num_pages: 370
description: A Warhammer 40000 novelPride is everything for the dynastic kings of the Necron race who have awakened after millennia to see their empires occupied by foul beasts and simple minds. For the Necron Lord Oltyx the Ithakas dynasty was his by right but the machinations of the court see him stripped of his position and exiled to a forgotten world.READ IT BECAUSESee the struggles of the Necron court through their own eyes and discover the lengths one Lord will go to for the status they desire.THE STORYExiled to the miserable world of Sedh the disgraced Necron Lord Oltyx is consumed with bitterness. Once heir to the throne of a dynasty he now commands nothing but a dwindling garrison of warriors in a never-ending struggle against Ork invaders. Oltyx can think of nothing but the prospect of vengeance against his betrayers and the reclamation of his birthright. But the Orks are merely the harbingers of a truly unstoppable force. Unless Oltyx acts to save his dynasty revenge will win him only ashes. And so he must return to the crownworld and to the heart of the very court which cast him out. But what awaits there is a horror more profound than any invader whose roots are tangled with the dark origins of the Necrons themselves.
language: English
title: The Twice-Dead King: Ruin
publisher: Black Library