Technomancy
Technomancy is a Psychic Discipline concerning manipulation of machines by a psyker. It provides abilities to commune with or attack machine spirits; enemies of the psyker will find their weapons fail, useful machines either come to life in the technomancer's presence and, if fallen to disrepair, come back with renewed vitality.[1]
Overview
The skill is rare to emerge naturally; those born with the aptitude towards technomancy come to innately understand the workings of any machine they perceive, unaware of the supernatural nature of their skills. They are able to possess understanding of machines to the level no tech-priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus can pretend to.[2b] The more active skill to influence machine spirits allows even for obfuscation of own life signs and manipulations of AI minds, akin to the discipline of telepathy.[2d]
Abilities
- Blessing of the Machine God - The user reaches towards a mind of a spirit to route its anger against the enemy and lash out in autonomous fury.[1]
- Objuration Mechanicum - The user compels the enemy's weapons to betray them: grenades explode in hand, guns backfire, power cells lethally overheat, etc.[1]
- Fury of Medusa - The user channels Medusa's electrical storms, unleashing an electrical wraith that surges through the enemy.[1]
- Psysteel Armour - The user summons warp energy and binds it into psysteel that coats the armour and skin of tanks and allies with hardened metal able to deflect shots and melee blows.[1]
- Reforge - A chant to urge a machine towards self-repair: reknitting wires, resealing damaged cells and restructuring armour.[1]
- Machine Flense - The charge of the psyker is projected towards an enemy's machine, rending it asunder with their mind and repurposing the iron flesh into projectiles aimed towards its masters.[1]
Notable technomancers
- The Emperor – Noted for healing damage to the Knight Ares Lictor when he came to Mars post-Age of Strife.[2a]
- Dalia Cythera — Current Guardian of the Void Dragon,[2e] noted for her input towards the Akashic Reader project[2c] and her skirmish with the Kaban Machine.[2d]
- Gryvuus Krohl — Iron Hands Librarian.[1]
- Lysee the Murderess — the highest ranking Tech-Witch of the heretek Forge-World Sinophia.[3]
See also
Sources
- 1: Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 62
- 2: Mechanicum (Novel):
- 3: Dark Heresy: Creatures Anathema, pg. 32
