters, but she only succeeded in antagonizing most of them. Life in the machine works was harder the rest of her pre-adulthood, but her and the few siblings that stuck with her became some of the best engineers in the family.  

The rite of adulthood was the most intense competition of her life. Only one of the four who became 30 in the same year as her could receive the right to become an adult. The others would have to wait till next year's Zagazdeg. The group included her close brother Dralbet Ondronsson, who had stuck with her for years in the combative family. The other three raised the most fuel efficient and productive engine, a more effective pressurization chamber for the dwarven nautilus that allowed it stay underwater for months, and Dralbet created primitive rockets. Drirga knew she had to stand out in Ondrons judgement and appeal directly to him, so she took a different approach then the complicated than the complicated weapons and machines of her siblings. She instead created an intricate series of sights, scopes, and other mathematical measuring tools for Ondron’s various canons and handguns. And when the old Great Beard finally shuffled into the judgement hall, he nitpicked and remained skeptical of everyones inventions except for hers. He immediately saw the utility of her sights and how they could improve his existing technology. And so she passed into adulthood and gained the favor of her father, the great Ondron Gearmaster. This naturally came with intensified enmity and bitterness from most of her siblings, so she decided to spend some years as a merchant-engineer on an ironclad that made frequent trips to Zhufbar hawking the machines of Ondron.

While on a mundane stay at Zhufbar, Ogaun Smokesucker, her captain, contracted her to cure a young nobleman of his ineptitude in mining with a machine. All it took was adjusting an old Ondron variable drill to Zarbremm’s needs and showing him to use, but she was starting to let their sessions together drag. While he was no technical genius, Zarbremm was smart in his own way. He also had the wit, genuity, and kindness that most people in her life up to that point had lacked. After a year of seeing each other, they agreed to marry. It was somewhat controversial for an engineer of her caliber to marry an Ironbreaker, but they overcame it based on the strong industrial and economic connections between Zhufbar and Barak Varr. The Ancestors seemed to have a different plan for them though, as it was mere months after their marriage that disaster struck. The great Roagrim Caskbasher, Zarbremms uncle, died leading a unit in the reclamation of Karaz 8 Peaks. Drirga consoled her husband, but urged him against going. While she was no coward, she didn’t want Zarbremm or herself dying in what was likely a suicide mission, but Zarbremms heart was set on avenging the old Longbeard. A part of her, the Ondron in her, felt a desire to test her inventions on scum of the Old World. So it was with reluctance and a tiny flare of eagerness that she loaded up all the machines she hoped to build a life around into a wagon, and left for Karaz 8 Peaks.[/color][/b][/center]