Leroy "Generous" Ruby

Leroy "Generous" Roland Ruby, thirteen, born July 10, 1872 AE, is the younger brother of Leona Ruby, the youngest child of Theophilus and Maria Ruby, and the assistant of Cedric Miller. He is not a magician but a Tinker, an ordinary human believed to have extraordinary capabilities with invention and crafting. He flees the plantation on which he was born and his family in hopes of making a name from himself in the Empire. Cedric offers to help him get there as long as the boy becomes his assistant.