Editing Silent King (section)

== Szarekh, The Last Silent King ==
[[File:Silent-King-Model-Warhammer-Community.png|thumb|right|He's back, and he's got a sweet pimp throne, [[Awesome|complete with a broken, defeated god as a battery]].]]

The last Silent King was named Szarekh, and it was he who sealed the pact with the [[C'tan]] in order to gain their power to fight against the [[Old Ones (Warhammer)| Old Ones]]. Unfortunately for the Necrontyr, there was a catch: the bio-transference process that upgraded them into the metallic, immortal Necrons had the side-effect of stripping them of their souls and, for the most part, their free wills. The Silent King was placed in charge of the entirety of the Necron race, while the delicious souls went to the C'tan.

Szarekh was not happy about this (though he wasn't precisely angry either, given the loss of his soul), but he had no leverage to fight the C'tan -- what they had given, they could easily take away, and then some. Therefore, he fought the [[War in Heaven]] alongside the C'tan, and waited until the very moment of victory, when the C'tan were nearly spent, and turned on them with every warrior and weapon at his disposal, shattering the star-gods and binding the fragments that remained.

The War in Heaven left the galaxy a mess, and Szarekh decided that most of it was his fault, so he commanded the legions to rest in their [[Tomb World]]s to let the galaxy heal for the next sixty million years, relinquished control of the Necron nobles, and exiled himself from the galaxy in his flagship, the Song of Oblivion. His last instruction was to rebuild the Necrontyr Empire and return to flesh bodies, though how this happened was left up to any [[Phaeron]]s who could make it happen. Szarekh then left for the intergalactic void, vowing to never return to the Milky Way...

...which lasted right up until he found out what was in the void: the [[Tyranids]]. When he encountered the vanguard of [[Hive Fleet Behemoth]], he NOPE'd right back home, getting in touch with the remaining [[Triarch Praetorian|Praetorians]] to awaken every [[Tomb World]] still standing and unite against the swarm. The space-vermin might not be a threat to the the Necrons themselves, but they were certainly a threat to their stuff, like, you know, the galaxy, which they regard as theirs -- after all, if the Tyranids ate everything, there would be no bodies to return to, and nothing to rule over! The Silent King so disliked this possibility that he allied with the [[Blood Angels]] to fight off a Tyranid landing force, and even let them go on their way when the fighting was over.

He's back with the reveal of [[Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition|9E]]. His new model even has a retinue, not unlike [[Katakros|another influential bone-daddy]] and he even has a [[C'tan]] shard with him. His stands on top his [[Dais of Dominion|personal pimp throne looking totes SWAG.]] It does NOT look happy with its current living conditions (It probably doesn't help that its heavily hinted that Szarekh is currently wearing its flayed skin as his cape). His return is to gather his peers up to help seal up the rift, in which way would also destroy all living things.