I was going to post to help you if you wanted to make an artificial being but you retracted on the idea before I could post 
I was going to say if you wanted to do that idea, you may just want to eliminate the being aetherial part and focus first on how your character works. For instance...
I play a 'Doll' made of flesh but has some key traits that show her artificial side.
1. She has no body heat below the head nor does she feel without seeing.
2. She has half her emotions so at times she is unable to feel anger.
3. She is hollow say for key locations and her head containing her brain (a modified sprite core) and that's it.
Because of this her supposed aether levels is nearly non-existent. Sat for her head and the system that keeps her working.
From one artificial rper to another...
DO NOT: focus on too much aether. Because the character is fake or made, it should either only have enough to power it's motions like a golem or use a power supply like ceruleum.
DO NOT: start the character off as someone who has lived FAR beyond an era where that race may not of existed in more (it's around the fifth era where magic was founded after an ice age if I remember correctly) than one ways
And to prevent Mary Sue, DO: put limits in place.
Perhaps the creation cannot eat solid food or they are devoid of love and affection. As mine has a few limits like she cannot taste unless aether is involved or splashing some Ether on it works. And she can eventally kill herself if she overused her weapons. Worst she suffered was cracked horns which she can feel that pain.
I hope this helps and you are free to look at her wiki if you want.
I was going to say if you wanted to do that idea, you may just want to eliminate the being aetherial part and focus first on how your character works. For instance...I play a 'Doll' made of flesh but has some key traits that show her artificial side.
1. She has no body heat below the head nor does she feel without seeing.
2. She has half her emotions so at times she is unable to feel anger.
3. She is hollow say for key locations and her head containing her brain (a modified sprite core) and that's it.
Because of this her supposed aether levels is nearly non-existent. Sat for her head and the system that keeps her working.
From one artificial rper to another...
DO NOT: focus on too much aether. Because the character is fake or made, it should either only have enough to power it's motions like a golem or use a power supply like ceruleum.
DO NOT: start the character off as someone who has lived FAR beyond an era where that race may not of existed in more (it's around the fifth era where magic was founded after an ice age if I remember correctly) than one ways
And to prevent Mary Sue, DO: put limits in place.
Perhaps the creation cannot eat solid food or they are devoid of love and affection. As mine has a few limits like she cannot taste unless aether is involved or splashing some Ether on it works. And she can eventally kill herself if she overused her weapons. Worst she suffered was cracked horns which she can feel that pain.
I hope this helps and you are free to look at her wiki if you want.
