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and today I want to talk about a recent development in the Warhammer 40K lore that I think
missed the Mark I think Games Workshop may have royally screwed up the necrons keyword royally
the re-emergence of the necrons king his their god king cesaric the silent King it's very cool
it's very cool to see cesara come back but first I want to get into why what games are Chef was
doing that was working really really well because that's important to know when I get when I really
dig into the necrons a little bit so the net the Games Workshop has been working on making outcasts
for each faction they did a great job with the Tau The farsight Enclave have rejected the rule of the
ethereals and they have moved away from classical Tau society and they have forged a path on their
own they are they're taking their lives into their own hands they're forging their own path they're
forging their own narrative and it's a very cool thing in the world of Warhammer you can sort of
make your army however you want you can give them whatever background or lore that you want but the
games are trapped giving you permission to really step outside of the norms and make something that
is genuinely good or genuinely admirable is actually a really really cool thing and it's
great it's great to have that little glimmer of hope in an otherwise hopeless situation
similarly the Eldar they have the new yanari which is a collection of outcasts from the harlequins
the Eldar and the dark Elder who are working together to resurrect a God the whispering God
you need they believe that if they can if they can resurrect you need that you need will be able
to defeat slanesh and rescue the Eldar race from extinction because the Eldar all Eldar Souls who
die will go to slanesh the Elder are completely doomed but perhaps this plan will work perhaps
if they all can put it aside their differences and work together for the greater good although
not the Tao's greater good that they can finally get something done they can bring a little bit of
light to this dark dark world of Warhammer they won't they're going to fail but it's going to be
so interesting to see how these outcasts get it done and how they try and how they work so hard
and that inevitable failure will be a lovely dousing of tragedy it's perfect for Warhammer
I love the idea of these out cast factions and it's such an interesting way to add new things
into Warhammer without having to add entire new factions or really progress the lore in
any serious way because although I am enjoying the progression of lore that is happening with
Games Workshop it does lead to how far are they willing to go are they willing to let the emperor
die are they willing to let gazool turn back into a a super orc what are the super Orcs called the
quirks are they are they going to allow things to really change probably not and they probably
shouldn't but creating new characters who have new Ambitions and they can have a little bit of
hope that can be dashed is a beautiful beautiful way to really really accent the world of Warhammer
and Games Workshop had a lovely a lovely chance to do this with the return of cesarek the silent King
now for all of you who haven't read a necron codex since 2002 Matt Ward love him or hate him he wrote
some darn good necron lore in the war in heaven the war in heaven is one of my favorite things in
all of Warhammer in my opinion it's a more epic and more tragic tale than the Horus heresy and
sure we're talking about a story that's about 10 pages long versus 50 novels but the necrons are
much less personal than the space brains because the Space Marines are essentially human I know
they're not human they're essentially human the perspective that you get from the Horus heresy
is humans and the hubris of man where the the necron story the story of the war in heaven is
a story of gods it's it's Greek it's beautiful way back impossibly far back 65 million years ago the
necrons the necra tire a race of these little shriveled Dobby looking guys we're having a
miserable time they had a red giant sun right next to their Planet they died in their 40s they were
having an absolutely miserable time but there was another race a paradise race known as the old ones
they were the gods of of the universe they could do anything they could control anything and they
were pretty reasonable respectful and humble like a good way to think of them is probably like the
um Starfleet from Star Trek they're just kind of good however they had a firm belief in letting
things pass the way that they were meant to and so they were not when when the necrons asked for
their help help save our lives from this horrible plight the old one said nah dog you you're on your
own you gotta do you gotta do what you gotta do and so the necrons found these beings called the
Katan and we're gonna get to the Catan because games are made a new one that I don't really like
very much they found these these just ethereal beings they had no form but they would eat stars
and the contain and the neck retire they created these metal bodies and the Katan came into them
the Sharda the the deceiver and the nightbringer and they started to whisper into the necron's ears
saying hey maybe if we work together we can defeat the old ones and then we can rule the galaxy as
Father and Son okay that they didn't do that last part but they decided to work together and so they
began to wage war against the old ones and they got their butts kicked they got destroyed but
the Catan had a trick up their sleeve they said that they would turn the neck retire into Immortal
necrons into Ultra unbelievably powerful necrons and cesaric was the one who signed the deed he
was the one who said yes we will go through this biotransference to leave our poor shriveled necro
Tire bodies for screaming metal bodies the necrons will glitter in the Sun and they will
be unstoppable and it happened exactly that way except while every neck retire was going through
biotransference the Katan ate every one of their souls so when they went from their body into their
necron bodies they lost what made them them and cesaric looked upon his Galaxy spanning Empire
that was now completely soulless atom necron Warriors are barely even robots they're literally
just animated suits of armor and he was absolutely devastated he could barely handle the tragedy he
had just committed his species to he had doomed them all including himself he no longer had a soul
he no longer had emotion I guess except for misery because he was just that upset that misery was
still there and so he went along with the Katan they worked together to defeat the old ones they
conquered the universe and then in his last Act of necro Tire Manatee he turned his Legions because
he had complete control over the necron race they he had the cheat codes he could control them all
with just the flick of his wrist he waged War upon the Katan and unable to destroy them because they
are Gods he trapped them in the necron shards and then as his last action because he had completely
screwed every single thing up he told all of his necrons to go to sleep because this war in heaven
this war against Gods destroyed everything there was nothing left so the necrons decided to just
wait for the Galaxy to repopulate for everything to heal and so he told all of his necrons to go to
sleep and then he destroyed his command protocols releasing all of the backgrounds so they all have
some semblance of free will now and he left he he just went out into the world like like uh like the
end of Pulp Fiction he just went to wander the Galaxy because he was so unbelievably ashamed
beautiful gives me chills that story and please go on to I'm sure all of the Warhammer wikis have
the proper the whole thing written out verbatim you'll read it and it'll sound way better than
when I just explain it to you the story of cesarik leaving just utterly defeated and miserable is
kind of in a way Noble just releasing his command over all of his necrons and going into Exile is
kinda nice it's a nice little thing like he's kind of honorable he royally messed up but he
did The Honorable thing and left and then he came back oh Games Workshop I get I get it and there I
think there's ways to have brought him back but the way Games Workshop brought him back so it's
it feels rather lame so cesarek was traveling the cosmos and he ran into the tyranids and
then he thought uh oh these tyranids might be able to wipe out all life in the galaxy
and if all life is wiped out then there will be no bodies with Souls that maybe my necrons will
one day be able to put themselves inside of and then regain their mortality in their life
and it's kind of confusing and so I better go back home and make sure that we defeat these tyranids
is that is that enough runs are truly unbelievably powerful beings did the silent King really need
to return to rescue them from the tyranids I mean I don't know I don't know if that's a
good enough reason but have them even if he even if that's a good reason for him
to return to try to save the possibility of the necrons ever being able to reclaim Souls
he showed up with a lot of fanfare let's if you look at the model for the silent King and before
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12 and a half feet tall he feels like a king but I would argue he is no longer a king he relinquished
that title when he decided to leave in disgrace I would have liked him to come back a little bit
more humble you know haven't be a little taller than the average necron but maybe have him be like
Master Chief in that one in that one trailer where he's got like a a cloak on like have him look a
little bit downtrodden he's some necrons have decided to align themselves with him but he no
longer has complete control over the necrons they it's their choice whether to work with him or not
and this amazing Immaculate throne with a Katan Shard housed in it and these giant Obelisk pillars
it's a little hoity-toity it's a little high and mighty and that is the last thing that I feel
like says Eric would be cesaric is an honorable man and he royally screwed up he shouldn't be
the emperor he shouldn't be the king he's not really a god I'm sure he's very very powerful but
I just wish he was a little bit more humble it's cool it's cool to have a big important
necron leader who's super super tall and he's got the biggest stick and you know he's the big
boy because he's got the big stick and he's got his little helpers who are I don't know dictating
being dictated to and it's just it's just not necron's to me I do kinda like the model but
it's just I love the story of cesarex so much and I love the the lore of the necrons and it's just
kinda not there for me this way that that Games Workshop has decided to go with it yes they wanted
a big important centerpiece model for every single faction and I think there would have been ways to
do it once again going back into the outcasts idea maybe Cesar comes back as kind of a humble person
but some necrons kind of almost take pity on him and they understand that they that he is looking
out for their best interest and so they designed to band together and maybe he even figures out
ways of helping the flayed ones and the Destroyers who are necrons who are just slowly succumbing to
Millions upon Millions upon millions of years of just their bodies falling apart maybe he has ways
to Tinker around and repair them maybe he even starts to begin the process of repair of putting
necrons back into bias with souls and we get the pariah's back the pariahs were a old old unit for
the necrons that has since been discontinued but they were essentially necron zombies necrons who
were they were trying to like reanimate corpses and they would be you know there's lots of really
really cool ways to take it so that the cesarec and his you know loyal Mary band of necron cohorts
are fun and Spunky and yo you're wishing them but though you wish them the best but having
cesarek the silent King who's actually pretty chatty having him up on a Giant floating throne
with a Regal beautiful flowing Cape you know Exile is supposed to be Exile you're not supposed to
come back you should have a really really darn good reason and it kind of makes me feel like
he got bored out there and then he ran into the tiered and he's like you know it's not a great
reason but he thinks he can spin it he thinks he can spin it back into him getting to come back
and hang out with his old friends just it's just not right in my opinion this is what we have now
this is cesara Games Workshop is not going to discontinue this model but it's just not doing
it for me and speaking of another new necron unit that is not doing it for me Katan Shard
of the void Dragon this model is lovely it is a beautiful model but in my opinion once again
it does not fulfill the lore of the necrons the necrons hate the Katan and the only reason that
they're still around is because they couldn't just they can't destroy them they're unkillable and so
they took each Katan and they tore it into shards and each one of those shards is held in the necron
Tomb to be Unleashed on the battlefield it's like their atomic bombs basically it's their weapons
of mass destruction even more massive than the necrons already impossibly magical technology
this miniature feels very powerful and Regal and Noble and and open I mean this this shape is open
it's presenting yourself what if the lightning bolts were kind of constraining the wrists of this
being or you know they were they were chaining him down like because the necrons are in control of
the Katan they and they will never ever be free ever again and so even though this miniature is
lovely and I suppose if you didn't know the lore of the Katan you would think yeah that's a that's
a Satan or Katan Shard of something or other I don't really like it I don't really like it it
goes against what I know the necrons are and ah it's just just meh it's just meh you know I'm very
disappointed I actually found a miniature uh that I really really love and it really really spoke
to me the way that old necron lore really did it got me right in the fields and that is this
miniature from the artist the final triarc cyborg triumvirate king of ambition this miniature to me
is cesareic this is the silent King there's just a sadness to him obviously he's more impressive
than the other necrons because his outfit has got more going on you know he looks like the
king of the necrons but there's just something defeated about him I think it's the way that his
CL his his little danglies form into a cloak the way he's kind of got a little bit of a
hood and it's kind of pulled up the little tear tracks that are sculpted into his face there's
a sadness to this model and that's what I think that that the real hashtag the real silent king
would have just somebody utterly defeated he has no ambition although this guy's called ambitious
but in my opinion starrek has no ambition all he wants is to fix what he did and it's impossible
and that the tragedy of that is what makes his character so so compelling and if I ever want to
field the silent King I'm definitely going to have to put something together so that this guy is my
king because that is that's just what I love about the necrons I adore the necrons they are my first
Army in Warhammer 40K I have about 6 000 points of them I painted them up in high school I repainted
them a few times in high school I repainted them again after high school I love the necron so much
they were my very first ever ever descent into this world of Warhammer and I I took the fifth
or the uh yeah the fifth edition necron codex to school with me every single day in my backpack
and I read it every bus ride and every every lunch period I would reread the story stories
over and over and over and I I Adore the necrons and that is why I have such strong opinions about
these new Miniatures because at the end of the day who cares these Miniatures look great what
on Earth do I have to complain about but I hope I hope I have somehow managed to get across my
feelings about why is the new cesarec is hashtag not my cesaric but you know what I do absolutely
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