The news spread through the Eisenek networks in an instant: the war was won.

They were the last lifeforms remaining on the surface of Noxdorma. No enemies left. No obstacles to the glorious age of wealth and productivity promised by Iron Lich Viscerot.

A hundred years passed. Then a thousand.

Iron Lich Viscerot’s colossal machine, the World-Eater, bored ever deeper beneath Noxdorma’s crust. Meanwhile, the Reavers asked the same question, over and over: When will the Equation be complete? When will the prosperity begin?

The answer was always the same from Viscerot and his deathless lords: Soon.

But prosperity never came.

Instead of bountiful Cyaline deposits and magnificent Necrotech enhancements for every common soldier, there were cuts. Resources were redirected to Viscerot’s private laboratory. To the construction of his necromoons. To the Hellforges and their starships which would seek out distant new worlds for Eisenek expansion.

Then the Cyaline ran dry.

Some Reavers chose to starve, faithful to the end. Others turned on their comrades, scavenging what they could from their corpses. Messages from Viscerot’s laboratory became less frequent, until they fell silent altogether. Geothermal tremors worsened. Something terrible was happening to Noxdorma itself.

But the Reavers barely noticed. Each day had become a ravenous struggle for survival. In the days before the Shattering, the Eisenek devoured each other.

When the Valkyrie Vydar first beheld these grotesque fusions of flesh and cable sifting through the charred ruins of Noxdorma, he recoiled in horror. Their flickering ocular sensors, skeletal jaws, and the eerie blue vapor hissing in their canisters—they were nightmares made real.

Yet his vision would not relent. He watched them tear through ancient war machines to survive, ripping out circuitry and weapons, grafting twisted remnants of metal to their own rotting frames.

He did not know their names. He did not know their history. But he recognized their genius, their madness, their raw, relentless will to endure.

And just moments before Noxdorma collapsed entirely, Vydar summoned them to Valhalla.

Necrotech Reavers are available in the Upgraded Necrotech Reavers Common Army Expansion!