An Abeyant is an anti-gravitic transportation device often used by high-ranking tech-priests of the ancient Mechanicum and the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Considered in part as a symbol of status as well as a functional tool, an Abeyant is the name given to a class of anti-gravitic, hovering conveyances into which the rider's augmetic and life support systems are connected, so that the machine-vehicle becomes an extension of their own body. Often taking the form of a stylised throne or enclosing scarab-like framework, its levitation suspensor field allows the owner to cross most war-torn battlefields with ease. They are commonly used by high-ranking Tech-priests, especially in battlefield situations.
As a powerful archmagos of the Dark Mechanicum domain of Cyclothrathe, it was not unheard of for Yelav Draykavac, the commander of that Forge World's Taghmata, to stride into battle mounted in an Abeyant such as he did during the Liberation of Numinal in the Horus Heresy.
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- The Horus Heresy Book Two: Massacre (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 267