They wanted longer lives. The Star Gods gave them immortality—and consumed their souls.

Before the Necrons became the metal skeletons sleeping beneath entire planets, they were the Necrontyr: a civilisation haunted by sickness, short lives and bitter rivalries. Then their ruler, Szarekh—the Silent King—accepted an offer that changed them forever.

In this episode of The Grim Record, we follow the bargain with the C'tan, the horror of biotransference, the War in Heaven, and the rebellion that turned gods into weapons. But even revenge couldn't restore everything the Necrons had lost.

Was the Silent King trying to save his people, secure his power—or both? Let us know what you think.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 The people before the machines
01:20 An enemy to unite the empire
02:54 The gods with an answer
05:28 What went into the furnaces
08:00 The victory they had wanted
09:21 The army turns on its gods
11:10 Sixty million years to wait
12:54 What wakes beneath the ground
15:19 The king comes back

LORE SOURCES
Warhammer Community — What is Biotransference?
https://www.warhammer-community.com/e...

Warhammer Community — Designing and Painting the Silent King
https://www.warhammer-community.com/e...

Lexicanum — Necrontyr, Szarekh and the Necron Revolt, with their cited Codex: Necrons references:
https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Necr...
https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Szarekh
https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Necr...

The Nightbringer hypercannon account is traced through Lexicanum to Codex: Necrons (8th Edition), p. 69. Ancient accounts and disputed details are qualified in the narration.

Trazyn and Orikan: publisher synopsis for The Infinite and the Divine, by Robert Rath:
https://www.blacklibrary.com/all-prod...

MUSIC
“Crypto”, “Dark Fog”, “The Complex” and “Echoes of Time v2” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty...
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty...
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty...
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty...
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Tracks edited, looped, levelled and ducked for narration.

ART & VISUAL CREDITS
Artwork includes work credited to Jonas Špokas / AnBoX, Kevin Koesnodihardjo, Alexey Kruglov, Artur Nakhodkin, Antonio José Manzanedo, Billy Christian, Hector Ortiz, Ivan Dedov, JB Casacop, Stanton Feng, Adrián Rodríguez Pérez, Michał Miłkowski, Anthony Devine, Anton Solovianchyk, David Sondered, Pierre Loyvet, Phil Moss, Leos Ng, Lewis Jones, John Michelbach, Cheol Joo Lee, Adrian Smith, Karl Kopinski and Paul Dainton.

Artwork sources include Games Workshop, Wizards of the Coast, Warhammer Art, Art of MTG and 40K Gallery:
https://www.warhammerart.com/
https://www.artofmtg.com/
https://40k.gallery/
https://www.warhammer-community.com/e...
https://www.warhammer-community.com/e...

Orikan fan artwork is credited as Technorakel in the source record:
https://www.moddb.com/groups/warhamme...

Dawn of War IV key art: Deep Silver / KING Art Games / Games Workshop.
https://www.deepsilver.com/games/dawn...

Solar imagery: NASA/SDO.
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/sun...

Ancient scenes are illustrative. The organic/metal portrait is a fan interpretation, not established Necrontyr anatomy. Additional Games Workshop imagery and existing-library Battlefleet Gothic footage appear in the edit; some individual artists are unidentified.

An independent fan-made lore video, not affiliated with Games Workshop.

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