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A Necron Reading Guide
For anyone who wants to experience the wonders of Warhammer 40K's incredibly dramatic undead robots from space, here are basically all the published books/stories, ranked into tiers:
Must Read:
The Infinite & The Divine- You've already read this one. If not, your friends and family and the whole internet have recommended it to you. Go read it. A skeleton robot archaeologist throat-punches a dinosaur in like...chapter 2. This is worth your time.
Twice Dead King: Ruin & Reign- duology, so read both books. Wonderfully tragic, all the epic Greek poetry vibes, necrons who need therapy but will never get it. Bring tissues.
Severed- Somehow the most wholesome relationship in all of 40K, plus some fun lore, but mostly we are here for feelings. Also bring tissues but for happy tears this time.
Once you are done and need more (aka the good short stories):
War in the Museum- More of Trazyn being Trazyn, what more can you want?
The Bleeding Stars- See above.
The Word of the Silent King- Szarekh is a weird dude, but it's definitely fun watching him screw with some space marines
Once you really need a fix and realize there's basically nothing else:
The Lords of Borsis- fun scheming political short story, but it misses some of the little touches that make a necron story feel like necrons to me. Not the author's fault, pretty sure at that point GW didn't know the necrons' lore either.
The Devourer- decent little novella featuring Anrakyr the Traveler, but he has to share a lot of page time with some random Blood Angels and a cryptek who does not matter. Not the most compelling of the bunch, but there are worse ways to spend an afternoon.
Don't bother even once your get desperate:
The Everliving Legion- short story anthology. Has Word of the Silent King and Lords of Borsis, so you can get it for those, but the rest of the stories are just humans fighting necrons or being scared of necrons and that is not really what I'm after. Let my necron books be about necrons pls.
Indomitus- don't. Just don't. The book is bad, even by GW standards. They will never explain what the Pariah Nexus thing was about and I have given up hope of ever getting answers.
#wh40k#man that really isnt all that much#especially if you consider how many books on imperium are out there#still. basically none of this existed when i first got into 40k
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Concerning Necron engrams for those with personality, are they essentially a proper "copy" of the original brain/soul? All code and data compiled into a replica of who they used to be while the originals are long-destroyed (i.e. the guy from SOMA, he died years ago but a robot was built with an AI that's all his memories and personality)?
Or is it something else...?
It’s deliberately vague. At face value, it’s your aforementioned “proper copy”, but the writing about them has taken great pains to highlight that the process involved something more, was something more than that, and whatever it was managed to encode a lingering “self” within the Necrons in a way that is without technological comparison.
They don’t have souls like an organic species does, they don’t have a warp presence or reflection, but they have something that is part of their engrammic makeup that is immeasurably complex and extremely unique.
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im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities
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Do Necron Warriors have any semblance of sentience left in them? Are their minds simply locked behind powerful inhibitors or are they just irreparably wiped clean?
So, this is a cool question. Necron warriors are not supposed to retain anything in the way of real sentience. At all. The biotransferrence involved the effective digitisation and transition of Necrontyr consciousness onto engrams (basically fake brains) with the quality of engram and amount of personality and memory being retained coinciding with your position in society.
Nobles, Crypteks, Lychguard, Triarchs, and individuals with perceived importance or connection were usually given their full approximated suite of mental faculties and personality. Middling soldiery and servants (like Immortals) received a fittingly middling amount of engram quality. Basic soldiers, civilians and those without perceived merit were turned into warriors, their memories and personalities consumed forever.
At least, as I said above, this was the intent.
Necron engrams are one of (if not the most) advanced and complex pieces of technology in the entire setting. The complete and effective translation of the mind into data is unthinkably sophisticated, to the point that not even the Crypteks, the masters of physics and material science, fully understand how they work. It's not like the intelligence cores the Admech use, it's not like the AI the T'au construct. It is almost the synthesis and digitisation of the soul. It is properly fucking nuts.
So, are necron warriors supposed to be wiped clean? Yes, basically. Are they? Demonstrably no. Some will let out horrific screams when they're properly killed. Some will display tiny little ticks and flickers of personality or inkling. Most notably, warriors that become flayed ones have been known to target specific Necrons/people, as if holding unbound grudges or desires.
Between these events, and things like the destroyer virus and the assorted quirks and emotions that all Necrons can develop, it is abundantly clear that the full extent of the consciousness and wherewithal granted by engrams has exceeded function and intricacy beyond the comprehension of even the most gifted Crypteks.
Bit of a long answer, but I hope you found this helpful!
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It was not! Also rain world is pretty cool
Raise your hand if you'd much rather sit and think about sad robots than go to "work" and do your "job"
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First frame of a short animation rendered. Each frame is taking about 4 minutes. At about a minute runtime at 30 frames per second (interpolation later)... imma be a while lol
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it’s like every month there’s some shit from the us that’s like “congressman for iowa john hamburger has introduced the Put Everyone Into A Meat Grinder bill (s.911) & it’s about to get passed to the senate everyone call your reps now!!!” & it’s something that affects the entire world
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I just need everyone to know that I enjoy writing Necrons a *completely normal* amount. And I think about how to write them pretty much the average amount too. Just so we're clear.
But y'all I really like writing for Orikan (and not just because of the banter with Trazyn. That's only like 60% of why)
We went on a journey, him and I. Because I hated his robotic guts for easily 2/3rds of Infinite and the Divine...
In my defense, the scene of him shattering all those ancient ceramics enraged me! I've been going to museums since I could walk. I love art and history! I watch the Great Pottery Throwdown!! He did not start off from a sympathetic place.
But damn it, the bastard grew on me! He's obscenely competent, literally the best at what he does, but that doesn't change the fact that he's essentially a servant to more powerful people and that he is *profoundly lonely*
The thing about a lot of characters who think they are smarter than everyone around them is that they are wrong and usually have an arc about needing to be humbled. Orikan actually is smarter than everyone around him! He runs circles around farseers! He pulls time shenanigans that are considered *impossible* on a semi-regular basis. No one can truly compete with him (well, almost no one, put a pin in that).
Except that means he has no equal, no person he can really relate to, and he's painfully aware of that. Jokes about e-girlfriends aside, meeting Vishani was a dream come true, because she was actually someone Orikan respected, who respected him in return, and who he could talk to like a friend. He got that after waiting millions of years.
Except it was all a lie. The god that damned their people decided to ruin Orikan's day in particular in the most personal way possible.
It's a particularly cruel twist because not only are there no other Necrons for Orikan to consider an intellectual equal, there aren't any he can really TRUST. He warned every single one of them that biotransference would be a disaster and no one listened. Not only that, they forced him to give up his body and soul. He was dragged to the furnaces knowing what was going to happen to him, and it doesn't sound like he's gotten a whole lot of "mea culpas" from anyone.
So yeah, everyone's an idiot, their idiocy cost him his literal soul, and the one time he got the friend he craved it turned out to be an evil star god cosplaying his nerd-crush.
Which is a lot of angst to work with as a writer! And it is fun as hell. There's just one more ingredient that truly elevates this tragedy souffle. Time to take out the pin...
The pin is Trazyn. No one should be shocked by this.
Because the thing is, Orikan *does* have an equal, a counterpart, and someone he can...not trust per se, but at least understand. The only problem is that he does not realize it, because that person is Trazyn. Who Orikan hates. A lot.
Justifiably, to be fair. Trazyn is an asshole (loveable asshole, but still). But more relevantly, Trazyn represents a philosophy Orikan understandably cannot stand. Trazyn represents the past, memory, preservation. None of those things have served Orikan well. Necrontyr society kind of sucked (early deaths to cancer or dying in a war were about the only options). And that was before it fundamentally failed him specifically. Plus, preservation and stasis are anathema to what a chronomancer devotes themselves to being able to do. So yeah, Trazyn may be a genius in his field equal to Orikan, but Orikan does not respect that field, so he can never admit it.
Orikan embodies the "want vs need" principle of character writing. He wants a companion and an equal. He needs to accept that those will not come in the form he expects or even likes. He's nowhere near doing that and it's *deliciously tragic*
How can I not love this hyper-competent, lonely nerd with a tsundere streak and strong motivation to Burn Society to the Ground?
I've been rambling too long, I'm cutting myself off before I start going off about the relationship between Orikan and Imotekh which is admittedly based way less on canon (have they even been in a scene together ever?) and way more my own interpretation and extrapolation.
I'll probably talk about writing other characters too, I love these undead robot idiots to much to shut up
#wh40k#ive had a rant on orikans loneliness being a big part of his character in the back of my brain for some time now#but apparently it already exists in written form so now i dont have to do anything! hell yea#seriously tho big agree
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Vishani in action
The creature has been released.

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They gave me 8 stone bricks for some reason, so I built myself half a door
#sky#sky children of the light#thatskygame#the lack of a door. bothers me. your room is directly connected to the elevator#v
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Putting character tags on my shitposts because I'm vain now (trying to convince myself it's not a crime to want a couple more people to have their day brightened a little bit by a silly joke they saw online perhaps)
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"Average necron acquires 3 artifacts a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. Average necron acquires 0 artifacts per year. Trazyn, Overlord of Solemnace, Lord Archaeovist of the Prismatic Galleries, and He-Who-Is-Called-Infinite, who lives in a museum & acquires over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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4. When iterators were more connected, did your iterator like to socialize on public broadcasts? Or did they tend to keep to their own group?
Three Stars Above Clouds has no local group, and is very far from any other iterators. Despite this, their high altitude allows them to listen in on long range public broadcasts. They rarely contribute, however.
TSAC will happily discuss their research with other iterators, but views them as colleagues more than anything else. As global communications broke down and they lost contact with their distant peers, their isolation only became more apparent.
(TSAC's vibe is basically, "lonely grad student whose only form of socialization is the weekly research group meeting".)
(Also a note- the orange overseer belongs to TSAC- the orange of the overseer forms a triadic color scheme with the blue of their puppet and the green of their accents.)
(Original ask game)
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The upside of getting dragged back into wh40k is that after admech officially became a playable faction and necrons got a retcon there is so much transhumanist robot stuff for me to feast on
The downside is that my brainpower is very limited and I can only process it all Slowly
#p#i wanna learn whats up with zandrekh. and oltyx. and anrakyr. and cawl. and#<- this made me once again realize that admech dont have many prominent characters. rip
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