Finding tools, weapons, vehicles, or almost anything else in the Wasteland is difficult and dangerous.
However, scrap collectors, also known as scavengers, do just that: they search through the ruins of cities and the debris of megalopolises to find things they can sell or trade in some settlement. They are experts at repairing and fixing machines, albeit not very elegantly, often creating complex devices to solve simple tasks rather than the other way around.
They are possibly the faction that can move most freely in this area of the Wasteland, as everyone is interested in trading with them for materials, and it is not a good idea to attack those who supply them to you. That doesn’t stop a group of scavengers from being attacked to steal your goods, so while they may not be the best at fighting, they do have wits and gadgets to defend themselves, and they know their way around dangerous places like no other.
Scrap dealers are eccentric to say the least, dressed in all kinds of costumes and carrying instruments they have collected, the older the better, along with odds and ends of all shapes and colours.
There is usually no particular organisation among its members; each individual in the group specialises in a specific function, from scouts capable of sneaking anywhere without being detected, to alchemists who prepare all kinds of compounds, to inventors with the craziest ideas. There are no bosses, no one to organise things; at most, everything is decided in assemblies where everyone has a say.
They are usually always on the move, typically in caravans, searching for new places to obtain materials and stopping at settlements to trade what they find. They are generally considered odd… but necessary. In the Puentechatarra area, almost all scrap dealers are linked to Samanthia, the only place they could call home. While in other areas of the Moor they tend to be much more heterogeneous in their clothing, wearing whatever scraps they can find, in the groups in this area, the Baroness’s particular style, so imbued with the old novels of Jules Verne, has become almost canonical for this faction.
