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| − | Techseers are no stranger to broken [[machine spirit]]s. As a techseer, he had restored to functionality the anima of countless machines. While the [[artificer]]s could patch-weld a holed plate of armour or rethread the crystalline circuitry of a [[cogitator]], techseers repaired their souls. Without his sanctification, the armour would shatter beneath the merest blow; the cogitator would falter when confronted with the simplest inputs. Techseers are minister and mechanic. Their tools are the unguent, the hammer, and the prayer.{{Fn|1b}} | + | Techseers are no stranger to broken [[machine spirit]]s. As a techseer, he had restored to functionality the anima of countless machines. While the [[Artisan|artificer]]s could patch-weld a holed plate of armour or rethread the crystalline circuitry of a [[cogitator]], techseers repaired their souls. Without his sanctification, the armour would shatter beneath the merest blow; the cogitator would falter when confronted with the simplest inputs. Techseers are minister and mechanic. Their tools are the unguent, the hammer, and the prayer.{{Fn|1b}} |
A techseer's duties aboard voidships include maintaining the sanctity of the ship’s systems. During [[Warp jump|Warp travel]] techseers lead processions throughout the ship. They are followed at a procedurally correct distance by a small train of acolytes and thralls, who each bore one of the many tools of a techseer's craft – [[electro-censer]], [[apotropaic totem]], [[crozius mechanicus]], [[runic hammer]]. The cheif techseer of the vessel themself would be unencumbered, as befitted their station.{{Fn|1c}} | A techseer's duties aboard voidships include maintaining the sanctity of the ship’s systems. During [[Warp jump|Warp travel]] techseers lead processions throughout the ship. They are followed at a procedurally correct distance by a small train of acolytes and thralls, who each bore one of the many tools of a techseer's craft – [[electro-censer]], [[apotropaic totem]], [[crozius mechanicus]], [[runic hammer]]. The cheif techseer of the vessel themself would be unencumbered, as befitted their station.{{Fn|1c}} | ||
Revision as of 03:16, 26 October 2024
Techseers are Tech Priests specialized in prayer and repairing machine spirits. Techseers, and the various suborders of priests whose function was to sanctify and tend to the machine spirits of vessels and vehicles, are necessary in the same way that a hammer and bellows were necessities for forgecraft.[1c]
Overview
Techseers are no stranger to broken machine spirits. As a techseer, he had restored to functionality the anima of countless machines. While the artificers could patch-weld a holed plate of armour or rethread the crystalline circuitry of a cogitator, techseers repaired their souls. Without his sanctification, the armour would shatter beneath the merest blow; the cogitator would falter when confronted with the simplest inputs. Techseers are minister and mechanic. Their tools are the unguent, the hammer, and the prayer.[1b]
A techseer's duties aboard voidships include maintaining the sanctity of the ship’s systems. During Warp travel techseers lead processions throughout the ship. They are followed at a procedurally correct distance by a small train of acolytes and thralls, who each bore one of the many tools of a techseer's craft – electro-censer, apotropaic totem, crozius mechanicus, runic hammer. The cheif techseer of the vessel themself would be unencumbered, as befitted their station.[1c]
They are often dogmatic, demanding that all discovery conform to their narrow conception of accepted thought. Some tech priests see this as restraining the Quest for Knowledge, doing nothing to advance the Quest, to break new ground in the continuing search for clarity and comprehension. There was no room for inspiration or invention in their world-view, no capacity for the unexpected or unknown.[1c] They abhor the mutant and the Xenos, often seeking to purge and destroy any encountered, rather than studied as more curious tech priests might be wont to do.
Known Techseers
- Lector-Dogmatic Videx
- Techseer Erasmus Luren
- Supreme Lector Katrovax
