Augur (Logis)
The Augury are a sub-discipline of the Adeptus Mechanicus' Logis Order. They are magi who make efforts to map the immaterium.[1a]
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Overview
These empyric cartographers are rare. The warp frustrates all attempts to comprehend it, whether one attempts to establish a definite framework for analysis or principles of its essential nature. Worse, it was a corruptive force. The danger inherent in peering into the abyss was one of the few things that was truly understood about the warp, and the safeguards required to permit the work of augury were extensive and arcane. Few acolytes of the Cult Mechanicus were willing to accept the derision of their peers for committing themselves to such an inexact field. Some of these unorthodox magi, however, revel in it.[1a]
An augur can use their imprecise means to predict the path of objects travelling in the Warp. Some augury have been able to predict the time and location of where a specified Space Hulks would next appear with high accuracy. Magos Lyterix was able to predict the reemergence of the macro-agglomeration Misery's Daughter. Their calculations were accurate to 2.46 astronomic units.[1a]
Methods
The methods and tools used by an augur differ from more orthodox tools of a tech-priest. Most mechanical devices are tools for determining certainty, for parsing reality through their lens to arrive at an essential truth. But the empyrean is, by its nature, uncertain. Untrustworthy. Therefore, the tools of the augur must be equally changeable. The inconstancy of the human mind is one such changeable tool utilized.[2b]
The augur’s craft is not easily explained to the uninitiated, one method used to seek tranquil paths through the immaterium involves the utilization of the minds of multiple individuals with latent or otherwise hidden Warp-sensitivity. Sometimes 20 individuals are used. The patients are dressed in sterile medicae gowns and each is strapped to a metal gurney, connected by hoses and cables to a brass-bound medicae cogitator. Autoscribe servitors stand between the beds, recording the murmur of pained words of the individuals. Most patients remain still, save for an uninterrupted motion of their lips. The augur observes this, data-slate in hand. Every few moments a patient's limb might twitch, summoning the augur to their side to briefly interact with a control mechanism through which several plastek cables run and end their mild convulsions.[2b]
Known Augury
- Magos Jeremet Lyterix
