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(This is purely my own creation for a possible necron army, nothing remotely canon)

The Necrontyr cajoled the C'tan that would come to be known as the Nightbringer into material form millions of years ago. Seeking a weapon to use against the Old Ones they got far more than they bargained for and the Star God proceeded to consume thousands of them at a whim. While some sought to appease the ancient power others decided the only way to stop it was to embody others of its kind, in retrospect perhaps not the best idea, but so it was.

How many C'tan were embodied originally is not known now, most of them were dead eons of years before man discovered fire. Of those who have survived are the Nightbringer, the Deceiver, and the Architect known as Chthyr to the Necrontyr. Whereas the Nightbringer saw the material realm as an endless field to harvest, and the Deceiver saw a sea of machinations to be played out, the Architect saw an infinite machine to be tuned and controlled. Living things were components to the machine, no different than gravity or orbital mechanics. The Architect certainly consumed life to sustain itself, but that was not its focus. It saw life as not merely food source but a convenient labor force to build the most colossal of monuments and machines.

Many of the terrible weapons the then newly "born" Necrons brought to battle the Old Ones started as concepts from the Architect. In particular the Great Ward meant to seal off the warp from the material realm was his design and obsession until the interference of the Deceiver. When the Deceiver tempted the Nightbringer into cannibalism everything changed. The Architect was forced to conclude that the biggest threat to it's plans of a perfectly ordered and controlled universe (under its own control of course) were the other C'tan.

Once the Nightbringer turned on its own kind completing the Great Ward would have been suicidal. Without time to prepare, and time here is measured in solar lifecycles, the Architect could not hope to defeat the Nightbringer with his primordial fury. A distraction was therefor needed. The Architect deliberately sabotaged the Great Ward to do the opposite, encouraging the encroachment of the warp, allowing the fledgling chaos demons to run rampant and giving the Old One's servants greater access to the warp. The resulting chaos successfully distracted the few remaining C'tan from trying to feed on each other. They turned to fight against the Old Ones while plotting how to survive the warp encroachment.

The Architect did little to help the other C'tan. He seemed to be leading his necron against the Slann but in reality he was stealing the Old One's knowledge of lifecrafting. The others saw life as nothing but a raw resource but the Architect saw them as machines to be used. He devised the Pariah gene and gave it to the other C'tan to distribute as part of the supposed plan to deal with the psychic influences eventually. This plan was merely a ruse to placate the others. Meanwhile the Architect was busy producing new organisms for his own use.

These super predators would serve a dual purpose. In the first place they would consume and aggregate life forces for convenient eventual consumption by the Architect. In the second place once given enough time to consume and reproduce the resulting hive fleets would be terrible engines of destruction to be aimed like a weapon by the only C'tan who knew how to play on their deep rooted instincts. These distant precursors to the Tyranids were sent out towards the nearest galaxies, programmed to return after they grew to a certain useful size.

The last action of the Architect before retiring to his own stasis tomb was to place a series of sensors around the edges of the galaxy which were capable of sensing the enormous warp shadow of a hive fleet. With the approach of hive fleet Behemoth the Architect's hidden Necron forces started stirring. Soon it'd be time to detonate the psycho-pheremone charges that would lure the returning Tyranids onto the forces of the remaining C'tan.

01112 wrote:How many C'tan were embodied originally is not known now, most of them were dead eons of years before man discovered fire. Of those who have survived are the Nightbringer, the Deceiver, and the Architect known as Chthyr to the Necrontyr.

Someone's never read the Necron codex. It's stated that only four C'tan survived, the Nightbringer, the Deceiver, the Outsider, and the Void Dragon.

Read it but interpreted it differently. It seemed like the Nightbringer and Deceiver were the only two named for sure while the Outsider and Void Dragon were not clearly C'tan or were possibly other names for the two named C'tan.

It has been confirmed that the Outsider and Void Dragon are still alive somewhere. The Void Dragon is hiding on Mars; the Emperor defeated it on Terra long before he united humanity and imprisoned it there. There are also supposedly a lot of Necrons guarding it, but it's unknown as to how they got there.

The outsider was sealed in a dyson sphere by the eldar laughing god. The dyson sphere seems to distract tyranid attacks....

Perhaps the Architect was one of the C'tan who got devoured by the Outsider or the Nightbringer?