Albert is an imposing Half-Orc woman standing six feet tall with powerful shoulders and hands scarred by hot metal. Her skin is a mottled olive green, and she wears a set of fine, grease-stained silk robes over her sturdy scale mail armor. A pair of brass goggles often rests atop her forehead, keeping back her wild, soot-streaked dark hair. She carries an oversized smithing hammer at her hip and her pack is perpetually overflowing with gears, wires, and odd-smelling vials.

Albert is a whirlwind of energetic focus, often speaking in rapid-fire technical jargon before remembering most people do not understand how a pressure valve works. She is surprisingly boisterous and friendly for her size, though she has a sharp tongue for anyone who tries to scam her, mostly because she knows all the tricks of the trade already. She genuinely enjoys fixing things, whether it is a broken clock or a broken law, and possesses a boundless, somewhat chaotic curiosity.

Born in a harsh orcish war-band, Albert was expected to be a simple shock trooper due to her massive strength. However, she was far more interested in how the siege engines functioned than how to swing an axe. She eventually ran away to a human city, where she survived for years by posing as 'Dr. Albert Oonstien', a master engineer from a distant land. She sold useless trinkets that used simple magnetism or springs to appear magical, funding her private research into actual artifice while laughing at the gullible nobility. One day, a street urchin she had befriended fell ill, and Albert realized her 'doctor' persona was a lie that could not save anyone. Using her real intellect, she spent three sleepless days and nights modifying a water filter into a crude life-saving device. This realization shifted her path. She still uses her charlatan skills to navigate the world and manipulate the wealthy, but her goal now is to use her genuine inventions to protect the marginalized, blending her half-orcish might with a brilliant, self-taught mind.