One of us had a faction who ruled for 65 million years, and the other had a faction who napped for 65 million years.
Nepo babies.
Dad, dad, god literally gave you psychic powers.
I don't want to hear it, Mr. Primarch Man.
Who gave them powers? Who has the real nepotism?
No, they stole it. It's different.
The Emperor stole the power.
Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to the Beginner to Expert podcast on law crimes.
Today we are going back into some filthy Xeno lore with the Necron Dynasties.
Ooh, very spooky skeleton boys. Green, lots of green.
Probably a fan favourite for a lot of guys I know.
Eli has a particular passion for this faction.
But before we move on to talking about the Necron Dynasties and all their former glory and Skelly boys,
it is time for the question of the week, so I will pass it on to Colin.
I would be happy to go over the questions of the week I picked out.
So we had the hashtag loss Primarch, who was the loss Primarch from last week.
And I got a couple bangers.
I'm already feeling silly. This is not good.
Four of them are bangers. One of them I picked solely because it fuels my degeneracy.
So four out of five, I think I hit the mark. You all hit the mark.
One out of five, you hit the mark for me and the other three are going to hate me for it.
But that's OK. We'll start off with number one by Scowleazy.
The hashtag loss Primarch was...
That's what he called it.
...bearish menace.
Because there ain't no way some bum named Iron Hands, who had iron hands,
the leader of the Iron Hands, whose ship is the Fist of Iron, is actually canon.
No, my boy.
Oh, look at how they massacre my boy like that.
Oh, shout out to Ferris Iron Hands, the Iron Hands man.
His iron hands are pretty cool if he has them.
They're pretty cool. His name is...
Oh, this hurts my soul.
I'm imagining him now on the Fist of Iron with his iron hands called Iron Hands Man,
eating his cereal, which are little iron hands.
Kellogg's brand, Iron Hand.
Whilst listening to his favorite band, I like Iron Hands by the Iron Hands.
I am Iron Hands.
This wounds me. Wounds my soul.
The next one, and we'll just get the degenerate one out of the way now so you can all rest easy.
So hashtag lostprimarch, his name was pancreas and he got erased from history
because he found an STC that could create VTubers and he tried to replace his space marine lead.
I can see it.
I would in fact, the Hatsune Miku Marines would reign supreme.
I don't even know who that is. I'm assuming it's good.
I mean, when you say controversial.
It's great.
You said controversial, but yeah, I thought, oh, he's not gonna say Epstein or something like that.
No, no, no, no.
No, Jesus Christ.
No, I said degenerate.
The scale of law crimes, everyone.
You don't like that.
And it's all kind of like scum.
And how he's talking about.
God.
As me and Eli in the middle just kind of looking awkwardly going, what is he on about?
I like people who pretend to be anime people.
I'm not going to fucking be silent.
You need an adult.
Moving on.
We move on from that one.
Now you need to think about what you've done.
Moving from that one is.
Oh, that was by Joe Pippen.
Pardon me.
I bet I know who you're a fan of.
Moving on.
Uncle Sam 1637 hashtag lost Primark.
The 11th Primarks name is Craig.
He was first for attending the Denny's Grand Slam and not fighting the Emperor.
Bro, bro, I love the Denny's Grand Slam.
The Denny's Grand Slam is amazing.
Oh, I have a quick story that related to Denny's.
It was when I was in like freshman year of college, it was a bunch of like a
lot of my Muslim friends when they were breaking fast and like very early in the morning,
like for sunrise, we would all they would all go to Denny's.
And a bunch of like all the rest of us would just go with because we're like,
let's hang out.
It's three in the morning.
We're in freshman year of college.
We have nothing better to do.
And yeah, that's the only time you can respectfully eat at Denny's.
So you'd see 20 people lined up outside of Denny's, half of which were Muslim and half
of which were high white trash white kids.
Just Google Denny's, they like pancakes with eggs and bacon.
That's right, baby.
What do you mean that's strange?
They're all breakfast foods.
What?
They're breakfast.
We don't really have pancakes with bacon.
Yeah.
I hear hard on that.
Yeah.
With fruit because we're not trying to ruin our veins.
We eat fruit, too.
We just have fruit as a side along with the side of.
You have syrup.
You don't have fruit.
You have syrup.
Yeah.
I think it sucks the fruit every time I have breakfast out.
You can put fruit on the pancake.
Yes.
That's the point.
This isn't.
You can put fruit and syrup.
But no bacon.
Why would bacon ever be near that?
Yeah.
Why would you put bacon?
Because it's a breakfast food.
Breakfast food.
Yeah.
It's more like a dessert, isn't it?
It's like.
What bacon is this?
It's a sweet thing to have with your.
Yeah.
Now I'm switching sides.
It's a sweet thing to have with your breakfast.
It's just a card to have with your breakfast.
Bacon and pancakes.
I've never heard of that combo.
Somebody pull up the clip of Jake the dog singing,
make a pancake, make a bacon pancake.
I mean, make a pancake.
That's what I'm going to make.
Listen, a full English breakfast has a lot of these things,
but not pancakes in it.
OK.
Oh, pancakes.
It's not crazy, but it's just.
Sweet dinner food.
But in that song, it's in a fantasy universe.
Therefore, it gets a pass.
That's why.
Moving on before we take the debate.
Welcome to the macrons, everyone.
Necron.
Two more quick questions.
This is like a whistle over.
I know five is a bit much, but the rest will go quicker.
Assuming you don't get sidetracked with bacon again.
Zach M 5485 says hashtag lost Primark.
His name was Sigmar and he was kicked out because Ems was jealous
that he was doing a better job at dealing with chaos.
And he owns a Warhammer.
And he does actually have a Warhammer.
That's kind of an indisputable leg up he's got.
I've got to admit, I do like the beard as well.
But beard is also quite good.
Iggy should have a beard.
Although the only thing.
What's up, B-Lin?
I miss the days where Warhammer fantasy wasn't confirmed to be a different universe from 40k.
People got angy, though.
I will say, though, that the only issue I take is that Sigmar is being depicted as a mere Primark
in this case, which is simply false.
True.
That is heresy.
And for the last one, Jack Smith 1666.
Hashtag lost Primark.
Eldrad Uthron.
On day 542, the other Primarks realized he was not one of them.
I just like the mental image that gives.
Oh, it's naughty, dude.
Yeah, you got these like 20 or 19 other gigantic massive brick shit houses of men.
That an elf has just sent in.
Yeah, it's just Rogaldorn carrying him on his shoulders because he's so small and compact.
You're the only small brother.
Farver has need of us.
Your legs are not thick enough.
You are not structurally sound enough.
Enough protein, brother.
I just I just like the mental image of that one.
Eldrad with his brittle bones now as well.
He's just not hacking it.
He's just having a family photograph and you can only see like the top half of his head
and the bottom of the frame while all of them are standing up.
He has it framed in his room and he feels crap when he looks at the frame photo.
Oh my god.
Good times.
Then I stabbed Vulcan.
He didn't even do it though.
It was a help stab.
He tries to try Mark as well.
Speaking of help, though, we do need you beautiful listeners help for our next question of the
week.
Colin, would you mind telling us what the next question of the week is to get the get some
spicy comments going on that one?
Of course.
You rule the next question of the week is you rule your own dynasty.
What is their name and what do they specialize in?
Hashtag dynasty.
We're bringing it back.
We're talking about the necrons.
That was the first word uttered on this channel was maybe the worst.
We're bringing it back, baby.
Yeah, it is the eternal meme of law crimes and it's all Colin's fault.
So there you go.
A good example would be Remenstein, which essentially the entire dynasty would be based
off of Remy from Ratatouille.
Because he is the dictator that we all know that he truly is.
And essentially they would just throw food and cutlery at other races and try and eat
them much like a Grom the Punch feel if anyone knows their fantasy of war too.
I don't know why, but my mind went to Ren and Stimpy at first.
And honestly, I think that I think that would be much more horrifying than that.
More horrifying than anything 40K has.
What's the rat from Ratatouille?
He was like the slightly bigger one.
He's like a bit more muscled up.
I've never seen Ratatouille, so I don't know.
You haven't seen anything.
Oh my God.
I've seen Star Wars.
There were a few comments saying they were surprised that you were berating me for liking
Return of the Jedi more than Empire.
And they're like, Colin has seen a film.
Hooray.
All right.
That doesn't really mean anything.
I've seen Star Wars.
That means I've been alive in the past 50 years.
That should be school curriculum at this point.
I honestly could probably get away with it in a history class for a cultural analysis or
something.
Would have been something I would do in finals week when I'm done teaching if I stuck with it.
I know some of you.
I know some of you Necron homebrewers out there, so I'm expecting a three page novel in my comments.
Yes.
Robots.
There's no groove on Instagram.
He's got some some cool stuff.
There are robots.
I'm involved.
I expect a whole lot of garbage viewers.
Don't disappoint me.
Necrons don't need a pancreas.
So stay away from it, people.
Stay away from the diabetes, though.
You have much better outlets of trash related to me.
Speaking of that, though, we begin today's episode, though, on the Necrons and I'll be
taking it away.
Is everyone ready?
I'm excited.
Not gonna lie, I thought you were gonna like say a sponsor there for a second.
My entire life is sponsored, essentially.
I'm not even a real person.
But speaking of people who are not real people anymore, the Necrons, boys, our story is a
macro.
There's no micro anymore.
They are gone.
But for some people who may not get the context of that joke, we'll be diving into the Necrons
lore and their story begins a little bit far back.
So not just obviously, it's called Warhammer 40k.
We are not going back 40,000 years.
We are going back 60 million years before the modern timeline.
This is the very birthplace of Warhammer lore itself.
And this begins with the Necron tier.
And they live on a kind of crappy home world that contains it does have some interest to
it like vast deserts, not deserts, deserts, vast denny's.
It's how bad it was.
Pancakes have scarred me.
But they live in like a desert world.
And you'll probably guess there's a lot of like ancient Egypts.
If you're a Warhammer fantasy fan, or you come from Total War, they're obviously a little
bit similar to the Tomb Kings.
Sorry, a little bit very similar to the Tomb Kings.
A little bit rewritten to be the Tomb Kings.
A little bit.
But their home world is a sort of vast desert place, very much ancient Egypt, lots of old
creatures, scorpions, all those kind of things.
And the Necron tier themselves are a humanoid race.
I think if you see a Necron or what was back in this time, a Necron tier, one of flesh,
they just kind of look like elongated people.
Their skin is sometimes gray and they do retain a lot of the similar features of an actual
Necron.
It is very close.
And the Necron tier from their earliest days, they have it bad because they live under a
super irradiated sun that basically ruins their life.
So the Necron tier, they do sort of develop and grow.
Obviously this is 60 million years before even humanity was primordial soup.
And they suffer from regular sort of disgusting growth of cancers all over their bodies.
It was a bad time.
And their entire culture was essentially fragile and dying of old age was not heard of really.
And the Necron tier, obviously dying young, they would learn to venerate death.
Death was pretty much everywhere around them.
Their gods that they created were aspects of death.
They had great mausoleums.
There was an extremely strict hierarchical structure for the Necron tier.
For some reason, I've just had that image of Danny DeVito in Always Sunny going,
suicide is pretty badass.
Yeah, definitely not the image of emerging into death like Danny DeVito emerging from the couch
sweating and not wearing any clothes.
But the Necron tier, very much death was, everything was around death.
It was inevitable and it wouldn't be long.
And their life was pretty painful because again, living under constant radiation, sickness and the sun, pretty bad time.
The Necron tier though would eventually die.
They'd eventually like us sort of develop technology and they finally would cross paths with the old ones.
And this was a psychically gifted race who were seemingly immortal.
They're somewhat mysterious even to this day.
The description of them a bit hard to kind of gauge, but essentially they were way beyond what the Necron tier were.
But the Necron tier were like, cool, you know, firm it.
That's cool.
But they still had a lot of experience.
Cool, you know, firm it. That's cool. But they still wanted to do their own thing.
So they built an empire over many millennia, built on different worlds.
They spread out across the galaxy.
But this empire was fragile.
Obviously, it was a warring case of different hierarchical and dynasties and different people clashing.
And it was on the brink of civil war until their silent king decided to declare war on the old ones for quote unquote,
the secrets of immortal life as the Necrons were incredibly sorry, the Necron tier, excuse me, were incredibly jealous.
Unfortunately, the Necron tier got crunked.
They did not. I know they didn't perform well.
They had good technology, but the old ones just completely outmaneuvered them.
And we're as I guess we were like a race of emperors in terms of just psychic might.
So you're not you're not winning this one, guys.
Sorry.
It was just pain.
It was it was the call the ambulance for not for me in the reverse, essentially.
And the Necron tier were imprisoned upon their homeworld again underneath the irradiated sun.
But essentially all the Necron tier that were spread out throughout the galaxy are now essentially cramped into one place.
And as you can imagine, the Necron tier, they are somewhat similar to humans and very similar to humans.
Actually, that's points out much about the law.
They were very resentful of their exile and imprisonment.
And during this time, they sort of found strange readings around their son.
So they designed advanced technology to detect and then eventually converse with these ancient creatures known as the Kitarn or Sitan.
I'm not sure which one it's meant to be.
I'm going to go with Kitarn.
And the Necron tier would eventually build living metal necrodermis bodies for this Kitarn.
Just a slight add on, the Kitarn were beings of energy.
So that's why they weren't perceived in a normal way.
And also they didn't perceive the universe in a normal way, too.
But the Kitarn once were like sort of simple, sun devouring, you know, energy creatures.
They were not being fully sentient.
It kind of shocked them when they were now put in a body and they're sort of like, oh, I have eyes now.
And the flavor of sun was like it's like a good, solid pasta, like you have maybe in your student and you're cooking the pasta reliably.
But it's like it's not enough.
You know what I mean?
Like after a while, you get sick of it and they developed a new flavor and a new taste something which was the suffering and energy of life itself.
And so they began to manipulate the Necron tier.
They came in, they transformed their Necrodermis bodies into the guise of their death gods, which I think was incredibly manipulative.
And they were there on the Necron tier homeworld and they said, we have an idea, an offer.
We can give you new bodies, ones better than your weak and cancer-ridden ones.
And we can declare war on the old ones together and basically get our vengeance because they also had a history with the old ones.
The Necron tier, you know, they had no choice really and they agree and they undergo something called the biotransference, which is a really big part of their law.
And we will talk about that later in more detail.
Essentially, this would transform the Necron tier race as they marched through these like flaming pyre factory incinerator machines and they emerged as the Necrons.
They were cast in Necrodermis bodies.
They were stronger, but their life essence had essentially been devoured.
And I think of it in a way where the information of the Necron tier was sort of downloaded into like metal bodies.
And so only some of them retained their personalities.
And then all of the now Necrons, so the entire Necron tier have died.
And now the Necrons, they find themselves under the command protocols of the Silent King, who in turn is now forced, essentially he has no choice now to follow the superpowered up Kitan.
And this is where the war in heaven begins with the, you know, everyone essentially wanted vengeance on the old ones now.
And the war in heaven, we have talked about the war in heaven a little bit.
That's one of our first episodes ever.
It's a massive conflict.
There's much ebb and flow throughout the, we don't even know if it's millennial or possibly millions of years long.
But you end up with the Necrons fighting the old ones and then even various races created by the old ones, such as Colin's favorite, the Eldari or Eldar.
They sort of found their birth during this time.
And obviously they'll be around for quite a lot longer.
And this all sort of builds up to where eventually the Silent King enacts a million year long revenge plan by creating in quote galaxy breaking weapons to turn upon the Kitan.
When the Kitan have basically almost won the war, they're essentially fighting with each other because they're like they're greedy and evil things.
And this shattered the Kitan into shards.
And the Necrons now like, yeah, we've got revenge, but essentially they don't create new Necrons because there's only a finite amount.
And they realized with the rise of the Eldar coming, it was impossible to beat them.
They knew the Eldar would rule the galaxy for a very long time.
And so they entered into their long stasis sleep, which they which they had been missing for for much of the human timeline.
And they wanted to let the galaxy heal, too. And obviously, hopefully let the age of the Eldar pass into ruin.
After I will see we have talked about this before.
I will admit after 60 million years of rule by the Eldar.
So, Andy, I'm not sure you can.
Very good. Good.
Yeah, I'm not sure you can.
Glad you mentioned that.
Yeah. So at most 10,000 years under humanity.
But this would the Necrons are not out.
You know, I mean, they've they've gone down, but they've got back up now because after 60 million years.
In the 41st millennium, the tombs underneath thousands of worlds have begun to stir.
And finally, the Necrons have begun to awaken.
Is there any other sort of questions or any sort of thought anyone wants to share at that point?
The only thing is, when you said about how the Catan consider suffering to be like a lovely pastor.
Some reason that combined with like when the Necrons first go into those big furnaces and they come out.
Come out just like Zahra going, hmm, just like a mama used to make like something about the Catan being like, yeah, this was amazing.
The Dolmio advert.
Oh, Necrons source. Yum, yum.
Essentially that the entire race is a pastor source now they've consumed, which is very dark saying it.
But obviously, this is the grim future.
Colin's got some thoughts on the Eldar coming up.
You know, I would I would think I think I'll just set a nice groundwork now.
You know, if any faction, aside from the elder, had to win, I'm OK with it being the Necrons.
It was as long as it's one of one of the armies whose traces back to the war in heaven.
I think I'd be happy.
You know, I'd be content at least total victory today.
I've already won.
All right, let's settle down, buddy.
Babies of the 40K universe.
One one of us had a faction who ruled for 65 million years and the other had a faction who napped for 65 million years.
Neppo babies that literally gave you psychic powers.
I don't want to hear it, Mr. Primarch man.
Who gave them who has the real nepotism?
No, they stole it.
It's different.
Emperor stole the power.
So you're a faction of thieves who can't do anything by themselves is what I'm hearing.
Neppo baby.
I call that inheritance.
Well, speaking of more staying on with the Necrons, particularly because they are they are one, I think, probably one of the more better ranges of people are listening or you're new, if you like collecting.
Well, how much stuff Necrons pro one, the most beginner friendly races to collect.
And then also that design is pretty badass as well.
Like the death mass, you know, the basic skulls and all that stuff.
And again, if you've like seen things like Terminator is essentially there's a there's a heavy incline on Terminator vibes in this one.
But speaking of taking a more now, you've made me think Necrons going to their big sleep and just going, I'll be back.
Yeah, they literally said that.
The Silent King probably whispered it, though, like, I'll be back.
You know, just like so it's a one guy is like, well, so I have to like say that to someone else.
Like, and then it spreads on by the end of it. Everyone's like misinterpreted.
It's funny. But speaking of more juicy, detailed Necron law, though, I'll pass over to Eli as we turn into the expert section.
Take it away.
Q Egyptian music, faith from black Sarah Connor steps out onto the Egyptian sands.
The pyramid is in the background.
All right.
Well, yes, we will be taking back 65.
We will be taking back 65 million years ago to the days of old and the days of flesh for the Necron tier people who, as I said, lived in complete and other misery for a very long time.
Many generations passed as they live for it would appear about 20 to 30 years.
It never seems to be explicitly stated how long it was.
But this lifespan will change.
And it is it does get a little hard to understand, but you have to look at it from their eyes, not our eyes in the concept of shortness.
Yes, their home world was plagued by radiation star.
And this would evolve into them thinking that stars were kind of like malevolent beings that had demons.
And like the stars would eat the people and send demons down.
So they would later end up sacrificing people to the stars in what was called a red harvest in which these outcasts from societies would round up a bunch of people and they would just like bring them to the furnace and they'd all be sacrificed to the star every once in a while.
So that maybe they can get like an extra year or two of life or something.
And the star won't be particularly mean this year.
And they would do that even after they would take to the stars and inhabit new planets.
But yes, the very Egyptian inspired, as we said before, they worshiped kind of gods of death who would sort of go more into myth and legends.
And it would more evolve into like ancestor worship and pharaoh or pharaoh worship and royalty worship in the end.
These stones and stuff were ancient and sacred because they were the only things that lasted.
Well, the people died in these mausoleums and they basically lived in tombs and they were just passengers passing through the life onto the next of oblivion.
Whatever the afterworld was thought to be.
They use cubits to measure. That's a little that's cool.
I think that's fun.
But even as they progressed in technology, the commoners still lived in mud shacks as they did not have the same level of sentience as a noble whose royal hecka was grand and pristine.
They were essentially gods compared to the peasants.
The peasants and lower classes and even like soldiers and stuff were seen as tools. And according to sacred texts, they were literally less than the nobles.
The nobles, like I said, had a higher state of being.
Their consciousness was completely different.
It's almost as if the nobles were a completely different species from the peasantry and the lower beings.
But as we said, they took to the stars and they're living metal ships.
The ships were slower than light speed, so they were very, very slow to get to other galaxies.
But thankfully, this necro dermis living metal that they discovered, I don't remember how I think it was just native to their planet, made it so that these ships could self-repair on the way because necro dermis is basically an organic metal that is alive and it can just rapidly repair and flow like liquid and fix itself as it goes.
So the tomb ships were able to repair themselves as they went through the long, long sleep in their tomb ships as they entered stasis and would eventually touch down on new planets.
Unfortunately, these new planets would not be much better for quite a while because within their DNA was inlaid of these cancers and radiation poisonings and it kind of just stuck with them forever.
It was maybe like they evolved to only live to a certain amount of time and that just kind of never changed for quite a while.
So even on these planets, their lifespans may be changed from 20 to 30 to like 40 years.
So it was a little bit better, it was like half of an average human lifespan probably.
But you know, it still wasn't great.
And in this time, they met with the old ones who deserved everything they got.
Which we'll talk about soon.
The old ones talked to the Triarch.
I don't know if the Silent King was actually around yet or not, I think he was.
But they more have the Silent King is like a position.
So other over many different times in Necron and Nocrontyr history, other people have inherited the Silent King mantle and like different dynasties have had it too.
Yeah.
And the the Triarch, I should say, is the ruling governing body of the Necrontyr.
It's three dudes and the Silent King was known as Silent because he only would communicate through the Triarch.
And he would never really talk face to face to anyone.
But they met with the old ones.
They saw these like alien species who were living in constant paradise, basically, who had immortality and vulnerability from the majority of the things in the galaxy.
And they said, please, sir, just a smidgen of life.
And the old ones said no.
And perhaps the old ones thought that the Necrons were meant to live like this, so they didn't want to tamper with life.
And I mean, it is kind of sound logic, but should have looked to the future, buddy.
It's almost like hypocritical in a way, because I said that we didn't want to meddle.
But then the whole thing was we like life.
Yeah, they want to see life.
They're the medallist people in the universe.
Yeah, the old ones were cringe confirmed.
They made Eldar confirmed cringe.
They settled down, buddy.
They also made the Emperor an old lore.
To be honest, though, the current like set up with the Necrons, it just sounds like they have like the worst RNG starting point in endless space, too.
They really do.
There's nothing around and everything's terrible.
And the other societies are bullying them like, oh, poor guys.
They spawn with no titanium or adamantium.
Old words out of my mouth.
Hyperium.
Where my uncle and bros at?
Do that and the question of the week at the comments.
I need my fallen brother in here.
We start an endless space war in the comments.
By the way, there is a Necron endless space faction, basically.
They're pretty cool.
What are they called?
I don't remember.
I guess it's the Nihil.
Is that the Unfallen?
It kind of sounds like Nihilac.
Nihilac dynasty?
Maybe it's the reference.
It's not the Unfallen, so it doesn't matter.
They're a DLC race who are Egyptian space fairs who start the game with both the technology trees
because they're so far ahead of everyone else from their ancient technology.
I wonder what that was based off of.
Although the Necrons are probably based off of something else because it's GW.
So it's like there's no original.
Terminator?
Yeah.
I mentioned Heka before and I will talk about what Heka is.
It doesn't seem to really be a thing that I ever saw until I read the Twice-Dead King books.
But Twice-Dead King kind of gives you a perspective of today's day and age of the culture of the
Necrons and it would appear that they had Heka back then as well.
But Heka is basically well-made manifest.
If the Lord or noble believes it is so, then it is so and it is reality.
Their words have the power to create reality.
A statement filled with Heka is a statement that cannot be denied by the galaxy itself
and if reality does not appear to match it, then it is up to the servants to do everything
in their power to make it so.
For if the noble says it, it is indeed truth.
I think it's a pretty cool concept and the Necrons still seem to believe it today for
the most part.
So if the king says something, then it is real no matter what.
And to deny so would be to deny their royal Heka, which would be denied their royalty
and their nobility, which would be to deny the universe itself.
But do as they say, are you going to have a Heka for a bad time?
Yeah, that's right.
It does cause some problems in certain books.
This unquestioning authority.
Yes, the Necrons are very structured, but I mean nowadays they are played with political
intrigue.
But back in the day, they were also played with it because now that the galaxy had been
populated by Necrons in general, the Necrons here has spread to a lot of the corners of
the galaxy.
They actually created quite the place for themselves.
And perhaps I looked at according to the Internet, they had maybe at this point could be living
up to like 200 years or more.
The commoners probably kept like 40 years or whatever.
There were some treatments they could they had made some only the extreme high nobles
could afford the treatments of life extension.
Were the basically cryptex of the time and like alchomancers and stuff would tend to
the nobles and do their best to keep them healthy and whatnot.
And the rights of as enormous call, it sounded like rights of asphyxiation, something like
that.
I hope it's not that.
It sounds like that.
It's a word that sounds like that.
But they would wake up every day the Necron, they would check their entire body for blemishes
or bumps that would inevitably appear someday.
And 200 years might seem like a long time for us because literally double our average
lifespan.
But all they had to compare themselves were the aliens of the galaxy, specifically the
old ones.
And eventually things like the Eldar and even I mean, I guess eventually corks, both races
that theoretically live forever.
I don't know if an orcs ever died of old age.
I guess they died in battle before that happened.
But yeah, it's yeah, but they had basically immortal beings to compare themselves to.
So it was like us comparing ourselves to a tree.
Or we live 70 to 100 years, but a tree is going to outlive us 10 times that.
And all of a sudden our lives are very short.
And even nowadays, we accept that our lives are very short and life is not long.
Life is quite short in the grand scheme of things.
So it's still fairly understandable that when the only other thing you know is immortality,
200 years seems pretty whack.
Even if you've come a long ways in that perspective.
So it makes you very bitter, wouldn't it?
Yeah, they were very bitter.
Not quite yet, though.
They mean they hated them, but they were more busy hating each other for the first wars
of succession.
The first civil war around the galaxy happened now because they were so widespread.
The Trelarix rule was not very condensed in one spot anymore.
And there was too much authority given to pharaons who were ruling over their systems.
And then overlords under them were ruling clusters of planets, lords under them, etc.
So everyone was fighting each other.
It was a disaster.
So the Trelarix comes together and they try to have an idea and say,
we're going to band together to fight the old ones and gain immortality.
And as it was said, they were slapped back into reality and that didn't happen very well.
They were brought to the corner of the galaxy with just a meager few planets.
If even maybe a few a few star systems, I guess would be a better thing to say.
And they lost horribly, mainly because of the old ones psychic powers.
The necrons here never had a connection to the warp even before they were necrons.
And the use of the webway was really OP because when you're when the enemy army can maneuver
anywhere in like the blink of an eye and you have spaceships, it's just it's not a fair
fight at all and there was nothing they could do.
They got wrecked very hard, but they certainly tried their best.
So after this thing sucks so much, the second wars of succession break out as the remnants
of the dynasties are fighting over each other to get what tiny scraps are left.
It's very bleak time for the necrons.
And in this time, the silent king and the Trelarix make contact with the katan.
There's multiple theories of how they find them.
Just like probes finding them or the katan kind of came to them and
started eating the star that was there.
It was not doesn't seem to be confirmed, but the silent king makes contact with the katan.
And at this time, as we said, the katan were kind of like just animalistic, gaseous forms
who had resulted or devolved to their base instinct of just like eating stars.
They weren't really conscious.
They were just animals, very godlike animals, but still just animals.
But when they were given living forms by the necrons in the form of the necrodermis bodies,
they gained intelligence and sentience from that as they kind of
started to understand the galaxy and freed on misery and despair
itself because necrons were not happy at this time.
So silent king talks to Mephrych Ran, who is the deceiver,
and he did not know that was his name at the time.
At least I sure hope he didn't.
He wasn't wearing like a like a name badge that is said.
Yeah, in a subtitle, the deceiver, because that would have been a dead giveaway.
And it was said that John, his name is John professional.
It was said that the things that the deceivers say, it's like it's impossible to know if he
even knows it's true.
But the deceiver talks to the silent king.
But the days of old where the katan had battled the old ones and they lost that war.
And that's why they had been devolved kind of into their gaseous, unintelligible states.
So they have a common enemy now.
And the katan claims to have the power that if they work together using their technology
and the katan's power, they could achieve both immortality and defeat the old ones.
Now, the katan at this point in time, were the fabric of reality.
They were literally gods, as you may see it.
Like, it's hard to tell, but maybe like almost many chaos gods, or they were almost like
as powerful as chaos gods.
I feel like they are.
Because if an older one is as powerful as the emperor, a katan is stronger than an older
one theoretically.
I was gonna say that.
I think they're kind of similar to like what just before, obviously, right now, this time,
almost like demon Primarchs in a way, where they're like super, like super powered up
creatures that are almost world changing.
Obviously, they do get a, they get a bit of a power up before we'll discuss in a second,
though.
There will be emperor-like soon though, which is very scary considering how they hate everything,
even each other.
Well, I think at this point, they were already, I think at this point, they were emperor-like
almost.
And then when they fed on all the souls and stuff, they became even more than that, maybe.
They seem to be like on a similar scale to the Eldar gods, from what I could tell.
And I mean, who knows how strong the emperor is.
The emperor is a god.
Come on now, we know that.
But the katan, we can quickly go through the katan.
There's like 10 of them.
Some of them have literally zero lore and some of them have a tiny bit of lore.
So I'll quickly go through this so that we're not here for an hour.
But first is, as a garrad, the nightbringer, whose death itself, being in his vicinity,
will cause complete sorrow and despair.
People will lie down and just die.
He drains life itself from all around him.
He's the grim reaper to all other races, except for the orcs, because the orcs do not fear
death.
So he doesn't have much of an effect on orcs.
And we have Metruid Rand, the deceiver.
He's a master of illusion and trickery, creating many images of himself.
In the tabletop game, he lets you rearrange your deployment zones, stuff like that.
One of his powers is called Cosmic Madness, which is pretty cool.
And we have Maglodroth, the void dragon, who is the Omnissiah.
I'm not sure how the lore in the last five years went, which I mean, it's been five years,
I know, but whatever.
It seems that the void dragon awoke from Mars, but it's just a katan shard.
It's not the actual void dragon.
And it said that the void dragon might actually be a full katan, but it's unsure.
But shards of him seem to exist and it woke up and it's here now and it's pretty cool.
But yeah, he laid within Mars and there's kind of like a secret society in Mars that
guards these vaults.
It's in one of the Horus Heresy books and it's a really good book.
I think that he stays in there during the Horus Heresy.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't get let out or anything.
Is that Sons of the Selenar?
No, I think it's just Mechanicum.
Oh, it's just Mechanicum.
Oh, it's just Mechanicum, okay.
Yeah, it's a cool book.
That's one of my favorites, I think.
He has mastery over creation and destruction itself.
I think his main goal was to destroy like Vaal from the Eldar and destroy the whatever's
of Vaal.
Talismans of Vaal.
Talismans of the Vaal, like the node fortresses.
Yep, because the Blackstone fortresses were theoretically one of the things made to destroy
Necrons, but I'm not a Blackstone fortress expert.
If you're a Nidus Warhammer though, they are in the Battlefleet Gothic cinematics and that
kind of stuff.
They're the literally massive, essentially star, like literally literal, like...
Gigantic chandeliers.
Cartoon star-shaped pyramid ships.
Without too much spoiling, one of them does something quite big on with Cadia.
A little bit impactful, one could say.
I cry every day, every morning.
And less tragic, Henry Cavill knows what they are.
And he wanted me to be able to bring attention to it.
They are cool though.
Nice.
They are.
So next we have Niforan, the spiral flame, who's just some random.
And then Nyadrasatha, the burning one, also flame themed from the first guy, but he wanted
to spread his fire to the webway, that was his main story.
And he showed the Necrons the Dolam Gates, which are these stone gates that would appear
that allow the Necrons to travel through certain parts of the webway.
It's not perfect and it's still a bit slower, but the Necrons do have access to the webway
still from this day.
So he brought his flames into the webway and that was a big part of the war in heaven and
a big advantage for the Necrons.
Then we have...
Does he say flame on whenever he uses his powers?
Yeah, he does.
He definitely does.
Does he make a stint as Captain America?
Then we have Zahr Hulash, the potentate.
Sorry if I've said any of these words, it sounds like potato.
Sorry if I've said any of these words wrong.
The potato katan.
There's cooking on this, I bet they're catching.
And apparently a shard of Zahr Hulash, the potentate, was used to power one of the eight
Necron warp beacons known as the pharaohs.
So one of the pharaohs beacons.
I don't know if you guys know anything about that because I haven't read that book, but
it's a thing.
They did a good job, but that isn't what they did.
Yeah.
Then Kalugra, who's the master of destruction.
Landegor, it sounds more like clandagor when they say it in the books, so I'm not sure how
to pronounce it, but I'm saying landegor.
It's two L's at the beginning.
He's the flayer.
He was probably the most important afterwards to the Necron storyline
because he was the only destroyed katan shard as katan could not be actually destroyed.
Sorry, no, he wasn't a shard.
He was the only destroyed katan because katan could not actually be destroyed because they
were the fabric of reality itself and destroying this one kind of unleashed and broke parts
of reality, releasing the flayer virus onto the Necrons, which we'll talk about in a bit.
Then we have
Sauran Noga, the outsider, who was the katan god tricked by Kegarak to eat other katan,
and then he went insane.
It is said that shards of Sauran whatever process madness and people just off themselves
whenever they see him because they go crazy.
He's trapped in a Dyson sphere beneath the galactic plane.
The god of light madness from Elder Scrolls.
Is it Sheregora?
Yes, and Jiggalath technically.
And the heroes of Luch.
Oh, yeah, we're getting our oblivion law in here, boys.
Have you heard of the high elves?
I don't want to hear about them.
That's for sure.
Stop criminal fraud.
You violated the law.
It's just the classic.
Oh, goodness.
I don't want to hear any talk of elves in my sacred Necron.
You bad, they're coming up.
The Eldar get a pass.
It's all right.
They're not the Thalmor embassy ambassadors walking to Whiterun who I'm about to kill.
But yet, Sauran Noga is trapped in a Dyson sphere beneath the galactic plane and the
Harlequins whisper about him and say that his time will come one day.
And he's depicted in the Harlequins dance.
But I think according to the internet in the Harlequin dance, they replaced this one
with the nightbringer instead for some reason.
Couldn't tell you why.
And we have Egrania, the Whirlshaver, Lashudra, the endless swarm, Augdryada, the Arisen.
And that's all of them.
So it'd be real cool if GW could, you know, put those in the lore and give us some
more fan shards.
That'd be pretty cool.
I'm sure that the whatever $150 Vordrain kit sold pretty good.
So you could sell more $150 katan shards and I'd buy one.
You're crazy.
We need more Primaris lieutenants.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
Right.
I was as I'm...
GW got in on the joke themselves.
It's just sad now.
I know.
Feels bad, man.
Whatever.
So the Deceiver, they we've all banded together now.
I kind of got ahead of myself talking about all the katan, but they've all banded together
now in a friendly alliance.
Then surely nothing will go wrong talking to these star gods who like to eat souls.
It's probably okay.
So the Silent King offers amnesty to all dynasties who are fighting each other to join the new
cause and the new hope of immortality and defeating the old ones.
So with the help of Illuminaur Cezares, the katan shards or the katan sorry, create the
biotransference furnaces, which I think I wanted to talk about a little bit.
This is my favorite part of the Necron's lore, just because it's so utterly grimdark.
So the biotransference was kind of sold to the Silent King at the time, who is Cezarac,
who we will talk about a bit later.
They kind of, again, they're dressed as like they're essentially Necron tier gods.
So they're like my literal, it'd be like someone dressed up as Jesus being like,
but again, that you're huge into saying, you know, bro, can you go do this thing for me?
I swear, bro, do it, do it.
You know what I mean?
You're like, it was a little bit unnerving.
And they come to them with the plan of giving them new bodies to replace their cancer ridden
ones.
And I think like Eli said earlier, I can't remember what the name of the ritual is, but
Necron tier every day wake up and they pat their bodies for the cancerous growth.
So literally every day, they're afraid of it, even if you're a noble.
So, you know, they kind of caught on to their fear there.
And so the Silent King agrees and the biotransference begins with the Necron tier
constructing these enormous, like gigantic factory incinerators.
And the Silent King orders the entire Necron tier race to walk into these great foundries.
And I think I'm so glad Eli mentioned them earlier about the, I can't remember the exact
name Eli's the ones that are in red, which would you call them?
The, the sacrificial ones who would sacrifice the Necron.
Yeah, I was trying.
I was also trying to remember the, the name and I also forgot.
Yeah, those, those ones, the outcasts who would sacrifice the Necron.
Who paint themselves in like red paint, who would often create sacrifices for the gods.
They essentially were like a military police and they kind of went into every, you know,
any Necron tier that was willing and even the unwilling were being dragged out by these sort
of haunting Necron tiers, you know, basically covered in blood a little bit like.
And these, the entire race left, you know, even from the little poor people,
the mud huts of the downtrodden all the way to those in the enormous and grand mausoleums.
They were all taken.
Even special note ones, things like Orokin and Trazin or Trazin, who we will talk about later.
Some went willingly, some were dragged by others and the Necron tier race in their billions were
essentially march.
Imagine like, you know, you're in a line of like literally billions of people marching towards a
huge furnace.
And again, like you look up to the skies and it's you're on this black rock and this awful
desert world and above as the people are walking, some of them don't even make it
towards the biotransference furnaces because the Necron tier, some of them just die on the way
because it's just such a long journey.
And then sometimes the cancers get them, so like the people, some people are like, you know,
their families, others are just dragging their elderly and those who are ill.
And they look above and they see the entire, like the Gitan essentially, like ghosts floating
above the furnaces and like moving around like sort of spectres of death.
So it's obviously very creepy and they obviously feel very small.
And they essentially walk into these massive biotransference furnaces and they
essentially emulate.
They feel the entire pain of that situation that it is.
They literally burn and their memories are stripped from them.
They are literally taken.
As I think I said earlier, I'm of the opinion that they are, their memories, like basically who
they were is actually turned into data because it specifically says the Necron, the Gitan
don't devour their souls.
I think it says it, they don't touch the soul.
So I think it's, they take their life energy, just like general, you know, vitality and.
Cause the subject without ruining the flavour.
Try I leave Gitan's furnace.
Essentially, yes.
And they are, you know, they're turned into data essentially.
And then they are uploaded into living metal Necrodermis bodies.
But there's something a little bit wrong with these bodies.
So some of the nobles emerge and they're like, I feel stronger than ever, even though I feel
a little bit different.
And then they look to their side and like the common people are essentially like just,
they are only like small parts of it.
They're essentially like slaves.
They are not even fully sentient.
Some of these things, they are literally robots and the nobles particularly, they find they are
embedded with a command protocol.
So they literally become like robotic creatures and they are enslaved to the silent king with
the command protocol.
And the thing about the command protocol is they cannot rebel against anything the silent
king orders them to do.
And you might think, well, why doesn't, you know, the Necronty are dead.
They are all gone.
There will never be a new Necronty.
There'll never even be a new Necron at this point.
They've all been turned.
And you may think, oh, why don't they just turn on the Kitan here if they were angry
about, yeah, hey, this deal seems like a bit sideways.
Because the Kitan of Basie just devoured an entire race and they are souped up and now
they are like got true gods.
And the silent king essentially can't act against the Kitan because in a way they also
hold him hostage being like, you really, you want to, you can't fight, you want to fight
the old ones and the Kitan.
They're not going to.
And I guess you probably say the old ones protect life.
The Necrons aren't really alive anymore.
So I guess they would have just wiped them anyway.
So the Necrons are here and they are essentially all under the command of the silent king and
the Kitan.
And I hand it back to Eli to talk about what exactly they did with this new Necron army
and the brewing war between them and the old ones.
They did.
They did lots of good stuff.
But yeah, the silent king felt nothing but despair after he looked over his people and
saw what had happened as he watched the Kitan shards flying over the biotransference furnaces
and eating their souls.
Many of the Necrons, like 99% of them, who can still think, completely regretted biotransference
and realized the mistake they made the moment it happened.
And it was a very sad moment.
And even though the silent king had control of everyone, he felt like a tyrant and not
anything better than that because they had no free will to say no to him anymore, like
he said.
But yeah, as they all came up, they are all marked by the Ankh of the Triarch, which is
the kind of chess piece that you see on a lot of them.
It sends other places in some place.
But they also are marked by the dynastic symbol, but that's only reserved for the highest
nobles to bear the full symbol of the dynasties.
Whereas the lesser nobles and kind of lesser ranks, maybe Lichgard, sometimes maybe immortals,
but probably not.
They have parts of the dynastic symbol, whereas the warriors and usually immortals are seen
as chattel and they are not worth even marking for the dynasties.
They don't deserve that.
But the vehicles are all marked because they are the property of the Lord and they're very
important.
So when the War of Heaven starts now, as you know, it's the perfect time.
The Necrons have gained immortality.
They have incredible technology to go along with it because they already had really good
technology.
They just kind of needed that one extra cosmic reality bending step from the Katan Shards.
So they marched into the Webway and they fought the old ones and we kind of already talked
about the War in Heaven for like two hours on the channel.
So you should probably go watch that video so that we don't talk about it for two hours
here.
But to sum it up, it was an unfathomable universe ending war that we couldn't like our greatest
wildest dreams could not even think up of what happened.
It was said that planets were basically used as ammunition.
Star systems were destroyed by the day.
Millions died constantly.
And it was insane.
It was gods fighting other gods.
So it like we literally could not comprehend what happened.
But in this war, the Necrons and Katan fought against the old ones, the Krorc, the Eldar
and a few other of the old ones races.
It was so bloody and horrible that it created the warp issues that we have today when the
enslavers came out and messed with stuff.
And it was just all around incredibly extreme and out of this world and unbelievable.
But in the end, the Necrons appeared victorious and they defeated the old ones, except for
one who is maybe the emperor, but nobody knows.
And as the war ends, the Katan, as they go to feast on the old ones souls and they kind
of are in this relaxed and prideful, arrogant state, the Silent King sees his only chance
to take and defeat these hated enemies, pretend allies of the Necrons.
And he takes it and they destroy the Katan shards in more unfathomable, extremely crazy
battles because it's more gods.
Fabrics of reality are bending.
Millions are dying.
There's so much loss and everything's horrible.
But they eventually break them.
As I said before, they cannot really be killed because they're part of reality.
They're broken into shards and trapped within these Tesseract Labyrinths and Tesseract Vaults,
which are almost like the great...
We talked about them in the Grey Knights episode the other day.
They're like super big mazes or other parts of the plane of reality, basically, where
they trap these things.
And they kind of make the Katan into big batteries for the most part, where they harvest all
their energy and use them to power things like Dyson Spheres and Tesseract Vaults, the
big cube thing in the tabletop that has not very many rules, unfortunately.
I do like that, like, oh, you're this primordial force with the power of gods, blah, blah, blah.
Charge my iPhone.
Yeah, that's your role now.
One of the Pokemon Go.
Trazen has one and he uses it as a battery for Slimness, but he also uses it to trade
secrets and he feeds it a little bit more every day.
An Orican.
Yeah.
Just imagine it like, you know, when you got like a fish tank and you just put a little
bit of food in the top and just opening a little bit of the cube.
Yeah.
Get some food for you.
There you go.
Yum, yum, yum.
Well, now the next time for the Necrons to go to sleep.
And they have released the Flare Virus at this point.
I'm not sure if they actually know about it quite yet, more than just like, oh, this bad
thing happened because we killed this guy, but it's probably just a select few of people
who really want to eat flesh for some reason.
It'll probably be okay.
Don't worry about it.
It'll be fine.
Yeah.
Those who can't eat flesh, by the way, we had to mention it.
Yeah.
They just shove meat onto their face.
I'll, I'll talk about the Flare Virus in like five minutes.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Good enough.
The Silent King sees, as we said, the Eldar.
It is the time of the Eldar, for they are the predominant race at the time and their
psychic ability is unmatched throughout the entire galaxy.
We know how the story goes.
The Eldar became gods basically, and then bad things happened because of it.
Goofy Eldar.
But let me see.
I have.
Yeah, that was all that happened.
All right.
Here's an Orkan quote because Colin says the Eldar won the war in heaven,
but I think, I think Oregon has a pretty good rebuttal.
I'll put it in the chat.
Oh, that's pretty base.
Like I disagree with Colin.
I'll make him read it out himself.
Wasn't you who made me read the Bricktonian Quote?
It was on a quiz.
Good.
I'm glad you've done this.
Anyway, Orkan's cool.
And I'm going to add my own quote after this.
So anyways, time is a weapon like no other.
If nothing else, I can simply wait for my foes to rot.
And it's very true.
Consider, however, that the Eldar do not rot.
They turned into crystal and Orkan himself also admitted both Necron and Eldar were perfect
in their own way.
Yes, yes.
I like the Necron.
I like the Eldar.
Sorry.
Calm down.
The Eldar are cool.
I'm going to read it.
Their society, their society certainly did rot and they are ill.
It did do a bit of a bit of an uh-oh.
Bit of an oopsie daisy.
I was certainly on the Necron's side in this fact and they just waited out the reign of the Eldar.
And they did do that.
Because I guess we could talk a little bit about Orkan the Diviner because he was the one who
told them, all right, we got to wait exactly 65 million years and then we can wake up.
As Orkan was a master astromancer and he could see the stars and see the futures.
Talk about him a little bit more.
I'm troubled.
In a bit.
He originally told the Necrons to not go under, go through with biotransference but nobody
listened to him and he's bitter to it to this day.
But I was going to talk about him in a little bit.
So we'll get back to him.
Yes.
And now the Silent King leaves.
He goes into exile after doing his last command which was to basically just go to sleep and in
65 million years wake up and return the dynasties to what they once were.
Return the dynasties to their former glory.
And heavily weighing on his mind at the moment was sorrow and wishing that he could return
to the time of flesh.
So this will also weigh heavily on many of the Necrons who will awaken in the future.
So now they're asleep for 65 million years.
And things don't go perfect because even for their incredible unimaginable level of technology.
65 million years is a long time to be asleep.
So it was a pretty risky maneuver.
They all go underground into these tomb worlds which are as it sounds.
There's worlds that are tombs and where millions of Necrons sleep below the surface.
And many of them go unscathed.
A lot of them go unscathed but it's said that millions if not billions of Necrons were lost
in the great sleep due to many reasons like natural disasters or technological failings.
Because even though they have perfect technology one little thing, one little tiny tiny thing
will build up onto another and after 65 million years it kind of cascades into one giant issue.
So lots of them are lost.
Another reason was due to a late talk Eldar.
They particularly hate the Necrons and they will go around raiding tomb worlds and destroying it.
A lot of them made it through though largely due to the technology and also their canoptic guards.
Wraiths, scarabs, other things.
They're basically metal insect guard things that kind of stalk the tombs and protect the tombs.
While their masters are asleep scarabs are good at repairing things and whatnot.
Can also talk about them a little bit later.
When the time of waking comes there's a lot more issues because a lot of people wake up being just crazy in general.
There's the Flare Virus, the Destroy Virus.
Some people don't wake up at all.
Some people wake up with no personality as their personality engrams have been fried or completely destroyed.
Something has gone wrong.
So they're plagued with issues.
Now we can talk about the Flare Virus a little bit.
It was the gift of Clan Dagor, and due to them breaking his part of reality he released this thing, this curse onto them.
Which is a mystery to their race this day.
It's a mystery to the galaxy because how do you infect a mechanical race with such a virus is very unsure.
But it's basically Necrons who crave flesh and they want to be engulfed in flesh.
They want to be flesh and blood again.
So they flay their victims and drape themselves in their skin and they wear their faces.
They crave having a face like no other would appear.
And they crave to eat flesh.
They stuff flesh into their mouthpieces and into their guts and it all just seeps through.
Their hunger is never satiated because they have no stomachs to fill.
So they're in constant misery wanting flesh and they're insane.
They seem to be satiated at least to like a docile state.
They can have moments of lucidity but it's more of like at one point they can't control themselves and all they can think about is flesh.
And the next point they can control themselves and all they can think about is flesh and killing other people.
It's like the equivalent of like the butchers nails for a nightlord.
Like I'm gonna do a load of flaying until I'm satisfied and until not I'm not gonna have the endorphins to stop my suffering.
For a world leader.
If the nightlords got butchers nails I think that would make them even more terrifying.
Who do you reckon is better at flaying? A flayed one or a nightlord?
Oh god I'd be the flayed one bro. It's in the name.
Emperor's Children surely.
Yeah buddy.
Maybe you should have your smile specifically but you know it's in the name.
Just imagine them all getting together for a convention day and like this is how you sew the skin together without seeing the seams.
It would definitely happen in Ohio for no reason.
He used the iron.
That's clever. It gets rid of all the creases.
Oh very good.
I imagine they'd argue over like you know like we showed up wearing the same thing you know the same human skin cape and that's one of us has to change.
Wearing the same clothes.
I do want to talk about a really like there's funny like even the necrons are like when you see flayed ones they are terrifying even that their bodies kind of adapt to their need to flay flesh or they get like elongated claws.
My favorite parts of it is like I don't know if you can talk about it Eli and the twice dead king parts but there is like a funny part where like one of them is like hiding behind some enemies and he just goes gets out his really long dagger finger and looks like one of the main necron overlords and goes shh and he's like I'm going to flay you know what I mean.
There's like some funny moments and some of them when they catch the disease they're like it's like they got caught cheating on their diet essentially. They're like catching someone eating a Snickers bar when they were saying they're like oh I'm losing weight like oh I'm so sorry like oh it's so it's just so awkward oh my god.
It's really funny that there are some aspects of the flare virus.
It's tough and none of the necrons actually know how they catch it and seemingly no necron is safe even Immo Tech the swarm on himself could get it for all we know.
But it starts with a slight simple tiny cravings of flesh and eventually evolves into what we said before insanity. Their backs hunch over their claws elongate.
They usually carve out smiles and faces on their faces because they'd want to face so bad but they just can't have it. And it seems one of the main causes or ways that it's explained at least is the diaspherec which is talked about in the twice day king book which is pretty cool and it's basically kind of like the echo and the remnant of the necron brain and it's trapped forever in a state of bodiless aloneness.
It just wants to have a body again it wants to have something to be with it and it could start with them the necron trying to blink but they have no eyelids are trying to breathe breathe but they have no lungs and I just have no eyes and I must blink.
Yeah, literally.
I did love that part yeah they have a, some of them said they'd feel it they suddenly go, they're forgetting to breathe, because that function in their brain is like, in our own brains we have like the, it's not a conscious part necessarily of like you know pumping your heart, but they have that thing in their brain which is like, oh I'm not breathing, oh I don't breathe.
They had a phantom breathe. I have a question with the flayed ones, do they have like the, like, what is their preventative measure do they have clinics, do they have like any way of knowing the methods?
They don't know they can, it seems if you have like a strong enough force of will, you can like stave it off for a long long time, I think the one of the characters in the book had been staving it off for centuries basically.
And a crypt tech in the book also claimed that there may be a way to get rid of it but it seems that there's absolutely no cure. All you can do is try for as long as possible to hold it off until you're given.
Yeah, but the diasphoric, it seems to be like how you have a phantom limb if you lost a limb, it's like a phantom brain, and it's this big scary monster that will try to engulf the Necron if they even give into it for a second, and they have basically they have panic attacks as they're, they all of a sudden realize that their bodies have been starved for millions of years and they can't breathe, they can't blink, they can't eat, they can't drink, they can't do anything.
Basically if you were, had every organ in your body fail at once and you were suffering every possible like ailments at one time, being hungry and thirsty, and your skin is falling off, and all this stuff at once is basically what they feel even though they have none of it.
This is a very scary thing for a Necron to experience. And the other issue is the destroyer aspect, which is pretty cool. They don't know where it came from, it's completely, a complete mystery, it might have been an issue with just their algorithms or even more sinister, the Catan may have devised it and had it to be the end fate for all Necrons.
But essentially nihilism and murderousness takes over the Necron, and they start to mutilate their bodies, taking off arms and replacing them with cannons, taking off limbs, replacing them with hover things or with big giant legs, their bodies will often warp to become gigantic and all they will care about is eradicating human life.
And in the Infinite and Divine book he meets up with some destroyers, and it's very cool, they are telling Trazen how they're going to destroy the world. And it's not just like they're going to go kill stuff, they go and destroy the polar ice caps so that the world, they will be able to more efficiently kill everyone as the floods wipe out more people so they'll have 300 less years of having to kill people.
And they're like, get rid of something like trees or something so the atmosphere will burn up, all they care about is destroying all flesh, they hate flesh and hate living beings with a passion, even animals, it's not just sentient life, they'll kill animals and plants and trees, and they don't care.
They were really crazy.
They even make a plan to kill the bacteria as well, which is like, that's how mentally ill they are, it's insane.
They're very crazy and they need to be generally controlled by a destroyer lord. Necrons hate them but they form destroyer cults off in the side.
I guess I'll talk about the Flayed Virus but I didn't talk about Flayed Ones as much.
The, probably the coolest part about the Flayed Ones is that they can travel through dimensions, they have their own little like, pocket dimension where they can just go and hang out and live so they can appear on a battlefield at any point, anywhere.
So society hates them, but they don't really have a choice if they want them to show up or not because they'll just apparate and like claw out of reality to kill all these people and then hopefully leave.
If they don't leave some words just get rid of them and kill them because they don't want them around anymore.
It's kind of a shame that they're ashamed of them, in a way.
They're Necron, they're Necron blockers essentially.
Yeah, they're scared of catching the virus, although it's, nobody knows how you catch the virus.
It seems touching flesh is a possible way that starts it so touching flesh is very taboo in Necron society nowadays and the sacred machine is that it is sacred and all flesh is disgusting and should be eradicated but not to that degree.
That's more of a destroyer thing to think.
It's kind of a very complex way of thinking.
It's hard to explain how the Necrons think.
They're very fleshed out nowadays, ironically enough.
They have a lot of character and emotion in their characters nowadays but it's pretty cool.
Now that they're waking up, they see every race other than the Eldar basically as nothing but insects.
To us, sorry, to a Necron, we are literally insects.
It's like how you would see an ant, they see us in the same way and in a sense it is almost the same way.
They are in a higher point of existence almost from the rest of the galaxy minus the Eldar which is a nice way of, I don't know, they're not very nice but cool how they see it.
I have another quote.
This one for me? For moi?
Let's see, yeah sure.
Said by some Inquisitor random, I don't know.
Oh cool, that starts fitting for me then I suppose.
Okay.
We are less than cattle to these beings, chattel to be cast aside, consumed or made sport with for their pleasure.
There is not one among them that would pay a head.
There is not one, shit, there is not one, I can't get this right.
There is not one amongst them that would pay heed to a world of man as I would to an ant on my boot.
Nice.
There is not one among us.
Very good.
That's right.
Joining the club of flubs.
That's a weird name.
It was he, I was like, he'd heal?
How did you flub the quarry every time?
True.
Yeah, they see us as insects but touching flesh is a very serious thing that they don't want to do.
It just makes me think of touching grass, like touching flesh.
In the Twice Dead King book again, because that's the best Necron book you can get right now,
the main character squishes a grot beneath his foot and his sub-minds,
because it's so hard to say how incredibly insane the Necron technology is.
The main character has sub-minds within himself,
his own consciousness put into different kind of personalities and they're part of his brain.
So one of them is constantly reminding them about the taboos.
It freaks out when he touches this grot or when he touches a war boss
and it's screaming at him and it's going crazy.
Then the grot's blood gets on the sacred stones of the crypt and it gets even worse.
They have a lot of very peculiar...
...ideosyncrasies.
Yeah, that's a good way of putting it.
But sub-minds is a cool thing that they got.
Another part of their technology, the main thing in their army, their army bonus,
is the reanimation protocols, as they're made out of living metal.
Even doing catastrophic damage to an Necron might not kill it.
It will regenerate and stand back up, its limbs will find each other,
kind of in like ooze back together in a liquid, metallic conglomeration,
and it will stand back up and keep fighting.
So only the most incredible damage can put one of these things down,
and even then they will generally just phase out back under to the Tomb World
if they're on home turf or into the flagship if they're not on home turf.
So if you're fighting against the Necrons, there's like a 99% chance that the Necron you just killed,
you didn't actually kill, and you're going to fight them again tomorrow.
I don't like that.
I don't because my boy High Marshal Halbrecht stomped on the Necron and then he kept getting back up.
Chad Emotech, the Storm Lord!
Oh, he's so freaking cool.
I'm going to talk about him in a little bit too.
Killishu.
Killishu? He lost like five times.
He didn't lose because he kept standing back up.
It doesn't matter what tricks you have up your sleeve, he lost.
That's right.
Shout out to my good friend Matt who has tortured me endlessly with reanimation protocols on the tabletop.
Love me Resurrection Orbs, love me D3 plus three Necron Warriors.
And I'd like to give a big shout out to the Dawn of War AI on Hard Difficult.
Pain. Very, very much pain.
The nobility's bodies are more strong, they're more resolute.
I forgot to say, in Biotransference, the Royals and the Overlords were given the best materials to be made into,
and kind of the scraps were given to the peasants.
And the peasants who awaken the Necron Warriors were never actually any soldiers of any kind.
They were just like farmers and regular dudes.
They had no combat experience, but now they live in the soulless machine.
And it would appear that Necrons do not have souls.
I feel like it's hard to say that completely, but it seems pretty absolute that they do not have souls.
And when they wake up, they kind of realize this, they feel like the cold itch in the back of their minds, their hollowness,
they can just, they know that there's something missing, and which is why many of them want to return to the times of flesh.
There's a good link about one, I don't know if it's a spoiler already, but there's like a good part where the character Fabius Bial,
how him and Trozen have that conversation where Trozen says like,
is the real Fabius Bial technically dead?
And you're just like a, you're a copy of his memories, essentially.
I think the Necrons often feel like that.
They might, the Necrons, well, the Necrontyr are actually like dead, like the real characters of them are dead.
And these are like the imprinted remains essentially of what that thing was.
And they're just kind of like living ghosts.
Isn't there a bit in Infinite and the Divine where Trozen and Oricon are having a chat and Oricon's all about,
I can't remember exactly what it's about, but he's saying about how he wishes he could like taste or he could do things he,
like that kind of Barbossa in the first Pirates of the Caviar,
I feel nothing, not the warmth of my skin or the taste is like, yeah, it's just, and there's something where he like, he, he's like,
I wish I could do this again, but I can't because I don't have taste buds or touch or, you know, smell or any sensation other than being alive as like a ghost in the machine.
You best start believing in ghost stories, Eldred.
You're living in one.
Epic.
I guess more on Tomb Worlds because I kind of went over that a little too fast.
They have many of them have something called a null field matrix, which keeps the tomb world safe from psychers.
And this also works against demons and tyranids and other psychers.
And the technology can kind of be seen more in their ships.
They put these weird bone things on their ships that ward off psychers so they can't see them as well from the astropath perspective.
And they have the like gloom prisms on the tomb spiders.
They have anti-psychic stuff and necrons are very good opponents against demons and tyranids as it would appear.
So they're kind of the necrons might be the only hope for the galaxy to actually beat the tyranids.
But there's a slight irony to it in which the necrons don't understand psychic stuff at all.
Yeah, because they have literally none of them are psychers.
None have the abilities of psychers in any capacity.
So they don't they know how to fight against it in certain like in terms of preventing it.
But actually, they some even on the table, they're somewhat kind of vulnerable to it.
And really deny anything in the psychic phase unless you have like one artifact.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, no, I guess there's any more babies.
Yeah, I see. I mean, they're still there.
But wasn't that the whole so that wasn't that the whole thing of like the war in heaven, like they made the orcs and they're like, this is getting the job done kind of.
And they went Eldar and they're like, oh, this is much better.
Like, they can't counter this.
That's what they do have. They point it in their general direction, like, go get them.
Go get them. Good boy. Good boy. Good.
That meme video, the guy's like, describe that dog. He just like, I thought this one he just saw it's like growling aggressively the camera that one came during the war in heaven was actually a pit bull named Princess.
But the necrons do kind of have magic powers, but these math to create magic.
It's like real. It's real power, isn't it? It's literally science. They like bend reality and use the force of reality to do things that appear as magic to us.
But we just can't understand or fathom how incredibly advanced they are.
So it it's completely impossible to understand how they really do it.
I'll talk about cryptex a little bit later. Where was that?
I think one of my favorite things in the Lord before the necrons wake up are the Triarch Praetorians.
The Triarch Praetorians are basically enforcers of the will of the Triarch, which is not as big deal anymore.
But before the necrons woke up, the Triarch Praetorians saw that they failed their task of keeping the dynasties alive and was kind of keeping them on their former glory.
And so they never went to sleep. They stayed awake for the entire 65 million years.
And they actually spread the culture of necronteer society to the lesser races, to just random aliens around the galaxy.
So that if the necrons didn't wake up, if that chance, the tiny little chance happened, that the necronteer culture would live on and it would survive, which is pretty neat, if you ask me.
And they would later go and help the Tomb Worlds awaken. They usually stay around and defend the Tomb World or help them get rid of the lesser beings, the fleshlings around the Tomb Worlds planet.
They're the executioners of the High Court because there's kind of, I don't know what the state of it is right now that the Silent King is back. I assume he has full authority.
But before the Silent King was back, they made kind of a de facto government of just necron nobles from the previously awakened dynasties who woke up before they were supposed to.
And this was kind of spearheaded by the Triarch Praetorians and some nobles. I'll talk about that later. I was going to say I'll talk about the Infinite and the Divine, but I'll do that in a couple minutes.
So as the necrons are waking up, it would appear, according to my 5th edition Necron's Codex, the first contact with the Imperium seems to be in 793.M41, when an Inquisitor comes to investigate why Solemnance, Trazan's planet, was completely ignored by Highfleet Behemoth.
In Fall of Daminos though, it seems as if the Imperium had never encountered the necrons before. Maybe that's because the Fall of Daminos is old lore, but it's hard to say because in the Codex it also says the Silver Skulls fought against the necrons before Daminos happened.
I think at a stretch you could probably say that Ferris Man has trunked one with that incident where he got his arms, but that's probably the only recorded one, I suppose.
It could also just, you know, the Imperium's record keeping is, shall we say, a bit rough.
Yeah.
I mean, to be honest, I'm just a mad, I know we've already mentioned this meme loads of times on the channel, but just like the Mechanicum guy walking in seeing an necron going, what the hell is even that?
Basically.
Or it just could be a case of like, we know they encountered them before, but in the universe the necrons just wiped them to a man, so it was like, well, no one to report it.
They were flare virus food, maybe.
What was I saying though?
Daminos was one of the first times that it happened, and it has a book, so all those random Silver Skull stories in the Codex, I'm not sure if they're in a book or not.
And the Silver Skulls are real, by the way.
I remember a long time ago when I made a Silver Skulls chapter, people in the comments were saying, I don't think these guys are real.
I think that they're just the trazing myth, but no, they're real.
They're definitely real.
Oh, definitely real.
Yeah, they were replaced with trazing in like the stained glass window and stuff, but they are indeed a real Space Marine chapter.
Which, yeah, before I talk about the dynasties, maybe how you can talk about the infinite and the divine, because they technically woke up before everyone else.
So if you want to talk about them now, you can.
Yes, I do.
But this is, by the way, if you are new to Warhammer or you're possibly just, you know, have a get a toe in or maybe a little bit.
This is probably one of the better Warhammer books, like ever in general.
It's such a good book.
I'm not going to say it's the best book in the world, but it's an incredibly enjoyable book.
And even if you don't know anything about Warhammer lore, this is a really fun read and a listen.
So I kind of won't give away everything.
I'm just going to go like a light sort of going over the book.
So because again, it'd be such a missed opportunity if you never got to listen to this book yourself.
But the infinite and the divine is essentially following the characters of trazin or trazin.
I can't remember which one it really is, but I'll say trazin for now.
Abaddon or Abaddon or Giliman or Gulliman or blah, blah, blah.
It's not Gulliman.
We'll get told off anyway by someone in the comments.
So it's trazin, the infinite and Oricon, the diviner or basically the infinite and the divine.
It's essentially two characters that were around during the early, early days of the
was the time when obviously the Necron tier became the Necrons.
It's essentially a plot.
The general plot is it's a feud between the old married couple that is trazin and Oricon,
who have at the core of it kind of different ideas and philosophies about their race and how they act.
So they are kind of the two different, they're meant to show a contrast between how the Necrons have changed
and how they feel about their past and their future.
And it's really, it's literally in every conversation that they have because they're just, they're so petty
and they bicker so much and it's so enjoyable.
And the book will, it follows the general journey around the mysterious tomb, the lost tomb of Nefref.
I think I'm saying that correctly.
And they both desire the secrets within and they both have awakened slightly earlier than a lot of the other Necrons.
Again, like I said, sometimes the process is not perfect.
I think they awakened possibly during, at some time.
They woke up around the time of the Horus Heresy.
There's some stuff Trazin says and the fact that he has perfect recreations of the Horus Heresy
that pretty strongly hint that even if they weren't there for the start of it, they woke up during it.
In fact, I think there's actually a line where Trazin was talking about how before the Horus Heresy,
he found mankind to be incredibly boring.
Yeah, because it kind of, the Great Crusade made everything much more uniform.
And he was like, I already have space marines broke.
We should mention that Trazin's thing is like he makes a museum world.
He runs his museum world of Solemnase, if I'm saying that correctly.
It's an entire world that's literally a museum.
And it's a museum of history.
There's all kinds of crazy things in there, like things from the War in Heaven all the way up to modern time.
I think they actually woke up before the fall of the Eldar, actually.
Not long before, but because Orican mentions in the book,
he had to basically go meditate for a century straight after he realized what the hell the Eldar had done,
because it freaked him out that much.
I think also Trazin had to grab loads of things very quickly.
When the Heresy happened, he had to grab loads of things.
Trazerman, gotta catch up.
Orican is...
I'm having this, I'm having this. Doesn't he like nick something from Istvan or something like that?
Oh yeah, he's like a salamander, and things like that.
And Orican, his opposite, is a cryptech, so his specialty is he has the power of science, essentially,
and he can manipulate time.
I like science.
He does time travel within Necrons, but it does have some rules on it.
They can't go back and change entire things, but essentially Orican can rewind time on himself
and divinate some things in the future too.
So you have something, Colin?
It's very much you need to know exactly what you're doing and have some level of strength and expertise,
and then make a point of saying that well, Orican can do it.
He's pretty much the only one who can so reliably go back and fudge the numbers, as it were,
to make sure things turn out how he wants it to,
which is also part of why he's such a good diviner,
because he cheats, because the time goes forward and then he goes back in time.
I'm being crazy.
He's like, this will happen, everyone, and then it happens because he saw it happen.
Speaking of that, though, we do want to mention, as the rivalry begins between them,
because they want to battle over the secrets of the Tomb of Nefret,
basically everything gets taken up in the wake of their just complete absurd shenanigans.
They even cause problems on a world named Serenade,
which started off as a maiden world in the beginning of the book filled with Eldar exodites,
which we'll explain more about them, I think, more in a Eldar specific video,
because they're actually kind of their own cool subject.
And then the world essentially fills the wrath of these two playing games and shenanigans.
They literally were spitting on each other, if they could,
and they literally are so petty and they insult each other throughout the book.
The world of Serenade is set up by Eldar, then by humans,
and eventually some genestealers show up at some point.
Again, not too spoilery.
And they commit loads of war crimes against each other.
Again, my favourite ones are like, they eventually are forced to work together at some point,
and Trezin, because he's such a goofball, he throws a genestealer at Orokin whilst he's meditating,
because he thought it'd be funny, and that ends up causing massive problems for the world.
And then there's also one with Orokin, as I said earlier,
there was a preliminary court system established as some of the Necrons were waking up early.
And Trezin had took Orokin to court for breaking into his museum,
and Orokin proceeds to rewind time so that he doesn't lose the argument.
And everyone's going, what's going on?
And Trezin's like, something weird is happening.
I feel odd.
And he's noticing something on Orokin's staff, or one of his tools,
is like burning red hot.
Yeah, it's one of the things Trezin is wearing.
Why is it so hot?
Orokin is actually rewinding time so he can win the argument.
And they eventually do work together, they're forced to work together by the other Necron court,
because they're just like, listen, you guys are so petty that we can't deal with you anymore.
So they force them to work together under pain of being erased.
And I really like those characters who are just like, you two are being children,
could you stop messing around for five minutes?
And it's so funny.
The judge even says, like, we're going to punish you in the worst way we possibly can,
we're going to make you work with each other.
Yes, they are eventually forced to work together.
And to say it's actually really probably one of the better parts of the book,
just because they complement each other so well with Trezin's infinite resources
and his ability to like blink into other Necrons and sort of become like to over,
basically take over a Necron and Orokin's powers, which are incredibly useful.
But to the horror they do discover there's a dark truth behind the Tomb of Nefref,
which I won't spoil here, because again, if someone wanted to read more books,
this is the book to start with in terms of, it's just so, it'll start you on a big journey
and you'll be, we'll be there holding your hand and you'll love it so much.
But just a few things about the book I thought was interesting that the book does show
the intricacies of Necron life, how their memories as a Necron is perfect.
So they remember everything like a machine would,
but their time when they were Necron-tier feels like a dream, kind of like they remember it,
like how you wake up and you kind of remember your dream,
but then throughout the day if someone asked you like, oh, what happened in your dream?
And it's like, oh, the details are more fuzzy.
Memories of memories of memories.
Yeah. And it's a bit, they all feel a bit sad about that as well.
Like they're kind of like, oh, I don't really remember who I was before.
And it also showed the different ideas, as I mentioned in the beginning,
about how they'd have different ideas or the different aspects of Necrons now
who feel differently about being Necron.
Like Trozin's probably one of the few who are actually like okay with it.
I'm just remorse.
Yeah. Well, Trozin funny enough, he actually like somewhat enjoys being an immortal,
because he wants to be a museum curator and being an immortal robot is kind of perfect for that,
whereas Orokin doesn't.
I mean, he was again, like as I said earlier, he was against the transformation
and that is the secrets behind the tomb is sort of linked to how they both see the future for the Necron race.
Again, I don't want to spoil too much of that because it's such, such a good book.
And they, yeah, they sort of have different, it's an interesting conclusion about some of them want to,
maybe some could embrace flesh again, but then some of them are like,
why would I want to eventually die and get old and stuff like that?
And then others go, but what if we send it to a higher form of existence?
And there's like, oh, and then some of them, sometimes they find out what that would really be like.
And it's kind of horrifying too. But again, no more spoilers than that.
And we don't care going ahead anyways.
Do you want to raise in quote? It's a long one, but it's like a classic from the fifth edition codex type of quote.
Is it a letter he wrote by chance?
Yeah, yeah, it's a classic.
This one's great.
Well then, Colin can read it.
Ah, thank you.
All right, I hope I didn't interrupt anything important.
No, no, I was finished there too.
So this is the perfect, perfect.
I love this quote.
Dear lady, let me express my fulsome appreciation for your most generous gift.
It is so very rare to discover another of my own kind that appreciates my work.
Therefore, to find understanding amongst a memory of another race is nothing short of a revelation.
I realize that you briefly trod my galleries,
but the fact that you spotted in so short a time that my acabrious war collection was lacking three regiments of catechon warriors
reveals that you truly have a collector's eye for detail.
And to send five regiments, such generosity will allow me to weed out and replace a few of the more substandard pieces in my collection.
If I might level a minor criticism, the instructions issued to your gift were manifestly not as clear as you thought,
as most of them had to be forcibly restrained.
Sadly, it seems that the lower orders will always behave like an army of invasion, whether that be their purpose or not.
However, this is a minor complaint and seems almost churlish under the circumstances,
so please allow me to repay your gift with one of my own.
Accompanying this message is the Hyperstone Maze,
one of the series of tesseract labyrinths constructed at the height of the...
...Charnavuk dynasty. That took me a minute.
It is a trinket, really, only of interest to scholars such as you and I,
but I trust you will find it amusing, assuming you have the wit to escape its clutches, of course.
What a fucking goblin he is.
Master Troll.
When we said he was petty, we forgot to mention he's conniving, too.
Quite.
Tom and Jerry, except Tom has the power of the Star God, so that's fine.
Literally.
Oh man, I'm like going through my old credits right now.
There's a quote on every other page. What the heck happened to Games Workshop, man?
Whatever. I'll always be salty about that kind of stuff.
They had to sell more Primaris Space Marine lieutenants, that's all that happens.
So they lost the cool Codex budget.
It's something I'm salty about every day, but you know how it would be.
Back to the Necrons in the 41st millennium.
They've all woken up now that these guys are done.
One thing, actually, I think one of my favorite parts of the book is the scale of time that things happen in.
The events that Trazen and Orkan go through happen hundreds, sometimes thousands of years apart.
Sometimes Orkan will be like, oh, it's been 200 years and Trazen hasn't tried to break into my studies. That's so nice.
And then 300 years later he sends a comment, and then 400 years later he sends another comment. Yeah, stuff like that.
They have time because they are literally immortal and likely they're never going to die, bar extreme accidents.
So time is quite irrelevant to the Necrons indeed.
And their court system is basically just an exaggerated version of our court system.
And Trazen was saying, oh man, this is going to take forever.
Our regular court case takes like a thousand years.
We were so lucky to get this done in a hundred years type of thing.
Yeah. Another funny part, I'm spoiling, maybe this isn't a spoiler, whatever.
Funny part that I thought was they don't use chairs.
They just turn their legs off and basically sit in their legs. That was fun.
So yeah, their tireless bodies, they're better than us in every single way you could ever imagine.
Don't worry about it. They don't have souls.
Yeah, that is, you know, they're actually worse than us in every single way, but that's kind of the lesson that you learn from the Necrons.
You should also read the Twice-Ted King books. They're my favorite Warhammer books, I think. They're really, really good.
Where are our wars?
It's worth it.
So I think we can get to the...
Yeah, the Necrons have woken up. They've been killing people, scaring people.
Usually a lot of times a Tomb World will wake up on a recently habitated planet where Settaways have touched down
and now all of a sudden there are these horrifying skeletal demon robots crawling out of the ground and killing everyone and they care for nobody.
I think one of my favorite quotes is from...
A quote that sums up the Necrons very well is from one of the Lords on Damnos and it says,
We are the Necrontyr, we are legion, we claim dominion of this world, surrender and die.
And then in the book the guy's like, surely they mean surrender or die, right?
They did not mean that. They certainly did not.
Necrons have no care at all for us.
But we can talk about the dynasties now, I think, because we've kind of talked about the state that they're in.
The main reason the Necrons have not taken over the universe is because they're jerks.
They hate each other.
They don't necessarily hate each other, but there's so much...
There's literally rivalries from millions of years ago that they're still settling.
And so politics, like in most things, is kind of slowing down everything and making their reawakening and taking over the galaxy a lot harder.
Because half of the Necrons are fighting each other, which is so wasteful and stupid, obviously.
But it's just how it is.
The hierarchy of the Necrons goes the Triarch, which I'm pretty sure is now just the Silent King.
Then Pherons, which are rulers of the dynasties. Then Overlords, which will be rulers of a cluster of planets or a system.
They have many legions. A Lord is a ruler of a single world.
And then there's random nobles of the courts of Lords and Overlords.
Cryptex are usually in these courts, but they're more independent and they do whatever they want.
The greater the court, the greater the Lord's military might.
And many nobles... It's like any aristocrat or bureaucracy, aristocracy, whatever.
There's tons of different titles. Like in the book, one of the old guys had the title of like...
He was the head of the farms, basically, which is obviously a completely useless title now.
But because he has that title, by law he's supposed to be given some Necron legions.
So he has a few warriors to spare.
Then after the random nobles, it would go Lichguard, and then Immortals.
And then at the bottom of the chain would be warriors.
And then I guess Kenoptics, I guess, but they don't really count.
So that's how they are right now.
The dynasties, I have a few of them that I wrote down basic things about them.
Because there's like literally hundreds of them.
Some of them have lore, some of them have nothing.
I fleshed out a little more in the recent Dynasties, I think largely because in 8th and 9th edition you had subfaction rules.
They had to think up lore for these dynasties finally that they had to give different rules to Necrons.
But the main one is the Sotek dynasty.
Also the main one is the Sazerikan dynasty.
It's kind of hard to say which one is going to be the more powerful.
I think they have a bit of a rivalry.
The Sazerikan dynasty is the Silent King's dynasty, who likely hold the most power and influence over the Necrons at the moment.
They're not the biggest because that's the Sotek dynasty.
But the Sazerikan have the Silent King now that he's back.
They contain a large amount of old relics and epic stuff.
Then we have the Sotek dynasty, which is the largest due to their pharaoh, Imhotek the Storm Lord.
The greatest commander and strategist in the entire galaxy.
Tough stuff, fleshlings.
They are implacable and unstoppable with him as their leader.
And I have their hierarchy, their specific hierarchy right here.
And this is going to be very boring to some people, but I think it's pretty cool, so whatever.
Orkan the Diviner is the Astromancer of their royal court.
Imhotek is the pharaoh, of course.
And then we have Nargrin Navgrin the Eternal, who's the High Transmeter and Omni Mutander.
I don't know what half the things mean, but it's a good way to show the intricacies of the Necrons.
Typical Necrons are like, we're going to make it sound really over the top just to show off how smart we are.
They sound like cool names.
Yeah, there's Overlord of Obdavac, who's Overlord of the Sotak Fringe Worlds.
Fringe Worlds are worlds that are far away, because there's the Crown World, and then there's the Core Worlds, and then there's the Fringe Worlds.
The Fringe Worlds are kind of like outposts.
Then on the other side there's Vargard Ossiris, who's his bodyguard to Imhotek.
Off to the side on his own, I want lore for this guy so bad I don't think he has any,
because in his picture it's a guy with a scythe on a skeleton horse, and his Lord High Adjudicator, Kremethel, enforcer of the Codes of Battle.
What the heck, that sounds so cool.
And then on the second tier is Nemesor Zahendrik, probably the most fun Necron character.
And then he's with Vargard O'Byron and a few other guys.
We have the Corpse Lord, Viscount of the Blood Palace, another cool sounding thing with no lore probably.
These all have old classic arts too, so oh man, it's cool.
There's a lot more on here, but I'm not going to read all of it, because that would be kind of horrible.
But it's just kind of a good way to show the software.
I'm surprised they don't have the title of Rubik's Cube Polisher or something.
Well they do, they literally have random titles for freaking everything.
Some lords will surround themselves with actual buffoons and goofballs, who have the most outlandish, stupid titles,
that you would never even think of.
But any court is better than no court, so it says in here.
He's insane.
Yeah, literally.
The loneliness is probably the biggest issue for most Necrons nowadays, I would say.
Yeah, because it makes them crazy.
And Ultex, the Twicet King overlord, makes a point to talk to his legions, even though they don't care.
Because many lords and overlords go insane because they just stop talking, because there's no actual need for it.
In fact, it would be inefficient to speak.
But yeah.
Next we have the Mephret Dynasty, which is where Enricri the Traveler comes from.
They're experts at harnessing the power of stars, and they have technology that can make stars go supernova.
They are greatly employed in the War of Heaven due to this ability, because they can literally end solar systems with their bare hands.
Not their bare hands, but you know what I mean. They can make things that end solar systems.
And they can still do that theoretically.
Novak, which is my personal tabletop favourite, because they're the melee guys, they're bloody and murderous fighters.
They give credit to the ancient rites of blooding, which is very un-Necrony.
The war is very hard to... it's very inconsistent through novels and codexes and stuff.
It's kind of hard to tell what some Necrons think of flesh, what others think.
So it's more of a...
Yeah, basically.
It's more consistent than Convalyptus.
They remember the ancient rites, so they paint their armour in red and fight in close quarters combat with a lot of warrior pride.
And there's the Nefrek Dynasty.
Their crown world has trinary stars, which I assume it means it has a source system with three stars, I guess.
They use this as an energy source to fuel their crazy, not actual magic, but cryptic magics, as they've unlocked this thing called Metagold.
So their legions are all gold and glittering and they're masters of translocation, which is another thing phase-shifting is something the Necrons are really good at, and it's more impossible technology.
It projects the person out of reality and in reality at the same time, constantly, so when you hit them, they're out of reality, so they're invulnerable, in a sense.
Anyways, the Nihilic Dynasty contains the head of a Yitsir, which is some kind of Xenos creature, but they use this preserved head to scry the future, because it's a future-seen head, which is freaking cool.
Sometimes it's spiteful, though, so it'll lie to them just as much as it tells the truth at times.
Their realm is taken by lesser beings, so they now are very war-hungry and march relentlessly to reclaim their territory.
And lastly, the Obdebeck Dynasty, just a fun shout-out to those guys. They're expert craftsmen and stone workers, and their skill has carried over to the time of the machine, as they have some great Necromancers and wield big ol' hammers.
It's just fun and cool. The Obdebeck lord in the books is lots of fun.
The main weapon of the Necrons is the Gauss weapons. Gauss weapons, sorry, I said it wrong in a video and I was hung-encoded for it.
These weapons completely destroy an enemy by breaking them apart atom by atom, and the green energy blasts work all the way down into the molecular bonds of a being, allowing them to destroy the toughest enemies, and they can even pierce through vehicles.
The old rules, tabletop rules, had it so that your Gauss weapons could basically do hall points to any vehicle, no matter their armor value, I'm pretty sure. I think you just had to roll a six.
Being shot by these weapons is like one of the most extremely painful to die in the whole galaxy.
They create magnetic tensions that cause atomic tearing of the victim. Not bad.
So, that's the Dynasty, that's kind of the state of Necrons right now.
To the Necrons, when you read their books, they're kind of, they seem pretty normal, not normal, they have their issues, but...
Quite human, in a way.
Yeah, they're human to them, but if you read it from a human perspective, they are like death incarnate, they are these horrifying skeletal monsters that crawl up from the ground and descend upon the planets, and they're absolutely horrifying.
That Ninth Edition trailer, I think.
It's down to a T.
Yeah, buddy. Yeah, the old Necrons were even scarier, they had a lot less personality and were a lot more destroyer-y.
I didn't get to read through my third edition Necrons quotas before this, which makes me really sad, because old Necrons lore is kind of baller, but the new Necrons lore is cool, too.
I think that sums up the Dynasty pretty well.
So, we can go talk about characters now, because I think this is already over an hour and something, and talking about characters has been two minutes.
Two hours.
Wait, what?
Hour 49 and 48.
Oh, I can't wait to edit this, guys!
Surely I will see the gates of Baldur someday.
You'll be saved all the anger when Shadowheart misses her tenth consecutive attack.
Oh man, I want to throw goblins at people.
I love goblins.
Anyways, we shouldn't get off our track this is so long.
Let's get into the characters.
How can I talk about the most important one, because I somehow know almost none of his lore recently is the Siren King.
Good old Sarek or Sazarek.
Everyone pronounced it differently, but I'm going to go with Sazarek of the Sarekin dynasty, which was the Siren King known as the last Siren King of the Necrontea slash Necrons.
He was the one who basically made the deal with the Kitarn.
So, as I said before, there have been other silent kings throughout much of Necrontea history, but he would be the last and probably the final one ever.
And obviously, I think Eli mentioned it earlier, he's called the Siren King because he doesn't talk to anyone other than his triarch, so he sort of whispers to them.
That's why he seems like a silent ruler.
And, you know, he was the one, ultimately it's on his shoulders, so early he feels a lot of guilt for sort of agreeing to the Kitarn's deal and his famous, obviously particularly more for his act of vengeance for destroying the Kitarn into shards.
Sorry, destroy them into shards.
But since that, you're probably thinking, well, where's he been the entire time?
Why is he not?
But was he asleep? Was he asleep in the stasis too?
He wasn't. He just felt loads of, obviously, reasonable guilt for what he had done to his people.
So after the Kitarn was shattered, he severed the command protocol within him, so he could not forcibly command any of the Necrons.
And he left the Milky Way galaxy for millions of years.
And this is not just him wandering, obviously possibly in ships.
And it's still somewhat mysterious about what he did in that time, obviously 65 million years or 60 million years, possibly a long, long, long time.
So we don't know what he saw or did, but it's somewhat implied that he saw the Tyranid threat.
And that is the ultimate reason why he's returned to the Milky Way galaxy, because, you know, the Necrons do believe in a sort of divine right to rule, but there's nothing to rule if the Tyranids eat it all.
It's not very good. So he ultimately seeks again to unify his people.
The Silent King, Xaracus, also met Dante of the Blood Angels.
It's one of the first few meetings of the Necrons with the Imperium.
And it's actually quite a cool scene because Dante and the Blood Angel are fighting the Necrons originally on this planet,
and they're like basically cranking through them and telling them that all the Necrons have stopped.
And like they go, what the hell's going on? And the Necrons basically say, this is an error in calculations.
Come meet with the Silent King. And they were like, oh, the Silent King. I thought it was a rumor.
I didn't know there was an actual king of the Necrons. And they kind of go to meet the Silent King and they approach up to Xarac.
And they actually have bombs planted in like their the tank that they rode up in.
They have like triggers in their gauntlets. And Dante thinking, if I could take out the Silent King here, you know, it's all, you know, that'd be great.
We did it. And then there'll be a good win for the Imperium.
And then they look upon the Silent King and he's wearing a mask of Sanguineous, one that's eerily similar to the one that Dante has.
But it's of Sanguineous smiling. And it's the Silent King. He actually starts whispers to Dante.
Obviously, the Silent King, by the way, as a model, even as a regular Necron, he's actually huge.
He's like just a little bit bigger than even some of the bigger Necrons.
So he creeps down to Dante, whispering into him, you know, hey, buddy, we need to make a deal.
So a little bit godfathery.
And it's implied that the Silent King implies that he possibly met Sanguineous and he liked Sanguineous.
But again, we don't know if he's lying or not.
That's ringing a bell, isn't it?
He might be. He might be lying. We don't know.
But he's wearing a mask of Sanguineous.
And the sort of they agree to make a deal with the Blood Angels to fight out the Tyranids.
It's implied that the his whole purpose of returning is to unite his people and somewhat face the Tyranid threat.
Obviously, the Necrons do plan to awaken from the tombs and rule and obviously Tyranids eating all their tomb worlds
and eating all the plates that they want to rule over is no good.
So he is returned to the setting and he has some delicious Kitarn shards in prisons because he is the one who helped kill them or shatter them.
So he's a he's a cool character and obviously his tail top model is ginormous, huge and worth over a hundred smackaroonies.
So it's a birthday slash Christmas gift for any Necron players out there.
Check it out after this if you're thinking about getting some big purchases.
But Eli will talk about some other really cool characters.
Also, we mentioned Orokin and Trezin. There's a bit more on them, I'm sure, but we'll go over if you want.
Yeah, I can. Yeah. I also have a quote that I forgot to send earlier.
This is a really short one. Maybe, you know, how can we how's it really cool yet?
It's this alt text says this when he's fighting against the Space Marines.
Is that in hashtag gin? Let me see this.
They're still using solid munitions. How did these primitives ever leave orbit?
That's right. Energy, energy. Well, this monkey's to these guys.
So going down the line, the second most important Necron would be Emotech, the Storm Lord.
He has a cool quote. So I like my quotes. What can I say?
Says order unity obedience. We taught the galaxy these things long ago and we will do so again.
Emotech has recently risen only to find his dynasty, the Sautech dynasty, engulfed in a civil war because the Sautech dynasty.
Opened up, you know, the caskets and everyone was killing each other. So they eventually severed the.
What's the word? Sorry, the regeneration, the reanimation protocols of all the nobles because it was getting so ridiculous and they stopped waking everyone up.
So Emotech was woken up by a specifically ambitious overlord, noble random guy, and he was hoping that he's like, oh, I'm going to wake up Emotech and he's going to be so thankful that I woke him up in this time.
And he's going to help me win the war. Instead, Emotech wakes up and he sees what's going on and he's not happy. He immediately kills this noble and he musters his own armies and ends the civil war basically overnight because he's just that good.
And he has since ravaged his way through the immediate galaxy. I think he's done something like conquered 80 plus planets in the last century, something like ridiculous like that.
His brain is just incomprehensible, vast logic compendium where he can the processing power would kill a human being basically if they were to be able to think as he does.
He can stage a counter defense on one world while leading personally leading an attack on another and then counter maneuvering someone else across the galaxy all the same time.
He can summon these lightning storms that cause complete fear and utter dismay for the people who go in them and the people who go in them might come out with blood swarm nanoscarabs inside of them, which will attract played ones to them.
He's been kind of crusading through the galaxy waking up two worlds and oftentimes necronormals would just immediately bend the knee because they know they have no chance of beating this guy.
He has defeated every grand strategist. I don't know if he's actually ever lost a battle. It's I think the book says that he hasn't as Warhammer. Of course, you never know.
But specifically, hellbrecht was the you know, we cheated today's today's big loser is Mr. Hellbrecht.
I have a quote for him. I wish I could send this to Andy, but I have to type it all out. I was reading it is this is him speaking to Marshall hellbrecht during the battle for Schrodinger.
That's a planet, I guess. You have ruled this galaxy for 10,000 years, yet have little of account to show for your efforts.
Such failures must be as depressing to bear as it is pathetic to behold. Freaking got him, dude.
Yeah, then he like wrecked his like flagship later on. So it's like revenge.
So he got some hellbrecht. He's a sector of a necron. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I wonder if him and the silent king will have kind of a standoff or even a fight. We'll have to find out.
Probably. I don't think they like each other. Well, Amo tech probably doesn't like him.
The he has to he has one thing that goes against his very logistical brain or whatever you want to call it for the necrons. He has quite the warrior pride and instead of killing opponents, he will often like he did to help wrecked cut off his hand and then run away laughing after utterly defeating them because he just like drinks in their despair and shame of losing and he wants to do it again sometime.
And he had fun beating them type of thing. Isn't he also crazy? He's like he's actually like bonkers like he thinks he's still doesn't he say.
Oh, that's a different necron. We'll talk about him in a second.
But in the times of flesh, so he was so incredible of a command brutal of a commander was this guy that there was a necron idiom. I think it's the word like a metaphor that was based off of him. It was called gone like the koovoo, which is an enemy dynasty that Amo tech had completely wiped out. And they use they say this when they completely finish their plate of food.
So if you like wipe a plate clean, you'll say that's gone like the koovoo for your dinner. Yeah, he's balling dude. He's freaking cool. Even the old ones were afraid to have him. It was said the old ones these godlike beings were afraid of one dude. Man, I sure love Mr. Amo tech the storm lord.
I read a theory online just a theory. So don't take this as canon. But that the only enemy he really can't predict is the orcs. Yeah, I was gonna say that that is that's not a theory that's real. Oh, no, no, that's not that like the theory was that like the orcs were specifically made to counteract Amo tech because the old ones are like we can't this guy sucks. I hate dealing with him.
So they like this here goes they made the crook just you know the stupid dumb brutes because they're basically too stupid for him to plan around. That's a fun theory. I've never Yeah, I saw I interrupted you. I was gonna say that he has the orcs. He's so perfectly logical and predict every single movement.
The only way to have a chance against him. Oh tech is to completely put no decision into anything you do and do random garbage. And that's what the orcs do. So he gets really tilted when he has to fight against the orcs because he just can't predict their next move. That is a fun theory. At the same time, the crook were probably a lot smarter than the orcs.
I feel like it was just like a I like it sounds cool. I think it's fun. Yeah, we'll go with that theory. So all right, right under him. Oh tech is the next greatest general in the galaxy. Mr. Nemes or Zandrick, who is probably my favorite Necron character. He is arguably he's potentially better than a mo tech.
But it's kind of hard to say because you know, he's the best tactician in one text back tactician. John's back test, you know, you know, gone and on and how it goes in Warhammer. But Nemes or Zandrick is one of if not the best tactician in the galaxy, probably along with guys like the lion and as a man and the likes.
His little work though is that he's actually crazy. In a way, he's he's very, he's very intelligent. And, you know, he knows how to talk. He does. He's not that kind of crazy, but he's crazy. And the fact that he is constantly living in the past, and he perceives reality as if he was still in the time of flesh.
So when he's fighting other beings, he sees them as enemy dynasties, who are part of a civil war. And so he abides to all the codes of combat, making him probably one of the most honorable commands in the entire galaxy.
He'll capture enemy commanders instead of killing them and like feed them, put them in his nice cozy little prison and talk to them and hang out with them. He's fun. He's accompanied by Vargard Oberon, who is his lumbering towering Lich Guard, very almost kind of like a Lord, I guess.
Bodyguard, who helps the Nemesaur in every single way possible. He's always at his side and when he's not, he has a Ghost Walk mantle, which allows him to travel across the plains and right appear beside Nemesaur once again.
But he doesn't only protect him on the field of battle, he also protects him in the realm of politics, because it makes sense that Nemesaur is not really great at politics with his state of mind. But Oberon makes sure to shoot down any political ploys and kill any assassins with ease. He's really fun and he's a very cool character on the tabletop.
And what not.
And an interaction with the White Scars, didn't they, with Korsaro? They had a little bit of a scuffle.
That sounds cool. I've not read that book, but now I would like to.
Yeah, he's like the escape from the guy in charge of the bodyguard. He's like, I'll let you go, because you're cool. He's like, okay, bye.
Here's a fun little Sandrick quote. Sorry with all the quotes, I just love him so much. He says,
See, Oberon, the separatists come, attempting to outflank me just as they did at the fourth battle of Vindak. How they calculate that daubing themselves green and rolling like savages will produce a different outcome. I cannot fathom, but it is of no account.
Ready my legions, another glorious victory shall be ours. He's saying this prior to the crushing defeat of Raw Bloodtooth.
Funny guy.
Yes?
I read, I don't know if it was his creator, but someone who wrote a story for him said he was based kind of off his uncle who had dementia.
Oh, interesting.
Because it's like, I think there's a passage where like, Zandrick kind of, for a moment, he's talking to Oberon, he's like,
If we really were turned into, you know, unfeeling metal space Egyptian Terminators, wouldn't it be better to just pretend we weren't and enjoy life for what it is?
And I think it's like the thing is like with dementia, there can be moments where you're briefly like, yeah, like where they're their old selves, but they fade in and out.
So I think that was kind of the vibe they were going through with Zandrick, the creator. He was like, he's sometimes he's playing it up a bit.
But other times he really does just not have those full faculties, which is very interesting.
It's good, but also just sad.
Yeah, I really like him. He's one of my favorite characters, I think. Need more lore on him.
Also dabbing.
Did you say dabbing?
He's dabbing, look at him.
Oh yeah, you're right.
I have the credits open right now on his picture.
He probably is one of those, how you doing fellow kids kind of guys, I bet.
I just saw him in the piece.
Love me name is Sorzandric. Next down the line is Illuminor Cezares, who's basically Necron Fabius Bio, which is like just a horrible combination.
Obviously, he's all the bad parts of Fabius Bio and none of the good parts.
He's pretty reprehensible.
Fabius is a bit bad, I don't know. He's got that going for him.
Fabius has some great to him. This guy's got none.
This guy's just a jerk. He's really awful.
His whole thing is that he thinks the Necrons are on a path of evolution, and biotransference was just part of that evolutionary process.
He kind of has the same opinion as Orkan, I think, is that he wants to evolve the Necron race to beings of light and like godhood, basically.
So he's constantly trying to find the mysteries of life.
But since he himself is not alive, he will probably never find them.
Using the great technology that the Necron has, he can keep all of his subjects alive as he performs the most horrific surgeries and tests on them that you could ever think of.
He has no interest in dead things. He's trying to find the mysteries of life.
Theoretically, he's still making pariahs, which are a sort of retcons, not really, retcon Necron unit, where they would take blanks of other races, mostly humans,
and put them through biotransference to make these pariahs. It was kind of like their anti-psychers thing.
They were kind of like mini-Eversaur, that's not the right assassin. They were mini whatever assassins, the blank ones, but as Necrons.
So they were really cool units that are not really in the lore, but recently Zerath captured that kind of assassin. Is it an Emissaur assassin? Is that what they're called?
I can't remember. Is it the top of my head? Oh yeah, I think that's the sound. Emissaur is the crazy one. It's not a big deal. I should hurry it up.
Next, I'm talking about all of them, because they're all really cool characters, and we can go through quickly.
Anarkir, the Traveler, is another one of my favorites. Spoiler alert, all of the characters are my favorite.
He is one of the more noble Necrons. He's probably the most noble cause of all the Necrons, because he is currently traveling the galaxy with his Pyrrhen Eternals, his personal immortals.
He's going around waking up all the Necrons that he can, and he's trying to unite the dynasties once again.
He's from the Mephret dynasty, and his coolest thing is probably that he has some kind of strange power over machine spirits,
where he can just put his hand out and take control of a vehicle, and shoot with his guns.
On the tabletop, they kind of like, they kind of like, cuck to the ability, which is too bad.
It used to be that he could shoot with vehicles weapons, but now it's just the vehicle can't shoot, or it has minus one to hit. But whatever.
He's a fun character, and he's very unique. He kind of just goes off on his own, and does his own thing.
We talked about Trazen, the Collector, and Orkin, the Astromancer. Yeah.
And then the other on that topic, they have Cryptex, who are the kind of techno-sorcerer, mathematician wizards of the Necrons,
who are impossible to comprehend. They're kind of like the physicians of the Necrons.
They treat all the crazy symptoms of madness that they have, and try to fix them the best they can.
In the Twisted King book, the guy gives Ultics this weird technology that lets him live his memories.
Once he's lived them, they're gone forever, so he has to try to hold on to what he remembers of that memory.
And other crazy stuff like that, they can control time, like Orkin. They can... there's Plasmacy, there's Technomancy, there's Psychomancy.
There's a whole bunch of different things. They're kind of independent dudes who wander around the galaxy doing their own thing.
They're pretty cool. They also take care of tomb worlds, and keep their upkeep.
They are linked to every single organism, every single Cnoptic thing, and every single machine on the tomb world.
They can control all of it. So they're very important, and lords will generally suffer their goofiness to...
because they're just too important to keep around.
Suffer their goofiness.
Yeah, well they're all very eccentric and weird, as a techno-sorcerer wizard would be, unsurprisingly.
I'll briefly, very quickly go through the units, because I know it's like two hours in.
Lowest on the tree are the Warriors.
And some think that their wits were stripped from them so that they could be more easily controlled.
Others just think it was a byproduct of biotransference, because they were peasants, they were farmers.
Before, they had no war experiences, as I said.
Their consciousness does lay far beyond and beneath the surface, only enough to be in constant misery,
but not enough to realize that they're in constant misery.
Tough stuff.
The Immortals are a bit of a step up. They're tougher, they have better necrodermis.
They're semi-sentient shock troops, who kind of have glimmers of consciousness.
They spark up every once in a while, like the thrill of the kill, or a Warriors' pride type of thing.
And then Lich Guard are the bodyguards. They're fully sentient, for the most part.
They have eternal loyalty, because as command protocols go, they cannot be non-loyal anymore.
Which is pretty neat.
See, Death Marks, they're really cool. They're sentient hyperspace hunters.
They're part of the old assassin guilds. Geez, sorry.
And they can also go into their own little pocket dimension, where they can wait for as long as they want
to appear and snipe an enemy, and then leave again.
A lot of Lords don't use them though, because they go against the old codes of honor.
So, I guess half and half, because a lot of Lords are not so honorable anymore.
The Treyarch Praetorians I talked about earlier, they're the executioners and lawbringers, who are lots of fun.
And probably the most iconic Necron unit is the Monolith.
You awaken the Monolith, and you win your Dawn of War game, because it's OP.
But it takes three years, because I've hidden 50 bone stickers.
Spicy architecture!
Truly. The Monolith has a giant particle whip that comes out of this big old crystal on top.
And I'm trying to remember how particle, how it works, but it basically appears in the air.
It's just like this incredibly destructive beam of energy that...
It kills people real good.
It also has a wormhole in it, which is pretty fun.
On the tabletop it's surprisingly good in close combat, because it just sucks people into the wormhole.
Which goes back to the Tomb World, which is how legions of Necrons can be transported through this portal.
Or enemies can be transported back, then to be beat up by all the Necron warriors on the other side, waiting for them.
There's Doomsides and Nightsides that go almost like light speed.
They're not light speed, but they're faster than every other plane ship in the galaxy, other than probably Eldar stuff.
Doomsday Arcs are probably my favorite vehicle, besides the Monolith, they're also cool.
They have these apocalypse guns rigged up to them that fire battle-ending shots.
So you can win battles in single shots, they just have to be perfectly placed.
I think we've talked about enough.
We've talked about destroyers, there's lots of different types of destroyers.
There's Ophidians now, which are a mix of destroyer and flayer diseased units, which are neat.
There's not really any lore on them, it just says that they exist.
But yeah, I'd say that's enough Necrons for today.
That is the Necrons. Wow, that's quite extensive, isn't it?
Necrons!
That's cool.
Any closing thoughts, brothers?
Well, not so much a thought, but I think we can all acknowledge that I'm pretty Imperium heavy on my channel.
So I will be soon delving into Necron lore a bit more, because again, I don't know all that much apart from the basics.
So this was a good primer for me, and I hope for a lot of other viewers today who maybe aren't that familiar with the Necrons,
but will now have plenty of avenues to go, oh, that sounds really interesting, and then work on learning about particular characters.
Because it seems like there's only been, like, the last few years a groundswell of Necron lore,
whereas for a long time, it's just been, oh, just all spooky skeletons, and now they've got personality.
And you've had books like The Infinite and The Divine and the Silent King books.
It seems like recently they've been doing a good job of, like, slowly making them a bit more interesting in terms of characterization.
Any thoughts, Colin, as well?
I mean, a lot of what he said was a little bit of a repeat of what Andy said, but I find them definitely one of the more interesting factions in 40k,
both partially some bias creeping over from fantasy and that they're tomb kings in space.
But I like very much that they...not that they don't care about the other races of the galaxy, but how completely and utterly indifferent they are.
Like Abaddon, you know, he can make a big show of whatever his latest plan is, and the Imperium's gonna react with terror and hurried preparations.
And then the Necrons are gonna be like, oh, well, this, I guess, we'll just deal with this, I guess.
Yeah, we forgot to talk about that. The Necrons almost closed the Eye of Terror, I think.
They did. During the fall of Cadia, they nearly shut the thing down.
Isn't there like a...what is it?
Outflee Gothic.
Yeah.
And like an ending where they just like, if they won, they just close the rift and they move on.
They're like, done.
It also happens like instantly. Like they turn on a machine, five seconds go by, and more Eye of Terror.
And then they're like, and finished? That's off the list.
Oh wow, I forgot to talk about the Necron Death Star.
They made a Death Star called the World Engine that was literally just like exterminating planets left and right.
And so the astronauts in the last chapter had to sacrifice themselves to blow it up.
Very cool.
Just a brief mention on Necrons also interacting with Blackstone, which I think the Eldar do as well.
It's somewhat a polarizing material that can either be used to amplify or nullify psychic powers.
Necron's possibly made loads of artifacts with it throughout the galaxy, like the pylons, which could supposedly close up access from the warp.
So there's some cool shenanigans there.
Yeah, also the Trazin just like essentially helping to basically close, activate the pylons on Cadia that were buried under the ground,
and then almost succeeded in helping close the Eye of Terror.
But then Abaddon threw an entire ship at the planet.
He took the gigantic Beyblade at Cadia.
Anything else, boys?
Don't forget how Trazin released, also in Battlefield Gothic, a tyrannid swarm of a quite humorous extent onto the phalanx and ruined it.
It's a bit of a prank.
With that being said, though, thank you guys so much for listening and watching.
I want to see some big old comments on this one, because I think Eli deserves a lot of praise, doing so much research on this topic, because he cares a lot about Necron's, and he's done a fantastic job, I think.
So show some love for Eli here.
But with that being said, though, we do, you know, we appreciate the love and support and also that you watched.
If you made it this far, thank you so much.
And next time we actually will, there will be some talk of Necron's next time, because they make an appearance in the next subject for the podcast.
We'll be doing one on Mephiston, Lord of Death.
There'll be some, there's a Necron book, or one of his books is Necron Focus, so it'll be nice to have that.
Necron has some good things to say about the Elder in it. I know the dialogue, I know what he says.
Yes. So there'll be, we'll be doing, you know, good old Blood Angels and perhaps the most OP space marine currently alive in the setting, but still cool.
Not like, not cringe in a way, he's still really fun.
And we hope you all enjoyed, and we'll catch you on the next one. Peace.
Well, that's all about Knesset Kari, I suppose it's a disaster.
Thank you.