Old Men Yell at the Warp: The Wicked & The Warped

The opening quote says everything you need to know about the relationship at the heart of this book. Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner are falling through a webway tunnel when Orikan pauses to search his engram banks for another insult. "Yes, your cape. I do not like how that tile cape of yours rattles." Trazyn replies: "You said that. It was insult 8461. Quote, your cloak makes you sound like a deranged troop of Eldari shell dancers." This is the sequel to The Infinite and the Divine, and Robert Rath has delivered another Necron-centric novel that is both very funny and genuinely consequential for the lore.

The Planet That Came Back

The book opens with two particles colliding at the moment of Cadia's destruction, triggering the Great Rift. At the edge of the Maelstrom, a world re-emerges that has not been seen since the War in Heaven: Amenthus. Trazyn, ever the collector, immediately goes to investigate. He finds an ancient chamber with skeletal Necrons preserved mid-crawl toward a gateway, one clutching a strange disc. When warp creatures attack, Trazyn plays a game of ultimate frisbee with himself—bouncing his consciousness between Lichguard bodies as relays, tossing the disc, warping in and out, until he escapes while flipping the creatures off with his metallic fingers.