Adeptus Mechanicus: The Disturbing Realty of the Cult of the Machine-Warhammer 40K Lore 

AdMech player here. Great presentation and execution of the faction. The AdMech perfectly embody the horror and brutality of the 40K universe.

For all their knowledge and power, I think there is a strong tragic undertone to the Mechanicus: they don't truly understand the things they know. They grew up in the shadow of a civilization far greater than their own, their entire existence a catch-up game spanning millennia, driven and fueled by a creed purpose-built to withstand this perpetual sense of inferiority and lack of meaningful progress in the day-to-day life of each individual. Zeal over despair, so that while we and everyone we know might suffer and toil a lifetime, one of us might see a brighter future - and that, I believe, is the essence of 40k.

I've heard the story a few times... But the originality, and your voice...I gladly listened again to your version of 40k. Thank you for sharing your work!

Thank you for making longer videos they're well made and are excellent to watch! Please keep them coming!

Using AI to generate art about Admechs is truly poetic.

" One day the cruel biomass 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. "

I need part 2, I crave for more lore on the Mechanicum and their worship of the Machine God

Thought you were a big channel so seeing you only have a tiny handful of videos so far absolutely shocked me. I love this new era of properly voice acted 40k lore and stories. I can already see this channel going to great places

So Heretek, would you like immediate destruction or having your implants ripped out to have whatever remains of your flesh converted into a servitor as penance?

This is why I love 40k so much. So much lore and the reality of living in a universe filled with everything trying to wipe out humanity. Brilliant video 👌🏼

04:04 It is important to note that the Dark age of Technology is not called dark because it is dangerous, forbidden or feared but simply that it is mostly unknown. Hence the name dark. The Adeptus Mechanicus wants to rediscover all the lost technology from the Dark Age of Technology when mankind reached it zenith of power and mastery of technology. Further support for this is found in the fact that it is also referred to as the Golden Age of Technology.

Warhammer has so many amazing content creators. One of the best hobbies you can get into. I’ve only became interested in all the lore over the past few years. There is so much stuff to dive into and enjoy. Love the community.

The blend of great storytelling and visual art is awsome.

Great video and fantastic artwork. A lot of Mars looks like a planet-wide strip mine. Its interesting how in spite of its technology, the Mechanicum is as superstitious as they come

Imagine sacrificing millions of your priests and foot soldiers to get a better knife.

This is absolutely phenomenal.

Abomitable Intelligence!? TECH HERESY!! Rad video though

I often wonder what the mechanicus think of the necrons, and or the katan... like the 1 they have in their basement.

Wow! What a fantastic narration! I’m recommending this channel to my friends that are just getting into Warhammer. This is a wonderful guide to help them understand this 40k universe! You’re narration is mesmerizing! I was so engrossed in the explanations that it didn’t feel like 30 minutes had gone by! Keep it up, friend!

You've become my favorite 40k youtuber in the span of 3 videos, that's insane man! Great work! You present the the facts and events of whatever your subject is in an consistent manner that is incredibly fluid and entertaining without being too long or wordy (and good voice acting+deep resonant voice). And this is backed up by AI art that is so good it almost doesnt look like an AI did it! Which is all put together like a graphic novel. VERY refreshing, Exemplary work!

Love your videos, they sound so factual. Like documentaries.

Great stuff cant wait for more. 👏👏👏

Im back here listening again... I just want to hear him say "Brutal,roaming, techno-Barbarians... lol ... That is a savage line...and delivered in that Deep English voice.. .love this stuff..haha...

Great channel keep up the good work I know this must take a lot of effort and it is genuinely appreciated

I realised this was an AI voice with the pronunciation of Lasgun as Lase-gun, Still very listenable but man its impressive how far such things have come

Nice narrator. Good at reading with proper pause.

I wonder if tales from The warp is a fan of tales from the crypt . Love the name brother

This is some heavy quality, M'dude!

Wow. Well done, all around.

This is a amazing video man i'm almost through the entire thing. You've earned another subscriber, the art within the video is good as well.

First video of yours I’ve watched and you’ve easily earned another sub!

I appreciate the slideshow with the audio to describe the setting, perfect

This guy is an ai ... Legit you have my praise for being a guy who uses AI with such talent. Took me a while to realise.

Keep ‘em coming

I like how you used the [ ] for this view instead of the | | as you did for the astartes one, as brackets are used in most programming languages to denote an array. Part of me wished the title was Adeptus Mechanicus [0] since machines start counting at 0, but then again this is the same mechanicus that would solve technical problems with incense and oils.

Another great 40k channel for me to binge amazing

Shit man this is dark and dyspotic af, if no one told me they were for the imperium i would think they were the bad guys....

Keep up the good works!

Amazing... incredible work.

Awesome videos man! Please keep them coming! Where does your art come from?

This is fabulous. Excellent script.

New sub, awesome reading!!

Just found out about this channel but I'm loving it

Hmm interesting, looking forward to the second part of the video.

That was great.

Nicely done

Subscribed for the long and well made videos 😀

Formidable work. Can not wait for continuation of this machine spirit blessed knowledge.

This was great. I really do need to learn more of the Ad Mech. Thank you! ...oh yeah, what the hell happened at 22:35? 😅

I really enjoyed that, art & narration 10/10

Adeptus Mechanicus is my jam!

Love your videos! You rock!

So glad this channel was recommended to me by RU-vid. Great content, knowledge, and love of 40K with amazing production quality. Thank you for your hard work and passion you put into these!

You sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger doing a British accent. Subscribed!

22:36 scrap code?

Recycles the weakness of flesh... Unless she is a DD, then they seem to stay.

Very well done!

The story of how Kelbor Hal split the mechanicus is one of the most interesting parts of the Heresy to me. Because he made some good points. Til he starts replacing AI with demonic entities.

Thank you

So first video of yours gotta say i love the voice very good to sleep to

Love your videos, thnx for all the hard work, love the art it so dope !!! Please can you do »~ The Badab War »~ from the perspective of »~The Carcharodons Chapther »~ I love this chapter specially the Red Wake Tyberos. Also I hope this is not to much to ask with current events can you also do the Return of The Two Primarchs Roboute Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson. PS: you have a cool voice keep the good work.

Hello tales Superlative narration on and stunningly beautiful Art Work the Grim dark world of WarHammer 40K is about to become even more popular the lore is deep complex full of Body horror Heresies Aliens gods and Xenos menace ....

great video worthy of the like n subscribe

The Borg would be jealous.

Your voice rivals luten keep it up

First time on your channel... Sick voice yo!!! Damn

The AI art was a nice touch

Great vid, few things I disagree with or you said that I’m not sure about but they’re mostly pretty minor and I know I’m just some random commenter haha so obviously what do you care about those critiques, but I love the style of video and the narration and editing with the photos is wonderful!

I like how you can talk without breathing

For those maddened by the incessant "click click click click..." in the soundtrack be assured that it dissapears after a few minutes. Apart from that dose of audio torture the presentation is faultless.

I love lore of the Mechanicus

Some of that banned tech could win the war for humanity

High-quality video. High-quality voice. Beautiful breakdown. Looking forward to your future content!

MOAR

Where are the illustrations from? 🤔Definitely not GW and they are AWESOME

Beautiful, thoughtful, excellent work. Liked and shared. Everyone rightly remember that Mars isn't red. It's intentional manipulation from NASA. 👍🏼

Where did you get all this art?

Love your videos! Excellent job. Longer the better 😎👍

The art on this channel is chefs kiss… bravo!

These graphic novels are ridiculously f* cool! How are you not famous? Or... are you? Shhhhhh

Just found your channel. LOVE your voice and content!

You have a Excellent voice for monologues as well, the passion in your speech is pleasing to the ears.

22:36 you have some double audio :)

From the weakness of the mind, Omnissiah save us From the lies of the Antipath, circuit preserve us From the rage of the Beast, iron protect us From the temptations of the flesh, silica cleanse us From the ravages of the Destroyer, anima shield us From this rotting cage of biomatter, Machine God set us free.

Praise the Omnissiah; ROMU-31 would be proud.

22:37 weird audio overlap

is this the guy who did the intro to Cadillacs and Dinosaurs?

What are the songs played in this video?

So basically it's Tech God,Tech Jesus and the Tech Spirit lmao

What's the media from 25:05- 26:00?

Sorry if someone else asked this already, but what is that live/CGI footage from?

Some scrapcodethingy going on @22:33 or is it just me?

No continents on Mars... :p but fun!

This artwork is incredible

Is the voice AI generated?

Hey. I dabble in 40K but am not an expert. Thinking about the Adeptus Mechanicus and came up with this thought. Do you see any validity here? Maybe we address one or part of this? Mechanicus Chat I was thinking about how the Adeptus Mechanicus revere humanity, souls, and prayer, and it didn’t add up to me, if they’re focused on technology and mechanical augmentations that make them cyborgs. It just contradicted itself too much, and I began to think about the Necron, and other beings that have no purpose for flesh. The Necron being their scripted enemy needs an opposing philosophy to justify the purpose of them being feared and loathed. Necrons place value on the benefits of when one does abandone mortal constraints, which means inorganic computation supremacy as a world view and mission is fundamentally bothersome to the Adeptus Mechanicus. Thinking more, it reminded me of the Renaissance Period in Art History. You see, the Mechanicus are fighting to bring back some kind of golden era in both their revival of technology and lost philosophies dominating the universe. In the non fiction Italian Renaissance, there was a goal to bring back the ways and celebrate the arts of some time too far to tangibly revisit. Lacking clues they had to fill the gaps that left a lot of room for interpretation. The Church funded these artworks, so the political and ideological messages were made by them. Which now, is reminding me of how the mechanicus worship the Omnisiah and demand their religious structure be taken seriously. So with this task of being the retriever of what’s lost with the funding and motives of the church (in both cases), the Renaissance artists and Mechanicum are rewriting history to suit their contemporary political space, which was slowly shifting from religious to scientific, again in both examples. The church fearing this impending switch had a lot of money to throw at propagandizing its own importance, and I think that’s what the Necron represent to these archivists and tech priests. There now faces the lesser contradiction because the real Renaissance was focused on worshiping the humanities, which was not opposed to religious thought, but provides an alternative. You can’t be that devoted if you’re learning Galilean principles of heliocentrism, breaking the pages of theocracy placing your existence in the dead center of the relevant universe. The church was in favor of a main character syndrome than the humanities, which may say otherwise. That maybe the stage of playas has many groups with equal or greater significance to them or their god. It could be that the exact pages of philosophy that were lost were destroyed from an earlier mission of the church to eradicate them. I guess now they want to revive them, now that their flex to do so is documented. Strangely enough it was from Arabic influences that many of the lost Greek writing were rediscovered, and it’s odd that an outside group was the bearer of this gift when they were to be demonized and sacked when that was the thing to do, also held as other in today’s time as well from an overarching rule in the church’s intergenerational hold. What really happened is the church was in favor of celebrating the humanities at that time. Though they didn’t get their poster boy JC on the painting all of the time, they did see a cultural shift that they wanted to be in line with, or even better in control of. The Vatican funded many works about differing philosophy and the collection exists to this day of works the church paid for. So if the church at that time, when the pope was still the most powerful person in the Western World, can tolerate and even produce works that compromise itself for a greater goal, I suppose the Mechanicum can as well. After the renaissance, the Vatican and symbolic presence moved to Spain. The Florentine way of life was getting too out of control and they moved towards doing things like the Spanish Inquisition, and sending out Columbus within a year of each other, so we can see they have their own shifts as well. They can be cooperative and xenophobic within very short periods of time. Depending on who you ask, the Columbus significance could be addressed in differing ways. Prevalent history would say that the goal was to find new lands to trade with, and what happened was out of the cards falling as they may. People like myself believe those were conquest missions from the start and this juxtaposition may be where we won't see how these histories repeat when we become mighty space beings ourselves. “We’re out here trying to fairly trade, and if we accidentally kill ⅓ of native populations with disease, it can't be our fault if we had no knowledge of sanitation”, basically saying you’re too dirty and stupid to be held accountable for how fate/history happened, “and if the remaining ⅔ die off from subjugation and frontiersman destruction from the needs of our religious property even better, and we are still not responsible for the damages because god said it was the way it should be anyway”. So take or leave Howard Zinn. This comparison arises again because the Mechanicus was founded for the purpose of the larger imperium to benefit from. Humans, designating a whole faction of workers to revisit old and lost knowledge to serve a narrative of their own 1st player syndrome entering the vastness of the universe makes sense. One take is that if humanity is advanced enough for space travel, we’ve moved beyond a human need to answer all our questions with god said so, manifest destiny, colonization and all of the exploitation that comes with it. We have learned so much from when we did it to our own kind, why would we set ourselves up to repeat these histories? The other take would say that maybe humanity would need religious structures to face how scary their insignificance may actually be. Which is what a philosopher may say in response to religious dogma. Maybe because we haven’t learned those lessons from real cruelty we do repeat them. Maybe the ruling class doesn’t give a damn if religious or scientific pillaging is profitable and they could tell the people below them worship bumble bees if the money’s right. From a financial standpoint and how the dollar dominates all, maybe religion makes sense as a form of control and obedience to their footing as rulers. So where does that leave us? I think much like we’ve seen in our documented history that power structures like to make their version of the past the standard model. They like to maintain their power, and suiting the glove that fits in whatever context they chose is a looseness to true devotion in principle, but is easily justified when weighing the risks of superior, newer, and sometimes older knowledge and technology reminding them how small brained they are. Even if it’s a cultural shift where the power structure starts to implode from newness the ends justify the means.

Why has RU-vid removed the ability to contact the creators privately? Or am i ignorant and there is a button...i couldnt find one...

is the mechanicus able to create new dreadnoughts or are they slowly dying out?

Are they Necrons? Or scientists with perfected technology?

Admech video made with AI, Ironic