Grace Conrad – Gracie Conrad (Junior Engineer)
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Grace_Conrad
https://www.pirate101central.com/wiki/Companion:Gracie_Conrad_(Junior_Engineer)
https://pirate101.fandom.com/wiki/Gracie_Conrad
An engineer from Marleybone, she first approaches Wizards for help gathering materials to repair the leaking domes in The Promenade. Later, she appears in The Arboretum in the Science Center where she requests assistance once again.
Gracie Conrad is a Pirate101 companion in Marleybone that is rewarded after completing the quest The Guns in Marleybone.
Grace Conrad (Gracie to her friends) has ships and sailing in her blood: she comes from a long line of famous Merchant Marines. Gracie had hoped to follow in their footsteps but her father, the famed Captain Conrad, insisted his daughter get a proper education instead. The first in her family to go to university, Gracie earned high marks at Strathclydesdale College in Albion, greatest Engineering University in the Spiral.
After graduation, Grace soon grew bored to tears designing factories and bridges. Struck by a desire to see the Spiral like her sailing forebears, Grace joined the Spiral Geographic Society and traveled far abroad, studying archaeological sites in Krokotopia before joining Thurston Plunkett’s Grand Celestian Expedition. Her travels were then cut short by the hostilities with Valencia. Grace did her part by working tireless to repair and refit Royal Navy ships at the Main Docks on The Isle of Dogs.”
When Gracie Conrad was introduced to P101 her bio specifically stated that she had visited Celestia as part of the expeditionary crew. However, no in game reason has been given for the fact that Gracie Conrad looks more like Edith Benchley than Grace Conrad. It is clear though that Pirate101 development team intended Grace (Gracie) to be a Wizard101 crossover.
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