[@shylarah]
 Actually, I have a concern about Madrys.  If the core is a foot in diameter, and if Madrys herself is a big metal wolf, and if one vial of ether lasts her 2-4 hours...how many vials of ether would Rodion have to pack to bring with him?  *concerned*  Unless perhasp she herself transforms into some sort of vehicle that runs off a more standard steam-ether engine.

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Right now, I was thinking that for normal functioning, her ether usage is minimal, but in a fight that ether usage skyrockets. 

[@Lovejoy]
 I really liked your post! That line about the Grace being beautiful because it's functional was really cool and I feel like Deva would be overjoyed to hear that. I do have some questions about that blue wisp of ether that can allow him to see into the Karamzina. It seems a bit... much? Like can he just send that blue wisp anywhere and see what's inside that location? How does it work, exactly? It seems like it has to do with I-XVII's vision, which is cool, but from what I got out of the post it appears like it lets him convert things he sees in the physical realm into miniature models for him to move around and examine? That part I'm fine with. The part that I'm unsure about is this x-ray vision ability and him being able to spiritually manifest himself inside his workshop within the ark and see exactly what's in it without him ever being in there before. I don't think you mentioned him having this ability, and I don't get how it's supposed to work. I might ask you to change your post a bit.

Also, as much as I like the idea that the ark was being made with his own input, that can't really be the case, since Phoenix didn't know they were going to El until recently and so him having any say into what goes into the Karamzina wouldn't be in keeping with the timeframe. I'll allow him to maybe have sent word for them to include some quick customizations to the existing worskshop that cater to his needs (maybe he let them known as soon as he found out about the existence of the Karamzina), but any further Rodion-specific additions to the Karamzina wouldn't fit, at least at the onset. 

Also, about the motorcycle, can't he only have one "construct" available to him at once? If he turns the motorcycle "on" will the Madrys float out of its wolf configuration and then go into his motorcycle?

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Yep, I done fucked up...I meant to PM it to you, but then I forgot...

Anyways, I didn't outline his goggles in the CS and have been working on them. There is a extreme drawback to what he is doing. He has to use his own ether in order to see inside the Karamzina and at this point can only keep it up for thirty minutes at the most. The drawback comes from having to drain himself of his own ether, which we have already established to be an extremely painful process.

I figured that since a month had passed since they were told of their trip to El, that Rodion would have been able to send a request for a workshop and foundry.

As for materializing in his rooms, he ain't doing that. He cannot, and never will be able to interact with things through his version of 'sight'. All he is doing is seeing the outline of the object and any and all ether that is within it. 

Lastly, the tiny core he just pulled out is merely a 'key'. It is not the bike's heart. He would physically have to remove Madrys' core and put it into the bike in order for it to run.