Unironically? They do in fact have their eyelids removed so that their eyes can constantly upload data through the Noosphere for the tech priests to analyze. Ironically? So that they can see when they're about to be hit by the femboy bat
Recently heard of a story where an imperial army commander during the horus heresy asked a skitarii during her last stand if she was pretty under her mask. She thinks about how her skin is turning grey, how she’s almost bald, and hardly has anything resembling eyes anymore and simply types to him on the cogitator she was using to communicate with him “yes”
And she wasn't wrong either, if you don't accept your skitarii waifu as she is you're a psychic null and must be purged for the soulless mutant you are.
That was always my assumption as well. I mean, they replace they legs from Shin down and often their entire arms, plus several organs, why *not* replace the eyes, nose, etc?
In Dark Heresy I was always the Techpriest. One of the times we played we had some one who didn't know much about the setting other than how scary it was. He heard from the GM that no one outside the Mechanicus knows what's under a Techpriest's Robes, so he has his character lift my robes as a joke. He ended up giving the party a handful of insanity points because of the Mundane Horrors test he inflicted on everyone. The DM told them they have no idea what they were looking at, just that it looked painful.
It speaks volume about their friendship that the guardsman is allowed to touch the skitaraii. At least the the guardsman will be turn into a servitor as his friend personal one.
There's no standard design for the Skitarii. If you can think of a way that a human can be turned into a horrific amalgamation of man and machine there could be a forgeworld that employs it.
I fuckin love Archon's work. It's so good. He's so talented, and it itches me in the right way. But l. The way the "fans" harrass and send them rape and death threats is fucking vile and obscene.
@@gardenthefermentingsound6218 Maybe because the crap he writes is the same way? Just because you masturbate to that demented shit doesn't mean other people do.
Quick bit of context if anyone needs it: Skitarii conversion involves removal of eyelids "so the omnissiah's warriors remain ever vigilant", removal of most of the lower jaw and replacement with a built in breathing and feeding apparatus, multiple implants around the cranium that you can guess mess with a skitarii's free will and also, most skitariis are heavily irradiated or have been exposed to dangerous chemicals so most look already like corpses whose skin is about to fall off. Edit: Should also mention, the apparatus goes all the way to the stomach and has multiple cables extending across the body, skitarii are like 25% made out of damn cable. Edit 2: Some additions by commenters also, not adding them myself to not make this any more bloated.
The radiation ones are only the vanguard tho. Also rangers legs are replaced above the ankle, and by replaced i mean they are grinded down while the skitarii is conscious to symbolize the hunters march across mars. Also not all are created the same, that varies from forgeworld to forgeworld
@@xenon3990 that's why I mentioned "or dangerous chemicals" they still hail from forge worlds, you are going to get in contact with those two (radiation or chemicals) no matter what. Failed to mention legs mostly because it doesn't feature on the video, all that I mentioned where the ones related to the upper body and therefore have a slight connection with the mask.
Well they do have free will bro, the only time they don't is if the magos or tech priests manually control them through their nerves. Which gives good Intel for the priest to plan ahead. But overall they still have human emotions.
@@vothbetilia4862 I didn't say they didn't, I said "you can imagine it messes with it" not 100% of the time of course, otherwise we would skip the damn morale phase. lol
Obviously the handsomeness of one the Omnissiah's warriors was leading that humble Guardsmen to have heretical thoughts. Luckily he recognized the temptation and turned it down.
You didn’t have to bring the fucker up. Everyone could have pretended they didn’t exist and we could have all went about our browsing happily. But nooooo. You just had to ruin it for 78% of the rest of us
Nice to see a guardsmen and skitari hanging out I aways consider followers of the machine god were not the chatty type with the whole "flesh is weak" motto
In the forges of mars books there is a part about an ex-guardsman who sold moonshine or "below-decks shine" to a skitarii in exchange for Lho cigarettes and an old plasma pistol.
I read somewhere that they remove their eyelids and that blue glow you see in their goggles is actually a fluid to moisturize their eyes. Cant miss a moment in the blink of an eye if you cant blink
Ah yes i forgot...there's robo-god and if you pray hard enough your machine works, pray even harder and you'll want nothing to do with your own flesh anymore and become one with machine. Warhammer for you 😂
Skitarii: My body is heavily enhanced with cybernetic implants and weaponry, allowing me to engage in combat with unparalleled precision and efficiency. My mind is similarly augmented, with advanced processing capabilities and access to a vast repository of knowledge and tactical information. As a Skitarii, I am both a weapon and a tool, constantly seeking to optimize my performance in service of the Omnissiah. In short, I am a living weapon of the Adeptus Mechanicus, dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and the advancement of technology in the name of the Machine God. My face is no mask. It is duty.
the mechanicus make clock work orange look tame in comparison. the only thing missing from this was distorted distant screaming in the back of that skitarii's mind.
Yeah uhm... There's a reason why they thrive on hostile environments and are basically walking corpses. Don't look past the highly prized tech... There's not much in there.
TELL ME ABOUT THE SKITARII, WHY DO THEY WEAR THE MASKS?
Who's there to claim they're*masks*?🤔
Because there actually cats (according to the fact I saw cat ears on a tech priest named DK once)
Unironically? They do in fact have their eyelids removed so that their eyes can constantly upload data through the Noosphere for the tech priests to analyze.
Ironically? So that they can see when they're about to be hit by the femboy bat
A LOTTA TOASTERS FOR A HIRED GUN
[ACCESS DENIED]
“No one cared about me until I put on the mask. Now the omnissiah cares about me and I will fight for it.” -the skitarii probably
"If I pull that off will you die?"
"It would be extremely painful to look at"
@@Scatmanseth even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
But we are initiated aren't we Guardsman? Members of the Imperium of Man
Now is not the time for heresy
That comes later
Bane would absolutely be a Magos Biologis
Recently heard of a story where an imperial army commander during the horus heresy asked a skitarii during her last stand if she was pretty under her mask. She thinks about how her skin is turning grey, how she’s almost bald, and hardly has anything resembling eyes anymore and simply types to him on the cogitator she was using to communicate with him “yes”
😍
That's super fucked up. Gotta love 40k.
Aw
And she wasn't wrong either, if you don't accept your skitarii waifu as she is you're a psychic null and must be purged for the soulless mutant you are.
Where can I read about this story?
"Why do you always wear this mask?"
"Mask?"
*The. Thing. You. Call. A. Mask. Is. Infact. This. Ones. Face.*
That was always my assumption as well. I mean, they replace they legs from Shin down and often their entire arms, plus several organs, why *not* replace the eyes, nose, etc?
Was wondering when someone was going to point that out. Skitarii are more machine than human.
Yeah I was thinking this too.
@@thebighurt2495 Yeah what's the point of having a million superficial augments but not augmenting your senses?
I like how in Echoes of Eternity a guardsman asks a skit if she's pretty as a joke. She confirms and it's super touching
She is not beautiful. She is perfect. Perfectly designed for her service to the Omnissiah
She lied to him to give him light in that hellish world
Corporal shovelson of the 101st KRIEG siege regiment watching from the side: chuckles in gas mask
Yes gray skin no eyes and almost bald is very cute
Probably shouldn't get so close guardsmen, the side effect of being in close proximity to Skitarii tends to be cancer.
Those are the vanguards, the ones with rad guns. Normal skittari are...fine.
The guardsman will be lucky if he lives long enough to get killed by cancer
don't worry a guardsman will die in battle before any cancer can take them
he wont last long enough
only vanguards, all the other are mostly save.
Skitarii should’ve grabbed the guardsman’s arm and say, “ ACCESS DENIED “
Ohhhh marsy boys. Bionic babies
Conjecture: access is at present prohibited by all guardsmen save apocrother ander
You do realize that I am a High Lord of Terra, yes?
@@crytyping.You do realize that access denied?
@@t3rraria836 I demand a meeting with your Fabricator General.
In Dark Heresy I was always the Techpriest. One of the times we played we had some one who didn't know much about the setting other than how scary it was. He heard from the GM that no one outside the Mechanicus knows what's under a Techpriest's Robes, so he has his character lift my robes as a joke. He ended up giving the party a handful of insanity points because of the Mundane Horrors test he inflicted on everyone. The DM told them they have no idea what they were looking at, just that it looked painful.
40ks version of mundane horrors causes mild insanity
Hey if you saw the human version of a teens cable management for their pc. You would probably be mildly disturbed too.
Guardsman: Hey Skit? Why do you always wear that mask?
Skitarii: "Statement:: Our planet is literal [audible bleep] dust."
HK-47.
It speaks volume about their friendship that the guardsman is allowed to touch the skitaraii. At least the the guardsman will be turn into a servitor as his friend personal one.
We’ve gotten Tech and Mek
But are you ready for,
Skit and Twit?
Skit and twink more like
@@praisemachinespirit3874 Stop it. Your accidentaly gonna summon archon_of_flesh
@@praisemachinespirit3874 PRAISEEEE YALDABAOTH!!!!! PRAISEEEEE THE GNOSTIC CHINESSE DRAGONN OF SIFFFERING!!!
I figured that was their face, not a mask lol
For some mask is the face (If face was damaged and skitari survived it will be replaced).
@@deauthorsadeptus6920 They replace every organ on the face before they get to combat; there's nothing to survive.
@@InternetMameluq I mean remaining flesh. It still weaker then rest of face ans more likely to just fall off after some damage.
There's no standard design for the Skitarii. If you can think of a way that a human can be turned into a horrific amalgamation of man and machine there could be a forgeworld that employs it.
@imerror6224 There's at least a couple dozen different Forgeworlds and they're all probably a bit different in how they do things
Reminded me of when that guard asked transacta 7Y1 if she looked pretty under all that and she answered with a legit sassy version of skit yes
Who is transacta 7YI?
@@TechAdeptCam she’s the Skitarii from echos of eternity she’s one of the main characters you follow through the book she is awesome
@@miguelperez9906 based
"And why do you wear that face made of weak, corruptible flesh? My mask is made of pure and holy metal as Omnissiah orders!"
"Well now that you've seen what's under mine, let's see what's under yours."
*heavy breathing in binary*
>Breathing
What am.
“Because the air hurts my skin.”
Calling skitarii’s Skit has single handedly made my day, that is amazing.
“I don’t wear it for my benefit, but for yours.”
The best thing is that it’s not even a mask, it’s their actual face.
“It’s to hide my embarrassing human flesh”
"FROM THE MOMENT I UNDERSTOOD THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH IT DISGUSTED ME"
I CRAVED THE STRENGTH AND CERTAINTY OF STEEL
I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine!
Skitarii are what happen when the Shy Guy's from the Mario games are all grown up.
Archon, you betrayed me. You betrayed us all
Who are you talking abo- oh…
I fuckin love Archon's work. It's so good. He's so talented, and it itches me in the right way. But l. The way the "fans" harrass and send them rape and death threats is fucking vile and obscene.
@@praisemachinespirit3874 Have you heard of "To Break a Soldier of the Machine God"? It's a very good story. Read it at your own risk.
@@gardenthefermentingsound6218 Maybe because the crap he writes is the same way? Just because you masturbate to that demented shit doesn't mean other people do.
@@daughter-of-loki1062 Demented?? Yes, because having a noncon fetish is exactly the same as getting real sexual assault threats, right? Holy yikes
If you dare to look under the mask you will find a toaster.
Yeah I was expecting a bunch of data ports.
It's actually just a single port for them to charge with. And the kind that looks like a little face so it's adorable if you ignore the implications.
*You. Do. Realize. That. Access. Denied.*
Quick bit of context if anyone needs it:
Skitarii conversion involves removal of eyelids "so the omnissiah's warriors remain ever vigilant", removal of most of the lower jaw and replacement with a built in breathing and feeding apparatus, multiple implants around the cranium that you can guess mess with a skitarii's free will and also, most skitariis are heavily irradiated or have been exposed to dangerous chemicals so most look already like corpses whose skin is about to fall off.
Edit: Should also mention, the apparatus goes all the way to the stomach and has multiple cables extending across the body, skitarii are like 25% made out of damn cable.
Edit 2: Some additions by commenters also, not adding them myself to not make this any more bloated.
The radiation ones are only the vanguard tho. Also rangers legs are replaced above the ankle, and by replaced i mean they are grinded down while the skitarii is conscious to symbolize the hunters march across mars. Also not all are created the same, that varies from forgeworld to forgeworld
@@xenon3990 that's why I mentioned "or dangerous chemicals" they still hail from forge worlds, you are going to get in contact with those two (radiation or chemicals) no matter what.
Failed to mention legs mostly because it doesn't feature on the video, all that I mentioned where the ones related to the upper body and therefore have a slight connection with the mask.
People often forget how hardcore the AdMech truly are
Well they do have free will bro, the only time they don't is if the magos or tech priests manually control them through their nerves. Which gives good Intel for the priest to plan ahead. But overall they still have human emotions.
@@vothbetilia4862 I didn't say they didn't, I said "you can imagine it messes with it" not 100% of the time of course, otherwise we would skip the damn morale phase. lol
"There is a face beneath this mask, but it is no more my face as the muscles beneath, or the bones beneath that"
- V from 'V for Vendetta'
And then the guardsman died of radiation poisoning a week later.
Archon_of_flesh's worst nightmare
Archon freaky asf, I wouldn't be surprised if even this turns them on lol
Archon when he finds out skitarii aren’t “cute femboys” but is this in reality
@@frankloun2496LET ME LIVE IN MY FANTASY, DAMMIT
@@frankloun2496 tbh they're better like this. Reject femboy skits, embrace human warmachine legiones skitarii
@@Iknowhowbadthisnameis8828 Agreed. I love my body-horror amalgamations of steel and bone a lot more than femboys.
"You're going to be a servitor, if you're not going to apologize for what you have done"
i have no mouth and i must scream.
Obviously the handsomeness of one the Omnissiah's warriors was leading that humble Guardsmen to have heretical thoughts.
Luckily he recognized the temptation and turned it down.
Archon of Flesh, is that you?
@@singularkakapo😭
@@singularkakapothat mfs gotta go
Beauty is skin deep, the Omnissiah's programming is beyond skin
It keeps his eyes safe from the thick sun!
Keep it on
F** duct tape it on
"The flesh is weak!" -Skitarii legionaires-.
Archon of Flesh still isn’t stopped
You didn’t have to bring the fucker up. Everyone could have pretended they didn’t exist and we could have all went about our browsing happily.
But nooooo. You just had to ruin it for 78% of the rest of us
Sadly.
See skitatrii female without mask
ciaphas cain: jackpot
I thought he'd say "It's not a mask, that's my face"
Nice to see a guardsmen and skitari hanging out I aways consider followers of the machine god were not the chatty type with the whole "flesh is weak" motto
In the forges of mars books there is a part about an ex-guardsman who sold moonshine or "below-decks shine" to a skitarii in exchange for Lho cigarettes and an old plasma pistol.
@@DxM0nk3y nice to see that even in the horrid conditions of the 41st century there still some form of banter between separate party's.
It's mostly the r*tarded social media comments who spam that sh*t. Along with the game quote.
Honestly, I thought the guardsmen was going to get blasted with a lethal dose of radiation.
that's a vanguard skitarii that does that, not the rangers.
historically accurate
This is why I wear a gas mask. I have a burnt up face and I sorta look like a crispy Deadpool. Respect the mask.
Just be glad you did this with a Ranger instead of Vanguard, the vanguard would have given you a lethal dose of radiation just for looking at them.
I read somewhere that they remove their eyelids and that blue glow you see in their goggles is actually a fluid to moisturize their eyes. Cant miss a moment in the blink of an eye if you cant blink
I like how ig are just normal dudes in this crazy world of warhammer
He still has Non-Augmetic Eyes??
Clearly the Magos expects the enemy to arive soon, and so rushes procedure to make combat effective troops.
Plot twist: The Skitarii are secretly unbelievably hot
I love how happy his smile still is.
Ah the artist is great, everything is really cute and wholesome.
Nice to see my friends work is popular enough to get into memes like this
(lifts mask)
*Karl Ruprect Kroenen INTENSIFIES*
Ah yes i forgot...there's robo-god and if you pray hard enough your machine works, pray even harder and you'll want nothing to do with your own flesh anymore and become one with machine. Warhammer for you 😂
Those lenses are colored beautifully
"I am also Radioaktive, because of my Weapons, you k'now."
Skit-sophrenia
“Have to make sure chat sees this”-Skatari or Cawl
Yeah, bet the guardsman wouldn't look too hot either if someone peeled his "mask" like that.
This literally appeared while im painting skitarii units😂
Skitarii:
My body is heavily enhanced with cybernetic implants and weaponry, allowing me to engage in combat with unparalleled precision and efficiency. My mind is similarly augmented, with advanced processing capabilities and access to a vast repository of knowledge and tactical information. As a Skitarii, I am both a weapon and a tool, constantly seeking to optimize my performance in service of the Omnissiah. In short, I am a living weapon of the Adeptus Mechanicus, dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and the advancement of technology in the name of the Machine God.
My face is no mask. It is duty.
That is exactly how I imagine they would see themselves. Great job putting it into words!
"the thing you call a mask is this ones face"
the mechanicus make clock work orange look tame in comparison. the only thing missing from this was distorted distant screaming in the back of that skitarii's mind.
"brother santodies convince them"
~kitten
Imagine if they looked like handsome squidward under their masks
Wth happen to the mechanicus before the soldiers were humans with cybernetics augmentations but now they try to be Walmart versions of the men of iron
"The radiation of my holy weaponry consumes the weakness of my flesh. Every shot brings me closer to the purity of the machine." - Some Skit probably.
how about not do that to the Krieg Storm Trooper.
So its basically a servo-skull piloting a human-sized mech
Those are masks? i aleays figured those were the skitari's actual faces.
Fun fact : he's making shy face right now
*We. Are. Not. A. Brick. Wall. We. Are. Skitarii*
Well these are barely even human anymore.
Yeah uhm... There's a reason why they thrive on hostile environments and are basically walking corpses.
Don't look past the highly prized tech... There's not much in there.
Flesh is weakness.....
He drank too much coffee
In one novel, a whole mechanicus facility including all the skitarii with what amounts to a very spicy USB stick.
Shocked they still have eyeballs, seems inefficient when they could have cameras plugged into their skull
Thanks. Now you've let infection in. Great.
he had more flesh under that mask than i expected.
Truly a mechanical wonder
I am exited to be able to play a tech priest in the new tabletop rpg that’s coming out
“Access denied”
Ahh the video that introduced me into the rabbit hole that is 40k
I love the smile from the guard at the end
It's like everything else is 40k is designed to traumatize the average guardsman.
"they took my fucking skin...."
Guardsman died of cancer due to high levels of radiation
The mask is their face, most of the time.
the flesh is weak
Mask? Nah, that's THEIR FACE!!!
Well now that imperial guard has radiation poisoning.
bonus points just standing near certain skittari is enough to give you fatal radiation poisoning
I thought it was because they have pipes and cables going into their mouths, so they hide it under the mask.
MASK? thought that was their face!??
problem : very hard to breathe
They still have their skin? Fascinating.
Good to know
And that guardsman now has cancer.
We need an animated series of this 😂 the next cyanide and happiness.
Krieger : and i take it personal