Larva Machina

_{The sage lifts her head as the static calls out again, her eyes covered by the divinity's dark band around her eyes--metal, smooth, light. She holds her hands up to her ears, the thin rubbercord leather ruffling at her bent elbows revealing thin, fitted linen sleeves that has a loop around her three forefingers.
The static grows louder, clearer. She hisses with it, reaching out to the sound. As it whirs, she mimics; as it screams, she convulses, but her voice knows these tunes, and her sisters and bothers hear it too. They are a macabre echo in the dark for a creature they summon each day with the dawning sun; it is spindly and long, gaunt yet divine, as full as a gust of sand, but there all the same. A creature they bade forth in front of an iron maw that wheezes and calls out.
Until, it simply hums, unified. The sage removed the thick metallic circlet from her eyes, eyes blinking while her brothers and sisters comfort her. She is crying, for all of the things she has heard and seen were gifted to her eyes today, all of the things in a realm she cannot touch were hers. She is questioned, near harried, but she is slow to open her mouth.
"Today, it drew close."}

Summary

The Larva Machina is the hive mind ghost that exists in all mechanical beings. It has been known to transmit messages across impossible distance at a great time of need; It has caused cruel mechanical beings to stop functioning before they deliver a cruel blow; but it has also been known to act erratically, stop indefinitely. Since the Old One's have long passed on, there is no one who can communicate effectively with the mechanisms and most, if not all, have fallen silent.
It's usefulness and deeds are now mythologized, thought of as impossibilities. However, those who accumulate and worship technology have been able to tap back into the Ethern, a place of mechanical power, or so thought, where The Ghosts of the Machines, resides.
Now, Larva Machina used to be considered a Iron-Gier, its avatar, and is still thought to work its will through them, though opinions about the The Tribe of Faust (ie. Faustites) may vary. For this reason, Larva, as it is referred to in short, is at times thought as either a deity of war or as a force of change. Thoughts have moved away from this to accompany all machines in recent years (within the last two generation) as Iron-Giers have become more prevalent and understanding greater, larger technologies have had little progress.

Historical Basis

Larva Machina, while majority dormant, played a much larger roll in the past, approximately 650 years ago. During this time, the Iron-Giers had just been discovered and many cultures participated in an arms race to get a hold of as many as possible. Reasons varied, but a majority were religious as these were seen as ways to communicate with the Ones Before. However, when seeking to pilot an Iron-Gier, the pilot would speak of a voice that would question them, who they were, what they were doing, etc.
Pilots long thought this was a long-distance telepathy between themselves and someone else, but more in depth investigations during this time revealed that each Iron-Gier possessed an Anima, a soul, as the people then thought of it. Really, these were the Iron-Geirs directives and capabilites. Regardless, the thought was that a pilot's soul had to agree with the machines.
This is when the The Tribe of Faust stepped in and began to make a foothold in piloting the machines. They were also the first to use charagma to create a longer "wakefulness" for each Iron-Gier. This spearheaded the spread of charagma in religious sects to create an enlightenment. One particular cult is said to have fused themselves with their Iron-Giers and charagma. Years after this and several other charagmic incidents occurred, the machines were somewhat a symbiosis of myth and machine. When all Iron-Giers had made contact with the charagma in one way or another, voice awakened in all of the Iron-Giers, one voice that resonated above them all, declaring that it would sleep until the world had made masters of itself, as it had. This voice was not said to have been bound by any directive or capacity. And could only be briefly questioned.
Then after the machines became finicky, working only in extreme circumstances or even in self-preservation. Some are said to have burst open, revealing an abominable behemoth underneath, though these tales are rarely ever true. Regardless, they are referred to as Eidolons.
The voice that spoke however, grew to attach itself to other machines, and would briefly converse or send visions. This was known as the Larva Machina, the ghost of the Old One's machines. The accounts were never about the same thing, but it always introduced itself as such. After a while, it descended into mythology, no accounts of contact by voice since 200 years ago.

Spread

The mythology of the Larva Machina and its Iron-Giers is popular among warlike cultures, as a majority of them will still maintain their Iron-Giers. It is also popular among cults that worship and soothsay from machines. Other scholars will most likely have heard of the myth, but very few will put as much stock in it as the aforementioned two.

Variations & Mutation

Many myths will downplay the involvement with charagma and the Iron-Giers. Somevariations assert that the Iron-Giers once acted on their own before falling quietly into myth. This accounts for the machines being mentioned 650 years ago, but only coming into use within the last 200 years.