It was... simple. But good. Technology wasn't very advanced, but there was magic instead. The teams here, they're actually named after the old nations of the surface world. Hydra was a particularly swampy region... I left home to travel around from town to town looking for fix-it jobs where the work was needed-- which was almost constantly in a wet and muddy climate. After years of badgering, I finally got the Head Engineer in the capital city of Cepheus to take me on as an apprentice, even though I was generally considered too old...
... Hahaha, see? There I go again. Referring to that person as "I" even though it wasn't me at all.