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Reality was fickle. That is what TalOS understood at this moment.
Forces that were beyond his previous comprehension passed through the mind of the Primarch. Many of these things he had either never considered or never realized were already part of the Rituals performed by the Mechanicus in service to their god.
Both everything and nothing applied at a single moment. The alignment of planetary bodies would cause grand gravitational movements that caused light and electrons to move in such a specific way that they granted immense power. This went double for anything involving machines as the Spirits within them could be awakened and stirred into feats TalOS never even thought possible.
Even the runes that he saw. Each and every one of them in their green balefire carried with it a sense of power.
During all this TalOS felt a sudden moment of expansion. His awareness grew even larger to the realm around him as he was entwined for several minutes with a mass of sensory arrays and augers.
It only widened his perspective. His understanding of the Universe and how the forces of reality worked upon one another.
But then he noticed it. The subtle changes and manipulations that continued to flicker against the fabric of reality. Shutters and shakes that resulted in massive tears into reality that TalOS knew would shake the very foundation of reality.
It was the Warp. The Warp encroaching on his perfect Galaxy. It robbed him of the sense of perfection and understanding that TalOS unwittingly desired. A perfect mechanical machine that was the galaxy could not suffer such a blight on the Universe.
After this realization, TalOS felt this reality begin to shutter and shrink. But TalOS realized that he did not mind it for this was the perspective that only Gods should have.
TalOS was given as a lesson. An understanding that he has now been tasked to unlock.
He would do so. TalOS would do just that.
And like that the Primarch felt his consciousness return.
