#nemessor zahndrekh

[c0gwizard-v2]

"We are having a conversation!"

Catching up with The Silence and the Storm fic, and this scene with Obyron running with Zahndrekh on his shoulder was a delight

[xenosgirlvents]

Severed is good, really, really good

This book is good. Like, not just good as mild entertainment or such as I normally mean, it has already shot up to join the likes of Jain Zar and Fire Warrior as one of my favourites.

I recommend any Necron fan buy this book, it is cheap and it is basically your only Necron-focused story ever...and it is amazingly well done. 

It has one of the most damn hopeful endings from a 40k book I have EVER read and this is coming from Necron!

I don’t want to go into much detail on the plot, honestly read it yourselves, really do, but the story is basically just an excuse for Obyron and Zahndrekh to reaffirm their feelings for each other and both of them are honestly hilarious.

Just some passages that I loved:

Fury blazed like sheet lightning across his engrams, and he had to stop himself smashing a fist through the nemesor’s table.

‘I have nothing but loyalty for Zahndrekh.’

‘Loyalty, Obyron, or  love? Because if you think it’s the latter, you’re as deluded as your master. Biotransference cut away our ability to love, if ever we possessed it. There is no such thing.’

Lost for words, Obyron wondered if the best answer he could offer would be the blade of his warscythe.

Zahndekh also delivers this great line to point out to Obyron that any thinking, feeling being which would go to lengths he would for another simply cannot be said to lack a soul:

Zahndrekh put an arm round him in consolation, and continued.

‘Let me pose you this thought, Obyron, in the hope it will bring you ease. What do you think caused you to hold true to me for all this time – despite all the power you might have enjoyed through betrayal – if it were not a soul? What can love, but a being with a soul?

I also just really like that Zahndrekh is very physically affectionate with Obyron, often touches him and puts an arm around him.

Anyway this book is good. It only has one glaring issue that is annoying, but I’d still recommend it whole-heartedly and it has been very fun to read. I honestly have often found the Necron special characters rather flat compared to the other Xenos factions, but this Novella honestly makes me desperately hope for some more content on this pair.

Also: Zahndrekh x Obyron OTP

[steamgeek01]

I feel like for that to work the Primarch would have had to land on Gidrim, the tomb world ruled by Nemessor Zahndrekh, the only Necron lord likely to have some agricultural facilities, And now I’m imagining Zahndrekh giving the baby Primarch to Obryon when he’s grown up a bit for combat training,

So in one of my 40k discord channels we have finnsly figured out what one of the two unammed primarchs did... One was a null primarch. Made with imperfect necron tech. Like magnus he became obsessed with with knowledge except it was yechnology knowledge namely necro tech as when the warp ripped them he was sent to a necron tomb world so grew with a slight understanding of it because he was somewhat made with it... He was expunged because of this heresy and started siding with the necron way of thinking.

Not fleshed out but I feel a better explination that gw has given ( yes I know the actual reason they leave them. Blank but it keeps pissing me off they keep referencing them in the books)

Thoughts?

It would have been very interesting to see one of the primarchs raised by some xenos family, so this is definitely cool.

[that-random-chaos-entity]

After Nemessor Zahndrekh discovered and watched an ancient human video log called Spaceballs, he genuinely thought that "Ludicrous Speed" was some special means of faster-than-light travel that humans had developed.

it has been a very long past couple of days. do we have any silly headcanons happening