The Necrons are the Warhammers Undead race like in traditional fantasy but because its Warhammer they mixed them with terminators and threw in Egyptian mythology and out came a wholly original alien species. The mythos is well crafted and a ton of fun and the protagonist in this book is well written and you care for him and want him to succeed. That's right you care for an undead terminator with multiple personalities if that is not enough to make you realize this was well written I'm not sure what is. lo que me gusta de Warhammer es lo impredecible de la trama, y en ese particular esta entrega no decepciona. La historia tiene unos giros impresionantes. Pero me sorprendió también encontrar ciertos mensajes ocultos en la lectura relativos al resentimiento, el ostracismo, y la soledad. Así que será una buena lectura para el que sólo quiere acción o para el que le gusta encontrar un poco de reflexión en lo que lee.

For the best viewing experience, we recommend using old reddit version - https://old.reddit.com/r/40kLore/ The necrons have no facial expressions or inflections of voice, so instead they found more technological ways to express emotional nuance in their new bodies: through the intensity of their core-fluxes, their ocular flaring, discharge node patterns, vocal buzz-tones, actuator signals, and the glyph-signifiers (e.g. a glyph for earnestness or hostility - essentially emojis!) and interstitial codes appended to their communication relays. Bad writing, and stupid characters, combined with ideas already touched upon multiple times in the existing lore and other the novel (Infitinte and the Devine). Amazing fiction that got it all: A catching adventure of the most sophisticated undead, spiced up with occasional horror, sudden humor and unexpected moments of all too humane emotion. As Oltyx dreams about vengeance and reclaiming his birthright, he finds himself facing an immense threat that could spell the doom of his dynasty and the entire Necron race. The invading Orks are only the precursor of a larger and much more powerful enemy, one his small force has no chance of defeating. With no other option, Oltyx is forced to return to his dynasty’s crownworld and beg for reinforcements from the court who cast him out. However, his return uncovers something far more disturbing than he could have ever imagined. A twisted horror now lies within the heart of Oltyx’s dynasty, bringing only madness and bloodshed with it. To ensure his people’s survival, Oltyx must face the curse of the Necrons and the pure horror of a twice-dead king.Everything I said about the first one applies here. Tie-in genre fiction shouldn't be this good at body horror, the experience of not living up to your potential, and mental illness. If you think this book might be a slightly greater challenge to read than the average SFF book, I’d agree. Expect to see many mentions of things like memetic and executive buffers, interstitial appendices, evocatory mediums, khets and decans, heka and pattern ataxia, crypteks and canopteks, core-fluxes, dysphorakh (I love the meaning of this one when it’s explored in-text), engrammancers, kynazhs and phaerons and nemesors and nomarchs (all high-ranking positions) . . . I think the book could perhaps have benefitted from a glossary. There were a bunch of words I had to look up – and most of these weren’t specifically 40k words at all, but just words and terms I wasn’t familiar with, often combined with words inspired by Ancient Egyptian language and culture.

That’s just the beginning. “Our protagonist eventually realises the Ork horde assailing him is not an invasion force but an exodus, driven ahead of an even more cataclysmic threat.” Intriguing new author Nate Crowley presents one of the most complex and fascinating Warhammer 40,000 novels I had the pleasure of reading, The Twice-Dead King: Ruin, an epic and thrilling novel that explores one of the most intriguing races in the canon, the Necrons. At times it felt like Crowley was trying to do a bit too much with what he had, given that he was also trying to appease the normal WH40K audience who probably just turned up to read about pseudo-Egyptian alien robots zapping their way through humans & Orks. Portions of this novel legitimately reminded of a fusion of "Rashomon" and "The Remains of the Day," and I'm still just processing that experience. Again, because it was in a novel about pseduo-Egyptian alien robots at war with Space Orks. But far be it from me to fault someone for ambition. I'm at least intrigued enough to look into the second novel in the series. Oltyx makes blunders: he kills his closest advisors and is cruel when he doesn't need to be. He, as mentioned, makes no plans and has no long-term goals. But, as a reader (listener since I had the audiobook), I didn't feel like this was wholly his fault. The narration is so close to him and focused on the desparation to survive another day that his faults are not fully laid bare to the reader. Instead of seeing the slow decay, until the very end of the book, I kept wondering "oh ho, how will Oltyx escape *this* scrape". But then the numbers in his control dwindle down to nothing and he is broken in both mind and body. It was only at this point that I realized I had not been reading a space romp but instead the tragedy showcasing the slow destruction of a people due to the hubris of their leader.For being the 2nd Necron book I've ever read, the 1st being The Infinite and the Divine, I have to say this is right on with the other in being amazing and well written. I was genuinely surprised with how good it was. don't get me wrong, it is not that I expected it to be bad, but Nate Crowley elevated the setting, characters to that illustrious four star level of quality. As I have mentioned before when commenting on the necrons as characters, it is easy to write them badly. As either malfunctioning AI or as individuals who just happened to inhabit metallic bodies controlled

But the ending sparks some questions, it's seems to heavily imply that Olytyx and Valgûl, the Fallen Lord are similar / the same person.The Twice-Dead King comes hot on the heels of another inspired take on the 'tomb kings in space' that we've been gifted with lately, Robert Rath's fan-favorite 'The Infinite and the Divine'. I'd be hard pressed to decide upon a favorite between the two, and I do feel that despite contrasting in their respective focus on comedy and tragedy, both authors approach the necrons from the same root and are in touch with all of their epic, entertaining, absurd, tragic and horrifying aspects. But also a treatise on the long term effects of trauma and how no matter how far you run you eventually have to own up to it - including interest accrued in the interim. After biotransference there was this whole thing called the War in Heaven, fought by the necrons and C’tan against their archnemeses, the Old Ones (powerful beings responsible for seeding new life in the galaxy, including eldar, orks and yes humans too). The Old Ones were defeated, the necrons overthrew their string-pullers the C’tan as well, and then – because the loss of life from this unimaginably cosmic war was incalculable, the necrons decided to . . . well, go to sleep for a while in their tomb worlds, to recover and let other conflicts of the galaxy go on without them. And by a while I mean sixty million years. neither matter, nor energy, but information: they cast hekatic decrees, written in the basal language of reality itself, which command the molecules of their targets not only to dissolve their bonds, but to tear each other apart. The characters are all interesting and most of them see a nice amount of development, the main character especially. Maybe it’s a little cliche, but it’s also maybe the most heartfelt story arc of any BL character, which is a little ironic considering Necrons don’t have souls or feelings.