The Cult Mechanicus | Warhammer 40k Lore

Thank you all for watching.
Narrator: AI
Contents:
A Necessary Schism: 0:00
Theological Beliefs: 2:31
The Trinity: 9:48
The Machine Spirit: 15:31
Quest for Knowledge: 20:04
Mechanicus: 24:12
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[@lordshaxx2165]

Me, a mechatronics engineer: From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal

[@grimace4257]

Yuck.

[@maxwelldaly5845]

Lol

[@lukemclaughlin2184]

Fantastic game

[@chadstapp8698]

Yes the machine is immortal I'll have a new version of iPhone every year for eternity

[@starrisk]

​@@chadstapp8698it can last longer if not for the built in obsolescence by an entity called sales&marketing

[@nnkk7742]

The writing for this channel is top notch.

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you

[@thalastianjorus]

Hrm... This video pops up as I am making Toast for breakfast. Coincidence? I think not.

[@existingistiresome]

The tech priests want your toaster lol.

[@angry_zergling]

Sounds pretty hawt to me.

[@Scholarslore]

Hope you appeased the toasters machine spirit!

[@robdeskrd]

AaaaNNdd doNT FFFORGEET THHHE cyBerdOngs!

[@alexamg6675]

Ahh I love this cult I would be accepted as a mechanic of airflow heating and cooling systems

[@angry_zergling]

You mean a Duct Seer? Praise to thee!

[@UGNAvalon]

Ah, a proud member of the Order of H’Vac (not to be confused with the Dark Mechanicum Cabal of Havoc) ;D

[@WolfA4]

As a monk of the school of environmental control, are hoodies seen as blasphemy?

[@UGNAvalon]

An adept of H'Vac? ;D (not to be confused with the Dark Mechanicus's Heretechs of Havoc)

[@Scholarslore]

There are none more sacred than the holy HVAC-priests

[@traktorsajt]

"The Omnissiah knows all, comprehends all." Magos Pasqal Haneumann

[@hatersgonnahateyo]

i love the David Attenborough vibe. trying to get into 40k and these videos are engaging

[@robcanisto8635]

before a copyright strike or something, this channel literally did have Attenborough's voice generated perfectly lol it was so dope

[@robcanisto8635]

most of the videos on this channel had been made already with the attenborough fake

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you

[@theotv5522]

Mechanicus: Praise the Omissiah Void Dragon: Yeah about the Omissiah...

[@leeh6317]

I’m a noob, please explain the void dragon

[@Scholarslore]

Yes yes, the machine god is definitely real, no way it would be an ancient C'tan buried beneath their world 👀

[@theotv5522]

@@leeh6317 Necrons killed a God race known as C'Tan They shattered them into tiny pieces and used as weapons These shards are still very powerful and each have their own names When the Emperor was still alive, he beaten and sealed 1 of these shards underneath Mars That shard is named Void Dragon Mars after some time suffered an apocalypse that force it's ppl to live underground After a while, Martians, aka Mechanicus ppl, randomly found a powerful deity about machines Mechanicus called this deity the Omissiah The Necrons are robots/machines and have insane tech You connect the dots

[@theotv5522]

@@leeh6317 Necrons killed their Gods called the C'tan, shattered them into pieces. Each of which all have names. When the Emperor was still alive he beaten and sealed one of these shards underneath Mars. The people on Mars had an apocalypse that forced them to live underground. Overtime they found a powerful deity they believe resides in machines. This is that C'tan shard, and it's name is Void Dragon. It's one of Necron most popular model.

[@strangereyes9594]

It is eerie to compare the Cult Mecanicus and how they see the machine spirit to the guys currently building AGI. Tech Priests they are, the Omissiah they want to bring about.

[@benjaminhenderson5025]

Im ready for assimilation

[@lasgalon]

The flesh is weak

[@alexrobison3121]

Ai is tech heresy from the dark and it's what caused the fall of the first galactic human empire

[@Scholarslore]

Indeed, I do wonder if there'll be a similar rejection of AI if AGI does in fact come into existence

[@strangereyes9594]

@@Scholarslore The reactions to OpenAI's Sora already had strong religious undertones, both in the rejection as well as with the embracing folks. Who knows, maybe the AI worshippers will indeed be seen as heretics, the ingredients are all there and mixed up already.

[@OliOilO]

This narrator is absolutely fantastic. May you bring glory to the emperor 🫡

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you!

[@theravenousrabbit3671]

Ah, what data-ful knowledge. Give thanks to the Omnissiah.

[@Scholarslore]

Praise be the great machine spirits

[@chainsawsubtlety9828]

"Steel isn't strong, Boy... Flesh is stronger. What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?"

[@kayvaanmcsharrowkyn6901]

THE "PRIMARCH-ITECT" NICE ONE MY BATTLE BROTHER!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Scholarslore]

One of the lost primarchs is 100% the machine god 😉

[@bryanmahnke805]

-nervously looking over at Vashtorr-

[@Scholarslore]

Lets just brush Vashtorr under the rug, and pretend he doesn't exist 👀

[@sonoban]

Please continue to make this content. It is very enjoyable.

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you very much 💙

[@warhammer2779]

Perfect hearing these as sermons. Awesome. Some of these feel like they end rather abruptly. I suggest ending them with something similar to: AMEN. Maybe: MAY THE EMPERORS' HOLY LIGHT PURIFY AND GUIDE US TO ENACT HIS WILL FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE.

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you, I find ending them really challenging! I'll try and draw the conclusions into something more natural though

[@warhammer2779]

@Scholarslore If you need some ideas, let me know. I grew up on the stage and I've presented before thousands of people. This kind of stuff comes natural to me.

[@vitsalava1251]

I really like how you chose to tackle lore videos, the documentary-esque narrators bring the whole thing together, the intonation work is great, and I enjoy your writing structure very much. Please keep at it, I'm personally looking forward to new Ork uploads.

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you, that's very kind. I do need to write some new Ork stuff soon, I'll try and get onto them in the coming weeks

[@mr.afrikaans1747]

I love this channel. Thank you!

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you!

[@hunterbarkes]

Great job as always😊

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you!

[@Takoala]

Thanks for the knowledge

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you for watching!

[@rylandclawson6148]

To be a tech priest of heated and cooled liquid and waste removal. A plumber in the year 2024

[@lbald489]

So good keep em coming

[@JacksonChristensen]

will you do a video on the gods of order ? for some unknown reason you are the only warhammer lore channel that i can watch for hours

[@rylandclawson6148]

This channel is awesome

[@jarodlojeck5150]

Anyone old enough to have owned an original NES understand the Machine Spirit better than any Tech Priest.

[@pauladamkim]

Excellent I would love to hear how they choose new members or are inducted into the ranks or increase in stature.

[@charlesballiet7074]

0:23 spiritual liege, matt ward would be proud lol

[@thatdutchguy89]

Such a cool universe

[@NinaFelwitch]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. So now I'm a robot. Praise the Omnissiah.

[@Fuhrious]

Once I heard the breathing of the AI narrator in this one, I couldn’t stop hearing it. 8:44

[@Thyranel]

How I love the mechanicus. Would love a video about the titan robots 🌟🌟🌟

[@aurorajones8481]

16:00 Well if this were all to be true then they should know the machine spirits speak to the Ork. For it is they who can put trash together and somehow make it fly to the moon. Now that's Machine spirit!

[@satch5471]

Follow me to the servitor reassignment area please

[@Scholarslore]

The Orks are far more in tune with technology than the mechanicus could ever dream to be!

[@dennisbernard11]

Thank you

[@cooperleroy5406]

I have a video suggestion; the Ogryn! I was listening to Gav and Bob and thought they would be a great topic for a video

[@AngryBootneck]

John Hurt lives again!

[@Von_Langstein]

I feel like you could easily make a pre-augmented or lightly augmented Conan - Cimmerian like tech barbarian character following The Riddle of Steel (which would be inline with the mechanics)

[@Von_Langstein]

In the Conan movies they revere humanities ability to create and work with steel. I could see a similar story playing out on a feudal world.

[@mfreed40k]

Created back when Gee Dubs had a sense of humor. Deus ex machina indeed.

[@sotiriospeithis6659]

Nice

[@reapersilthos2]

There seems to be a channel called Imperial iterator who was doing the attenborough thing you originally did recently, Not sure if their channel is trying to emulate your approach or not but its odd.....nice work here also hope ya rebrands been goin well.

[@ChemistyStudent]

The Machine Spirit= The magic smoke?

[@helloidharbl6753]

Stop popping Resistors, heretek!

[@The_Mimewar]

I’m getting a new prosthetic leg made, and I can have any pictures or icons placed under the resin. Mechanicus logo, or bloodseal from FullMetal Alchemist?

[@Erebusdidnothingwrongish]

Which AI voice are you using please? Are you voice acting? Love the channel 💯❤️😈🤖🫡

[@dude-jk2hn]

I can fix your machine, that you see as your spirit. - Tech support.

[@ProSimex84]

The Omnissiah truly processes your data.

[@slimryda866]

Any plans for Drach'nyen, and Ezekyle Abaddon ?

[@nopenope5626]

Church of the Broken God... may he be mended through your works.

[@WolfA4]

Mechanicus: "True AI are abominations!" Cawl the inferior: .>

[@HappyAccident06]

my fave

[@Corey_Lee_Slater]

My Father Prayed at the Alter of Tech. -I've been without him for fourty years now. -Happy Family Day...

[@synner707]

I need a scholar lore and vox in the void crossover. Writing and voice acting would be better than any live action 40k

[@JohnsonPadder]

Yayyyyyy

[@LiquidBlackWolf]

If the throne is keeping him alive.. and he is a perpetual. Then the question is... What way are they so? Just "reanimation" or how.. and even with how and why... Is the throne not the thing keeping him from returning to life.

[@Kane0123]

The cult would definitely be made up of assembly, c and rust programmers.

[@KingLich451]

I'm... I'm gonna... mechaniCOOMMMMMMMM

[@GargamelTheGreat]

I know that AI reads this...but still it's freaking impressive.

[@warrenpeace8304]

Black Library lore is the absolute best.

[@Cody27]

do you have to play a the droning noise in the background? very aggravating to try and listen to the voice when its like im sitting on a plane next to the engine

[@BaconSlay3r]

Ahh thought this was a reupload

[@Ghost51325]

What do the Mecanicus think of the Necrons?

[@edoardoturco8780]

They abhor it, one of their main tenants is not to trust xenos tecnology.

[@angry_zergling]

"Soulless sentience is the enemy of all." They're looked at as soulless sentience.

[@Necrotog82]

"There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal." "There is no strength in flesh, only weakness." "There is no constancy in flesh, only decay." "There is no certainty in flesh but death." - Credo Omnissiah

[@theotv5522]

Void Dragon: Lol

[@bees6273]

Yeeees

[@deevan1415]

The flesh is weak!

[@dot2562]

can you get BRIAN BLESSED to do one 😅

[@SuicidelG]

I can't help but think the Butlarians killed the omnissiah lol. I kind of hate how humanity is so backwards now despite their advanced tech.

[@HeaanLasai]

I should become a princep so I could mount a titan. Ride it all night long.

[@arandomperson8336]

I tried to get into 40K but Rogue Trader just completely kicked my ass.

[@ProbablyH1]

this voice aint half bad

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Does their sweat corrode their own cybernetic parts?

[@Humanjerky88]

This another AI narrator channel?

[@pillepolle3122]

Why no Attenborough

[@angry_zergling]

There was some copyright controversy regarding legal rights to use his name and 'likeness' in the form of an AI voice.

[@nachtmacher6237]

😊

[@OmnissiahsFaithful]

Blessed are the Faithful.

[@Arwiiss]

#TeamManofIron

[@kai_plays_khomus]

Warhammer 40k is an infantile power fantasy celebrating obsolete stereotypes of masculinity and power in a way so utterly over the top it hurts, still thoroughly drenched in 1980's zeitgeist to a degree bordering the comical. That's what I was thinking a mere two weeks ago after knowing about 40k being a tabletop strategy game derived from Warhammer including a book series and catching a few glimpses of artwork here and there. But I'm also into fantasy and scify world building and came across your hiveworld video. It absolutly wasn't what I would have expected from what little I had known and it made me realize how much I had made up my mind about it beforehand from a position of ignorance and bias. I immersed myself into the lore with friendly support of your channel alongside a small number of other channels and sites and meanwhile I can barely restrain myself from setting up an altar for the one and true _Emperor of Mankind_ at this point. Thank you so much for introducing me to this world which turned out to encompasses so many things I like, it contains so many fascinating ideas and concepts while somehow managing to merge fantasy and scifi, tech-shit and batshit mysticism perfectly in a way which I absolutly wouldn't have expected - the idea of the machine god for example somehow makes way too much sense as a concept, as something I could actually see emerge in a trans-humanist society as foreign as it might appear at the surface level. The whole setting manages to feature so many elements taken from our real history and culture but brings in enough of a twist to make it unique, interest and at times even challenging by bringing up or implying interesting questions and perspectives in regards to our shared reality - and although people are talking about the voice model it's your writing which drives it all home and making the Warhammer40k into something which might might actually exist somewhere somehow, It feels alive while I'm listening.Tomorrow I'll start to delve into the books.. Thanks again, and greetings from Berlin! 😁✊

[@trajanfidelis1532]

Guard the toasters with your life

[@kayvaanmcsharrowkyn6901]

- THE "BIG 3" SINS [22:42] THAT WOULD BRAND ONE AS A "HERETEK"....... (ARCHMAGOS DOMINUS BELLISARIUS CAWL IN THE BACKGROUND THROWING UP "DEUCES" & "HORNS"... 🖕🏻🤖🤘🏻......🤣🤣🤣🤣😮

[@thegametroll6264]

OI. I WAS WONDERIN' IF YOU'D DO AN ORRATION ON ME FAVORITE BRUTES OF DE GUARDSMENS RANKS. DA OGRYN. I'D FANK YA AN AWFUL LOT.

[@rictusmetallicus]

Probably verboten. The Cult Mechanicus knows about the still ominous sound of the german language.

[@jiggermole]

How the hell did you get an ai to sound disdainful saying "ceremonial"?

[@bfrost7]

wouldn't the cult mechanicus then worship or try to emulate the necrons?

[@angry_zergling]

"Soulless sentience is the enemy of all" is one of the Cult's primary teachings. So instead of worship or emulating they'd consider them one of the biggest abominations fathomable.

[@bloodgoat]

HERETIC

[@ggurmom4325]

You guys better keep this narrator seriously

[@qwaysqaywsx]

I have listened to the whole series once in german. The Problem is, that sadlz the reader butchers many names and has a really deep and monotone voice. I recommend the books but not the german audiobooks

[@400KrispyKremes]

If they believe the religion is true then why do they call it a "cult"?

[@existingistiresome]

Honesty?

[@seanoceallachain]

Where are you stealing this art from ? Some credit to those who spend their time making it would be nice. They too obviously love Warhammer, and are a huge part of your vids, yet get given no credit. It's not hard to pop a small url or artist name/link/insta in the bottom corner of each image.

[@Ontheregz]

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