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The Deceiver, as its name implies, enjoys using trickery, deception and lies to its own ends.{{Fn|1e}} The other C'tan quickly learned to distrust and shun the Deceiver{{Fn|1e}}, and its nature was shown particularly when the Deceiver tricked the [[Necrontyr]] into giving up their bodies in favour of metallic husks.{{Fn|1e}} When the Necrontyr first encountered the Deceiver, they gave it the name Mephet'ran, the Messenger{{Fn|1f}} and hoped it would be able to bridge the gap between Necrontyr and C'tan.{{Cite this}}

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]].{{Cite this}}

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.{{Cite this}}

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition)]]

*{{Endn|2}}: [[Sons of the Hydra (Novel)]],{{Cite this}}