Mephet'ran the Deceiver, Aza'gorod the Nightbringer, Iash'uddra the Endless Swarm; I curse their names, and the names of all their malevolent brethren. The necrodermis -sheathed C'tan Shard of Aza'gorod the Nightbringer in combat against the foes of the Necrons. It is said that they were created at the very beginning of the universe, incorporeal entities spawned from swirling gases and enormous amounts of energy, and as such are etheric creatures by nature.
In their natural form they are vast beings of pure energy who spread themselves over the surface of a star, absorbing its solar energy to feed themselves. After a time, they learned to use diaphanous wings created from the universe's lines of electromagnetic force to travel to other stars to continue their consumption when their host star died. The matter of planets and nebulae around them was so insignificant that it did not register on their voracious appetite. They are able to interact with the physical world thanks to the technology of the Necrontyr which transferred their consciousnesses into robotic bodies that resembled those of the Necrontyr culture's ancient deities that were made of the living metal called necrodermis.
The C'tan used the hatred of the Necrontyr towards the ancient species called the Old Ones to help them gather the more appetizing energy emitted by living beings that they came to crave. The C'tan Shard of Mephet'ran the Deceiver. The C'tan hate the Warp and its psychic energies even as they crave the living energies of organic beings and had the Necrons construct a series of blackstone pylons on the world of Cadia and other planets across several sectors in the Segmentum Obscurus.
When completed, these constructs were intended to close off the Warp from the material universe entirely, utterly destroying any living creatures with a soul, leaving all other life in the galaxy as nourishment for the C'tan. It was the C'tan who designed the process of biotransference for the Necrontyr, transferring their proteges' consciousnesses wholesale into undying mechanical bodies similar to their own that were also composed of necrodermis.
However, the biotransference process also transformed the Necrontyr into the Necrons , soulless beings who have difficulty taking pleasure in anything and who can never truly enjoy their immortality. Those C'tan who survived the revolt were broken into fragments known as C'tan Shards that were more easily contained and imprisoned within arcane Necron devices called Tesseract Labyrinths. At present, since the majority of the Necrons began to awaken from the Great Sleep in the 41st Millennium, these C'tan Shards are deployed when needed as the Necron Dynasties ' greatest weapons on the battlefield.
