The Lady Poguala Waaris-Dawntreader is a product of a marriage of business partners, an extremely wealthy industrial gem making family of a small but mineral-rich planet, Daavrix, and a second-tier Alderaani family of said gem exports, the Dawntreaders. Her parents, Zihane Mihansi-Waaris and Peregrin Dawntreader, raised their two daughters (she has a sister named Zerabia) between the two planets, whilst Poguala was in training to become a gemmaker, as her grandmother, Zahar Mihansi, had been. Poguala had exhibited excellent manual dexterity and attention to detail from a very young age, the gift of her mother's people, whose culture and expression center around the mining and cutting of gems. Poguala is steeped in Daavrixian thought, the result of her pride and extensive training. She is b