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==Before the Enslavers==
The Deceiver is, as its name implies, a tricky being to track down. It enjoys using trickery, deception and lies to get to its own ends<sup>1e</sup>. The other C'tan quickly learned to distrust and shun the Deceiver<sup>1e</sup>, and it's nature was shown particularly when the Deceiver tricked the [[Necrontyr]] into giving up their bodies in favour of metallic husks<sup>1e</sup>. When the Necrontyr first encountered the Deceiver, they gave it the name Mephet'ran, the Messenger<sup>1f</sup> and hoped it would be able to bridge the gap between Necrontyr and C'tan.
The Deceiver was the one to steer the Necrontyr towards a war with the [[Old Ones]], by using its words to instil hatred of their power and ageless wisdom. Eventually this led to the transformation of the Necrontyr to the Necrons, which in turn led to the next major incident in the history of the C'tan. One of the three possibilities says that the Deceiver was the first to set C'tan on C'tan, convincing them that each other were the "best of all feasts"<sup>1f</sup>, but despite this the Deceiver remained one of the physically weakest C'tan and only survived by avoiding the more violent C'tan, such as the Nightbringer and Void Dragon.
===The Deciever and other races===[[Image:Deceiver-sm.jpg|right|thumb|A Shard of the Deceiver]]The Deciever is known by various names by various different cultures -*The [[Eldar]] gave the Deceiver the name "the Jackal God"<sup>1f</sup>*Artemorra to the [[Jokaero]]*Sathsarrion to the Initiates of the Gethvar*Mohagg to the Cornochinae*Harrimoch to the Vendichi travellers ==Previous Editions/Canon Conflict==The fate of the C'tan differed from current lore in previous editions. Prior to the publication of [[Codex: Necrons (5th Edition)]] the C'tan were described as having been in an aeons-long slumber from which they are only now awaking not as having been shattered into the C'tan-Shards. Since this ret-con of the background the canonicity of some older information is uncertain. ===Recent History===
[[Image:SS Deceiver.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Deceiver in [[Dawn of War: Soulstorm|Soulstorm]]]]
The Deceiver Deciever was the last of the C'tan to descend to its stasis tomb and the first to leave, and has been quite active since his release from stasishad millennia to gather support. Below are some examlpes It has destroyed, through its subtle methods, the [[Blackstone Fortress]]es, the only weapons capable of thisdestroying the C'tan and placing the remainders far out of reach of the Eldar. It is said that it invoked the [[Gothic War]] simply to destroy or remove the Fortresses.
===Translation of an Eldar Artifact===
===Assassination attempt===
Another text mentions the attempt by a [[Callidus Assassin]] to assassinate a [[Planetary Governor]] named Takis. She used her [[C'tan Phase Weapon|C'tan phase knife]] and attempted to kill Takis, but she failed and her weapon passed straight through him. He knocked her aside and took her weapon and absorbed it into his hand. We can then probably assume she was absorbed as the last line talks about how her polymorphine drug "gives human essence such a delicate flavouring"<sup>1b</sup>. The fact that the being could absorb the C'tan Phase Knife meant it could only be a C'tan, as its body was made of the same material as the weapon which would have destroyed anything else. Also, we can assume that it is the Deceiver as the only other C'tan to be released from stasis was the Nightbringer, and it would not bother to hide as a governor, it would simply kill everyone around it and consume their bodies and souls. This is proof that the Deceiver is operating to attain power in the [[Imperium]].
===The Nightbringer===
===An article by Farseer Maechu of Ulthwé===
This text gives a brief prediction of the future, of how the Deceiver will blur the sight of the younger races and mankind and will make them believe they are coming home when in fact they are walking into the Necron 'soulforges'.<sup>1h</sup>
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