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The room bore a subtle but powerful weight as all present watched the third eye open. At their posts the Steel Wardens tightened their hands upon their weapons as they prepared for a fight. TalOS, the one next to the psyker, felt an itch in his hand to reach forward and deny such sorceries from happening before him.
He did not though. He held just enough restraint to keep the psyker before him alive as TalOS now saw what could be mistaken as a real eye. The eye was a simple one with a pupil in the middle and white sclera around it. The thing that made it odd was the eye did not possess an iris like it would with a normal human.
Out of all the things that there TalOS felt was a crux of the mutation. It is a membrane that controls the pupil’s diameter to allow either more or less lighting into the organ. If this was a basic mutation then surely there would be an iris, no matter how useless it would be to the psyker.
But there was not one and with it came a variety of things. TalOS had looked into the records from Mars talking about the long history of the psykers and how they existed even before the Long Night. That could be true as TalOS saw records of Mars enslaving a few of them but it did not explain the explosion of Navigators that came from Terra. Why did Terra have them specifically?
It's because they were manufactured. Likely by TalOS’s own creator.
If this was a natural evolution of the human genome there would have been useless organs like the Iris upon the eye. Such things were seen upon numerous mutants of the Human Genome where they had dozens of different pieces that were useless but present. TalOS could also feel it helped the subject matter of their creation.
They were psychic and that means everything has a meaning. The lack of an iris meant that the mutants had abnormal eyes. Abnormality to the Warp means hundreds of things, primarily that they do not work as they are supposed to. A good example of this would be seeing into the Warp itself.
As TalOS saw things he saw a thin strand of power leak from the organ. It could only be perceived through his own eyes and nothing else. Pure unadulterated Warp Energy that lacked any proper form. It can have forms of harm but none at the levels the Psyker was manifesting them.
Still it was psychic power and indeed the crystal began to radiate a variant red flow. The Navigator stretched his hands forward to hand the item to TalOS like it was a relic. The Arch Dominus reached forward and ensnared the device with a firmness that one would expect.
