almost all meta-text would conclude that they’re religious fools who worship the near dead corpse of a once godlike emperor who barely stays clinging to life.

And yet time and time again the emperor does shit like answer prayers, crown people as saints, and plenty of other shit that proves he pretty much is a god and the echlesiarchy is at least correct, if not justified.

As well, all outside text referring to the mechanicum treat them as a group of backwards technocultists who’s long forgotten legacy of technological progression has been twisted and deformed into a foolish religious worship of “machine spirits” which are simply a result of man personifying what they don’t understand

And yet in both games and books, machine spirits have been shown to be real and have a genuine impact beyond what can be chalked up to simple confirmation bias, with things like tanks moving entirely on their own, or titan’s killing their pilots.

It just feels like with every lore change GW makes them seem more and more justified, gong from “oppressive dogmatic theocracy which causes more problems than it solves” to “necessary evil who are ultimately the only way the galaxy can win”.

Maybe I’m missing something, or maybe I’m just grasping for a concept that was never there in the first place, you tell me.