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This is most of the information available to us, giving the Void Dragon a mysterious character. There three obvious mentions of the Void Dragon, on pages 5 and 49 of [[Codex: Necrons]].
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This article only briefly mentions the Void Dragon, saying that "The Vaul-moon shall bring forth the Dragon" ('''12'''). It is possible that the term Vaul-moon references Mars, or another forge world.
==Horus Heresy and the Dragon of Mars==
In the book series, The Horus Heresy, a great deal about an entity almost certainly the Void Dragon is revealed, called The Dragon of Mars. The [[Emperor]] himself defeated a creature of godlike power who existed on Earth itself centuries ago (What what this implies about the Emperor's natural lifespan is uncertain, but [[Space Marines]], his genetic children, do not age normally either) sometime during the 12th century (the text states during the reign of the Emperor Diocletian however, which suggests a date around the 3rd/4th century)<sup>3</sup>. He traveled travelled to Mars and imprisoned the entity within the [[Noctis Labyrinth]], purposefully not destroying it. The creature is described as having "drunk the heart of stars" and "worshipped as a god", which heavily implies it to be a [[C'Tan]]. It had no name of its own, but the Emperor dubbed it "The Dragon of Mars", and bound it there. Once the warpstorms warp storms began and the [[Dark Age of Technology]] ended, the Dragon of Mars sought to claim the red planet by sending out dreams from its imprisonment, teaching the humans there how to build incredibly advanced machines, and in turn, worship those machines. Thus, the Dragon directly created the [[Mechanicum]]. This was in fact the Emperor's plan all along: to create a technologically advanced society that would be able to provide the industrial machinery for his great crusade.
The Dragon of Mars is a being and a location at the same time. It exists beneath the [[Noctis Labyrinth]] in the form of an empty cavern of great size with walls of silver. The room is literally immeasurable, as physical laws warp and bend to the point of being meaningless inside. The air itself is malevolently sentient, and one can feel the hate and anger of the bound god all around them, driving most insane. The Dragon seems only capable of directly communicating to a small lineage of humans via intense visions and grants the ability to control and repair all technology merely by touch. This group, the Children of the Dragon, live one at a time inside the Dragon, called to it by its desire to be free and replacing the previous guardian. The Dragon's power grants them immortality until it passed on, and thus far all have chosen to deny the Dragon its freedom and serve the [[Emperor]] instead by waiting for the next guardian to arrive. It does not appear the Dragon has a choice in whether or not the Children receive its power, but instead they are somehow part of it to begin with.
Dalia Cythera, Guardian during the Horus Heresy, accidentally allowed a book containing the account of the Dragon to be taken from the Dragon's cavern. It it said there was much harm done because of this, but this couldn't be unmade when the cavern was again recovered and entered ten thousand years later, in the 41st milleniummillennium. <sup>3</sup>
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