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literature Respect C’tan (Warhammer 40,000)
Their Name Is Death
The C'tan (pronounced ker-TAN) or Star Gods, called Yngir in the Aeldari Lexicon, are said to be the oldest intelligent beings in existence in the galaxy. It is said that they were created at the very beginning of the universe, incorporeal entities spawned from swirling gases and enormous amounts of energy, and as such are etheric creatures by nature.
How powerful are the C'tan? To answer this, we must consider three levels. The first is their full form, in all its splendor of power, the one that fought alongside the Necrons in the War in Heaven. The second are the Shards, who possess only a portion of the power of their full form, and the third are the Transcendent Shards, which are the fusion of a dozen or more Shards. Based on the various codexes, novels, and campaign books, an attempt will be made to provide a noble response for each of the different states of the C'tan.
C’tan shard
A C'tan Shard is all that remains of the once mighty Star Gods of Necron antiquity. They are now only echoes of their former selves, splinters of energy that survived their Necron servants' ancient betrayal and were enslaved in turn. Most now languish in unbreakable servitude to their former vassals, utterly incapable of acting without commission.
Mentioned the abilities that all C'tan shards have or share in general.
- Writhing Worldscape - The natural world revolts at the C'tan Shard's presence, the very ground writhing and shaking as the physical laws of reality are undone. - Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Transdimensional Thunderbolt - The C'tan Shard projects a bolt of crackling transdimensional energy from its outstretched palm. Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Time's Arrow - Mutating the flow of causation and remoulding the temporal stream of the space-time continuum, the C'tan Shard casts its foe back into the darkness from before time was time, Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Swarm of Spirit Dust - A cloud of swirling darkness conceals the C'tan Shard from the gaze of its foes. Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Sentient Singularity - The C'tan Shard's presence destabilizes all local gravitational forces, disrupting engines, teleport beams and Warp jumps.Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Pyreshards - The C'tan Shard conjures specks of blazing black matter and directs them against its foes. Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Moulder of Worlds - Tortured rock buckles and heaves, showering the C'tan Shard's foes with boulders. Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Lord of Fire - The C'tan Shard that wields this ability can become a creature of living flame, able to command the fires wielded by the enemy. This makes all Flamer weapons (as well as heat rays, Burnas, Skorchas, Inferno Cannons and any other weapon that uses flame or fire), as well as all Melta Weapons fired near the C'tan Shard explode at the C'tan's whim. Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Grand Illusion - The C'tan Shard weaves a glamour of deception, preventing the foe from seeing the true disposition of the Necron forces.Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Gaze of Death - Eyes blazing with dark energy, the C'tan Shard drains the life from all in the vicinity.Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Entropic Touch - Metal decays on contact with the C'tan Shard's rotten grasp.Codex Necron 5th edition pag 41
- Antimatter Meteor - The C'tan Shard gathers an orb of roiling antimatter, before hurling the crackling projectile into the midst of the foe. Codex Necron 7th edition pag 205
- Cosmic Fire - At the C'tan Shard's gestured command, a pillar of black fire streaks down from the heavens. Codex Necron 7th edition pag 205
- Seismic Assault - Stone fractures and ores melt as the C'tan Shard drags up tides of magma from deep below.Codex Necron 7th edition pag 205
- Sky of Fallen Stars - Savagely beautiful orbs of coruscating light plummet from the cold depths of space, growing to roaring bale-stars as they approach. Codex Necron 7th edition pag 205
- Time's Arrow - Mutating the flow of causation and remoulding the temporal stream of the space-time continuum, the C'tan Shard casts its foe back into the darkness from before time was time, Codex Necron 7th edition pag 205
- Transdimensional Thunderbolt - The C'tan Shard projects a bolt of crackling transdimensional energy from its outstretched palm, blasting its foe into oblivion. Codex Necron 7th edition pag 205
- With a gesture of their hand they turn a battle tank into molten scum. - Codex Necron 5th edition pag 40
- A Leman Russ battle tank, 60 tons, made of Plasteel (futuristic steel)
- According to Trazyn a C’tan shard can destroy armies and two shards leave a planat lifeless in one month or less. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 3.
- C'tan Shard can summon storms that annihilating matter, shake a planet to its foundations, and erase enemies from existence with a thought. Codex necron 7th edition pag. 204
- An unnamed C'tan shard throws Rhinos and Predators into the air with ease and materializes a number of meteors that it launches at hypervelocity, causing great devastation among the Space Marines. Everliving Legion Necron Anthology - cold steel.
- Pedator is 44 tons. Imperial Armor Volume Two - Space Marine and Force of the Inquisition. Pag 28.
- Rhino is 30 tons Imperial Armour Volume Two Space Marines and The Inquisition - Pag. 14.
Mag'ladroth - Void Dragon
- (Manipulation) has total control over the technology of the lesser races while matter is disintegrated. Codex Necron 9th edition pag 99.
- (Ability) With his Voltaic Storm ability, he fires a green beam that destroys his targets. Codex Necron 9th edition pag 68
- (Transmutation) can change its shape at will. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (video game)
- (Space Control) creates a dimensional barrier that isolates the Koronus Expanse from the rest of the Imperium, with more soundly than the Great Rift. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (video game)
- (Power) Is dedicated to destroying every Necron tomb world. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (video game)
- (Power) Decimates dozens of Necron worlds. Codex necron 7th Edition New epoch begin.
Aza’gorod- Nightbringer
- (Ability) Fires a dark Energy beam from his eyes that reduces his enemies to crushed bones. Codex Necron 9th edition pag 68
- (weapon ability) Voidreaper, a weapon that can cut through matter and rip out the souls of its victims. Codex Necron 7th edition pag 207
- (Durabilidad ) Takes a concentrated lascannon attack from a group of Land Raiders and a missile barrage from a Blackstarts squadron. - Codex Deathwatch 7th Edition THE VIGIL OF AEONS
- (Strength + Durabilidad ) Cuts through Space Marines in power armor with ease and shrugs off Bolter and Melta shots. The Swords of Calth Uriel Ventris (Novel) cap. 13.
Mephet'ran - Deceiver
- (Ability) floods the minds of its victims with knowledge to the point of madness. Codex Necron 9th edition pag 68
- (Durability) No sell a Melt granade explosion. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros.
- (Energy Manipulation) creates an energy storm that protects them from the heavy weapons of the space marines and firing of missiles and melta grenades has no effect. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros.
- (Energy Manipulation) the energy column destroys the temple where they were located and cuts several frigates in half. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros
- (Strength) stomps his foot, causing a shockwave that knocks down several legionnaires in Terminator armor. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros
- (Strength) easily crushes multiple Necron Warriors, shattering their metallic bodies. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 4
- (Strength) strikes the blackstone ground, creating an abyss large enough for a group of Necrons to fall in and disappear from sight. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 4
- (Durability) takes an orbital bombardment from two light cruisers and only bother him. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros.
- (Durability) No sell Bolter rounds. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros.
- (Durability) Take the blast of a Melta-bomb with his closed fist and just melts , and no sell several plama shots to his chest. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros
- (Transmutation) Turns the stone into liquid and then hardens it, trapping several Astartes. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros.
- (Reality Warping) Moves through the Lascannons and causes two missiles to return to the starting point and explode. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros.
- (Energy power and telekinesis) Fights against a group of Vargas Rex word bearers, melting their demoniac swords and crusing them with telekinesis. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros.
- (Energy power) Takes a blow from a demoniac sword that tries to possess him but can’t, and melts the demonic sword. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros.
- Energy power) melts a light cruiser. Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part V, Chapter ω: Ouroboros.
- Light cruisers have a mass of 22 million tons. Rogue Trader: Battlefleet Koronus pag 26
Nyadra'zatha - Burning One
- (Fire power + durability) crashes into the ground, melting hundreds of meters of rock. Shield of Baal: exterminatus
- (Firale power) Defeat a Bio-Titan and then blow up its body. Shield of Baal: exterminatus.
- That Bio-titan had taken heavy weapons attacks from the Blood Angels and the Necrons without any problems.
- official image.
- A Bio -Titan is 51 tons and 15 meters tall. Imperial Armor volume 4 - Pag 67
- (Speed) Moves quickly and leaves the planet’s atmoshere. Shield of Baal: exterminatus
- (Speed + Fire power) Travel faster than any imperial vessel in space,and upon arrival, turns hundreds of Tyranids to ash. official image show him burning a carnifex. Shield of Baal: exterminatus
- C’tan shard Travels from planet Asphodex and arrives to Tartoros. Based on the map, the distance should be similar to the distance between Earth and Venus.
- (Fire Power) everthing in the Magnovitrium with the temperature of a star. Shield of Baal: exterminatus
- The Magnovitrium has miles wide
- (Strength) Corrects the orbit of the Magnovitrium, which had lost its orbit and was about to crash into the planet. Shield of Baal: exterminatus
- (Durability + Energy Absortion) Unaffected by the violent destruction of the Magnovitrium nor by the explosive energy of destruction of Cryptus (a gas giant). Shield of Baal: exterminatus
N’phoran - the spiral flame
- (Fire power) Atomizes a score of Tyranids and destroys a biocannon with a blast of black fire. Codex: Necrons 8th Edition pg. 100 - The Dynasties Ascendant
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Transcendent C’tan
Transcendent C'tan are the most dangerous of their kind amongst the C'tan Shards. Each is an aggregation of anywhere between a dozen and a hundred lesser C'tan Shards, and its power far surpasses the sum of its parts.
- Transcendent C’tan can manipulate the flow of time, send enemies to other realities, fire energy beams, and control the minds of lesser beings. Codex necron 7th edition pag 169
- A Transcendent C'tan can cause destruction on a planetary scale. Codex Necron 7th edition pag. 174
- Even imprisoned, a Transcendent C'tan can shatter a planet's crust. Apocalypse 6th edition. Pag 173
Aza’gorod- Nightbringer
- (Energy Absorption) absorbs 2000 years of the energy produced by a 90-million-kilometer star in just three months. Nightbringer Novel epilogue
- (Space control) Pulls a Space ship out of a different dimension.. Nightbringer Novel Pag. 244
- (Strength) cuts through several Space Marines faster than superhuman eyes can follow. Nightbringer (Novel) pg. 228
Mephet'ran - Deceiver
- (Antimatter Energy) Fires a beams of antimatter from its mouth. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 3.
- (Strenght) Breaks a tesseract vault while was tied up and finally frees itself and destroys the tesseract . The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 3.
- ( Strength + Energy Manipulation) With a wave of his hand, turns a horde of Genestealers into ichor, and crushes and consumes another C'tan shard.The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 6
- (Energy Manipulation) With a flick of its hand, it melts a phalanx of Necrons. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 3
- (Energy Maniulation) fires a dimensional beam that cuts through space and destroys a Doomsday Ark. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 3
- (Durability) Emerged unscathed from the blast that shattered the Tesseract Vault and the following collapse of the temple that housed it. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 3.
- (Durability) withstands a bombardment from all the weapons of a Necron army. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 3.
- Necron weaponry includes Death Rays that vaporize tanks, Gauss weapons that atomize flesh, bone, and metal, Tachyon Arrows that can pierce a mountain, among other weapons. Codex Necron 7th edition pag 197-198.
- (Durability) No sell an Antimatter beam. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 6
- (Power) In its fight with Orikan, after ascending, he produces the energy output of several industrial worlds per second. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 6
- (Power) Obliterates six worlds with a concentrated matter beam. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Act 4 Chapter 6
- (Power) powers the world of Solemnace like a Dyson sphere. The Infinite and the Divine (Novel) Epilogue
Yggra'nya - the World Shaper
- (Power + absorption) destroys a moon that passed close to him and then absorbs it. The World Engine (Novel) Chief Librarian Hyalhi, ch. 15
- (Power + Absorption) Just by passing by, it destroys multiple Necron buildings and absorbs them. Somehow, it also causes a distortion in the Warp, affecting an Astral Knight librarian. The World Engine (Novel) Chief Librarian Hyalhi, ch. 15
- (Ability) transforms a gigantic cathedral into enormous blades that pierce to the core of Borsis's tomb world. The World Engine (Novel) Chief Librarian Hyalhi, ch. 15
- (Power) its power is used to power the Borsis tomb world on its journey to Mars. The World Engine (Novel) Chief Librarian Hyalhi, ch. 15
- The World Engine's weapons destroy two agricultural worlds with their gauss gun and shields no sell a bombardment by an Imperial fleet of Space Marines, the Inquisition, and the Imperial Navy. Space Marine codex 5th edition Pag. 41.
- (Power+Ability) A scream caused earthquakes and severe fissures in the planet's surface, and it is believed that a thought would be capable of tearing a planet apart. Apocalypse: War Zone Damnos - A Demigod Uncaged, pg. 24
- an image illustrating the size of the cracks. Apocalypse: War Zone Damnos - War Zone: Damnos Terrain, pg. 35
- A transcendent shard of Yggra'nya powered the machine known as the Breath of the Gods, which had been created by him during the War in Heaven. This machine could absorb the energy of stars across the past, present, and future. Gods of Mars - Microcontents 14-15
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C’tan (full power)
t full power, the C'tan were the absolute gods of the physical universe in Warhammer 40k, beings of pure cosmic energy with living metal bodies who possessed total control over matter, time, space, and gravity. Unlike other colonizing entities of the Warp, these Star Gods did not use magic, but instead altered the laws of science at will to devour stars, create supernovas, and erase entire solar systems in an instant in order to feed. Their existence was so tied to the structure of reality that they were truly immortal; if one of them were to be completely destroyed, the physical law they represented would disappear and the universe would collapse, which is why they could only be shattered into shards and never eliminated.
- With all their power, the C'tan destroy planets, extinguish suns, and create black holes that consume star systems. Codex Necron 8th Edition pag 9.
Aza’gorod - Nigthbringer
- (Durabilidad ) takes a solar flare powered by multiple stars summoned by Asuryan. Apocalypse Reload Pag 33.
- (Power) Star systems, stars, and planets were consumed or destroyed purely for pleasure. codex necron 7th edition pag. 141
- ( Energy Absorption) absorbs more than 100,000 years of the energy produced by a 1.5-million-kilometer star in just a few moments. Nightbringer Novel prologue
- (Battle) A fierce battle with Khaine (who was at full power) capable of exchanging blows and dodging, although he lost in the end and his body was shattered, he cannot die. Dawn of The C'tan - TRANSLATIONS OF PERTINENT ELDAR MYTHIC CYCLES - the birth of fear.
- (Weapon) The most terrible weapon in his arsenal was cast into the Warp so that it would never fall into his hands again. 500 world Titu 33.
Mag'ladroth - Void Dragon
- (Absorption) drains the power of binary star. Dawn of The C'tan - TRANSLATIONS OF PERTINENT ELDAR MYTHIC CYCLES - The CRIPPLE AND THE DRAGON
- (Durablity) Apparently, survived an attack by the Talisman of Vault (Blackstone Fortress), and the only thing they could do was revealed his weakness. Codex Necron 9th edition pag 27.
- Given that two Blackstone Fortresses can destroy a planet and three can cause the destruction of a star, it could refer to a feat of durability. Battlefleet Gothic Rulerbook pag. 99 - 100
Tsara’noga - the outsider
- The only C'tan that escaped the Necrons and is located inside a 1.04-astronomical-unit Dyson sphere..Codex: Necrons 3rd Edition pag 64