Without the Navigator Houses of the Navis Nobilite, there would be no the Warp travel, and without that, there would be no Imperium. The Navigators are a breed apart from Mankind, a stable mutant strain blessed of a third eye that is capable of seeing into the unreal depths of the Immaterium and discerning a navigable path through its depths. Using their third eye, they are able to perceive the true face of the Warp and to sense its most subtle of movements. The soul of the Navigator is warded against the stark insanity of the Warp, so that, unlike all other mortals, he may look into it and not have his soul blasted to ashes in the process. Navigators usually only open their Warp eye whilst guiding a vessel through the Sea of Souls, for any mortal who falls under its terrible gaze looks into the depths of the Empyrean and is likely slain in an instant.

Because of the vital role that Navigators play within the galaxy-spanning Imperium, the Navigator Houses occupy one of the highest of positions. They are led by the Paternova, a patriarch blessed of supreme power over all his kind but invariably cursed with the most awful of mutations. The Paternova is represented in the Senatorum Imperialis by the Paternoval Envoy, a permanent seat that grants enormous influence in the workings of the Imperium of Man.

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