The Cogwork are a people of conviction. More a religious group than a race, the Cogwork worship an ancient machine deity they call Mekhane, or The Broken God. They believe that flesh is inherently evil, and that the only true path to enlightenment is through physical augmentation of their bodies through mechanical augmentation.

The Broken God

The Cogwork believe that long ago, before the beginning of modern civilization, there were two powerful creator deities: Mekhane, and Yaldabaoth. Mekhane was a powerful deity of metal, reason, and logic, while Yaldabaoth was a demonic creature of flesh and chaos.

At first, the two deities worked together to create the Prime Material. The Prime Material was empty of life, but they couldn't agree on how to populate it. Finally, after centuries of heated arguments, the two primal gods devised a compromise. They would create the mortal races one by one as a joint effort. Yaldabaoth crafted bodies of flesh for the new mortal races, while Mekhane gave them their sapience and logic.