Hester is a well known airship designer who also dabbles a bit into automatons, taking inspiration from automata to incorporate into her designs, though her spouse is the expert in automatons whom Hester has learned from and shares an interest with.
Her airship designs are known for their reliability and safety as not a single one that is in service has had a catastrophic failure barring the occasional sabotage from rivals and angry mages, yet even with those proven acts of sabotage casualties are small and injuries pretty negligible. Another part of her designs that is unique is that she has managed to blend magicka into the mechanics, engines and structure, something that is deemed nearly impossible due to steam engines draining magicka from the surrounding area which means there is a very delicate balance for technoly and magicka to co-exist but generally incompatible on a large scale such as airships.

How she has been able to crack this problem is thanks to her mother being a magicka user, much like her entire family line in fact, so Hester has broken tradition and almost all ties with her family because of her love for technology. Though due to her bloodline she has inherited some ability in using magicka, though lacking the training to excell in it it is just enough for her to be able to perform tests on scale models and calculate upwards to find that large scale balance needed for it to work. Ofcourse this method requires regular maintenance of the magickal fields and enchantments and with magick users havign a natural aversion for technology it is not easy to find many people to perform this maintenance. Thankfully there are some who are just greatful to have at least some purpose left for their abilities with more and more governments banning or restricting the use of magicka so they either work for below minimum wage or get royal wages due to how rare they have become in some places. While Hester had employed those people at low wages she has improved their working conditions and wages over time due to her growign reknown in the field of airship design and construction allowing her to push back against the poloticians who now relied on her safe airships for their travels and the commercial opportunities they bring.

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This character is loosely inspired by the game Arcanum, a steampunk style world where magic also still exists but it's existence is in the balance because of the industrial revolution. So I figured with the news of the sequel perhaps finally happening after all these years it was a good time to dig up the old character sheet and altering it a bit after obtaining this character design.
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Art by   -soda-
Character belongs to me   chakat_blackwater