Appearance

Physical Description

Lightly built by dwarven standards. Has exceptionally good muscle tone and overall fitness.

Body Features

Nothing specific, other than her youthful appearance and relatively light build

Facial Features

Default expression is one of thought/concentration.

Identifying Characteristics

Usually identified by the smell of coffee and her red hair. Clothing is usually studded with pockets of various sizes

Physical quirks

Is probably addicted to caffeine

Apparel & Accessories

Prefers loose clothing with plenty of pockets. carries her warhammers on her belt, along with a small pistol and her coinpurse. A datapad sits on her left forearm. All other equipment is either in her pack or strapped across her chest.

Specialized Equipment

Runwright Datapad, bullpup firearms, Hound's recall device.

Special abilities

Can build almost anything with enough time.

Has limited magical abilities through the use of her datapad

Can summon a mechanical canine and homunculus to aid in combat and other tasks.

Mentality

Personal history

Ruhnon Creseida was born into Durgimist Integium, and quickly showed an aptitude for complex mechanical devices. Rising through her clan's apprenticeship program, Ruhnon became a journeyman craftsman at the young age of forty-three. She served her nation and her clan well, collaborating with the senior craftsmen and displaying a remarkable ability to troubleshoot problems before they spiralled out of control, a rare trait in someone that was still considered a teenager by dwarven standards.

By the age of 75 she had been granted her own workshop, where she began to lay the groundwork for making constructs. These creations would be largely successful, taking a variety of forms and designs and proliferating in workshops in the kingdom, allowing Ruhnon the freedom to practice her craft. Given a free hand to pursue her interests by her Grimborith, Ruhnon began to design her most advanced construct yet, a machine that would be able to serve as an automated defence bot for Durgimist Stratos, enabling them to better defend the kingdom against high-risk threats like sawteeth and elementals.

Unfortunately for Ruhnon, her ambition would be her undoing, in the first field test, the construct's ability to determine friend-from-foe was corrupted, causing it to go on a rampage within the Stratos base at Renton. The construct was finally brought down but at the cost of 68 members of Durgimist Stratos and twenty members of Integium. After this unfortunate event, and to prevent something further from happening again, Ruhnon was prohibited from further work on constructs; a prohibition that is unlikely to be lifted anytime soon.

As further punishment, the wrecked corpse of her robot was hauled out and left in front of her workshop and let decay as a reminder of her hubris. Facing the ever-present reminder of her failure, Ruhnon re-tooled as a gunsmith, producing niche weapons for discerning customers until Az Sweldn Rak Anuhin summoned her for her first mission.

Education

40 years Apprenticed to various Master and Grandmaster craftsmen in Durgimist Integium.

20 years mentorship in basic combat from customers within Durgimist Stratos

Employment

Self-employed since age 75, currently working freelance for The Tears

Accomplishments & Achievements

Formalized the design of the Homonculus Drone

Built the failed Defender Autonomous Robot Prototype

Seized the Rhi Bran Heavy Industries Bunker near Horatio as salvage.

Failures & Embarrassments

Directly Responsible for the Deaths of 20 of her own Clansmen during a failed construct test which also claimed the lives of 68 members Of Durgimist Stratos

Mental Trauma

Carries the guilt of those who died in the Defender Test

Intellectual Characteristics

Razor-sharp, analytical mind. Reasonably good at thinking through her solutions and spotting the errors and flaws in them and the solutions of others. Capable of making a variety of designs from materials on hand and having them work.

Morality & Philosophy

While Ruhnon is intrinsically motivated by money and renown, she will not break her own moral code and the obligations of dwarven society to gain either of those. She is also very leery of advanced AI's that have not been socialized with organics and has little tolerance for those who would abuse technology. Additionally, she, like most other dwarves, prizes competence above all else.

person.sexuality

Straight

person.gender_identity

Female

Taboos

Rogue AI

Known Languages

Dwarvish, Binary, and Common

Personality

Motivation

Personal profit and exposure to new engineering challenges.

Personal loyalty to clan and fireteam

Desire to atone for the loss of life caused by her prototype

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Is tech and engineering savvy

Has trouble engaging with people in a non-abrasive manner

Likes & Dislikes

Likes: Competence and Coffee. Also loves to engineer solutions to complex problems

Dislikes: Disregard for social norms, incompetence or when someone is in a position they are not qualified for, being restricted by pointless regulation. People who refuse to take basic steps to improve their lot in life, but expect others to help them.

Virtues & Personality perks

Brilliant Engineer

Trained Combatant

Caring for those who need help, despite her gruff exterior

Vices & Personality flaws

Distrustful of AI

Tends to be overly blunt or sarcastic in social situations, to the annoyance and disruption of others.

Very grumpy without ready access to coffee.

Personality Quirks

Nervous when in the spotlight of a social encounter with high stakes. Drinks a lot of coffee for her size and age.

Hygiene

Washes up at night whenever possible, but is also comfortable being covered in machinist's detritus.

Social

Birthplace

Winter's Exchange

Current Residence

N/A, But has a home and workshop in Winter's Exchange

Contacts & Relations

Grimsborith Guntera: Client

Commander Sloane: Client

Sargant Coltraine: Former Opponent, Client

Shrrg Thrifksson: Client/ASrA Handler

Major Carabali: Ally

UNNAMED DWARF: Friend/Clanmate, Secret Rival.

Garret Drizmyr: Ally and Fireteam Member

Dominic: Ally and Fireteam Member

Tiberius: Ally, Responsible for his freedom and subsequent conversion to and EXO frame of unknown capabilities

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Journeyman Craftsman

Wealth & Financial state

A full machinist's and gunsmith's shop in Winter's Exchange.

Saint and Hound, two constructs that aid her in various tasks.

Little in the way of liquid assets as most of her work has been sold and turned into more advanced tooling, tools, prototypes, or coffee.

Family Ties

Mother and Father.

two Older Brothers and an Older Sister

One Younger sister and Brother-in-Law

Religious Views

Agnostic, raised in the traditions of Pelor and Moradin

Social Aptitude

Poor outside of engineering circles.

Mannerisms

Prefers a blunt and direct, "Just the Facts" manner when communicating. Appears timid when in the spotlight of a social situation, but will charge in with seemingly reckless abandon if a conversation has bogged down in seemingly pointless minutia

Hobbies & Pets

Saint and Hound

Draws up schematics for various brainchildren, even if she's unlikely to ever build them

Speech

Speaks in a warm, albeit loud, tone. While her facial expression shows fear when in the spotlight, she continues to speak in a clear concise manner.