Orikan - History: Orikan is a consummate chronomancer, able to calculate the events of the future from the patterns of the stars. Thus did he know of the Fall of the Aeldari, the Rise of Man, the Horus Heresy and the coming of the Tyranids many thousands of Terran years before they came to pass. Through careful study and scrutiny, Orikan can even divine lesser occurrences: the movement of fleets, the destinies of individuals, even the strategies undertaken by campaigning armies -- events not important enough to reshape the galaxy, but the foreknowledge of which can dramatically change the fortunes of the beholder.Though they make use of his laborious studies, few amongst Orikan's peers truly trust him. This is not altogether to do with his skills, for all Crypteks are capable of techno-sorceries that defy belief. The unease that Orikan provokes is due chiefly to the mocking scorn with which he treats the nobility of every rank, and to the knowing gleam in his eye that implies he is party to a joke that no other can perceive.Many a Necron Overlord would dearly like to see Orikan punished for this quiet insolence. However, not only is such a course of action impolitic -- the benefits of being able to call upon Orikan's skills greatly outweigh any offence caused by his manner -- it is also almost entirely impossible. Orikan knows the plans of his rivals and enemies long before they do, and it is child's play for him to exploit such schemes to his personal advantage -- an alteration that, more often than not, involves a fatal outcome for the original plotter.Skilled astromancer though he is, Orikan's predictions are not flawless. Unforeseen events can queer his calculations, wiping out and replacing his prophesied timeline. Warp travel is a consistent aggravation, as its eddies and anarchies seem to delight in defying his predictions. Under such circumstances, to preserve his plans and reputation, Orikan is forced to employ a closely guarded set of chronomantic abilities. Travelling backwards down his own timeline, he emerges in the past at a point at which he can set his prophesied version of the future back on track, normally by having the interfering factor destroyed in some manner.In Orikan's predictions, the Imperial Navy dockyards on Helios VI should never have survived the onset of WAAAGH! Skullkrak, and did so only by an inconvenient intervention by the meddlesome Silver Skulls' 4th Company. By retroactively arranging for the Space Marines to be ambushed and nearly wiped out by Necron forces some solar weeks earlier, Orikan ensured that the destruction of Helios VI ultimately occurred as first foreseen. Thus were the Necrons able to reclaim much of the surrounding sector but, more importantly, thus was Orikan's reputation kept intact.Yet Orikan has ever been sparing of such actions, for his meddling can birth all manner of unforeseen events. As a direct result of the Helios VI affair, no less than five Space Marine Chapters, including the Death Spectres, Howling Griffons and the remainder of the Silver Skulls, descended upon the Lazar System to take revenge, utterly destroying the Tomb World from whence Orikan's original commission had come. In that case, Orikan's culpability in the disaster remained secret, but it could have easily gone otherwise.Orikan takes great care to keep his machinations hidden from his peers. Though chronomancy is a science practiced by many other Crypteks, no other is remotely capable of Orikan's feats, something that would increase a hundredfold the suspicion in which he is held. And suspicion is the last thing Orikan needs at this moment. A thousand millennia of planning and preparation are about to come to fruition, for once the stars are in the proper alignment, Orikan will finally embrace his true destiny...Orikan has a long-standing rivalry with his fellow Overlord Trazyn the Infinite that began due to their differing ideologies on the past and their agendas for the future. The two engaged in a ten-thousand-Terran-year-long struggle over access to the stasis tomb of the famed Necrontyr phaeron of the Ammunos Dynasty Nephreth and the supposed technological wonders contained within on the Maiden World and Tomb World of Serenade in the Eastern Fringe. Nephreth had left a star map to his tomb via an artefact known as the Astrarium Mysterios. The tomb itself would only open every few Terran centuries or millennia when certain astrological formations aligned.A notable feature of Serenade was the "song" of the planet, which was actually a numeric sequence that was broadcast continuously from Nephreth's tomb. The sequence, "3211-1545-4131-5322," repeated infinitely and would subconsciously influence all of the inhabitants of the planet. Its influence could be seen in almost every facet of life on Serenade over the millennia. To Necrons, continued exposure and investigation of the song could result in the onset of insanity.In an effort to be rid of Orikan as a rival for the tomb's contents, Trazyn unleashed a Genestealer into the depths of Serenade to assassinate the Cryptek. However, Orikan fought off the attack and the xenos escaped. Centuries passed, and the Genestealer, now a Genestealer Patriarch, had created a Genestealer Cult and launched an uprising upon the world. After being overrun with Genestealers, the Imperium was forced to enact an Exterminatus action, transforming Serenade into a Dead World but leaving the Necron stasis tomb deep below still intact. Unfortunately, Orikan was entombed on Serenade during the Exterminatus assault.It took Orikan over 100 standard years to dig himself out, but due to the reality that he had to reset time whenever the timeline produced the same outcome in which Trazyn trapped him, his subjective time spent in the loop was over 2,000 Terran years. Eventually, Trazyn and Orikan were forced to reconcile and join forces when it became apparent that the existence of Nephreth's tomb was simply a myth seeded in Necron culture by a C'tan Shard of The Deceiver, who had manipulated both Necron Overlords into freeing him. Using an Aeldari gemstone provided by Trazyn, Orikan was able to transform into a god-like being of light to defeat the C'tan Shard. Yet, despite this temporary alliance, Orikan still swore to one day gain his vengeance upon Trazyn.