Adeptus Ridiculous - Necrons & The Silent King | Origins of Warhammer 40k

Episode Date: December 8, 2020

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but aside from that, I'm going to need a lot of help from lifelong fan Bricky. Be sure to follow us on Twitter at Adridiculous, and be sure to check out the website, adeptus ridiculous.com, to stay in tune when we go live and when these get uploaded. Bricky, you told me this was one of the most important events in Warhammer. Initially, I thought that you were going to be talking to be about the horse heresy,

because that's all anyone ever talks about when they're like, oh, dude, when you get into Warhammer, you need to start with the Horace heresy. That's it. Do that. What's the most important event that is not the Horace heresy?

Well, I'd argue that, oh yeah, also, hi, I'm Bricky. You know, D.K., you didn't shoot out your socials. So what you want to be like, I'm DK on DK, this, that, and the other thing because I'm Bricky on pretty much every social media platform there is. Listen, man, who,

I did the intro. I'll chill later. It's fine. All right. I like shilling. I'm stoked about this important event. I do wonder at what point do you have to say that you no longer know nothing about Warhammer? Like how many episodes in do we have to reach before we're like, you know, I know a little bit about Warhammer now. I feel like there is so much Warhammer stuff out there that it's going to take like a hundred episodes before I'm like, yeah, I kind of know a little bit.

There's a lot. There is a lot. But this topic, yes, a lot of people do think that the horse heresy is number one, a big, bad event. And it probably is the one you should look at if you're very new right into the whole universe. However, to say that it's the most important event in the universe would probably be wrong. Today, we are talking about the necrons and the necronteer and the war in heaven, most primarily. And a little bit of our big bad boy called the Silent King.

because he's a very important character and one of my favorites, and I do want to get on him a little bit after we discuss the necrons themselves. Because while a lot of people see the necrons as just one of the many Zenos races, like the tyrannage or the Eldar, they are probably one of, if not the most important race in the entire universe. Oh. So I remember last episode, you said you wanted to talk about the Silent King, and I was like, man, I know the Silent King is a Necron,

So surely, we got to get a little backstory on the Necrons, what they are, because the only thing I know about the Silent King is, I said this last time, but he rides a throne and it's powered by like an old god or something. Yep, he rides a Pimp throne and he's got an enslaved god as a battery. It is fantastic. Actually, I do have a little excerpt from the Codex in which I'm currently holding that I did want to read at one point. but we can get into that a little bit later because there is a lot to cover in this particular part of the Warhammer universe.

I'm curious when I should get going because this is like me opening up like a 300 page novel. Oh boy. That's, boy, that's a long history of the Necron's. It's a lot. They have a lot going on.

And the Necron is here. We're talking about the Necron Tier. Oh. Imagine Necron with a T-Y. at the end. Necron tier. Oh, I thought we were talking like a tier list, like T-I-E-R, like there's tiers of necrons. I was like, oh. Oh, that's what you. Oh, T-Y-R. That's genius. I want to get a Trays in the Infinite Man-Spreading tier list.

The top 20 Trays and the Infinite Man Spread Photoshop's. This is genius. Shy. Get on this. Yeah, tweet tweet that out immediately. Post-haste as soon as this goes up. We need to get a tier list. Oh my God. Okay. But I'm excited about this because like as far as minis go with the few that I've painted, I know that like Necron's are so popular and they're so cool. And I'm stoked to finally learn about them and why everybody loves them so much.

Yeah, I mean, they recently got a huge update, which is why they're very popular right now. They got a brand new codex just a few months ago. They got a whole bunch of new models. They kind of had the sister's treatment. where they got a nice, big range refresh. And especially now, they're kind of the main villains of this new chapter of the lore, in the Prya Nexus and all, the Indomitous Crusade is a big part of it. So they're kind of like the new main batty in this current era of Warhammer.

So with that being said, I think it is good to know exactly kind of where they came from. And so you can kind of have a little bit more of a conscious idea of what exactly happened to both their race. why are they robots? Why are they robot skeletons? And what's like why they have this Egyptian? Well, there's no real reason for the Egyptian theme besides Gw thought it would look cool. But it's why all those things? So the only reason you need is it looks cool.

I mean, it does look really cool. It's a whole bunch of, it's undead Egyptian robot skeletons. It's fantastic. And actually, before we do get into it, I do want to mention some of the old Necron lore. GW has this thing where they have lore for lots of different races But it's always the lore as written by X or Y other faction So a lot of the times they can say the records were incorrect It's actually this if they wanted to retcon something

Back of the day the Necrons were basically just Terminator rip-offs So much so that their special ability to come back from life known as reanimation protocols was called will be back Wow. It was super on the nose. I mean, that's very on the nose. That's like tau level on the nose. It is seriously, seriously obvious. And at the time, they were just unthinking, unfeeling robots that wanted to kill all life.

And that was kind of their lore. They don't know where they came from. They didn't know what's going on. It was just, yeah, they wouldn't kill everything. But now they've been fleshed out. Now they have different kinds of dynasties, similar to. how space marines have chapters and they have a whole thing.

So way back in the day, the Necron tier were a race of flesh and blood millions of years ago, about 60 million years ago, maybe even longer. So way back when Necron Teer's life was ass, they had super cancer. And basically what was that they lived on a horrible,

horrible planet in which a star constantly blasted their bios with radiation, and they lived short, brittle, painful lives of radiation sickness. And, you know, if you, have you ever seen Chernobyl? The TV show? Like, you know how bad radiation sickness is. Oh, yeah, it's no good. That's, mm-mm.

No, it's absolutely, absolutely horrible way to die. And so that was their life was short, like 20 to 40-year lifespans, give or take, or least assumed. because of just how terrible living on this planet was. And to the point we're creating like tombs and stuff just for the dead to only occasionally house the living was how they lived. And so for a while, there was another race around there. And that race was called the old ones,

which was what the Eldar called them. And the old ones were these kind of like, I think kind of like reptile things. If you played any StarCraft, they're like the Zelnaga, or if you played any Halo, they liked the forerunners, I suppose. Okay, okay. Big, extremely advanced beings with a huge knowledge of space travel and astrology. Astronomy.

Yeah, astronomy. Yeah. Astronauts is kind of like Aquarius and... They were Gemini. Mercury and retrograde and... They were a bunch of cancers. At least the necrons here were. So the old ones, they were practically.

like nigh immortal. These were, they were living the best lives that they could. And the necrons, or the necronteer ended up going out and finding these old ones because they eventually developed space travel to get away from their horrible planet. But why wouldn't you? I mean, Jesus sounds worse than the the creek planet we were talking about last time. Yes, Creek Planet was terrible. Yeah. This sounds worse like 20 years and you just like, and it's like, how do they even come up with space travel? You only 20 years. Like, how do you, Jesus Very slowly

Very slowly So their space travel Was very similar to how our space travel Would be in modern day They would have to go into like stasis pods And then take like Fucking forever to reach a new area As for that

They eventually came into contact With said old ones And the old ones were living You know their best lives And the Necrons were like damn old ones You guys Should teach us How to live

that life and how to be immortal. And the old ones were like, piss off. So naturally, you have this horribly terrible, radiation-stricken necront tier race looking at these nigh-like, almost godlike beings. And then this just festered this hatred, this deep, dark hatred of these old ones. And so these necrons, with their short lifespans, tended to fight each other. Because all the different, like, they like dynasties. They tended to kind of fight each other a little bit.

So eventually, after enough quarrels, they came together under one flag and went out to them and they said, fuck you old ones. And they started a war with them. Can you, I'll give you another ABC thing. Oh, boy. A, they won. B, they lost. C, both of them died. I can't imagine them winning.

I mean, they're this weak race of. super cancer-inflicted beings, and you're going to go up against a bunch of immortals living their best life that are super advanced. There's no way they win. They lose. They absolutely get bodied so much so that they are shoved into that same corner of the galaxy with their horrible super cancer sum, and they are basically trapped there, and the old ones consider them no more than a slight nuisance.

And so they lose hard. Now, the Necron. here discovered a different race. So way back when the galaxy was first formed, you know, essence of creation, created the warp, you know, just like the dawn of life, right? There were these other beings known as the Catan. The Catan are these star gods. They're basically beings of non-energy, so to speak, but they kind of consume energy from stars. They're not really like visible, they're kind of in between, and they're not like, they don't

necessarily live in the warp, but they're kind of this weird like in between. It's like an invisible force. Imagine like an alien that you can only see in like infrared or something like that. Kind of weird. So these Katan in particular were just kind of

chilling around and eventually the Necron discovered these katan. And naturally after this horrible war with the old ones and how they got absolutely dumpstered, they kind wanted to find a way to commune with these Khatom. Now, no one really knows how they were able to do it, but their main theory was the concept that since the Khatong were these kind of immaterial gods, they needed a physical material shell. So what they did was they created out of that kind of living

metal, they have this thing called living metal. It's kind of like metal that regrows itself. And they created these like statues and these sort of deities of said metal. And these deities have, said Khatan kind of like take over the statue. So it's almost like the essence of the star god entered the statue and gave them a physical form. And so now these star gods had their own, I wouldn't say flesh and blood, but they had this like necrodermis of a body. And they could commune with the necrons. Naturally the Khaton wanted to get the most they could out of the necrons tier. And the necrons here naturally wanted to form an alliance with.

these star gods. So there are a main thing called the triarch. The triarch is the real full-on leadership of the necrons. And the triarch, as the name sounds, tri is made of three people. Two of these lower-tier pharaons, and because the necrons kind of had a nobility system, they had like lords and overlords, and they had like a royal court and stuff like that. And then the final one was the silent king. Now this guy was known as the silent king because he wouldn't actually address the populace himself. He would address them through the other two parts of the triarch, the other two pharaohs. And if you actually look at the Silent King's model, he's got these like two little little dudes next to him, and that's the other two guys,

the current model. And so what happened was that the Caton, now in their new physical bodies, normally they hunger for stars, right? But now they hunger for, they hunger for, like, more of the material realm, a satiation of this kind of like this new gluttonous feeling, where they really want to consume either like different materials or particularly souls, the souls of people. Okay. So what happened is there was a caton known as the deceiver. Now, he's not the nicest of guys.

Really? His name's the deceiver and he's not a nice guy? No, not a whole lot Wow Wow So what happened Was that the seever came up to the silent king The silent king's name is Zerick by the way

And then he went to Zerick and he partitioned him And he said the Caton Way back when Had a war with the old ones as well And they lost the war And the Catan are super bitter about this Just like the Necrons hate the old ones And because of this

They had a burrower passion of vengeance against those terrible old ones. So they said this, go ahead and align with us and your entire population will become unified under one dynasty again and together they will drive the old ones away using their newfound material power. Because now these Katan, now that they have a material body, they are insanely powerful. They can unravel the fabric of reality. They can create black holes. They're incredibly frightening. I didn't realize how much extra strump they got from these.

Like, because I thought it was just like, oh yeah, now they can like they're visible. They can commune with you. They can commute. I didn't realize that they got like omega level more powerful. I was sitting here like, why the hell would two losers suddenly stand a chance against this, against this group that annihilated both of them? But yeah, if these new bodies. Bodies gave them that much power.

I can see how that would, yeah, I also, I don't see this ending well for the Necron tier. We'll see very soon. Yeah. So basically, what the Caton also offered was selling far more prized. It was the promise of full immortality to the Necron tier. The thing that they most wanted to get rid of their radiation-stricken bodies and to finally fully be actual. immortal. And that's pretty good, right?

Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good deal. Still a little worried about this guy called the deceiver. Yeah. I feel like this is going to be one of those monkey paw closes things. You know, you got a good, you got a good head on your shoulders, DK, because that's exactly what happened. So, the silent king in a wayward amount of ambition, eventually went and talked to his royal court and his pharons. And he asked,

hey, what should we do? Like, is this a good idea? Is this a good idea to ally? And it took him actually a full year. A man named Orican the diviner, who was the court astrologer,

was the only person who said no. He said that it would bring them into a renaissance of glory, but forever destroyed his people. But he's the only one who disagreed. Orican is also a guy who mess with the time a lot. So it's probably a good idea to believe him. But, alas, they did not. And eventually the Silent King, in his own need of ambition and his own want to get back at the old ones, he signed the contract with the Khatom.

And thus, the Necron tier immediately were dragged into damnation as gigantic, gigantic furnaces were created for them. And dragged in chains, the entire populace was brought. into these furnaces, into something called biotransference, in which their flesh and bone were ripped apart and replaced with fully metal bodies. However, unfortunately, they also lost something else. Their free will and their souls. And the Catan got fat. They got fucking fat on the soul.

of the necrons they chilled there as like millions of people strutted directly into biotransference and they ate all of the necrons here souls you know that demons and shit don't really care about the necrons because they don't have souls they don't have a presence in the warp necrons are a soulless robot race and most of them with the exception of the the high up nobility the overlords the lords the silent king are mindless brainless automaton that simply follow the command protocols

and the software writing that have been placed into their brain that are at the will of the silent king and the overlords themselves. They're a soulless automaton's now and they have no souls of any kind. Like, okay, I knew they were probably going to get

the raw end of this deal. I knew they probably weren't going to be super happy with this deal. I didn't realize we were talking about consume the soul, become a lifeless drone. Jesus, like getting hauled off into a furnace and getting your soul eaten. Although, I guess as soon as you said, like, oh boy, these guys really want to consume souls and they really, they're hungry. I guess the writing should have been on the wall for what this deal did. Well, you know, he is called a deceiver for a reason, but he was a very hungry man. They were all very hungry. Though that is, and so naturally no longer the necronteer, they are now the necrons and their new robot bodies.

It's pretty kind of interesting because when you look at the tabletop, a necrone warrior, the air basic troop, was technically like a civilian. He was just a guy who got dragged into the biotransference and now has been told to wield a gun and has programming chips in his brain. Well, his lack of brain. Yeah. It's kind of fucked. The Silent King, however, he got some, he got,

like, top, he got a fucking Gucci shit, all right, he has a Supreme sticker slapped to the side of his goddamn, his goddamn rig. His stuff is like, a whole thing,

snapback, hype beast shit, all right, he's, he looks like fucking, like Jake Paul. All right, he's a god,

he's got, he's got merchandising all over, all right? It's like, you know, like the NASCAR drivers where they just wear advertisements? Oh,

yeah, their whole outfit is just just stickers of advertisers, yep. He looks like Will Ferrell and Taledega Nights. It's perfect. No, but his actually, his body, is actually kind of cool.

He's not like a magnus-sized dude. He's just kind of a bigger necron. He's like a foot to two feet taller. And his, but however, his actual body is super advanced. He's very, very impressive. It's like perfect artifice. His memory is very, very good. His mind is clean.

but he has this feeling of hollowness in him and that is because he has no soul anymore I was going to say there's nothing in there so what happened now as he he kept his mind like a lot of the nobles did as well but he literally got to sit there and watch his entire people because of his like go-getter nature to want to

get all of his guys to get all set up and get on the old ones He used to sit there and watch his entire race get consumed by this Caton. Oh, man. And he's got a super good memory, so no forgetting that picture. Not at all. So with that, and with the Caton just like fucking fat, chunky fucking boys, they are super powerful now. And so they went to the old ones, and they wrecked base.

They supernova stars. they sent black holes to kill systems. They unraveled the reality of time and space itself. You know, they would take like a ship and they would like duplicate the ship from five seconds ago. So the ship would like overlap in multiple areas of said ship and just implode on itself. Whoa.

Like, Jesus. They were super fucking strong. It was insane. It was Christ. So, and then this was known as the, war in heaven. This was centuries, millennia, longer of a war

where the Caton took all the necrons as their new slaves and they used all the necron's powers to just go and just body, just body the old ones. Like, oh my God.

It was constant. Planets were like raised, completely turned to ash. It was disgusting. It's disgusting. I mean, I guess it's literally a war between, like, gods or godtier, like, things, right? Pretty much, it's a war between gods, they're robot slaves, against basically gods. It's pretty ridiculous. Now, good old old ones, these, this as a race, were psychers.

You know what psychers, right? Yeah, yeah, they have psychic powers, they're, you know. Yeah, you know, pseudo- Jedi, sure. So they as well, because the old ones were actually not that bad of people, they were kind of raising up other races and kind of teaching them psychic powers to kind of be like, hey, they like to foster life. They believe life is precious, you know? And so they were able to kind of get some new people kind of growing up there,

some more psychic people around the world. And one of these were the Eldar. You know the LDAR, the space cells. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, the orcs were one of them as well. Oh, really? Well, back in the day, back of the day, they were known as the quarks. They were way scarier and way stronger and intelligent.

The reason they're not any... That's got to be a different episode, right? Because they're already real scary and they're already really fucked up. You're telling me they were more scary? The quarks were far, far more powerful and far smarter. and stronger. The problem is that eventually after like millions of years of just infighting, they eventually became stupid.

But if you've ever wondered why orcs have like a psychic power, their power of belief, it's probably because they got it because the old ones gave them like the psychic ability or helped raise them that ability. That makes sense. Okay. I'm learning. It's coming together, right?

It's coming together. The pieces are fitting in. That being, I will say I have a feeling that there's going to be a couple like actually people that will watch this. I'm sorry, I'm doing my best man. There's a lot going on here, but I think I'm on point so far. I think I'm doing okay.

I might have got a couple stuff slightly wrong, but so far I feel like I'm solid. As time continues and as the giant war began to rage, the old ones had the Webway. Are you familiar with the Webway? Do we talk about the Webway last time? I don't think we did. Okay.

I've heard the Webway used before but never really explained. Okay, so the Webway, FTL travel involves going into the warp and coming out of the warp, which is why it's super dangerous. The Webway is like taking a really nice back alley with a guard. It's way, way safer and much easier to work with. And that's kind of how the old ones were able to live for so long as they were able to kind of outmaneuver using this Webway and just basically cross into different areas of the galaxy in like a blink of an eye.

it's super handy but eventually the Necron's found it and they entered it and they started murdering more and killing off more and this actually leads into probably one of the more important stuff

and something that was a little bit contentious before which was actually the creation of chaos so the warp and the imiterium was always there right it was always a thing but eventually due to the insane amount of psychic

prowess the old ones not only had but gave to other people those subservian races were sent to like bro we're dying we're dying go kill them get the Catan get the Star please stop them it didn't stop them

the Katan fucking murdered them and this just vast amount of psychic energy being just extinguished and raised and all this pain and death there were little parts of chaos in the warp because the warp is like everything right

it's your emotion it's your belief it's your mind your soul there is a realm in the warp known as the realm of chaos it's a part of the warp and because of that because of this vast amount of pain and suffering that realm just bloated

it became so much larger and more powerful at least three of them the realm of corn Zinchennergel for rot, trickery, and war, right? And so when a lot of people think of chaos, they think of just the

warp in general, in reality, it was only at some part, a very tiny part of the warp. But because of the war in heaven, that's why the warp is so related with chaos, because they've taken over such a giant majority of it. And that's why chaos is so frightening and so prevalent.

Right. Well, I mean, I guess a millennial long war between gods will do that, won't it? Well, not only that, but like Geneva's suggestion, man. They genocided like hundreds of species. Oh. And then they ate their souls. That's fair. Why wouldn't they? I mean, it was going to make them stronger. Sure. Sure, yeah. I'm still hungry.

So after enough time and after all this kind of went and it came and went, the old ones, either fled the Milky Way or were completely extinguished. There's a good chance that they were generally completely obliterated and genocided. So old ones do not

remain. They are gone, gone. And with that, the Necrons and the Caton were just mainly the Catan, were just so fat on all the souls they just ate. And after long, very hard-fought victory, they kind of started to you know, kind of fight each other a little bit

because naturally the winners with the Apex Prideers kind of beat each other a tad. But during this whole time, Zerick was just kind of sitting there, like biting his time, kind of kind of putting, petting his James Bond cat.

And he was just waiting. And finally, at the last stage of the old one's defeat, he took his entire Necron army and led a huge revolt against the Caton. and that is the biggest part was the silent king's betrayal so he with the command of his necrone forces wielded the exact same energies

and destructive power that the katon themselves wield him and immediately revolted against their gods and it was a bloody war it was a really bloody war but the main question is well DK how do you kill a god I'm not exactly sure other than like

some mystical god kill weapon or they take away their bodies or they do some reprogramming shit I like how do you how do indeed you fight a god? I mean it's Warhammer so of course you're going to be able to kill a god because duh but I

don't know how you how you turn on a god so that's the best part is that you don't kill a god this is the one time Warhammer had an ounce of subtlety and then they come and then they completely botch it immediately afterwards so

you can't kill a god so but what you can do is you can damage them to such an extent that they shatter their own psyche and essence shatters in the thousands of tiny little fragments and those fragments they then enslaved they took all of those fragments and they put them in giant vaults and enslaved them and kept them in basically eternal stasis chambers so in the lore and in the tabletop, whenever you field a katon, because you can actually use katan in gameplay.

They're actual models. You can run. And if you look at their actual names, they're not called just the katon. They're called Katan shard of the Nightbringer, of the Void Dragon, even of the deceiver.

You can actually feel the deceiver in game. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah. And they're really, really strong. But that's being said, these are some of the most powerful units in the entire codex. And they are one of the thousands of

shards that you can actually field in game. So they've literally blasted gods into pieces and pokeyballed them. And now they use them in their battles because they can. And they power his throne.

His throne is one of the shards. It's crazy because we were talking about it And I was like, oh, yeah, you know, I know that there's a god that powers a throat. I thought that was going to be like one of the old ones that they just like, ha, ha, old one, we got you. Now you're going to just power my throne because we got you, revenge, succeeded, monument. Oh, God, I didn't realize it was one of the Catan. Yeah, there's a ton of ways you can feel the Caton.

But actually humorously enough, when the Silent King dies in the tabletop, there is a particular special rule called vengeance of the unchained, where the God brings. breaks free and it does like a giant explosion. It's pretty great. Also, so in the tabletop, would you want the Silent King to die like surrounded by a bunch of units? Like, could you just kamikaze

the Silent King into like... D.K., you're loaded how to play Warhammer. I'm proud of you. That is correct. So the Silent King fucks in melee and shooting, but it's pretty good to head him up because there's actually a special ability you can spend points for

to make him automatically explode. And yes, it's very good. I think it's called Vengeance of the Ferron. And yeah, it's, Necrons have pretty good naming sequences as well. They have pretty badass names. I like it. I like it a lot.

I'm liking these Necron more and more. The more I'm getting behind them. So, with this revolt, they shattered them into shards. And they're pretty reeling from this war, though. And with that, the Silent King realized the Necron's life, He looks at his entire people, right? He looks at these soulless automaton of his whole race that he basically doomed.

And he thinks, he realizes the time of the Necron is over. Zerick realized that soon the Eldar would inherit the mantle of the galaxy. Right. It's their time next. But he realized that soon, like the old ones, their time will also fall. And eventually it will take a while, but eventually them and the orcs will come

and then they will go. And he will be there for when they go. So that began the great sleep. All the necrons went into these colossal tomb worlds and they all went to rest to bide their time and wait for the passing of the millennia. Except for him. He did not go to bed.

He stayed awake. And he chose to go out into the intergalactic void between galaxies and stay there in order to have a bit of pedance for what he had done. Ah. So with that much like pain for consigning his race into oblivium, he stayed awake over in the dark reaches between galaxies. For 60 million years, he stayed awake. He did not go to bed. 60 million years he sat there in penance for what he had done

60 million years and this is the part where I wanted to read that one thing because I really like this part of the of the codex it's one my favorite bits of lore because the coax has a lot of lore and this one in particular I think is really really interesting here it is my internet goes out for 15 minutes and I'm like, this is hell. And he's sitting there for 60 million years in darkness.

Jesus. All right. This might seem like three or four minutes to read, but I'm going to do it. All right. It's a story time with Bricky. Rock on, Brickie. Few beings in the galaxy possess the might, wisdom, and sweeping visions of Zerick, last of the silent kings.

During the nightmarish transition of biotransference, it was Zerick who emerged with the most powerful and advanced. of all the bodies gifted to the newly fashioned necrone race. His neurological and sensory architecture, while wholly synthetic, is more advanced and precise than anything flesh and blood could emulate. His powerful android form is mechanical perfection on a level that no sente being now alive could replicate.

Smooth and graceful in its every motion, irresistible in its strength, and regal and intimidating in its magnificent presence. Neither mental nor physical ailments can ever afflict the silent king. His mind remains more wholly his own than any amongst his people, forever he was their ruler, and did not endure the perils of the great sleep or subsequent revivocation that have driven so many necrons mad.

That was actually a part of it, is that during the great sleep, a lot of their minds and shit got fucked up, and so they woke up, they're even more, like, mentally damaged and their bodies are more like fragile and kind of fucked up. Oh, God. For all of this, Zerick suffers, as he has suffered ever since he realized the purgatory to which he consigned his people. Millennia have heaped upon millennia, and still, the Silent King's guilt remains as jagged and bitter within him as once it was.

His sorrow and horror have been preserved by his mechanized mind as perfectly as has every single memory, thought, and feeling, Zerick has experienced since the day of his biotransference. It can be said with certainty that such an impossible burden as this would have driven even the most resilient of living beings to madness and self-destruction eons ago. Zerick, though, is not truly living, and his torments have not destroyed him.

Instead, they have honed him into a being of horrifying and singular determination. The Silent King has a place. for his people and for the galaxy. And he knows that he is righteous with his inescapable, unwavering certainty of a god of a machine. Zerick's will is a star erupting in supernova, a comet colliding with a doomed whirl. He is as inevitable as time and tide. The silent king seeks nothing less than final atonement for the fate to which he consigned his race,

and none shall be permitted to stand in his way. he is like my favorite characters in the whole lore I fucking love this dude that is a hell of a like that is GW's got good writing their writing is bad that's

that's I look I only use this word when I really mean it that's epic dude like that's an epic gamer moment man that's badass that's an epic gamer moment that's a pog right there dude oh no no

No. Shy cut it. Cut it, please. If you're going to go epic gamer moment on me. She told me we're fired. Damn it. We only got one episode. Damn it. But anyway, I was reading that and I was like, that man has a perfect recollection of 60 million years of memory.

Bro, if I had a perfect recollection of the shit I texted girls when I was 14, bro, I would have ended it a while ago, man. No fucking way. Fuck that shit. This machine is more of a man than I'll ever be. Oh, absolutely. I think we all are like, man, if I could remember everything I've ever done and every mistake I've ever made. No, no freaking way.

Nope, I am signing off. Goodbye. God, but that's, boy, the silent team is a boss, though. such a boss. That's basically the lore of the necrons. They have now finally reawoken from their great sleep because the Imperium and stuff kind of pokes their little tomb worlds and now they're all rising back up. Some of them really aren't the same. Time is taking its toll.

The necrons themselves are, some of them are even more hollow, some of their weaponry and stuff. Like they can't supernova stars anymore. They don't only have that ability of like unraveling reality besides like a couple of the Catan Shards and even then only to an extent it's they're certainly not the people

that they originally were that being said they're back the Silent King has returned not because of them awakening but because when he was out in deep space he found the Tyranids and the Tyrannids came from a different galaxy

and he saw them passing by and he was like oh fuck and so ironically it's actually the real reason um the silent king's goal is actually to get his people back into flesh bodies again uh that makes sense sure because he's so his memory is like oh my god what have i done i shouldn't have done that i killed everybody everybody's the hollow robot yeah that makes sense as to why he would want to do that yeah and so to him he sees that goal and then he sees the great tyranny deval powerer coming to his play and he's like either I turn them back and I am immediately am consumed by the tyrannids or I'll have no one left to turn back and

so he's quite fearful of the tyrannins so that's why he's generally like oh crap I got I got to be really I got to be really careful about this the fact that him and his race that destroyed gods is like ah bugs it's spooky yeah exactly yeah they're serious and the necrons they generally have this feeling of of hatred and they kind of have like an old man get off my lawn feel. So then they look around and they're like primitives in my galaxy. Like this is mine. How fucking dare you?

They look at humans with just like this such disgust. They look like humans as we look like to fucking lizards. Like what are you or like a rat on your property? Like get out of here. Shoot. Except the broom they hit them with is like a, it's like a goss cannon. Oh That's a hell of a broom

It's quite interesting Now I'm just picturing like a necrown house So I just like shoe human shoe and just gouse canning it It's a metal necrone with a blonde wig An apron on It's just a gouscanon, just shoe human shoe boom Oh god The necrone Karen

Oh dear But that's Yeah that's the necrons They're, it's pretty big, you know, the, why chaos is so, so big, um, why the Eldar are a thing, why the, the orcs are a thing. Um, you know, their, their return, the silent king in his own right is, is quite a guy. Uh, yeah, quite a guy indeed. Jeez. Now, now, now I know why everyone's such a big fan of the Necrons and, and, and why everybody likes the unit so much and, and, and why they're so hyped up. I mean, aside from, like, um, the Imperium,

It seems like the next popular, most popular faction has got to be the Negrons. Like, I see everybody painting Necrons. And, oh, boy, what a fucked up history. Like, Jesus. Yeah, it's kind of cool because you don't really get a whole lot of like, I don't know, in a, in a universe that's so, so full of like stalwart people, right? Like, if you're in the Imperium, you have to be religiously zealotous. You need to be so devoutful and faithful or the Mechanicus.

you know, they're insane. But it's kind of nice to have a character that feels guilty. Yeah, he's flawed. I mean, he's in a perfect body, but like he's flawed. He feels guilt. He feels remorse. He, you know, he's regretful of what he did to his people. Yeah, it's super cool to have not only a character that has that feeling, but more primarily

to have them also not overly bombastic. Because the character is a playable. character on the tabletop and he's very expensive points wise and I guess money wise that's just his workshop um but comparatively to many of the other characters like Magnus the Red

or Mortarium he's not this gigantic beat stick you know he's not just this giant demon primark he's a big necrum with some other dudes and he's just kind of a big necron and it's

like a big cyborg yeah but it's cool that he's like a leader. You know, he's he's not necessarily the guy who runs up there and like headbutts a tank, right? He's just a, he's just a smart leader as opposed to being a huge beatstick. And I think it's really cool to have that, you know, it's, it's cool to see the guy being represented as just the leader of the Necron race, not Ungabunga Migo Smash, you know. Sounds like an orc episode To me, unga-bongamigos man I would

I'm very happy for an orc episode The moment we get into that one A lot of times people consider The necrons to Some people consider them being good guys They're not They would gladly exterminate All Life if they could

And leave the galaxy to themselves And the Silent King is still Kind of that way He actually doesn't want to kill all life I think he particularly has a little bit of affinity for, you know, other kinds of life, but he particularly just doesn't want

them all to die. He's more on the lines of like, the problem is that all the other necrons do want that. And so he's like, ah, like he makes like forced labor camps and shit. Which is bad, but to him it's like, ah, don't

kill them all. Just have them do our bidding, which is in its own right, stupid because they have like robots that can do anything. they want that don't need to eat sleep or anything, but that's kind of like his way of, yeah, I don't kill them all, you know, let's let's be a little more careful. Yeah, he'd rather have them enslaved than just, you know, genocided. Yeah.

So it's so twisted way, it's, I was going to say it's doing people a favor, but I was like, eh. Yeah. If we compare him to most Warhammer people, he's all right. He's okay. Necron's themselves. In the Warhammer universe, he's not that bad. I haven't talked much about the necrons, like their units or their destroyer cults or a whole lot of the named characters, minus the Silent King.

But I think we can definitely set up a second episode or something for that because learning more about destroyer cults and old man Nemesor Zandrek or something, I think would be really fun for a different episode. But for now, it's a lot to cover, and I most definitely took the short route on a couple of them. but I think I mostly got a solid a solid amount of details on the Necron tier biotransference and the Catan I hope you enjoyed it and hope you learned

something I know I did boy it's a lot to take in yeah it is it's a lot I imagine there are going to be a lot of big factions in Warhammer that are probably going to take multiple episodes

but boy we we learned a lot today. I mean, we started out with a race that was, you know, they had a 20 year lifespan, they had super cancer, and they were just totally fucked, tried to fight some old ones, that didn't work out, made living metal bodies, partnered up with other super gods, killed other super gods, their race gets absolutely dunked on. I mean, it's just, ho, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's it's, it's it's, It's been a lot.

And I, boy, Warhammer never ceases to amaze me with just how insane it can get. Absolutely. Absolutely. And this is easily one of the more insane versions. So I'm glad we were able to cover this one early on because it does set the stage for some other stuff in the future. All right. So thank you very much for watching the second episode of the podcast. Naturally, there's going to be a couple of growing pains as time goes on and a little bit more

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