Bernadette Gleason was born into an industrious family tribe of salvagers, engineers and mechanics. She grew up in one of the large post-industrial megacities of the world, which like so many others, had fallen into ruin and disrepair after the great cataclysm and the “RE:initialization”.

Nariko is the daughter of a travelling merchant who was selling and procuring advanced technology and wares along the old pan-Asian trading routes. Her father was a kind man who delighted in passing on his knowledge of composite craftsmanship to his daughter, involving her in tech projects in their spare time.