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[[Image:Deceiver.jpg|right|thumb|The Deceiver]]
'''Mephet'ran, the Deceiver''' is a [[C'tan]], a living god of the [[Necron]]s, that survives as fragmented shards.{{Fn|23}}
==History==
The Deceiver was the one to steer the Necrontyr towards a war with the [[Old Ones]], by using its words to instill 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 against C'tan, convincing them that each other was the "best of all feasts"{{Fn|1f}}, 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 the [[Void Dragon]].
Along with many of the other C'tan, the Deceiver was shattered into shards by the [[Necrons]].{{Fn|23}}
===The Deceiver and other races===
*'''Harrimoch''' to the [[Vendichi]] travellers
===Recent HistoryC'tan and Blackstone Fortresses===
[[Image:SS Deceiver.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Deceiver in [[Dawn of War: Soulstorm|Soulstorm]]]]
The Deceiver was the last of the C'tan to descend to its stasis tomb and the first to leave, and has had millennia to gather support. It has destroyed, through its subtle methods, the [[Blackstone Fortresses]], the only weapons capable of destroying the C'tan, and placed the remains far out of reach of the Eldar. It is said that it provoked the [[Gothic War]] simply to destroy or remove the Fortresses.
The Silvae were then introduced to the Imperium and they soon turned to violence, but the Deceiver did not show up to help them. Instead it was dismayed to find them "slipping back to barbarism." It then sent in a Necron force to wipe out all of the Silvae; a few Silvae survived the near-extinction of their race, but there is insufficient genetic variation in these remaining members to perpetuate the species. {{Fn|1g}}
===The Deceiver after the fall of Cadia===
A powerful shard of the Deceiver managed to assume the identity of [[Alpharius]] and to trick the scattered war-bands of the [[Alpha Legion]] to follow his orders. The C'tan took shelter in a former necrontyr world in an uncharted area at the center of the galaxy. Such world was cave and riddled with Necron pylons. The Deceiver aimed at using the Alpha Legion to create more pylons to close the [[Cicatrix Maledictum]] and trick humanity into using the "soulforges" as the Necrontyr did before. The Alpha Legion space marine [[Occam]] the Untrue revealed the true identity of the C'tan and engaged him in battle with forces of Alpha Legion and [[Word Bearers]] possessed space marines. The Deceiver was powerful enough to annihilate most of his enemies and to destroy an orbiting Alpha Legion spaceship that had bombarded him. Finally, Occam used a [[tesseract labyrinth]] to imprison the C'tan shard. The Alpha Legion soldier now plans to question the Deceiver about what he knows regarding the current whereabouts of Alpharius. {{Fn|2}}
==Previous Editions/Canon Conflict==
**{{Endn|1g}}: pg. 50
**{{Endn|1h}}: pg. 63
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Sons of the Hydra (Novel)]]*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Necrons (5th Edition)]], pg. 40
[[Category:C'tan]]
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