Trazyn the Infinite

The Collector

Trazyn the Infinite has spent the last sixty million years preserving the history of every species he can collect a sample of. The Necron biotransference that gave him living-metal immortality also gave him an obsession with the question of what was lost when the Necrontyr became Necrons. His response has been to spend the subsequent millennia harvesting witnesses to events he cannot bear to see forgotten.

His Tomb World of Solemnace is a museum the size of a continent. Within its tesseract-bound vaults are preserved Eldar saints frozen mid-prayer, Imperial Saints frozen mid-sermon, entire alien races condensed into stasis-cages, and at least one Daemon Prince whose imprisonment Trazyn finds amusing enough to display.

Method

Where other Necron overlords command war-fleets, Trazyn commands tomb-jackals: small, fast harvest-teams who descend on archaeological digs, museum vaults, and Imperial reliquaries to extract specific items he has reserved. His attention to detail is unmatched. His patience is, by Necron standards, ordinary.

He has been known to cooperate, in narrow circumstances, with Imperial Inquisitors and Aeldari Farseers when the alternative was losing an irreplaceable specimen to less curatorial parties. Both factions accept his help with the understanding that they will be lied to and that the lie will be elegant.

I am not a thief. I am the longest librarian who has ever lived.

— Trazyn the Infinite, attributed

Notable Acquisitions

The Sangprimus Portum — a phial said to contain the genetic essence of the original Primarchs — was stolen from a sealed Imperial vault by Trazyn during the Macharian campaigns. The Imperium has been demanding it back for centuries. Trazyn has been politely declining for centuries.

He also holds an Avatar of Khaine in dormant stasis (forcibly extracted from a defeated Aeldari Craftworld), the entire body of an Imperial Saint who died in M37, and what he claims is the original Standard Template Construct datacore for the Land Raider. Imperial Mechanicus historians dispute this last claim. Trazyn finds the dispute entertaining.

M42

Trazyn has been active in the Era Indomitus, frequently appearing in zones where the Imperium and the Necrons are about to collide on objectives he considers important to preserve. He has not, as of late M42, sided definitively with the Silent King's wider reclamation programme. His own collection takes precedence.

The Pre-Biotransference Position

Trazyn's pre-biotransference role within the Necrontyr Triarch hierarchy was the Senior Antiquarian — a position that had operational responsibility for the species' historical and cultural-artefact preservation. He had held the post for approximately seventeen Necrontyr generations before biotransference and had personally curated the species' pre-Triarch material across that period. By the surviving Necron archive cross-references, his collection at the time of biotransference exceeded six million catalogued items.

The collection's specific preservation through the biotransference was, by Trazyn's own classified internal correspondence, the consequence of his having personally objected to biotransference's specific operational arrangements. Trazyn refused biotransference until the Silent King personally guaranteed the collection's preservation. Szarekh agreed. The collection was preserved. Trazyn's specific institutional position has been the Necron species' senior antiquarian continuously since.

The Collection Method

Trazyn's collection method has been refined across approximately sixty million Necron years. His specific technique involves a sustained operational pattern of opportunistic acquisition during sustained Necron operational engagements: when the Necron species engages an enemy species in operational combat, Trazyn's specific tomb-jackal cohort accompanies the engagement and acquires specific operational artefacts from the engagement's specific operational consequences. The cohort's specific operational priorities have been refined over millions of years.

The method has produced acquisitions that the Imperial Cult considers theologically untenable. Trazyn's Solemnace collection currently includes: the Sangprimus Portum (the Emperor's pre-Heresy primarch-gene-essence phial), the original Sigillite's pre-Heresy correspondence archive, three intact Heresy-era primarch personal effects (Trazyn has not specified which primarchs), and approximately seventeen thousand additional Imperial Cult-classified artefacts. The Imperium has formally demanded the return of approximately one hundred items. Trazyn has returned zero.

M42 Diplomatic Engagement

Trazyn has, since the Cicatrix Maledictum's opening, increased his sustained operational diplomatic engagement with the Imperial Cult substantially. He has accepted formal Imperial diplomatic communications at his Solemnace base on seventeen documented occasions since 002.M42; he has personally responded to twelve of the communications with classified Imperial Inquisitorial intermediaries. The engagement has produced operational arrangements that have permitted limited Imperial scholarly access to specific Solemnace collection items for sustained study purposes.

The engagement's specific operational basis is, by Trazyn's own classified correspondence, the Cicatrix Maledictum's effects on the broader Necron species' operational arrangements. Trazyn assesses that the Rift has produced operational opportunities for sustained Necron-Imperial diplomatic engagement that the Necron species' broader operational doctrine should pursue. The Silent King's classified working position is that Trazyn's engagement is operationally productive and should continue. The arrangement has been sustained.

I am willing to show. I am not willing to return.

— Trazyn, response to Imperial diplomatic delegation, 020.M42