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==In the Silent King's Footsteps== | |||
7E's ''Shield of Baal'' campaign has Anrakyr appear as he realizes that the Tyranids in the Cryptus system just might eat up his timeshares. | |||
To this end, he wakes up one of his tomb worlds called Perdita, hire out the local Overlord, and then forge an uneasy alliance with Dante. The crux of this deal worked upon some weird (Necron-made) Archaeotech on one of the planets which allowed the Necrons to harvest the solar power of the twin suns of Cryptus and convert it to energy. If they could convert this, they could manage to find a way to power their own schemes to blow up the hive fleets. Issue is, that involved their C'Tan Shard using said archaeotech to power up the device so much that it blew up and leveled not only the hive fleets, but also devastated the entire system, nearly killing the [[Flesh Tearers]] and [[Blood Angels]] he was allied with. Of course, he just warped back to his crib. | |||
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Revision as of 21:56, 26 December 2014
Anrakyr the Traveller is a Necron Overlord who upon reactivation decided to renounce government over his domain in order to travel the galaxy to help reawaken the Necron Tomb Worlds which were still dormant, fighting possible interlopers or avenging destroyed Necrons if they were overwhelmed before he could help them. Think of him like a Necron Gandalf.
While he is utterly ruthless whenever he finds a lesser race sacking a dormant Tomb World, he has shown to wield a code of honour and spare the defeated enemy, offering honourable terms of surrender and even, perhaps, a sort of compassion.
For example, there is this short story in the codex where he had captured a defeated IG colonel, he was supposed to hand him to Illuminor Szeras, most surely for painful and slow experimentation, when meeting each other in person (something which may not have been necessary) the colonel spit upon him, defiantly claiming that the Imperium will send more forces, Anrakyr, instead of handing him to Szeras, killed him on the spot. While this may have been to simply annoy Szeras for having used Deathmarks without his consent to win the battle, it may well be that Anrakyr didn't want the colonel to face a horrible fate as Szeras' guinea pig.
Opinions of the Necron nobles over Anrakyr are divided; most of them consider him an honourable warrior dedicated to help the survival of their race, others (who won't give them the tribute of soldiers he requests from a tombworld after liberating it) consider him a menace as he invariable takes his tithe, even if he has to steal it.
Anrakyr has technopathic abilities, allowing him to take control of vehicles he happens by. For example, in aforementioned story above he seized control of a Leman Russ Battle Tank and after briefly pitying its flawed design holding back its full potential made it fire its weapons on the remaining Guard forces.
Protip: What's that IG player? You say you brought a deathstrike missile launcher? Can I borrow that for a sec? Thanks.
In the Silent King's Footsteps
7E's Shield of Baal campaign has Anrakyr appear as he realizes that the Tyranids in the Cryptus system just might eat up his timeshares.
To this end, he wakes up one of his tomb worlds called Perdita, hire out the local Overlord, and then forge an uneasy alliance with Dante. The crux of this deal worked upon some weird (Necron-made) Archaeotech on one of the planets which allowed the Necrons to harvest the solar power of the twin suns of Cryptus and convert it to energy. If they could convert this, they could manage to find a way to power their own schemes to blow up the hive fleets. Issue is, that involved their C'Tan Shard using said archaeotech to power up the device so much that it blew up and leveled not only the hive fleets, but also devastated the entire system, nearly killing the Flesh Tearers and Blood Angels he was allied with. Of course, he just warped back to his crib.