Duretta Bosque

Duretta Bosque is the head artificer of the Empireal Department of Artifice of the Alberean Empire and royal architect to Solidor II.

Bosque is a household name in the academic communities of Toussaint. A living legend among the scholars, she is famous for her work in mathematics and physics. However, in the last two decades, since the start of the Great War, she has gained notoriety for her work for the Alberean Empire on artifice weaponry and vehicles. Thanks to Bosque, great bounds have been lept in the understanding of the inner-workings of artifice, as well as the further mechanisation of the empireal military. As such, she is often credited as ushering in the second age of artifice.

However, Duretta's work had not always been out of her own volition, as she was forced into labour by the Empire during the Great War to work on the Forgefleet-Project.

During Episode 2 and Episode 5, it was revealed that Duretta Bosque had a very close connection to Maru, who used to be her star-student while she was a professor at the Pale Academy in Orzon. Bosque had hidden Maru away behind her bookcase at the Academy for nearly two years to shield her from the Witch Hunts that Ratio was continuing throughout the city of Orzon. Here, it was also revealed that Duretta only worked on the Forgefleet-Project reluctantly and wished to stop her work on artifice as soon as the war ended.

Appearance
Duretta is an elderly Dorenese woman with dark skin and a great amount of poise during her old age.