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'''Mephet'ran, the Deceiver''' is a [[C'tan]], a living god of the [[Necron]]s, that survives as fragmented shards.{{Fn|3}}

===The Deceiver and other races===

The Deceiver is known by various names by various different cultures:

*The [[Eldar]] gave the Deceiver the name "the Jackal God"{{Fn|1f}}

===C'tan and Blackstone Fortresses===

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}}

A powerful shard of the Deceiver managed to assume the identity of [[Omegon]] 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 Omegon. {{Fn|2}}

==See also==

*[[C'tan]]

*[[Nightbringer]]