Editing Enginseer-Prime Quintus Aureleus (section)

=== Appearance ===
Reaching a mere 1.6 meters in height, Quintus makes up in bulk what he lacks in height.  High-density muscle and even higher-density cybernetic augmentations give the explorator the mass of a much larger man.  While his shape is unmistakably human (in spite of the two extra tentacle-like limbs that hang down his back (inactive) or hover over his shoulder (active), a jaw replaced by an approximately jaw-shaped blank expanse of electrum and a fine speaker-grille out of which he speaks, the gold and crystal cogwheel monocle over the left eye and the spots of metal showing through skin on his head, neck and face give away his allegiance to the Omnissiah.

If he were to strip down to bare skin, the outline of ribs done in electrum and the glowing purple crystals of his potential coil and the similar plated backbone that supports his augmented systems would no doubt draw attention.  Tracings, like circuits made out of electrum, streak down his limbs, and subdermal electoos flash symbols that mean something to those initiated in the mysteries of the machine-god.
Much of his more arcane augmentations are nearly completely concealed underneath tanned skin (or a reasonable facsimile, in some places) - the augur array where his tongue once lay, the leads from the MIU processors in his neck that trail down beside his arm bones to contact points in his palms, the baleful right eye matching the crystal lens covering the left in hue, and the cortex implant that fills the nasal and sinus cavities.

He usually does not bother to take off his dragon scale power armour, which is plugged into and powered by his potentia coil.  Resembling nothing more than fine snake scales of iridescent green-blue hues, this finely crafted example of the tech-priest's art enhances his already formidable strength to levels usually not seen outside of heavy-duty manipulator mechadendrites.
Considering mechadendrites, he currently has two attached to his shoulders.  On the left, a thin flexible tendril supports a set of small high-gain optical sensors that hooks into his visual cortex through his implants, and on the right a much thicker tentacle that ends in a sheathed chainblade and an injector system (among other unidentified medical apparatae).  When not active, these extra limbs contract and hang down Quintus' back, out of the way of other tasks he may be performing - when active, they rear up over his shoulders like serpents.