Techseer
Techseers are Tech Priests 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.[1c]
Overview
Techseers are minister and mechanic. Their tools are the unguent, the hammer, and the prayer. They can repair broken machine spirits and restore their anima to functionality countless times. While the artificers 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.[1b] They are necessary in the same way that a hammer and bellows are necessary for forgecraft.[1c]
A techseer's duties aboard voidships include maintaining the sanctity of the ship’s systems. During 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.[1c]
Techseers 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.[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.[1b]
Known Techseers
- Techseer Erasmus Luren of Gryphonne IV, head Techseer of the Peregrinus
See also
Trivia
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- Lectors have some indication of being superiors to techseers.[1c] Techseers and Lectors have a significant degree of overlap in responsibilities and attitudes. Both dogmatically seek to maintain the set strictures of the Cult Mechanicus. Their priorities tend to maintain these rules of the priesthood, as well as the purity of Machine Spirits and the spirits of members of the Cult Mechanicus.
