Veyard Factions: Aldmachinistic

Originally published August 7th2025

In the wake of the first Rain of Fire all of Veyard was ruled by computational godlings known as The Computearchons. Machines left behind as part of automated government continuation programs. Eventually they were sealed away, as what use would a machine made by the people who destroyed the world be. They are all dead now, they were still aware as they felt gnawing things eat away at their wired brains.

The Aldmachinists' eyes are filled with lust reading these histories. A time without politics, where we all obeyed those most learned in engineering and mathematics, it was the peak of humanity it had to be. Those who rebuked these machines were scared fools, the governments that made the machines couldn’t have implanted politics into them. We need to find where they are and release them back upon the world, they can bring us into the heights of the first imperial age.

An aldmachninist does not dream, they wish to survive off of efficient nutrient slurry, they see no need to create art, they do not dance, they do not sing. They fear death above all else, hoping technology can make them immune from senility, if they just could upload themselves onto a machine they would never have to reckon with dying in a pool of their own piss.

They align themselves heavily with the mechanized templars, despite them seeing them as backwards for placing spiritual value on the machines they worship, instead of intellectual value.