Warhammer 40,000 Mechanicus: Character Voices

[@emu7344]

Update: Videx's short noises are for when he begins his quotes, "Macharians, 16.4: (letter noise) 'Watch your brother, for his sin of heresy is thy sin of tolerance.'" (regular sentence sound)

[@PumkRock]

I know that the lack of "proper" voice lines was likely done due to budget constraints, but for real, this is how all Mechanicus characters should sound in future 40k media. They should all speak like this with subtitles. 40k novels always describe tech priests speaking in "binary cant" - their own hyper efficient machine code language- to the point that various mechanicus characters are frequently said to feel irritation when they are expected to just talk to people, because of how slow and inefficient such dialogue feels to such machine minded people. It sounds cool, it makes sense in the lore, and it helps demonstrate just how strange humanity is in the 41st millennium when you have this key faction of the imperium sounding more inhuman than the aliens humanity claims to despise with such xenophobic religious zeal.

[@yonneye2427]

Plenty of characters had “proper” voice lines. Only the Mechanicus spoke their language.

[@PumkRock]

@@yonneye2427 yes I know, I have played the game. It's why I said it highlights just how strange the admech are when the aliens speak more like humans than the tech priests.

[@yonneye2427]

@@PumkRock I was saying that it probably wasn’t completely budget issues. Obviously it’s a big bonus but I don’t think it was completely due to the budget.

[@Pyro-XIII]

i have once heared that the quality of their "voicebox" has to do with their rank, so the higher their rank the better you understand them, might be wrong thou i don´t know for shure

[@fernhausluv44]

Faustinus is definitely the coolest sounding character.

[@minicle426]

I like Scaevola too.

[@somemate1050]

Reminds me of Rasputin from destiny

[@somemate1050]

Tiresus is pretty cool sounding too

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

He’s fucking terrifying for sure. But Khepra... damn... like... I wish a woman would whisper sweet lingua technis to me her voice while I sleep.

[@DeusMaquina]

Tiresus is my favorite, love how you can still hear some non binary in his speech like maybe due to his age.

[@SgtAwesome97]

Gotta say, Faustinus' voice is probably the coolest of them all, just the sheer intimidation factor he has is just awesome.

[@lucasrosemberg1214]

He sounds like the overmind from starcraft, tho

[@MetalWolfKaiju]

@@lucasrosemberg1214 I can see that. Personally I think he sounds more in sync with the Phyrexians from the Scars of Mirradin trailer

[@rh3280]

Also the loudest, im making soundclips to play in a Sci fi RPG im running and its very easy to identify Fausinus's section of the vid

[@GreenStuffConsumer]

I love how you can tell how old or how high ranking everyone is based on how human like their speech sounds

[@jasonalcatraz5817]

Then Rho must be a few steps short of a tech Magos

[@resonanceofambition]

Most of these people must be pretty far gone then because I couldn't hear any humanity in any of their voices save for one maybe.

[@AcadianBacon8]

@@resonanceofambition Basically if you can hear them make well-enunciated sounds, because otherwise the sounds are the Mechanicus' devised language that compacts entire paragraphs into a sentence or a sentence into a single sound for brevity.

[@AcadianBacon8]

Someone mentioned the name in another comment, Lingua Technis.

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

@@jasonalcatraz5817 Rho sounds more like a mechanical animal than anything that once could’ve been human, and that’s badass as fuck.

[@Cutesticles]

I wish I had a voice changer that sounded like these for a cosplay

[@williamchurchill203]

I once downloaded the sound files and put them in a soundboard. Then I could play a couple in succession is if speaking. It might be worth a shot

[@iliayriev9256]

It would be scary as fuck

[@dragonkhight3315]

@@williamchurchill203 i need that.

[@drageus9059]

I love the voice of Captrix She sounds like a wise old woman who has went through eternity of battle and isn’t fearless of the xenos

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

She’s like the adoptive mecha-mom I never had. I can cleave to her words with utter certainty.

[@vothbetilia4862]

She loves to hunt the prey alot.

[@robertspeedwagon982]

Fun fact : She never augmented nor masked too much her face so that she could look at her ennemies from eye to eye. Showing a complete absence of any fear as the Omnissiah commanded.

[@AltBiscuit]

THE HUNT IS ON.

[@juanjosemendivil1626]

I really like the fact that to us, they are just making short, static, noises of no recognizing pronunciation. But to them, they are communicating at their own speed, their speed being way faster than us because of their augments. It's like listening to Claptrap and GLaDOS flirting with each other (Poker Night 2).

[@bluethunderbolt9631]

I'm sorry, Claptrap and GLaDOS doing what now?

[@Scobragon]

On another note, I like the fact, Scaevola has kept her hair. I mean, it's not on her head, but still.

[@jurcik250]

Thats a woman?

[@yourewallsareveryconvenien8292]

@@jurcik250 Yes

[@VoicesOfNihil]

Khepra kept hers as well. You can see it left of her head

[@Mayhzon]

@@VoicesOfNihil Isn't that her cowl she is wearing?

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

I wish I girl would whisper sweet lingua technis to me with Khepra’s voice

[@lordwarlockthangwrath8662]

Khepra is best girl, Imma right?

[@gustavoalfonzorojasvalle925]

@@lordwarlockthangwrath8662 Of course, gentlemen.

[@greyvr4336]

@@gustavoalfonzorojasvalle925 Maybe here, but these days (two years later) Hadron is best waifu.

[@Brandelwyn]

@@greyvr4336 she has nothing on Metrodora

[@alwombat7]

​@@greyvr4336who?

[@Formalnaught]

Tiresus's voice really does sound like legit language.

[@ctgx7735]

That's because he is the youngest of them all.

[@rarehydra1179]

I can literally feel it when Faustinus speaks.

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

This game reminds us that the mechanicus isn't stupid. They do understand how alot of incredibly advanced tech works, they are just surrounded by near infinite amounts of tech even more advanced then that! Let's also not forget that god's do exist in this universe, and several times have we seen devices broken beyond repair function when the machine spirit is appeased or angry..

[@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308]

Machine spirits are cannon I think.

[@vothbetilia4862]

@@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308 they are. Just don't mistake them for A.i

[@R0seshad0w]

@@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308 I believe machine spirits are basically like Siri, but because it's ancient tech they think it's divine in some way.

[@ducaoftheabruzzi]

​@@R0seshad0wthey're tiny fragments of the void dragon a c'tan god

[@ducaoftheabruzzi]

​@@R0seshad0wand Siri is a primitive voice command it is in no way "A.I"

[@princesseponyboy1971]

Captrix's voice makes me want to hunt the Omnissiah's enemies while also making me feel strange things

[@jasonalcatraz5817]

Average Kephra fan vs Average Captrix enjoyer

[@SIGNOR-G]

Ah yes...the robo-simps.

[@SundownTE]

p addict

[@Blockistium]

I _adore_ that they gave them a fictional language to speak. I've always disliked that a setting 40,000 years in the future was _always_ represented with boring old modern English. Like, I get why, but I appreciate the direction here so much.

[@valhalanguardsman2588]

Low gothic is, by all means, English language, high gothic is Latin. But adeptus mechanicus canonicaly speak lingua-technis amongst themselves as it is much more efficient than normal speech (according to them at least) but they still have to communicate with other imperial forces so they speak low gothic with allies

[@tfan2222]

@@valhalanguardsman2588 Last I checked wasn’t high gothic a mix of European languages, a few pan-pacific languages and Latin?

[@EnRandomSten]

it's even better when you realise that the only one that speaks English are the Necrons. It captures the hubris and paradoxical nature of the mechanicus when you have massive self mutilated flesh and steel freaks. Barely even human neither in appearance or speech, call the humanoid, English speaking Necrons; abominations.

[@g.o-fish]

@@valhalanguardsman2588 Low gothic & High gothic are both completely unrecognizable languages to anything we have now,- they are simply rendered as modern english with slang words for things and a latin mix respectively for the reader.

[@n0n4me77]

It's barely accounted that both high and low gothic have thousands of different dialects that might as well be different languages.

[@jamzee_]

I never noticed, but all of them speak different languages in human standards. It is essentially all simlish, but the easiest distinction is Faustinus and Captrix. Captrix sounds like a Korean substitute, while Faustinus almost speaks German or Dutch at points. Its all gibberish, but the vowels and pronunciation within it sounds almost like it would fit those languages. I am aware the va’s were quite literally told to “say gibberish” but im simply making a linguistic observation within nonsense

[@elijahkelley7616]

Just gonna say this - Rho MIGHT be a member of the Dark Mechanicum. Has nobody given this guy a background check? I know not to judge a book by its cover, but...I mean, come on.

[@LordZaxom]

Listen... he's part of the Martian/Dark Mechanicus exchange program. We do it to keep the Tech Priests together and piss of the Inquisiton/Emperor.

[@elijahkelley7616]

@@LordZaxom Well, I suppose you're not wrong. The Minotaurs are Iron Warriors, after all. I mean what?

[@funnyswangoosething5088]

It’s the Mechanicus, both of them look evil, also it isn’t known what the Minotaurs they could be leftover thunder warriors.

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

@@elijahkelley7616 FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO DOESNT CONFUSE THE IRON HANDS WITH PERTURABO’S LITTLE CROTCHSPAWNS

[@elijahkelley7616]

@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 well of course. The Iron Hands are far more disciplined and efficient than those wannabe Imperial Fists.

[@RollerBaller]

I don't see nowhere near enough appreciation for Scaevola's voice

[@azariah_kyras]

She's bordering on heresy so that might be playing a part

[@anonymousobserver6508]

@@azariah_kyras [[[ERROR]]] Damn not found.

[@42thecakeisalie]

I dunno if I can imagine Priest-Tech without this voice now tbh. So perfect it should be considered canon or something.

[@franceschik1]

well done brother. funfact: faustinus means "joyful dude" in latin

[@Digitaaliklosetti]

He does sound pretty cheerful

[@MitchellMeyer702]

Oh you absolute gem. You serve the Omnissiah well. ⚙️💀⚙️

[@inquisitorkrieger8171]

Few years ago I was a churchwarden, which is basically a cooler way of saying church security. Anyway, pulling an overnight shift I remember flipping through a magazine at around 12ish am when I heard something in my right ear and it sounded exactly like this. I went in my office, shut and locked the door and did not come out until morning. But now I know the omnissiah was speaking to me. Aside from the parting joke the story is real and I have no idea wtf that language was but scared me.

[@XaycBC]

That's actually one of the ways for the people to start believing in God. My mother actually hears some chants in similar voice in a language she can't understand, but she says that these chants help her immensely. Also, i've sent her for proper psychological and psychiatric diagnostics and turned out that she was more than completely sane and her mind was even clear of cognitive mistakes most people's brain do. So, i guess Omnissiah is with us after all.

[@арбузочел]

​@@XaycBC не стоит недооценивать самовнушение

[@shadixyt]

For how evil and imposing Faustinus's voice is he honestly is a pretty good guy for 40K standards. And Scaevola makes me think of Cyber Assassins garble speak from System Shock 2, love it.

[@dragonkhight3315]

Faustinus has more humanity than over magos. He know, every lost of his soldier is dire and try keep them alive like every other commander need to be.

[@tophatsurgeon7469]

Ok, I want one of those voices (permanently; creep the ever loving shit out of everyone I meet)

[@Orionis_Delta]

AYYY LINGUA TECHNIS POSTING I'm happy that the Adeptus Mechanicus didn't revert to a sub-standard audio output in spoken dialogue for our better understanding, and yet the Tech Priests were kind enough to provide an approximate translation during the missions. :)

[@luckystranger4312]

Me and the gang trying to steal toasters from a grumpy skeleton

[@tkjohnson7600]

The game play is enjoyable, but it is the soundtrack and these amazing voices that keep me coming back to the game! The composer and sound engineers deserve so much praise!

[@guardianofthetoasters2323]

I would take this va with subs over anything else of the mechanicus where they speak english.

[@VeridarRasko]

Someone can convince Tiresus to open an asmr channel?

[@арбузочел]

К сожалению, он помер в конце механикуса

[@skipperg4436]

It would be fun hearing Hadron using this interpretation of Lingua Technis on some occasion. Because it sounds really cool )

[@alexandresiemsen798]

Tiresus voice is basically asmr

[@ThrillzTheGreatest]

Faustinus, Reditus, Rho, Scaevola and Videx sound the coolest to me

[@AidanMclaren]

Immediately I'm reminded of the StarCraft Probe voice.

[@XFanmarX]

1:38 MONNNKEY

[@martincastillo6743]

I can kind of hear in reditus the voice of the trailer. You know, the "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh" one.

[@GurniHallek]

That Tiresus tho...

[@varisugocsay1152]

He is the best, only who sound as if he is talking in a library.

[@yetipotato8567]

He sounds almost like speaking latin or somethimg. Supprisingly human voice

[@lordwarlockthangwrath8662]

@@yetipotato8567 that's probably because he is the youngest among them.

[@TheBroGamer14082]

I find it funny that reditus in the trailer sounds like faustinius but looks and sounds nothing like his game counterpart.

[@UltraHips]

I like the fact that it sounds like technified latin.

[@dropdoejenna8542]

Captrix and Faustins sound terrifying with good headphones

[@saveggg7141]

The only thing that makes me surprised is that Scaevola is female

[@MrTheSilentAssassin]

I didn’t realize Scaevola is a woman until like halfway through the game

[@Maximilian_Romus]

Wait. What?

[@azariah_kyras]

She has truly gone through many blessings. I'd even say most tech priests would take it as a compliment that they no longer resemble a human.

[@m0osefist]

1:21 "Pun intended"

[@gagedavidson2020]

Faustinus is pure audio pron right there

[@connorsmith1005]

This game has so much style and character. I love it so much, massive bias as an admech player but still. From the witty dialogue, amazing soundwork and art this game is just all around wonderful.

[@Chasseurhost1]

://Knowledge archived for future studies//: ==(Unit;express;share;display;gratitude;appreciation;indebtness)==

[@andrew9371]

oh the Lingua Technis is latin? i thought high gothic was latin and low gothic was like french and the Lingua Technis was like a dial tone screech lol

[@carrozero9314]

I have saved this video, so i can play it whenever i play Warhammer 40k Mechanicus.

[@somatoth1048]

Thank you so much!!

[@jallenwa19]

I played this to my girlfriend and my phone puffed out a bit of smoke. Praise be to the omnisiah.

[@Frank-vh5bu]

Rho is my favorite.

[@real_entless1301]

this is how all mechanicus should sound like i wish darktide added this in as an uder tine for the text priests the 2 in the game

[@hexa1740]

Thank you for making this

[@Pan_Z]

It sounds amazing and also is a clever way of saving budget on voice acting.

[@Digitaaliklosetti]

Scaevola's got a voice I can trust

[@zackshelton1482]

I was listening to this and i think my computer has a demon now lol

[@joshuablade6974]

Faustinus and Khepra are my favs. Cause 1 is thunderous and mighty while the other is…um…murrrrr~ X///3

[@Maffi96]

omnissiah bless you for making this

[@mrk45]

Scaevola sounds like she had one too many Marlboros in her lifetime.

[@mhsohn6798]

Do you think what they are saying is actually digitally-distorted version of actual language?

[@emu7344]

they made it by combining words and sounds from a bunch of languages and making voice actors say them, then they distorted the hell out of the voices

[@mhsohn6798]

@@emu7344 Thank you.

[@jacobbates3170]

@@emu7344 but has anyone deciphered it?

[@declan7551]

@@jacobbates3170 There's nothing to decipher

[@jacobbates3170]

@@declan7551 if we can undistort it and translate the words atben we can see what is being said

[@friendlyneighborhoodcrusad4242]

1:51 i’m not an imposter

[@theforge4591]

rededitus is a servo skull....

[@cupidstunt8136]

does anyone have suggestions for vocaloids to imitate these ?

[@bruhistantv9806]

brrr brrrr br brr br to you too sir

[@jhonnmesa9622]

You should do necrons

[@hazanko5875]

[[ERROR]]: Damn not found.

[@sajmon2771]

God i need this to sleep

[@michaelcedrone1341]

1:14

[@МаксимЖуков-я2н]

Is there one for necron?

[@yetipotato8567]

Its chilling when necrons speak english

[@yourewallsareveryconvenien8292]

Necrons voices are underwhelming. They don't have this cool menacing voice like the teach priest here.

[@dudu6461]

Goosebumps

[@Deadly8bitNinja]

Scaevola is best cyber granny

[@thatdudewithalazyeye5887]

videx was always telling scaevola to not sin

[@ataraxia7439]

It is pretty

[@Engifarting456]

"redditus"

[@Engineer_Gienek]

I have a general theory and I'm disappointed. Why doesn't Reditus have the same voice as in the trailer/introduction to the game?

[@TiimoFei]

Faustinus is Phyrexian

[@cosmicwooloo]

They all just remind me of Rasputin from destiny

[@discipleofdagon8195]

You can tell Tiresus has probably retained the most humanity outbof all of them since his speaking almost sounds like high gothic or latin

[@discipleofdagon8195]

Perturabo: you know I can understand you, right?

[@gianlucaflorio9234]

They managed to make a wonderful rendition of Lingua Technis. In the books it is described as a language spoken via blurts of binaric codes: this fits perfectly.

[@Formalnaught]

Exactly! The moment I heard that in the game I thought it fit perfectly the descriptions from the books.

[@caucasoidus_anglicus]

I like to imagine the individual higher and lower pitched sounds are ones and zeros, and that with just short sounds they’re relaying a whole bunch of information

[@johnvermintide]

thats great to hear its very immersive

[@itzaleaf405]

@@caucasoidus_anglicus I think that was the whole idea behind it... while with a normal language you need to say the entire sentence which might take upwards of a minute. Lingua Technis is the more "efficent" method where you basically blurt out all the information in one flood all at once by comparison.

[@eater_of_garbage_]

@@OVODnet Its actually described in Master of Mankind as being entirely silent, that only those connected to the Noosphere can hear

[@elijahkelley7616]

*"I wake with the turning of aeons. Stars yet burn. Life yet blossoms. Is it truly time?"*

[@goncalves4269]

Dude, the writing of this game... it's amazing.

[@elijahkelley7616]

@@goncalves4269 Yeah, I love it. Someone brought this up the other day, but it's an interesting idea to have the Mechanicus speaking in Techna-Lingua in the game while the Necrons speak English, since the Mechanicus are trying to be closer to the machines, and the Necrons want to become flesh and blood again. I love details like that.

[@davidallamericananarchist9220]

@@elijahkelley7616 and that's why the necrons have a special place of contempt for the mechanicus, and the likelyhood of being prematurely awakened by them.

[@elijahkelley7616]

@@davidallamericananarchist9220 *"What is this? Flesh and steel combined? A mockery of both, their every footstep a blasphemy! What manner is this into which I have awoken?"*

[@whitevoid43]

"Thornes of Mars! What was that?"

[@dmagnificenttalesofproffes9930]

No one, no one at all: Scaevola: the Necrons are pretty chill once you get to know them

[@then00brathalos]

Cawl : Yeah kinda.... Trazyn : hey bro whaddup

[@varany3376]

She is in a niche sect of AdMech that worships the void dragon on Mars. She has no love for the Necrons themselves, just their tech and whatever BS the dragon is feeding her.

[@Khainite]

Man they really hit the nail on the head with these voices. They're perfect, especially Faustinus. That bass is ridiculous and cool as hell.

[@Werewolfhunter12]

|| Registering 《Pleasure》. {"The Omnissiah shall persevere when we preserve." Poor Skitarii's Canticles.}

[@erebys21]

Faustinus sounds like the guy that is 2.5m tall and could break your spine with ease

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

He sounds like he’d extract your spine from your body over the span of 2 seconds. Not because you pissed him off or anything, he just needs your spine for something.

[@davidallamericananarchist9220]

@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 he needs it for "wet ware" ie. How the Imperium of man solved the problem of needing artificial intelligence without the risks of actually developing it.

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

@@davidallamericananarchist9220 yeah probably

[@themagalanium9491]

@@davidallamericananarchist9220 I always forget how fucked up that whole AI/ servator situation is

[@davidallamericananarchist9220]

@@themagalanium9491 there's also a subplot in one of the Horus heresy books about a servitor who gets killed by the traitors and "her" last memory is of her children that she had before being turned into a servitor, it's a hard read tbh. 😥😥😥

[@aliamarneh2067]

I really like tiresus, he's so chill.

[@numnaut1314]

Until he spoilers: Awakens a c' tan shard, going crazy then dieing.

[@Al_Pantalone]

He sounds like the Mechanicus equivalent of a california surfer. Gives off that "Whoa, dude..." vibe

[@undertow619]

I think he's the youngest of the roster here.

[@pranavlimaye]

Sus

[@m0osefist]

>>>Begin Subroutine of Communion: Set audio_track (Character voices) (Loop=1); Set audio_track (Children of the Omnissiah) (Loop=1); Set ocular input=0; Set breathing=Manual; Loop(while(communionstate=1)); Endif; End >>>Omnissiah be with us

[@adampage593]

Favourite sounding character is either Rho or Faustinius Favourite character overall is Granny Scaevola. I don't care if she's a Heretek, she just has so much excitement, joy, and humour about everything

[@spawner2469]

Scaevola is a she?

[@adampage593]

@@spawner2469 just about, apparently

[@SudsyMedusa53]

@@spawner2469 with the mechanicus, after a certain point, I think it stops mattering.

[@spawner2469]

@@SudsyMedusa53 I mean, you're right, but damn.

[@chiar0scur0]

I love Scaevola.

[@JilutheFang]

I love how Faustinius voice is glitching out on some vocals, as if his bionics were already too old to function clearly even.

[@TheRoleplayer40k]

My emotional cortex registers happiness at this video and I allow myself to experience it.

[@nuckchorris499]

Captrix, Scaevola, and Faustinus definitely sound the coolest. Oh and Tiresus Also best girl Khepra

[@Haggispk]

Thanks to you I now have a way to depict abyssal/infernal in my DnD campaign, my BBEG is loosely based off a tech priest, so to do his un translated voice im using a soundboard with each of Faustinus' sounds. You helped make the session just that much more special.

[@UraharaShoten]

Haha, i'm using these for DnD too!

[@frogwithhumanteeth7808]

God damn, I want Tiresus to whisper sweet nothings to me with that smooth, sultry Lingua Techis

[@jasonalcatraz5817]

My man Rho's voice is criminally underappreciated.

[@kceresmatias]

By who?

[@jahjah7940]

The beauty of Lingua-Technis

[@MrTheSilentAssassin]

I didn’t realize Scaevola is a woman until like halfway through the game

[@1KosovoJeSrbija1]

planning on making a tech priest costume, and I just found a little speaker, this is gona be fun

[@inquisitorkrieger8171]

Maybe it's the dork in me but I think Lingua Technis is attractive. It's like a futuristic romance language.

[@swalotttt]

reminds me of E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy, which was totally inspired by WH40k

[@roadent217]

The devs of E.Y.E. went ahead to make Space Hulk: Deathwing and Necromunda: Hired Gun

[@NANA-pq6pt]

is there gonna be one for Xerxetes from the Heretek DLC?

[@emu7344]

here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/pF7Gi56NaJV8fqs