The ancient Necrontyr traded their flesh for living metal bodies through biotransference, a bargain with the star gods the C'tan. After sixty million years asleep in tomb worlds, their dynasties are waking to reclaim the galaxy.
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Crownworld Mandragora — Biotransference, The Flayer Curse & C'tan Shards
Sixty million years ago, the short-lived, radiation-blighted Necrontyr Empire waged a futile war of jealousy against the immortal Old Ones until they discovered star-vampires of pure energy feeding on their sun: the C'tan. Tricked by Mephet'ran the Deceiver into marching their entire species into the roaring 'Bio-Furnaces', the Necrontyr surrendered their diseased flesh and had their neural engrams transferred into living-metal 'Necrodermis' bodies—only for the Silent King, Szarekh, to realize too late that the C'tan had devoured every Necrontyr soul in the process. Rebelling at the end of the War in Heaven, Szarekh shattered the C'tan into Tesseract-bound shards and erased his command-protocols before entering sixty million years of Great Sleep.
Sub-Factions, Secret Orders & Classified Relics
- The Sautekh Dynasty (Imotekh the Stormlord) — Overlord of eighty tomb worlds who actively opposes Szarekh the Silent King's return in the Pariah Nexus.
- The Maynarkh Dynasty (The Flayer-Tainted) — The personal executioners of the Silent King who annihilated the C'tan Llandu'gor the Flayer and were first infected by his dying curse.
- The Triarch Praetorians & Conclave of Crypteks — Judicators who never entered the Great Sleep, working for sixty million years to preserve Necron culture.
