Manubiarix
The Manubiarix is a Necron device containing a C'tan Shard. Both the container and entity within are referred to as the Manubiarix.[1]
Overview
The device takes the form of a black octohedron, burning cold to the touch, that fits in a human hand. The device oscillates slightly, resonating with a song in the purest binharic cant from the being trapped inside. This song can only be heard by those in the Adeptus Mechanicus who have not undergone the Rite of Pure Thought, or still retain a functioning right hemisphere of their brain.[1]
The C'Tan shard can be released from the device using a complicated series of movements, cantrips, and code in an alien language. Reversing this release protocol will immediately return the C'tan shard back into the device upon completing the sequence.[1]
This artefact was brought back to Stygies VIII by Magos Explorator Isonovere Holt. She had slaughtered the sensor technicians at the Immacoris Watch Station orbiting the dead world of Klybo before obtaining the artefact from xenos ruins on the dead world. The explorator would eventually travel from the Calixis Sector to Hydraphur aboard her vessel the Tenebris Lucet. From there she would travel back to her home Forge World where Inquisitor Balphus Grun had tracked her. After a series of events within Explorator Holt's tower on Stygies VIII, the C'tan shard would be momentarily released and kill the Inquisitor alongside his Tempestus Scions with ease. The Manubiarix would then turn to kill the individual that opened the containment device, however, it would be contained again within the Necron device before killing said wielder.[1]
The Manubiarix was last seen in the possession of Isonovere Holt, deep below the explorator's ransacked abode on Stygies VIII. Holt now controls the body of Artisan Thess 4/90, a feat she was able to achieve via knowledge regarding consciousness transfer she learned from the Manubiarix.[1]
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