Electro-priest

An Electro-priest is a Tech-priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus who are able to wield powerful blasts of electricity as a weapon, which makes them valuable members of the Mechanicus' Battle Congregations. These lightning-shrouded holy men trail after sacred machines in the manner of pilgrims and mendicants following the reliquaries of an Ecclesiarchal saint. In times of war these priests will raise a great chorus of praise to the Omnissiah, their weapons buzzing with murderous energy.

Also known as "Luminen" or "the Sparks of Life," Electro-priests exist as lesser orders of the Tech-priest hierarchy. They are fanatically devoted to the Motive Force, third of the Machine God's trinity, believing that all life and motion owes its continued existence to that ineffable divinity. Electro-priests are capable of channelling energy through anything they touch. Cybernetic grafts in their nervous system allow them to channel electrical energy through their copper-etched palms, the charge building quickly as the Electro-priest works himself into an ecstatic frenzy. At the heights of their religious mania, the truly devout can destroy enemies of the Machine God with bolts of living lightning -- or, in the case of the Fulgurites, drain their life energy as a Catachan mega-leech drains blood.