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>The Necrontyr have two phases in their lives.
>Childhood, and dying.
>The youth are the best at suppressing cancer, as their immune systems are energetic enough to keep pace.
>The tumors begin to outpace the body's suppressive ability in adolescence, manifesting as small easily removable lumps on the skin.
>The appearance of those lumps on your skin were your sign as Necrontyr that your time as a child has come to an end, and that it is your time to prepare for death.
>The dying phase is always marked with horrific pain that only gets worse untill the bitter end.
>The Necrontyr shaped their culture and religions accordingly.
>Life was seen as nothing but an opportunity to prepare for death, and as such, every Necrontyr lived as if they were already dead.
>They carved out and lived in the tombs they would be sealed in, and they slept in the coffins they would be buried in.
>Death was a fact of life that commanded acknowledgement at the instant you gained self awareness.
>If you wanted immortality, you spent your life for future generations, giving them a reason to hold onto your memory and defend your tomb.
>This eternal contract between the living and the dead served as the foundation for the Dynasties.
>Necrocracy.
>Feudal serfdom was the system the Necrontyr were born into, and by the ancient gods of the universe as their witnesses, even the lowest of slaves laboring in even the most undignified of positions would sooner die than turn from their oaths to their ancestors.
>The Necrontyr lived a subsistence lifestyle, tending to the same crops their ancestors did a hundread thousand generations or more back, dispite having the technology to do better.
>The Necrontyr across the generations refused to embrace new ideas on governance or lifestyle in order to maintain their spiritual connections to the dead.