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Llandu'gor, the Flayer is a C'tan Star God who was utterly obliterated by the Necrons and inflicted the Flayer Virus upon them as retribution, thus creating the Flayed Ones.[1]

Background

During the closing days of the War in Heaven, when the Necrons led by the Silent King turned against their Star Gods, the Flayer was not merely splintered into C'tan Shards, but utterly obliterated. As a final parting gift, the Flayer gifted the Necrons with the curse of the Flayer Virus, tainting them with an echo of its fearsome hunger.[1][2]

According to legend, it was the Necrons of the Maynarkh Dynasty who had heeded the Silent King's orders to completely destroy the Flayer. It is stated that at the moment of his death, he cursed his betrayers. While this may be a fabrication by rival Necron Dynasties to defame the Maynarkh, these tales may be extrapolated as fact as some of the first instances of the Flayer Virus were seen amongst the Maynarkh courts.[3a] It is noted that an increased numbers of the Maynarkh dynasty's upper echelons have fallen to the Curse of the Flayer in proportion to the lower orders they rule.[3b]

Having been destroyed, C'tan Shards of the Flayer do not exist.[7]

The Flayer Virus

Those afflicted with the Flayer Virus will eventually begin hearing Llandu'gor's final words:

To those who have turned their faces away. To those who are faithless and wretched in their jealousies. To those who have denied us. To those who have denied me. I will wreak vengeance. I will wrench your souls and break your bones. I will cast hunger through your accursed existence. Down the eons, you will not forget. I will grant you this gift from love turned aside and make you like me, break you in my image as you have broken me. I shall cast the fear of myself into you and all of your kind. I am Llandu'gor. I am the hunger. I am the flayer, and from this moment, you shall be too.[5]

Shortly before their minds are consumed by the Flayer Virus, infected Necrons will begin repeatedly saying the same words over again:

I am Llandu'gor.[5]

After they become Flayed Ones, the fallen Necron will then actively begin worshiping their progenitor Star God.[5] In one case, a Chaos Knight known as Death's Sabre earned the admiration of a Flayer Cult, which believed the flesh-covered knight to be a manifestation of Llandu'gor.[4] The Flayer Virus spreads through contact with the living metal skin of the Necrons[5]. In one bizarre case, Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-Priests experimenting with living metal became infected with the Flayer Virus and engaged in self-mutilation and worship of Llandu'gor.[6]

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