Destroyer Cult
Life festers in such profusion that it may take me countless galactic ages to see it all eradicated. There are more efficient ways, but many necessitate the willing cooperation of other species, others who will slay as I do. I have not the time to inculcate any in the universe's great truth: the fundamental need for it to be cleansed of life. Such a solution would require the cooperating mortals to continue in their existence even as they ended that of others. Unacceptable
The Destroyer Cult is a sub-sect of Necron society characterized by their hatred of all life.[1a]
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Description
Those of the Destroyer Cult are Necrons who have descended into apparent madness and are considered untrustworthy and dangerous by their own kind.[1a] They are agents of annihilation whose sole reason for existence is centred around an unshakable yearning to cleanse the universe of life. Unlike most other Necrons, those of the Destroyer Cult do not wish to reverse biotransference and regain their organic forms; instead they have heavily modified themselves to better kill their foes. What impels them to join the Cult is unknown but some suspect a subconscious imperative programmed into their command protocols - possibly by the C'tan.[1b] The Oruscar Dynasty member Revkkah, for example, believed Aza'gorod was responsible for the creation of the Destroyer Cults and thought the infected were the C'tan's bastard offspring.[7]
Members of the Destroyer Cult can be found on every tomb world and have been seen among every social class in Necron society.[1b] Destroyer Cultists are outcasts in their own society, with most Necrons believing their madness to be infectious. However, Dynasties still find them useful shock troops.[6a]
Such is their hatred of life that members of the Destroyer Cult hold that they will relentlessly scour a planet's organisms down to the microscopic level. This includes plants, bacteria and even oceans, which they will boil with their weaponry. Even if it takes decades, Destroyers will never cease in their purge. They even welcome their own deaths, for they themselves are amongst the living and in the end will seek total oblivion.[5]
Destroyer Cult Forces
- Lokhust sub-cult
- Skorpekh sub-cult
- Skorpekh Lord[2]
- Skorpekh Destroyer[2]
- Hexmark Destroyers[3] have Skorpekh bodies, but due to originating as Deathmarks prefer to kill things at range.
- Ophydian Destroyer[4]
- Plasmacytes are not Destroyers, but rather Canoptek constructs designed specifically to interact with Destroyers.
Known Destroyer Cults
- Cursed Legion - Vast legions of Nekrosor Ammentar.[10]
- Heralds of Obliteration - Sautekh Dynasty. Part of the Blade of Gidrim Reclamation Legion.[8]
- Merciless Legion - Headed by the Skorpekh Lord Sartokh[8]
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Heralds of Obliteration[8]
See also
Sources
- 1: Codex: Necrons (8th Edition):
- 2: Warhammer Community: Warhammer 40,000 Preview – What’s in the Box? (posted 13/06/2020) (last accessed 13 June 2020)
- 3: Warhammer Community: Warhammer Preview Online: Shadow, Iron & Broken Realms (posted 22/08/2020) (last accessed 22 August 2020)
- 4: Warhammer Community: The Codex Show (posted 12/09/2020) (last accessed 12 September 2020)
- 5: The Infinite and the Divine (Novel), Act 2, Chapter 1
- 6: Codex: Necrons (9th Edition):
- 7: The Bleeding Stars (Short Story)
- 8: White Dwarf 52 (2015) - Necron Decurions
- 9: Codex: Necrons (10th Edition), pg. 96
- 10: 500 Worlds: Titus, pg. 37
