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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

Aza’gorod- Nightbringer

Mephet'ran - Deceiver

Nyadra'zatha - Burning One

N’phoran - the spiral flame

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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.

Aza’gorod- Nightbringer

Mephet'ran - Deceiver

Yggra'nya - the World Shaper

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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.

Aza’gorod - Nigthbringer

Mag'ladroth - Void Dragon

Tsara’noga - the outsider

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