[@Mokley]
1. I can agree to that, having him pause every couple of hours or so to rewind his mechanical limbs would be an interesting touch I think, actually. Just so long as I don't have to arbitrarily mention that he's doing it every single time it becomes necessary. But that does work for me. 

2. Pictures are indeed fun.

3. I'll let Kaiachi answer in greater detail for her character later, but I can shed a bit of light on why Alil'taris is aware. When creating this concept, we were aware that magic was not going to be allowed. I just want to say that now. However, when you mentioned that magic HAD existed at one point, we had the idea that perhaps Razsh'Kiall came upon a stone with "magical" properties. Going along the vein of thinking that magic is simply science that is yet to be explained, we figured Razsh'Kiall would like to study this stone. Upon many months of research, our dear tinkerer would have come to a hypothesis that this stone, in synchronization with with an artificial body, could create "life". Essentially, the catalyst for his apprentice's existence wouldn't be "magical" so much as "fantastical".

If this idea isn't to your liking, we can try to work out something different, or if an agreement cannot be reached, we can make an entirely different character.

EDIT: Realized that I didn't leave much else to Kaiachi to explain, but we're working together on this whole thing anyways so it's alright. :p