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There are many members of the Mechanicus who have doubts about whether the Omnissiah and the Emperor are actually the same being.

The Omnissiah, the physical avatar of the Machine God in the universe, is believed to be friendly to Humanity as His chosen people, and to be the originator of all Human technological and scientific knowledge. Generally, this deity is held by orthodox believers to be an aspect of the God-Emperor of Mankind in the form of the Omnissiah. The supreme object of devotion is therefore the Machine God, an immanent, omniscient and omnipotent deity that governs all machinery and knowledge in the universe.

The Cult Mechanicus, the religious hierarchy that governs the autonomous domains of the wider Adeptus Mechanicus in the Imperium, and upholds and spreads the worship of the Machine God, believes knowledge to be the manifestation of divinity in the universe, and holds that anything embodying or containing knowledge is sacred because of it. Warhammer 40K Darktide Review - Left To Shred This compromise truly satisfies neither believers in the Cult Mechanicus or the Imperial Cult, but it keeps the peace between the two faiths and the wider Imperium functioning. The Machine God, also known as the Omnissiah or Deus Mechanicus, is the supernatural entity worshipped by the tech-priests and other servants of the Adeptus Mechanicus as the embodiment and bestower of all knowledge and technology in the universe.įor many in the Imperium of Man, this belief conflicts with the orthodox theology of the Imperial Cult where the only god of Humanity is the Emperor of Mankind.īut since the Adeptus Mechanicus is vital to the survival of the Imperium, conflict over this issue is often avoided by the Mechanicus' willing conflation in its theology of the Machine God's avatar in the physical world, the so-called "Omnissiah," with the Emperor Himself. The Cog Mechanicum, symbol of the Machine God. Magos-Lector Vad Kapellax, at the first Convocation of The Lathes " Hail the Omnissiah! He is the God in the Machine, the Source of All Knowledge."