The Infinite and The Divine (Warhammer 40,000)

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Most Gods awful 40k novel I've ever bought. For all their aeons of regal-ness & suchlike, they're just grumpy, petty, morons. It's not even so bad that it's funny. I'm 2/3rds in & it's still going nowhere & doing nothing. Trazyn. Our ships are without atmosphere, unpressurised,’ Orikan said. ‘Do orks… breathe?’ A pause. ‘They have lungs.’ Prepare to repel boarders, Orikan signalled. In case.”

Explore a story told across the millennia that delves deep into a pair of fascinating necron characters, their relationship and their plans for the galaxy. Unskilled, but Strong: Trazyn and Orikan are not skilled warriors (although Orikan did briefly train to be an Immortal when he was alive, making him decent at grappling small foes), but they have bodies that are incredibly durable, immensely strong, and can react much faster than most things in the galaxy, so they are seldom in actual physical danger. Time Skip: Played with. Most of the book concerns Trazyn and Orikan's repeated visits to the planet Serenade over the course of thousands of years, and each time the planet has changed markedly. To the two of them, however, their Time Dissonance means their experiences are more or less continuous.Space Battle: A lengthy one at that. When Orks invade Serenade and threaten the Tomb, Trazyn defends the planets surface while Orikan destroys their ships. Both of these Necrons are scholars. Indeed, it's noted that except for the small detail of being made into undead robot murder machines, any actual fight between them would have been laughable more than anything else - they are best suited for mental rather than physical competition. In this light, the novel reads as a manifesto not that Trazyn's brand of cultural scholarship is superior to Orikan's empiricism, but rather that the rivalry itself is stale and artificial, that different forms of knowledge complement each other rather than replace each other. Indeed, the plot forces both protagonists to work together. In the end, they don't just work together, they learn (at least temporarily) from one another. Indeed, this dynamic fuels one of my favourite confrontations of the novel:

When I finished reading, I noted that Robert Rath, the author, is also a historian. I'm inclined to think that these overarching themes were quite deliberate, showcasing the author's own reflections on how humans - like Necrons, apparently - struggle to reconcile and profit from different forms of knowledge. Lord General, show me an island and my Guardsmen will take it. It is not a question of victory or defeat. It is a question of how many waves you are willing to lose.” A subreddit for the lore and stories encompassing the dark future of the Warhammer 40,000 franchise For the best viewing experience, we recommend using old reddit version - https://old.reddit.com/r/40kLore/ Time Dissonance: As immortal Necrons, Orikan and Trazyn speak casually of centuries and even millennia. It's mentioned that Necron stage plays can take over a decade to be performed in full, and Orikan regularly spends whole centuries in meditation and thinks nothing of it.The flesh. If one of these ridiculous fanatics actually found a species for us to transfer our consciousness to. Or say, if Nephreth's body lets us fabricate a new, unspoiled race of necrontyr – would you do it?'

Adventure Archaeologist : Evil Overlord version, but Trazyn will always be a treasure hunter first, ruler of an interstellar kingdom second. Trazyn paused in his visual scanning and looked at Orikan square. 'I... of course I would. It would be my greatest joy to once again feel a soul within me, to taste, and touch, and feel.' Time Master: Orikan is the most skilled chronomancer of all of his kind, and it gets him out of more than a few tight situations. This scholastic rivalry is based not just on imagined Necron society, but also the same kind of dynamics that fuel competing theories of knowledge today. It has a particularly personal resonance for me - I'm a historian by profession, but am the child of mathematicians, and have had these same arguments at the dinner table. Even more broadly though, there is a contemporary tension between these competing forms of knowledge - what kinds of learning, study and research is valued and what isn't. For those of us working in universities right now, the struggle between kinds of knowledge at the heart of this book is very real. PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Infinite_and_The_Divine_-_Robert_Rath.pdf, The_Infinite_and_The_Divine_-_Robert_Rath.epubIt does require a little bit of knowledge of the Warhammer 40K universe to fully appreciate, but if you like sci-fi dark comedies, it is well worth the little investment to learn what an "Aeldari" is or what is meant by a Necron's "Necrodermis."

Since 2018 he's served as Head Writer of the animated YouTube show Extra History, where his scripts have attracted over 150 million views Painting the Medium: The same scene at the tribunal is repeated multiple times with slight differences, to show Orikan's attempts to Save Scum. He lives in Hong Kong with his family, amid and a growing pile of models he *swears* are for research. Robert Rath is an author and screenwriter from Honolulu, Hawai'i. Authors, if you are a member of the Goodreads Author Program, you can edit information about your own books. Find out how in this guide. I absolutely loved this book, from the interesting view of the Necron perspective of the galaxy, to Trazyn just collecting anything that catches his eye.Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Librarians Group is the official group for requesting additions or updates to the catalog, including: Review copy provided by the author – many thanks to Robert Rath for sending me a copy of The Infinite and the Divine, in exchange for my honest review. Listen to it because: explore a story told across the millennia that delves deep into a pair of fascinating necron characters, their relationship and their plans for the galaxy. Before the being called the Emperor revealed Himself, before the rise of the aeldari, before the necrontyr traded their flesh for immortal metal, the world was born in violence.