Pinny Screwbolt

Summary
Pinny Screwbolt, otherwise known as "Lil Green" by some, is a Gnome Priest working for the Arclight Association, in between her work as a priest and as a medic for the Rustbolt Resistance. Chronically overworked, but with a habit of going missing for long periods of time due to circumstances out of her control, she tries her best. Helpful and trying to do the right thing at all times, she is perhaps good to a fault. Some would call her 'Lawful Good', or just 'Stupid Good' depending on who you ask.

Physical Description
A natural Gnome of flesh, with green eyes and hair to match. Pinny is a tired-looking individual whos smiling face struggles to hide her exhaustion with the world around her at all times.

Her left hand is a brass mechanical prosthetic, the four-fingered artificial hand always carries a fresh shine as it is well maintained.

Some rumor that her hair is not naturally Green, but Pinny would never admit that to be the case.

Gear
Wearing thick leather gloves and boots, along with her green goggles and green workmans shirt she is dressed as a tinker should be, albeit one with an obsession for a color with a wavelength between 495-570 nm.

Always carrying a toolbox, a wrench and a prayer book with her at all times. Pinny is equipped for most of what her line of work should throw at her, however, adventuring with the Arclight Association never goes as planned despite one's preparations.

Her mechanical left hand has a solar panel on the back, designed for integration with the holy light in an experiment to create faith powered technology. Along with several prisms on the palm, cut and engineered with inspiration from Draenic gem based technology in an experimental attempt to amplify and focus the effects of light-based spell casting.

Early Life
Born and raised in the Wetlands, Menethil Harbour, Pinny Screwbolt was the daughter of two industrious Gnomes who worked in the fishing trade. With her family being too poor to send her to the finer engineering academies of Gnomeregan, Pinny was taught her skills as a mechanic by her parents while they worked, helping them maintain small boat engines and the various contraptions they invented and used to catch schools of fish with.

As was the case with many Gnomes, she lost her parents when Gnomeregan fell to the Trogg menace. Her parents had visited the city to spend time with her grandfather who was working as a tinker in the Gnomish capital. While her parents perished in the Trogg attacks, her grandfather was able to escape before the Irradiation filled the city and survived.

Without her parents to guide her, Pinny took an interest in the military. Growing more obsessed with the need to retake Gnomeregan and restore the Gnomish people to their rightful place. Taking on a more intense patriotic streak to her personality during this time.

Career Soldier
Joining the Alliance military in time for the opening of the gates of Ahn'Qiraj, Pinny had the incredible misfortune of facing Qiraji in her first battle as a private. Conversely, she had the incredible fortune to survive that encounter and was promoted to Corporal after demonstrating appropriate ability and to take the place of her squads Corporal who perished in the battle of Ahn'Qiraj.

After several months of routine patrols, guard work and battles with Ice Trolls in Dun Morogh, and taking part in several small incursions into the irradiated Gnomeregan, she was then promoted to Sergeant and given command of her own small squad of four Gnomes, including an individual called Picla.

When the Naxxramas invasions occurred, Pinny and her squad were required to assist the Ironforge Guard in defense of the Dwarven capital and they performed their role admirably.

Following this, and the relative peace that occured on Azeroth as the primary military focus of the Alliance became Outland and stopping the mad tyrant of the Black Temple. Pinny's skill and knowledge of boats meant she was assigned to the navy to patrol the waters around Khaz Modan for pirates to keep the peace in the meantime. During this time, she entered a relationship with Picla and the two became married briefly, before regretting the decision and divorcing him after finding out he was embezzling funds and the relationship and subsequent marriage had been a complex and roundabout means of tax evasion. In her own words, "He was a lout and a scumbag, my mistake."

When the Scourge invaded from Northrend, the ship Pinny served on was assigned to assist in the war effort off the Southern coast of Northrend, near the Howling Fjord. However, after a disastrous encounter with a Necropolis that ended in most of the crew being massacred by Ghouls, Pinny suffered from a post-traumatic stress disorder from what she had seen and was honorably discharged, receiving a meager Sergeant's discharge benefits and free access to Gnomish counseling.

Between Careers
After a year of counseling, Pinny began working as a freelance mechanic in Ironforge. Self-employed but taking on contracts to tend to mechanostriders, mechano-hogs and sometimes even steam tanks. Spending several years during this, business strongest during wartime as was evident when the Cataclysm, Pandaria war and the Draenor invasion were in full swing.

She was also distraught to learn that Menethil Harbour had been wrecked in the Cataclysm, but proud of her home that the citizens just seemed to stick it out and continue operating out of a flooded keep. That Wetlands survivalism is something to be proud of.

Arclight Career
Eventually looking to find a new stable career to support herself with, instead of relying on contracted Mechanic work, Pinny came into contact with the Arclight Association and found employment there.

Assisting the Association in several expeditions, including the discovery and recovery of Unit Jim-01, a Mechagnome, from a lost titan facility under the ocean. Then volunteering with several Association members to join the Battle for Lordaeron after taking part in the War of Thorns. Pinny Screwbolt took part in the Superintendent elections after Ermalina Sparkblade's second term and won the position. After a brief tenure of trying to push the Association to follow state ideals and receive more state funding in place the corporate sponsorships that it was currently receiving, she went missing and became lost at sea while trying to rescue Cindy who had drifted out into the ocean after an accident.

While working with the Association and before becoming lost at sea, Pinny also discovered faith in the form of the Holy Light.

Priesthood
Meeting a Dwarf priest who had come to Boralus as a missionary. Pinny came to a profound realization about the nature of the Light. If faith can have a measured effect on the world through magical power, suitable belief and idealism can be harnassed similar to existing schools of more conventional magic which in turn can be compared to a science. With the formula of Faith = Magic = Science in her mind, Pinny Screwbolt began to study and understand the faith of the Holy Light from a mechanical perspective.

Normally, this wouldn't be enough to learn how to channel the light. But Pinny already lived by a personal code of trying to do the right thing and the three virtues (Respect, Tenacity, and Compassion) came naturally to her as a result, and so she became indoctrinated into the Church of the Holy Light. Studying and developing her skills, learning the appropriate prayers to channel the light while also working for the Arclight Association and trying to reform it for the better.

While studying as a priest, the time she spent doing that cut into the time she would have spent maintaining the soldier's physique she used to have, fully transitioning her from what could be described as a 'warrior' to a priest.

Disappearance and Mechagon
After being lost at sea, Pinny Screwbolt spent several months surviving by repurposing her tools and the engine of her small boat into a solar-powered water filter. Desperately experimenting with the power of the light on solar technology in order to survive, she was able to throw together a rudimentary battery she could power with her own faith to filter the seawater with. Surviving on this, and the fish she could catch in the ocean, Pinny traveled for months before happening upon Mechagon Isle sometime before the rest of the Alliance found the island. Recovered in secret by an elderly Mechagnome couple who were concerned about the threat of King Mechagon, she was nursed back to health in secret in a scrapheap home on the junkyard surface of the island.

After a Trogg attack, Pinny lost her left hand defending the couple but was able to fight off the attacker. Losing consciousness, she later woke up in the Rustbolt Resistance base with a replacement left hand and was welcomed to the resistance after showing a determination to protect others at risk to herself. After this, she assisted the Rustbolt Resistance as a mechanic and a medic, using her knowledge of prosthetic limbs to mend the mechanical parts of the injured and the light to repair the organic flesh.

After the Alliance expedition came into contact with the Rustbolt Resistance, Pinny was reunited with the Arclight Association. And assisted them in a few ventures on the island, in between her work as a medic for the resistance. Staying behind to help in Rustbolt while Arclight had adventures elsewhere, however.

Experimenting more with solar power and its interaction with the holy light. Pinny has since discovered a way to power her own prosthetic left hand with her own faith, by channeling the light into a solar panel on the back of the hand. And is eager to experiment further with this technology for the good of Gnomekind.

Finally, after joining the Arclight Association on an expedition to Nazmir. She was kidnapped by Nexus-Prince Khazim and nobody has seen her since.