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Djoseras' special Immortals from Twice Dead King; each soldier covered in etchings that were supposed to tell their story before the biotransference. Meticulously kept and clean with no battle scarring.

Commissioned by @ WarpstoneAddict

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Djoseras, prior to biotransference: The highest good present in Ithakas is the legacy of Ithakas itself. Necrontyr lives are impermanent and fragile, but the stones that enshrine our legacy are not. No individual life is more important than those stones, not the common people, not any noble, not even royals such as you or I or the king. Death comes for everyone equally, young or old, lowborn or highborn, slave or dynast; we would do best to make use of the inevitable to prioritize the dynasty's integrity above all else. All can and must be sacrificed to ensure its permanence, including our royal selves, if we must

Djoseras, after locking himself in 'the dynast is the dynasty' logic:

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Idk if this is going to be long enough to count as a shipping manifesto (a minifesto) but as much as I joke that Yenekh is waaaaaaay out of Oltyx's league (because he is) they really do complement each other so well. Yenekh is a key emotional core of Oltyx's story, yes. But the reverse is also true. Yenekh is brilliant and deadly and optimistic and all the things, but he needs someone to believe in. He needs a cause, he needs a king. He's the moon, bright and silver, but he goes dark without a source of light to reflect.

And Oltyx believes in Yenekh, even when Yenekh is at his lowest. The moment with the warboss is sweet and hilarious. It really does show Oltyx's emotional immaturity that his reaction to his friend's is suffering is "here, beat this thing to a pulp, that always helps me feel better!" But the text oozes with his admiration for Yenekh. Even after he finds out about the curse, he still puts Yenekh in charge of Sedh while he's gone. They grow more distant as Oltyx grows more and more repressed and Yenekh represses himself in turn. Hiding what he is becoming, lying about the blood pit, etc. The darkest moment of Yenekh's story is his exile, not because he's physically trapped (he's not) but because he is alone. He is waiting for the sun to return.

And then they come back together with a moment of profound forgiveness. Yenekh pledges himself to Oltyx. Oltyx embraces his faith in the first amongst his subjects. He gives Yenekh the honor of leading the charge, ending their trials, and Yenekh gets to be the person Oltyx believed he was way back at the beginning of Ruin.

And then everyone clapped because everyone knows they are perfect together and they need each other and they are married sorry that's just what happens it's canon. The end.

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Infinite and the Divine: me and my nemesis are being forced to go on vacation together?!!? And we’re both boys??!?????

Twice-Dead King: Dysphoria is like a predator hunting you from beneath the thinnest sheet of ice, and when you crack the surface with a mere misstep, it will catch you. It will eat you alive and drag you under until you are forever lost in the depths

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i want draw necrontyr

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kitty and ouppy oltyx/yenekh + flayer trazyns i did during class today. i havent been able to draw anything polished in a year but at least the style im currently limited to lends itself really nicely for drawing necrons, flayers especially

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epic rap battles of history trazyn the incontinent vs methhead'ran the deceiver (feat. onii-chan the diviner)

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I think what makes Trazyn exceptional is that he actually talks to his retainers, like actually converses with them, no matter what the stakes are. I don't mean that as a part of solving problems or giving orders. He just genuinely seems to like talking to the people around him, and as a result, what we know about the people around him develops naturally.

Sannet. Ashkut. Huntmaster, who as a deathmark should probably not have a place of honour among necron nobility, but whom Trazyn trusts with his Empathic Obliterator (see: The Bleeding Stars). His crypteks all have names and their two cents to add to the Timesplinter Cloak discussion, and it seems they all feel relatively comfortable bullshitting with one another (see: Sannet vs. Trazyn, Tekk-Nev). Koloma, the human assistant. Since necron rulers aren't normally obliged to hear their inferiors' opinions about anything, Trazyn and his court stand out - you wouldn't think Solemnace ran on a skeleton crew, since even their brief conversations add to the richness of the setting.

And I can't stress that part enough: no matter what the stakes are. We have Trazyn's conversations from just about every context, from slice-of-life moments to active godmurdering. Compare to Oltyx, for example, who's never in a low-stakes situation; in every chapter he's fighting for something greater than himself, and that struggle's reflected in every conversation he has with his people. These conversations are some of the most philosophical discussions in necron lit, but they're not really casual. Members of Oltyx's court are threads in a tapestry, and we follow them closely as Oltyx's epic unfolds, watching them unravel or grow stronger in the process.

They are a necessity and a tragedy. Trazyn's retainers are low-key, but sparkle organically nonetheless, because he pats people's backs in reassurance, thinks about wine, and asks about the significance of the pentatonic scale. The little things are important! They are what makes life familiar! Not at all common a necron should care about this, save for perhaps Zahndrekh - not that his court appreciates it, outside of Obyron, and even Obyron tires of it sometimes.

Which brings us, too, to the matter of Orikan! The Infinite and the Divine could be divided into two halves, the first being T/O's conflict and the second their co-operation, and the latter is marked by when Trazyn starts talking about those things with Orikan. I don't think Orikan finds those topics fulfilling, but he is certainly affected by Trazyn's willingness to talk to him, and their discussion that follows at the opera is the existential highlight of the novel.

And it was a positive change, even if it didn't iron out their differences. Orikan realized solitude did not serve him well. He went from having Vishani's voice (plus a plasmancer ally he didn't care for) to taking down a god with his rival wielding a galaxy-wide variety of armies. Don't reckon that would have come about if Trazyn had been nothing but sullen and silent all that time, or if he'd not tried to speak to Orikan of the little things that were important to him. Caffeine. Puppetry. Labour rights. That kind of thing.

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Dude was so real for this, ngl