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''The Infinite and the Divine'' is a ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novel by Rober Rath.

-->'''Orikan:''' I hope you brought an army.\\

-->'''Orikan:''' It is, after all, [[spoiler:a god]].\\

* BodyguardBetrayal:
* MadnessMantra :

* SitcomArchNemesis : The fued between the titular duo. Either this, or ArchEnemy, as their antics range from comically petty to horrifyingly cruel.

* {{Troll}}: Trazyn, [[TheGadfly naturally]].

* WimpFight: ''Barely'' {{Averted|Trope}}. The first physical clash between Orikan and Trazyn is noted to avoid being this only by virtue of both having had their mind transferred to [[SkeleBot9000 extremely strong and durable bodies millenia ago]] and that the sight of an old spindly nerd fighting a hunchback librarian would have been comical otherwise, and the guards and soldiers watching them fight would have laughed if they could.

'''Trazyn:''' You think so little of me, dear collegue. I brought ''five''.

* JerkassGods: Millions of years ago, the C'tan callously enslaved and imprisoned all of the Necrontyr, twisting them into the Necrons they are now. [[spoiler: Also, the entire plot of the book, from the very start, was orchestrated by Mephet'ran the Deciever in order to escape his prison and wreak havoc on the galaxy once more.]]

* SpaceBattle: A lengthy one at that. When Orks invade Serenade and threaten the Tomb, Trazyn defends the planets surface while Orikan destroys their ships.

''The Infinite and the Divine'' is a ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novel by Rober Raith.

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Published in 2020, the novel follows two Necron lords, Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner. Trazyn, [[TheCollector a collector of ancient artifacts,]] and Orikan, [[{{Seers}} a powerful chronomancer,]] have been enemies for millennia. But when Orikan steals the Astrarium Mysterios from Trazyn's collection, believing it to be the key to unlocking an ancient power, the two are dragged into direct conflict. Over the course of ten thousand years, the two go from competing over ownership of the Mysterios, to working together to unlock its secrets, to stabbing each other in the back over it. Their fued reshapes timelines, dooms planets, and threatens to either destroy or restore the entire Necron race.

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Published in 2020, the novel follows two Necron lords, Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner. Trazyn, [[TheCollector a collector of ancient artifacts,]] and Orikan, [[{{Seers}} a powerful chronomancer,]] have been enemies for millennia. But when Orikan steals the Astrarium Mysterios from Trazyns collection, believing it to be the key to unlocking an ancient power, the two are dragged into direct conflict. Over the course of ten thousand years, the two go from competing over ownership of the Mysterios, to working together to unlock its secrets, to stabbing each other in the back over it. Their fued reshapes timelines, dooms planets, and threatens to either destroy or restore the entire Necron race.

!!This work contains the following tropes:

* SpaceBattle : A lengthy one at that. When Orks invade Serenade and threaten the Tomb, Trazyn defends the planets surface while Orikan destroys their ships.
* TimeDissonance: 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 while centuries in meditation and thinks nothing of it.
* TimeMaster : Orikan is the most skilled chronomancer of all of his kind, and it gets him out of more than a few tight situations.

* UnwillingRoboticisation : Some Necrontyrs did not want to undergo bio-transferrance, and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the furnaces by their peers, which Orikan remembers all too well, especially since Trazyn was the one to force him. [[spoiler:Except Trazyn remembers ''himself'' as being the one that had to be dragged off by ''Orikan'']]. Interestingly, [[spoiler:when they confront the matter of their conflicting memories, they speculate these memory alterations were done deliberately by the C'tan to stoke rivalries among the newly forged Necrons in an effort to control the more intelligent ones. Regardless, [[AffablyEvil Trazyn preemptively apologizes to Orikan in earnest for what happened]], even if he remembers the circumstances differently.]]

* TimeDissonance: As immortal Necrons, Orikan and Trazyn speak casually of centuries and even millennia. Orikan regularly spends multiple centuries in meditation and thinks nothing of it.

* UnwillingRoboticisation : Some Necrontyrs did not want to undergo bio-transferrance, and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the furnaces by their peers, which Orikan remembers all too well, especially since Trazyn was the one to force him. [[spoiler:Except Trazyn remembers ''himself'' as being the one that had to be dragged off by ''Orikan'']]. Interestingly, [[spoiler:when they confront the matter of their conflicting memories, they speculate these memory alterations were done deliberately to stoke rivalries among the newly forged Necrons in an effort to control the more intelligent ones. Regardless, [[AffablyEvil Trazyn preemptively apologizes to Orikan in earnest for what happened]], even if he remembers it circumstances differently.]]

* UnwillingRoboticisation : Some Necrontyrs did not want to undergo bio-transferrance, and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the furnaces by their peers, which Orikan remembers all too well, especially since Trazyn was the one to force him. [[spoiler:Except Trazyn remembers ''himself'' as being the one that had to be dragged off by ''Orikan'']].

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Trazyn and Orikan have [[GoKartingWithBowser a civil talk while cloaked inside a cafe]] between their antics, deciding to reflect on humanity around them while they are there; despite being a vastly [[PunyEarthling inferior, younger race]] that they should be scoffing at compared to their might, Trazyn's time around them (especially in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy) eventually shown him a side to humanity that resonates with him enough to have interfered with their history from time to time, something that even catches Orikan's attention as they continue to talk before recognizing that Trazyn is ''actively'' comparing humanity to when they were still the Necrontyr in that, despite their weaknesses, mankind like the Necrontyr managed to claim a name for themselves in a cruel galaxy and could have even ruled the galaxy unquestioningly had adversity not threaten to shatter them like it had the Necrons after [[BigOffscreenWar the War in Heaven]]. In the end, [[ArmorPiercingQUestion the question is asked]] that has both of them stop to contemplate: "would humanity, in their shoes, have agreed to [[DealWithTheDevil the same deal]] the Necrontyr made with the C'tan that cost them their souls"?

* SitcomArchNemesis : The fued between the titular duo. Either this, or ArchEnemy, as their antics range from comically petty to horrifyingly cruel
* SpaceBattle : A lengthy one at that. When Orks invade Serenade and threaten the Tomb, Trazyn defends the planets surface while Orikan destroys their ships.
* UnwillingRoboticisation :

* TimeMaster : Orikan is the most skilled chronomancer of all of his kind, and it gets him out of more than a few tight situations.

Published in 2020, the novel follows two Necron lords, Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner. Trazyn, [[TheCollector a collector of ancient artifacts,]] and Orikan, [[Seers a master of chronomancy,]] have been enemies for millennia. But when Orikan steals the Astrarium Mysterios from Trazyns collection, believing it to be the key to unlocking an ancient power, the two enter a

Published in 2020, the novel follows two Necron lords, Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner,