Dour

- he's postwar but his mother was prewar, and apart of the fire criminal . . . I wouldn't say underworld because nobody in fire care enough to stop them
- and you don't survive a long time in sorneith without learning to read the signs
- so she fled into the expanse when the great furnace began shaking, incorporating herself into lightning outlaw groups
- thus surviving the explosion and war
- and being among the first to reenter the waste once the lavafloes cooled





the great furnace's eruption during the great war smoothed flat the waste, and the profilgerates rushed to re-marr the landscape