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I've heard GW never did an official image of a necrontyr, but in the background it said that necrons visited earth in it's past, possibly creating Egyptian culture and introducing the pariah gene to humanity for their own reasons.

If this is still accepted, and some necrons did tinker with human dna a little, I wonder ifthey tried to make some humans look more like necrontyr.

There was a pharoah called Akhenaten that was famous for a few things. 1, he really looked weird, now they think he suffered from a genretic cpnfdition called Marfan;'s syndrome that accounted for his strange looks. Here are a few images of what he was supposed to have looked like.



Huge image spoiler.




Notice the long face? Kinda reminiscent of something necron players might be familiar with, isn''t it?

Also he was famous for trying to chance egyptian religion, he wanted to eliminate polytheism and replace it with monotheism, centered on him.

Also he demanded that artists record his image accurately, as opposed to the idealized versions of images they normally did up to that point. This was a big departure.

Oh, he was king tut's daddy too.


I wondered if someone based necron skulls on a pic of Akhenaten's own very long face. If they did it might mean in the 40k universe that necrons may have tried to make humans into a more necrontyr race, resulting in marfan's syndrome as well as the pariah gene.








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In addition to his strange head shape, Ankhaten also had a strangely shaped body, see this statue,



He had a very narrow waist, huge thighs, a protruding lower belly and an odd chest for a man.

Another thing that makes me think GW based the newcrons on ankhenaten is the fact he tried to destroy egypt's old gods, he really tried to abolish the old religion of egypt, this huge polytheist faith, and replace it with a religon based on one god, the sun, and the pharoah as his avatar on earth.

So I wonder if his image was used for the plastic warrior heads and later as inspiration for the newcrons.