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==Before the Enslavers==
The Deceiver is, as its name implies, a tricky being to track down. It enjoys using trickery, deception and lies to get to its own ends ('''1'''). The other C'tan quickly learnt learned to distrust and shun the Deceiver ('''2'''), and its nature was shown particularly when the Deceiver tricked the [[Necrontyr]] into giving up their bodies in favour of metalic metallic husks ('''3'''). When the Necrontyr first encoutered the DecieverDeceiver, they gave it the name Mephet'ran, the Messenger ('''4''') and hoped it would be able to bridge the gap between Necrontyr and C'tan.
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, and this leads which in turn led to the next major incedent incident in the history of the C'tan. One of the three possibilities says that the Deceiver was the first to set C'tan on C'tan, convincing them that each other were the "best of all feasts" ('''5'''), 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 Void Dragon.
The [[Eldar]] gave the Deceiver the name "the Jackal God" ('''6''') and recorded that it helped both sides equally. It then employed a number of guises to acomplish its goals. It was the last to descend to its stasis tomb and the first to leave, and has had millenia to gather support. It has destroyed, through its subtle methods, the [[Blackstone Fortress]]es, the only weapons capable of destroying the C'tan and placing the remainders far out of reach of the Eldar. It is said that it invoked the [[Gothic War]] simply to destroy the or remove the Fortresses.
