Editing Orikan the Diviner (section)

==Lore==
He is acknowledged as the very best in his field. Apparently, he was able to predict the Fall of the [[Eldar]], the [[Horus Heresy]], the [[Great Rift]] and the coming of the [[Tyranids]] sixty million years in advance, which gives him a massive ego. He was a member of the Silent King's court and the only one among the nobility who knew the C'tan's offer of robotizing the Necrons would have a steep cost. But Szarekh spurned his warning. If Orikan rejected the offer, then why is he a Necron, you ask? Because some Necron lords tracked him down and dragged him to the biotransference IN CHAINS. These incidents gave him a massive chip on his shoulder towards authority and made him refuse to serve any master but himself.

He has no respect for the nobles who hire him, but his reputation renders him effectively immune from punishment, because any [[Necron Overlord|Overlord]] who wishes to harm him is paralyzed by the thought that Orikan must have foreseen that sequence of events and taken steps to prevent it or take pre-emptive vengeance.

In reality, Orikan is not quite as good a forecaster as the Necron nobles think he is. He can predict events in more detail than any other astromancer, but even he makes mistakes. He makes up for this with his mastery of time travel -- if his prediction is erroneous, he either goes back in time and manipulates events to conform to the prediction (in spite of the unforseen events that this can bring about later) or tells his past self what will happen (as of 9th edition lore). However, this can risk causing a HUGE temporal paradox, [[Grimdark|and the universe is messed up enough as it is]]. Plus Chaos can mess with Orikan's predictions and the entities of the Warp can perceive time in a non-linear fashion, so he fears they'd come after him if he uses time travel against them too much. That said, ordinarily the degree to which daemons or beings of the warp can interfere with Necron affairs is pretty limited, and usually always indirect, but they can at least muddy the waters enough to add an awful lot of uncertainty to any divinations, making Orikan's job much harder. And if he uses time travel enough, it does fray the fabric of reality and make daemonic incursions more likely at that location.

It is clear that despite his arrogance he is aware that even someone like him is powerless and weak in the Universe, being afraid of both the C'tan and the Chaos Gods. Slaanesh's awakening mentally scarred Orikan so much he had to isolate and meditate for a hundred years to get over it, and as a Necron he only felt a small portion of what the Eldar can feel from the massive Warp disturbance. When Trazyn was about to free a shard of the Deceiver, Orikan was so desperate to stop Trazyn that, despite his hatred of Trazyn and issues with authority, he surrendered and offered to pledge himself to Trazyn's service if Trazyn didn't open the shard prison.

He and [[Trazyn the Infinite|Trazyn]] have something of a history, even before Bio-Transference (according to Orikan, Trazyn was one of the Necrons who forced him into it, although the implication is that this memory was tampered by [[Mephet'ran]] to aggravate their enmity). In life they often clashed due to their opposing fields of interest. As Necrons, the pair have spent several millennia dicking each other over; dragging each other into frivolous court cases, staging proxy wars for shits and giggles, and both being manipulated into almost releasing several shards of the Deceiver. Whilst they still very much hate each other, both admit that they are as close to peers as they are likely to find.