<Lennart> (Lennart is middle aged going on older, Swedish-equivalent immigrant and veteran who kept his "solider name" and never went back where he came from. Dresses conservatively, sports an immaculate silvery moustache and beard contrasting his grey fur)
<Lennart> (Gopher)
<Lennart> (Lennart is somewhat deaf due to his time in the army, is very knowledgeable about explosives and excavations, and displays a worrying disregard for civilian safety regulations. Very steady hands)
Garnet> (Thanks. And I'll assume we don't know about any special factors in him joining the RIS.)
<Lennart> (It pays, and they don't mind the smell of black powder that's permanently worked into his fur.)
Lennart> (Generally assume the basic skillset of a retired combat engineer who did his tour of service around the time of the Franco-Prussian War.)
Lennart> (After further cursory wiki trawling, I'm somewhat inclined to say Lennart served in Emperor Jaron's army, assuming I understand the timeline.)
<Lennart> (He's that ageless kind of old that got to 48 and just started weathering like driftwood. He attributes it to a teaspoon of gunpowder in his coffee every morning.)
<Lennart> (Seventy works, my own grandmother passed 90 some years ago and only very recently gave up driving after she could no longer *memorize* directions to a place she'd never been before)