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TalOS, Fabricator General of Lucius, has now spent more than a third of his life within this chamber with Orikan the Diviner. While in a relative sense this was not true, it was truth to TalOS himself who was placed through this Trial of Faith.
A Primarch was built for longevity and immortality. That is what was said by numerous peoples within the Imperium and the Mechanicum. Naturally one would think they were built for the long term perspective, to see towards the future just as their Father can do.
They were wrong.
Up until this point TalOS realized that his life was quite slow in terms of relativity. And for that he suffered.
In the first decade he kept at this with ambition. The idea that he was going to gain something that could carry him through what might be the end of the galaxy. But as he worked and worked at the fabrics of reality TalOS’s thoughts began to change. Like a sand storm erroding the sandstones of a desert he was being broken down.
The second century was filled with pain. Misery. He missed everyone that was upon his Forge World. Let it be his sons, his brothers, cult, or UZ1. He missed all of them as he felt the pains of his work creasing through his veins. At one point he recognized that Calibre left him for stasis, and TalOS did not blame him. This was something TalOS charged himself with.
And deep down, in the deepest parts of his mind, he felt regret. It was not he who was the snake but the knowledge Orikan held. A concept within the Mechanicum is that by giving someone technology you were translating knowledge to power. And in the greater scheme of things, that knowledge was easily attained to TalOS. Now his foolishness and hubris had placed him in what amounted to decades of trial. The only reason he did not fail was that TalOS would have lost the previous decades worth of work and likely his life.
He was a Prisoner of his own Hubris.
The third and fourth decade was with no emotions. The pillars that made up TalOS’s mind having all their texture blown off by the ever blowing sands of time. He did not think, he did not commit, he only did. He did what Master Orikan instructed him to do. He did not fail in this.
Then the fifth decade came and with it something else. It started with a single thought, an understanding, a feeling. The first feeling he had for two entire decades of his life. With what little will TalOS forced his soul to begin trembling with the currents that he and Orikan were creating.
And with his soul he gripped the Motive Force, those Galactic forces that he realized he barely understands.
