ever since I read the fiction if the emperor watched tts, I have had an idea for my own version. its basically the same, with the enperor, but i added my own OC. he's based off of me in persenality. i will do the actual story soon but first i want to describe my OC. this thread is crossposted on spacebattles
the tech priest
this tech preist is the emperors personal aid. His name is unknown, no legends will be sung of him. he has chosen to stay in the shadows of the greats. he is knowledgeable about earth, with only malcador and the emperor himself being more knowledgeable. he is like malacador in that he can speak freely to the emperor and the primarchs (though he is respectful). he is actually a tech priest from before the age of strife, having survived the uprising of the men of iron and hid, so he knows the omnisiiah is just a metaphor for knowldge, and this plus his understanding of the emperors pop culture references endeared the tech priest to the emperor. his memory cannot be erased or deleted.
he looks like a typical tech preist, with no flesh showing. he records everything, and also has the funny vomit ice cube thing from doctor who (episode the long game) he sounds like soundwave from his apperances in the series transformers: robots in disguise. also like soundwave he would rather die than betray his master, in this case the emperor. he's always around no matter how far in time it is. this is standard for tech priests, after all Cawl was around in the great crusade and come the 42nd milienium he's still alive and well. story will come soon.
his doctrine is the Omnissian Rationalist, which rejects the existance of the omnissah altogether. he is the only one. this was inspired by brotherhood of the lost
heres the clip of soundwave you should use as the tech priests voice. soundwave is the one autotuned. I do not in any way own the transformers franchise or anything within it.
ok, I forgot that fanfiction dosent allow copying, so search soundwave robots in disguise and watch the one labeled Steeljaw and Soundwave scene.
I have been given permission by the people who write the fanfictions I have the characters react to, plus the consent of the person (or one of the group who writes said fic, I don't know the exact things) who wrote the original emperor watching tts thread over on spacebattles. for all fictions I use to have the characters react to I have gained express written consent to use them. I do not own the fictions or anything of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the only thing I own is my OC tech priest, and even then a lot of him is inspired by soundwave of the transformers franchise, and the name of his subsect comes from the brotherhood of the lost, and the idea of a tech priest reacting comes from the thread if astartes watched tts, located both here and on spacebattles. I might have had the idea for the sect before them, but maybe I read it and forgot about it. I am making a grand total of $0.00 off of this fiction. I hope that clears that up.
also, I will post links to where the fiction I use is located. if I miss somewhere it is likely that I either forgot it was there or I didn't know it was there.
now some headcanon of mine (which I will keep thinking even if GW directly contradicts it) that applies to this fiction.
in the dark millennium books when guiliman meets the emperor it is said that the emperor viewed the primarchs as nothing more than tools. he is played as a sociopath, but that dosent really make sense to me. if he was an unfeeling being how could he have a favorite son (horus) or a best friend (malcador). no, I belive that emps is a feeling human, a flawed man and a bit of a hypocrite, but he had a heart. As for why he is so cold in the 42nd century, I take inspiration from the fiction titled the shape of the nightmare to come. in this even more grimdark fiction set in the 50th milienium, in the chapter concerning the rise of the star father, it says that the emperor was driven mad by his time upon the throne. he was tortured, trapped in his own rotting corpse and his soul split asunder, powering the astronomicon and forcibly feeding on a thousand psykers each day. he was forced to watch as his imperium became everything he didn't want. instead of a secular imperium it was a cult to him, instead of a haven of learning ritual and superstition became the way of the imperium, with innovation being considered heresy. he was forced to watch and listen to every atrocity, every mother crying for there childs salvation, every soldier dieing so far from home for a few feet of useless ground, and hear every prayer to him. he went insane, I don't think anyone could stay sane while enduring that. I don't want to meet the being who could stay sane while enduring that. all of his goodness and empathy was destroyed by this, and I think by the time alica dominia (founder of the sisters of battle, I might be misspelling her last name) he became a cold heartless being who only cared about his goals being achived. he would still suffer, but his mind had been broken in such a way that it couldn't be fixed.
as for the emperors hate of religion, well he has never seen a divity that was good and has only seen the dark side of religion. for his opinion on xenos, he is indifferent if they submit to humanity. on the council of nikea and his banning of psykers in the astartes, he sees that magnus will head down the path of sorcery if he continues.
on magnus being a cyclops he has a lost eye, instead of only having one eye.
finally, on the topic of rune priests and Fenris psykers. GW has revealed that russ was right about the Fenris world spirit, but I don't like that. Russ's hypocrisy is a big part of his character, and I don't like that the differences are real. it nullify's the hatred between russ and magnus, and I just don't like it. so I will always consider rune priests psykers and russ a hypocrite for thinking otherwise.