Quara was captured by the Dourhands in a slave-raid on a now empty goblin city beneath the Blue Mountains. Deprived of her home and forced into service by the second most hated race in Middle Earth, Quara uses every trick she knows simply to survive. These range from her rudimentary knowledge of combustibles and traps to sufficient skill at stealth to make even a hobbit wonder whether that really was not the breeze passing through the grass. Her single greatest asset, however, is her inventiveness. Give her some vines, a container of oil, and the order to cause chaos in Ered Luin, and she won't burn down the forest. She'll make the dwarves burn it down with themselves in the midst of the inferno while cursing an imaginary dragon for stealing their wealth.