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Alright guys, fluff question here. My tombworld of Anak'Xiss slumbered for aeons, and during the Great Sleep nearby electeomagnetic storms from a nebula damaged the memory engrams of the entombed Neceons (similarly to the Empire of the Severed in the codex). Then Eldar arrived and the Tomb World began to wake the internal Necron legions to defend itself, the Master Program controlling them (again like the codex).

Now here is where it changes:

The storms were of such a nature that they also damaged the dimensional locks caging a Nightbringer shard within Anak'Xiss.

Eventually, the half-awakened shard begins to stir, damaging the locks further and tearing a small escape route. However, the arcane technology involved creates tremendous heat, melting the living metal walls of the Tomb and causing it to continually have to self repair. Eventually, the semisentient Shard bursts forth from its prison, spattering its living metal body all over the self-repairing walls. The form and essence of the Nightbringer shard is accidentally integrated into Anak'Xiss and its Master Program.

Already in absolute control of the world's Legions, the Nightbringer shard believes it is the Nightbringer in full, and commands its deathless legions to begin harvesting souls to feed its insatiable hunger.

Ok? Or terrible?

Sounds pretty groovy.

sound quite good and interesting

Nice, sounds suitably grimdark, and it all makes sense - go with it!

Really nice, and a great way of bringing the new and old ideas together. Go with it and enjoy!

Sounds good, go for it.

I like it. One nice thing about the newcron fluff is that it allows for old-style tomb worlds to still be consistent with the new status quo.

Looks good to me.

Thanks guys! I will have you know that the following is my campaign fluff for the month after I crushed all of my opponents at 350 points.

[fluff]Anak’Xiss was pleased with itself. It’s component combat parts had performed well on the battlefield. The Necrons damaged beyond the capacity of their own internal self-repair lay now in the Tomb World’s bowels, being tended to by the repair scarabs.

Anak’Xiss now turned to the next matter. Throughout the last few hours, there had been an insistent chittering, some form of glitch, in the Program. A dimensional prison, containing something which Anak’Xiss could not recall, was fragmenting, the internal dimensional locks already sundered, the dimensional corridor slowly corkscrewing open…

…and within, an ancient malevolence stirred in half-awake consciousness. It was merely a fragment, but a fragment of an infinite being is itself only a smaller degree of infinity. The being twisted in the dreams of early wakefullness, tearing and stretching the dimensional prison around it. To the Eldar, this being was Kaelis Ra. To the Necrons, this being was Aza’Gorod. To the other living races of the galaxy, only an imprint of the god remained in their genetic memory. Inside its dimensional prison, its living metal form slowly congealed...[/fluff]

Yep, it's completely possible.

If it wasn't, then I would have to come up with a new background for my army

That is actually a very well written bit of fluff.

While I like the new necrons, the only bit that puts me off is how these all powerful god like creatures (the C'tan) are now basically pawns.

Sure it gives the necrons themselves more character, but I think the C'tan lost out.

Out of all the necron dynasties operating in the galaxy, it is entirely possible some of them are still under C'tan control because of some mishap or another. Nice work!

I like the fluff. I too long for the crons and Ctan of the past. the fluff I came up with uses the silent kings final command to "return to their former glory" against itself. In short, my overlord has decided that the height of the necron "former glory" was when it was in service to the Ctan and thus has devoted all his resources to gathering the shards to re awaken the stargods.

Very nice indeed!