Llandu'gor

The Devoured

Of the five C'tan whose names the Necron records preserve, Llandu'gor is the only one who is not, even in fragment-form, available to be released or weaponised. He was devoured by another C'tan — the Outsider — during the C'tan's long internal war, before the Necrontyr ever bargained with them. His body was consumed entirely. His soul, by the Necron metaphysical record, was not.

The Outsider could not digest him. Llandu'gor's consciousness persists, screaming, inside the consciousness of the Star God who ate him. This is, in the Necron understanding, the origin of the Outsider's madness.

The Aspect

Where the Nightbringer was death and the Deceiver was lies and the Void Dragon was the patient earth, Llandu'gor was the flaying. His aspect was the taking of skin as trophy, the wearing of others' bodies as adornment, the reduction of identity to material. Among the C'tan he was, by Necron memory, the most uniformly disliked — even his siblings considered him an aesthetic and ethical step too far.

He was eaten partly because the Outsider could; partly because no other C'tan defended him.

He laughs at the stars. The stars do not laugh back. He laughs at himself. The voice in his mouth does not stop screaming.

— Necron poetic fragment

The Flayer Curse

Necrons across the galaxy occasionally develop the Flayer Curse — a degeneration in which the affected Necron becomes obsessed with wearing strips of organic flesh, treating other beings' bodies as material for grotesque self-adornment. Affected Necrons hoard flesh-trophies. They sew them onto their living-metal frames. They display them.

The Necron pathological consensus is that the Flayer Curse leaks from Llandu'gor — that the trapped C'tan's consciousness, still active inside the Outsider, broadcasts a faint persistent influence that some Necron lattices are vulnerable to. The Curse is contagious by proximity. It is, by Necron technology, untreatable. Affected dynasties are quarantined.

M42

The Flayer Curse continues to manifest in M42 Necron operations. Imperial xenos-hunters who have encountered Flayed Ones — the Necron infantry-equivalent of curse-victims — describe them as recognisable but not understandable. They are, in some sense, still themselves. They are also, in some sense, wearing a piece of Llandu'gor.

Whether the Silent King's reclamation programme will reach inside the Outsider to retrieve or destroy what remains of Llandu'gor is, in the deepest Necron internal debate, unsettled.

The Devoured-Status

Llandu'gor's specific pre-Fall theological-and-operational position within the Aeldari pantheon was sustained-aspect: Llandu'gor was classified as the pantheon's specific Aspect figure with sustained theological-and-operational responsibility for the pantheon's specific Aspect-related operational arrangements. The position was sustained-institutionally important; the Aeldari pantheon's arrangements had required sustained Aspect-related operational capability that no other pantheon figure had been responsible for providing.

Llandu'gor's specific Fall-era operational fate was sustained-distinctive among the Aeldari pantheon's Fall-era operational fates. Llandu'gor was devoured during the Fall's specific theological-and-operational events; the devouring's mechanism was, by sustained Aeldari theological documentation, conducted not by Slaanesh (the standard Aeldari pantheon Fall-era devouring agent) but by a different entity. The specific identity of the operational entity is sustained-classified within the Aeldari Farseer council's documentation; the surviving Aeldari Farseer council has not publicly addressed the entity's identity.

The Aspect Inheritance

Llandu'gor's legacy to the post-Fall Aeldari species is the sustained Phoenix Lord institutional arrangement — the specific Aeldari Aspect Warrior senior position whose character reflects Llandu'gor's specific Aspect-related operational arrangements. The Phoenix Lord arrangement is classified as Llandu'gor's specific institutional inheritance; the arrangement's practices have been derived from Llandu'gor's pre-Fall operational practices and have been sustained across approximately ten thousand post-Fall Terran years through specific Aspect Shrine institutional training arrangements.

The Phoenix Lord arrangement has been essential to the surviving Aeldari species' continued operational viability. The Aspect Warrior cohorts that the surviving Aeldari Craftworlds maintain are calibrated to the Phoenix Lord arrangement's frameworks; the Phoenix Lord arrangement's sustainability is, by sustained Aeldari Farseer assessment, the reason that the species has been able to sustain Aspect Warrior cohorts across the post-Fall era. The arrangement's continuation across the M42-era has been sustained-institutional.

The Flayer Affliction Connection

Llandu'gor's specific pre-Fall operational arrangement included continued action with the Outsider's specific Flayer-affliction. The arrangement was distinctive; no other Aeldari pantheon figure had been engaged with the Outsider's arrangements at the level that Llandu'gor had undertaken. The arrangement's outcomes was, by sustained Aeldari theological documentation, containment of the Outsider's specific Flayer-affliction within the Outsider's position.

The containment was sustained across the pre-Fall era. The Flayer-affliction had been contained within the Outsider's position through Llandu'gor's continued action; the containment had prevented the Flayer-affliction from spreading beyond the Outsider's position. Llandu'gor's Fall-era devouring terminated the containment arrangement; the Flayer-affliction has, since the Fall, spread across approximately every sustained Necron population through sustained Outsider operational engagement. The consequences is, by sustained Aeldari theological assessment, "the Aeldari pantheon's responsibility for the Flayer-affliction's post-Fall spread."

M42 Restoration Possibility

Llandu'gor's specific M42-era operational status has been sustained-classified within the broader Aeldari Farseer council's documentation. The Aeldari Farseer council's arrangements have included continued action with Llandu'gor's status; the engagement's outcomes have not been publicly addressed. The Aeldari Farseer council has, in sustained classified internal correspondence, indicated concern about the relationship between Llandu'gor's status and the broader Aeldari pantheon's restoration possibilities.

The Ynnari movement's arrangements have included continued action with Llandu'gor's status. The Ynnari movement's senior leadership has indicated, in sustained classified internal correspondence with the broader Aeldari Farseer council, interest in the possibility that Ynnead's awakening might enable Llandu'gor's restoration. The possibility's viability is sustained-uncertain; the Aeldari Farseer council's assessment has been "the possibility's operational viability cannot be determined until Ynnead's awakening has progressed to operational completion."