Ramkharaj Dynasty

EARLY HISTORY

The Ramkharaj Dynasty, also known as the Black Tear Dynasty, is one of the most ancient of all the Necron Empire. They are master architects, constructing magnificent monuments that stand as testament to their power and rulers of a thousand worlds within their fraction of galactic space.

Texts recovered and translated by the Ordo Xenos refer the Dynasty as one born of the internal conflict in the early days of the species' void-fairing and expansion when they were still known as the Necrontyr. The Ramkharaj founded a Crownworld, named Ramahamun, in what is now known as the Segmentum Tempestus. Finding their world rich with useful metals and durable stone, the architects of the Ramkharaj had ample opportunity to hone their craft and, over time, transformed it and the surrounding planets they colonized into elaborate and brilliantly designed tomb complexes, equal parts function and form.

The texts go on to claim that so majestic were their works, that the rival dynasties warred against them in an attempt to lay them low and take what the Ramkharaj had built as their own. Whether or not this is accurate, other evidence does suggest that the Ramkharaj faced regular conflict with at least four other Necrontyr dynasties at some point in the past. The survival of the Ramkharaj hinged on the leadership of their mighty Phaerons and the loyalty their armies displayed not only to them but to the very concept of Dynasty and its grandeur.

THE WAR IN HEAVEN

Old rivalries were put aside during the time of the War in Heaven, in which the Dynasty employed its services in the creation of mighty fortresses for use by the Necrontyr against the Old Ones. Each of these fortresses continued to be built equal parts function and form, being both defensive fortifications and command posts for the armies of the Necrontyr and further monuments to the glory of the Ramkharaj alone as a Dynasty.

Their fortifications, however, proved no match for the technologies and allied races created by the Old Ones. This great blow to the morale of the Ramkharaj was one of the primary reasons they eagerly accepted the C’tan’s gift of immortality, the Phaeron of the time, one Ka-Djnum the Summoner, believing that such a boon would also bring rebirth to the defeated souls of his subjects.

As history would go on to prove, he could not have been more wrong. The Ramkharaj was enslaved like all other Necron Dynasties, becoming the personal playthings of a C’tan known simply as The Unmaker. This C’tan found particular delight in having its new toys continue to build their majestic monuments only to tear them down atom by atom before their very eyes. Though the newly forged Ramkharaj Necrons could feel nothing, deep within them stirred despair with each edifice shattered.

THE REBELLION

When the time of the Necron’s revenge and liberation came, the Ramkharaj were one of those Dynasties instrumental in the creation of the weapons used to shatter the C’tan. With this end to the War in Heaven, though in life they had professed to not be thralls to the Silent King, in death they were bound to his will, and so could not disobey when the command to sleep was pressed upon them. Before this, however, the Ramkharaj claimed and secured all known fragments of The Unmaker within Tesseract Vaults inside their worlds.

This would prove to be another lapse in judgement, as the radiant powers of The Unmaker would, while the C’tan itself remained contained, seep out from the Vaults to affect the world around it. This led to much further degradation of the tomb complexes and their inhabitants, causing all Necrons to “weep” an oil-like substance from their ocular ports. This would in time grant them their nickname of The Black Tear Dynasty.