A Grimnyr of the Greater Thurian League in battle, wielding the item of barrier-tech known as an Ancestral Warding Stave.
Barrier-tech, also spelled barrier tech, is the name given to the advanced technology employed by the Leagues of Votann that allows those Kin cloned with a psychoactive cloneskein, such as the Grimnyr and the Embyr, to access and manipulate the psychic energies of the Immaterium.
The Kin are able to exploit Warpspace in a way few other starfaring peoples would risk, thanks to their hardened souls and the reliable protection offered by their advanced technologies. Even those Kin who carry the psychoactive cloneskein are not literal psykers in the true sense of the word as Humans would understand it. Like a shuttered lantern whose aperture has been opened a little wider, the souls of these psychoactive Kin shine just brightly enough to mesh with barrier-tech, such as Ancestral Warding Staves and Armour Crests known as Ancestral Ward Crests that can project psyker-like abilities.
These devices come to life only at these psychoactive Kin's touch, emitting a soft thrum of power and glimmering with cold witchlight. It is through the careful use of barrier-tech devices like these that the Grimnyr and the Embyr manipulate the energies of the Warp to produce manifestations similar to those conjured into realspace by true psykers without facing the same risk of insanity, loss of control of their powers or Daemonic possession.
Notable Barrier-tech[]
Sources[]
- Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition), pg. 13