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'''Techseers''' are [[Tech Priest]]s specialised in prayer and repairing [[machine spirits]]. Techseers function to sanctify and tend to the souls of machinery and have various suborders of priests fulfilling these tasks alongside them. They are necessary in the same way that a hammer and bellows are necessary for forgecraft.{{Fn|1c}}
==Overview==
Techseers are minister and mechanic. Their tools are the unguent, the hammer, and the prayer. They can repair broken [[machine spirit]]s and restore their anima to functionality countless times. While the [[Artisan|artificer]]s can patch-weld a holed plate of armour or rethread the crystalline circuitry of a [[cogitator]], techseers repaire the souls of machines. Without their sanctification, armour would shatter beneath the merest blow; cogitators would falter when confronted with the simplest inputs.{{Fn|1b}} They are necessary in the same way that a hammer and bellows are necessary for forgecraft.{{Fn|1c}}
A techseer's duties aboard voidships include maintaining the sanctity of the ship’s systems. During [[Warp jump|Warp travel]] techseers might be found leading 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]], and [[runic hammer]]. The chief techseer of the vessel themself would be unencumbered, as befitted their station.{{Fn|1c}}
