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==Lector==
'''Lectors''' are high ranking and powerful machine priests steeped in theological knowledge.{{Fn|1a}} They are of high rank in the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] and often puritanical in beliefs.{{Fn|1c}} If the Tech-Priest identifier with gender code signifier '''Lector-Dogmis''' in the case of female and '''Lector-Dogmatic''' in the male of male. However, these high ranking Tech-Priest leaders are usually so far down the road of enlightenment that they entirely forego the human form. The forms of their mechasapient apotheosis are abstract, even by the standards of the Machine Cult. They are one with the holy word and might modify their forms to that of a box with tendrils{{Fn|2a}} or brains held aloft in liquid-filled cylinders.{{Fn|1d}}
*Supreme Lector [[Katrovax]] of [[Gryphonne IV]]{{Fn|1d}}
*Lector-Dogmatic [[Videx]] of [[Metalica]]
*Lector-Dogmis [[Alixia Kalisperis]] of [[Accatran]]{{Fn|2a}}
Moving Lector and Lector-Dogmatic/Dogmis to own page. Them having techseer underlings and overrall being very similar isn't entirely explicit enough to catagorize them as techseers without assumption.
They are often dogmatic, demanding that all discovery conform to their narrow conception of accepted thought. Tech priests of more unorthodox natures might see their attitudes 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.{{Fn|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.{{Fn|1b}}
==Known Techseers==
*Techseer [[Erasmus Luren]] of [[Gryphonne IV]], head Techseer of the ''[[Peregrinus]]''
**{{Endn|2a}}: Chapter 5
**{{Endn|2b}}: Chapter 15
**{{Endn|2b2c}}: Chapter 16
[[Category:Adeptus Mechanicus]]
