Trazyn

Trazyn the Infinite is a Necron Overlord of the Nihilakh Dynasty and Archaeovist of Solemnace, a tomb world remade as the seat of his galleries. In life he was a Necrontyr scribe and chief archivist who oversaw the mummification of phaeron; after biotransference he remembers that past imperfectly. He awoke from the Great Sleep earlier than most of his kind and devoted himself to collecting living specimens, relics and holographic tableaux held in stasis, pledging that the galleries would one day be shared when the Necron race fully awoke. He operates largely independently of dynastic command, is recorded as persona non grata to the Sautekh Dynasty, and is only barely tolerated by other houses when his services are useful. Surrogates often die in his place, so opponents frequently destroy a lychguard or lord rather than Trazyn himself.

His long rivalry with the cryptek Orikan the Diviner centred for nearly ten thousand years on the tomb of the Necrontyr overlord Nephreth on the Eastern Fringe world Serenade, also called Cephris and Cepharil. The contest ran from about M31 through that world’s ages as an Exodite maiden world, an Imperial colony and a dead world after Exterminatus, and ended when both found shards of the C’tan known as the Deceiver rather than Nephreth’s promised wonders. Trazyn fought the Salamanders Forgefather Vulkan He’stan over Artefacts of Vulkan, including during the Tochran Crusade of 943.M41, and in 793.M41 defeated a raid on Solemnace by Inquisitor Helynna Valeria, whom he infected with mindshackle scarabs. He later journeyed to the daemon world Harmony, where Eidolon wounded him; the bargain that secured his withdrawal brought Fabius Bile to Solemnace and left a perfect clone of the primarch Fulgrim among Trazyn’s exhibits.

During the Thirteenth Black Crusade, upheaval in the Solemnace galleries drove Trazyn to consult the Celestial Orrery on the Oruscar crownworld of Thanatos and then to intervene in person on Cadia. There he worked with Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl to activate the planet’s pylons, fought in the closing actions against Abaddon the Despoiler, unleashed much of his collection, and withdrew by teleportation when Cadia’s destruction became certain. One account holds that, as Cadia fell, he removed Lord Castellan Ursarkar E. Creed to a Solemnace gallery labelled the Last Stand of Ursarkar Creed. In M42 he led an expedition to the Maelstrom tomb world Amenthis with Orikan, Phillias, Valeria and the Huntmaster, returned through a portal that also admitted the daemon Pestamutadis the Observer, and took part in the defence of Solemnace that followed.