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Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

2019-08-27T19:44:27Z

2600:1700:A341:9920:6CE6:5820:4F09:7E94: /* Gallery */

{{Oldschool}}

[[Image:Rogue trader cover no text.JPG|400px|thumb|''''<s>Is that an Ork's head being used as a stick grenade? You bet.</s>'''' No you sperg look closer, he just ripped it clean off da gitz head but it certainly does ''look'' like a stick grenade and both images are ''metal as fuck which is the point.'']]
{{Topquote|In the nightmare future of the 41st millennium there is no time for peace. No respite, no forgiveness. There is only war|Ad in [[Dragon Magazine]] 147}}
Remember when GW was good?

Remember when [[Spaaaaaace Marines]] were the coolest Wombles ever?

Remember when [[Warhammer 40,000]] wasn't all about depressing [[grimdark|GRIMDARK]] WAR at all times?

Remember when [[Leman Russ|a certain furry]] wasn't yet a [[Primarch|demigod]] but merely captain of a Codex compliant legion?

<s>Pepperidge Farm Remembers.</s> So do we.

Welcome to Rogue Trader. Make sure your rose-colored glasses are on nice and tight.

(Warning: Contains dangerous amounts of '80s. <s>987.M2</s>1987, to be precise; ''I Want Your Sex'' by George Mitchell along with ''Star Trekkin''' by The Firm and, aging slightly better, ''With or Without You'' by U2. There was a lot of contrasting colors and a lot of cocaine, and a lot of an indefinable aesthetic that is very charmingly captured throughout the whole publication.)

''Not to be confused with the [[Rogue Trader (RPG)|Pen and Paper game]] by [[Fantasy Flight Games]], the [[Kill Team]] 2018 expansion, or [[Rogue Trader|actual Rogue Traders]].''

== Background ==
[[Image:Fuckyeahwh40krt.png|100px|frame|right|This '''IS''' Warhammer 40,000]]
This book, the first supplement ever released for Warhammer 40k, was written WAY back in the day when all [[Games Workshop]] put out was [[Warhammer Fantasy|Warhammer]] ([[Age of Sigmar|RIP]]). As in the fantasy kind. People back then would look at you funny if you asked them which one they were talking about because THERE WAS ONLY ONE. Anyway, this archaic tome was created as a GW-supported add-on adaptation of Warhammer, so players could experience the new, futuristic world of [[Warhammer 40,000]]. Needless to say, some people thought it was pretty cool.

Just for clarification, this was written IN THE '80S. This book contains less [[grimdark]] and more hair metal than most [[Neckbeards]] could stand before [[Rage|raging]], but luckily this book is a [[Grandpa Dreadnought|Venerable Dreadnought]]. No joke. It inspires awe and sometimes even [[Fist of the North Star|manly tears]] in neckbeards, its legendary reputation has been passed down for centuries, and it has a wealth of information with which to aid anyone in their quests to create homebrew rules or craft inspired custom models. [[Deoderant Dispenser Land Speeder|This includes how to make a Land Speeder out of a deodorant <s>stick</s> dispenser, so your army can smell as manly as it looks.]] <s>[[That Guy|Whether or not you do]]</s>. The [[Beakie]] and the [[Squat]] call this book home. This is the impenetrable fortress which crusty old neckbeards sometimes fall back to to defend their points and rage about how things suck in <s>5th</s> <s>6th</s> <s>7th</s> 8th Edition; and its reputation alone makes all but the hardest-core troll or newest newfag concede defeat. This is where fluff reigns supreme, and everybody was [[awesome]]. It is also a book so enormous that most copies are lost from being used to moor battleships, as anchors proved insufficiently manly. It contains the [[Old School Roleplaying|MOST COMPLICATED THING EVER]] in the form of the Imperial Robot rules.

This is the original source of Warhammer 40,000.

At the time, this was the finished product, what the original creators ''intended''.

This '''IS''' Warhammer 40,000.

==Pre-Heresy==
[[Forge World]] has released a long lineup of so-called "pre-[[Horus Heresy|Heresy]]" models inspired by art from this era. They started with [[powered armor]], like the Mk. III "Iron" and Mk. VI "Corvus" patterns, and moved on to special weapons, including banana-mag-fed [[Missile Launcher]], the old (and still horrendous) [[Flamer]], and of course the AK-47 [[Bolter]] (but the magazine isn't [[Derp|completely unaligned with the ejection port]] anymore). They moved on to re-make the old Land Raider Spartan as the [[Land Raider Proteus]] and brought back the bubble-turret [[Predator Tank]], and now that they're making a whole game line set in the [[Horus Heresy]], they're going all-out. These look just as amazing as you think they should, and really live up to the nostalgia; you just have to pay Forge World prices to get them.

==Stuff==

Try the Rogue Trader List Here: https://app.box.com/shared/2kdtqthn8a (This is from the Macharian Crusade Campaign Book)

==See Also==
* [[Hrud]]
* [[Saharduin]]
* [[Ork#Rokkas|Goff Rokkas]]
* [[Illiyan Nastase]]
* [[Zoats]]
* [[D-Rok]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ultrawombles.jpg|ULTRAWOMBLES
File:womble_eating_imperial_rations.png|idk, a beakie eatin fish'n chips or summat, innit? (Actually, it's apparently a medic harvesting geneseed.(Nah. Look at those eyes; it's Miller time.))
File:deoderant3.jpg|[[Deoderant Dispenser Land Speeder|This was once a deoderant dispenser.]] With a little love, a little labor, and a little time in the Aspergarium, one can create a thing of true beauty.
File:Grimdark allahuakbar.jpg|allahu akbar
File:Realm of chaos rt era.jpg|That's some pretty edgy shit. "Recommended for Mature Readers"
File:Erewego rtera.jpg|OH FUCK YES
File:Spacedorfs.png|YES, YES...
File:Bikersquats.jpg|space dorf bikers ... B-B-BAD TO THE BONE
File:Spacedorf2.png|SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH .... Mad Max, [[Dwarf|dorf]] edition
File:Firsteditionad.jpg|An ad for Rogue Trader Space Marine models, circa 1988. Features [[Johnny|Brother Craig, aka "Johnny"]], the prophet of /wip/.
</gallery>

[[category:Warhammer 40,000]][[category:Skirmish-Level Wargames]][[category:awesome]]

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

2019-08-27T19:43:37Z

2600:1700:A341:9920:6CE6:5820:4F09:7E94: /* Gallery */

{{Oldschool}}

[[Image:Rogue trader cover no text.JPG|400px|thumb|''''<s>Is that an Ork's head being used as a stick grenade? You bet.</s>'''' No you sperg look closer, he just ripped it clean off da gitz head but it certainly does ''look'' like a stick grenade and both images are ''metal as fuck which is the point.'']]
{{Topquote|In the nightmare future of the 41st millennium there is no time for peace. No respite, no forgiveness. There is only war|Ad in [[Dragon Magazine]] 147}}
Remember when GW was good?

Remember when [[Spaaaaaace Marines]] were the coolest Wombles ever?

Remember when [[Warhammer 40,000]] wasn't all about depressing [[grimdark|GRIMDARK]] WAR at all times?

Remember when [[Leman Russ|a certain furry]] wasn't yet a [[Primarch|demigod]] but merely captain of a Codex compliant legion?

<s>Pepperidge Farm Remembers.</s> So do we.

Welcome to Rogue Trader. Make sure your rose-colored glasses are on nice and tight.

(Warning: Contains dangerous amounts of '80s. <s>987.M2</s>1987, to be precise; ''I Want Your Sex'' by George Mitchell along with ''Star Trekkin''' by The Firm and, aging slightly better, ''With or Without You'' by U2. There was a lot of contrasting colors and a lot of cocaine, and a lot of an indefinable aesthetic that is very charmingly captured throughout the whole publication.)

''Not to be confused with the [[Rogue Trader (RPG)|Pen and Paper game]] by [[Fantasy Flight Games]], the [[Kill Team]] 2018 expansion, or [[Rogue Trader|actual Rogue Traders]].''

== Background ==
[[Image:Fuckyeahwh40krt.png|100px|frame|right|This '''IS''' Warhammer 40,000]]
This book, the first supplement ever released for Warhammer 40k, was written WAY back in the day when all [[Games Workshop]] put out was [[Warhammer Fantasy|Warhammer]] ([[Age of Sigmar|RIP]]). As in the fantasy kind. People back then would look at you funny if you asked them which one they were talking about because THERE WAS ONLY ONE. Anyway, this archaic tome was created as a GW-supported add-on adaptation of Warhammer, so players could experience the new, futuristic world of [[Warhammer 40,000]]. Needless to say, some people thought it was pretty cool.

Just for clarification, this was written IN THE '80S. This book contains less [[grimdark]] and more hair metal than most [[Neckbeards]] could stand before [[Rage|raging]], but luckily this book is a [[Grandpa Dreadnought|Venerable Dreadnought]]. No joke. It inspires awe and sometimes even [[Fist of the North Star|manly tears]] in neckbeards, its legendary reputation has been passed down for centuries, and it has a wealth of information with which to aid anyone in their quests to create homebrew rules or craft inspired custom models. [[Deoderant Dispenser Land Speeder|This includes how to make a Land Speeder out of a deodorant <s>stick</s> dispenser, so your army can smell as manly as it looks.]] <s>[[That Guy|Whether or not you do]]</s>. The [[Beakie]] and the [[Squat]] call this book home. This is the impenetrable fortress which crusty old neckbeards sometimes fall back to to defend their points and rage about how things suck in <s>5th</s> <s>6th</s> <s>7th</s> 8th Edition; and its reputation alone makes all but the hardest-core troll or newest newfag concede defeat. This is where fluff reigns supreme, and everybody was [[awesome]]. It is also a book so enormous that most copies are lost from being used to moor battleships, as anchors proved insufficiently manly. It contains the [[Old School Roleplaying|MOST COMPLICATED THING EVER]] in the form of the Imperial Robot rules.

This is the original source of Warhammer 40,000.

At the time, this was the finished product, what the original creators ''intended''.

This '''IS''' Warhammer 40,000.

==Pre-Heresy==
[[Forge World]] has released a long lineup of so-called "pre-[[Horus Heresy|Heresy]]" models inspired by art from this era. They started with [[powered armor]], like the Mk. III "Iron" and Mk. VI "Corvus" patterns, and moved on to special weapons, including banana-mag-fed [[Missile Launcher]], the old (and still horrendous) [[Flamer]], and of course the AK-47 [[Bolter]] (but the magazine isn't [[Derp|completely unaligned with the ejection port]] anymore). They moved on to re-make the old Land Raider Spartan as the [[Land Raider Proteus]] and brought back the bubble-turret [[Predator Tank]], and now that they're making a whole game line set in the [[Horus Heresy]], they're going all-out. These look just as amazing as you think they should, and really live up to the nostalgia; you just have to pay Forge World prices to get them.

==Stuff==

Try the Rogue Trader List Here: https://app.box.com/shared/2kdtqthn8a (This is from the Macharian Crusade Campaign Book)

==See Also==
* [[Hrud]]
* [[Saharduin]]
* [[Ork#Rokkas|Goff Rokkas]]
* [[Illiyan Nastase]]
* [[Zoats]]
* [[D-Rok]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ultrawombles.jpg|ULTRAWOMBLES
File:womble_eating_imperial_rations.png|idk, a beakie eatin fish'n chips or summat, innit? (Actually, it's apparently a medic harvesting geneseed.(Nah. Look at those eyes; it's miller time.)
File:deoderant3.jpg|[[Deoderant Dispenser Land Speeder|This was once a deoderant dispenser.]] With a little love, a little labor, and a little time in the Aspergarium, one can create a thing of true beauty.
File:Grimdark allahuakbar.jpg|allahu akbar
File:Realm of chaos rt era.jpg|That's some pretty edgy shit. "Recommended for Mature Readers"
File:Erewego rtera.jpg|OH FUCK YES
File:Spacedorfs.png|YES, YES...
File:Bikersquats.jpg|space dorf bikers ... B-B-BAD TO THE BONE
File:Spacedorf2.png|SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH .... Mad Max, [[Dwarf|dorf]] edition
File:Firsteditionad.jpg|An ad for Rogue Trader Space Marine models, circa 1988. Features [[Johnny|Brother Craig, aka "Johnny"]], the prophet of /wip/.
</gallery>

[[category:Warhammer 40,000]][[category:Skirmish-Level Wargames]][[category:awesome]]

Malal

2019-08-27T12:24:43Z

2600:1700:A341:9920:6CE6:5820:4F09:7E94: /* Followers of Malal */

[[File:Malal-symbol.gif|center]]
{{heresy}}
[[File:Lord_malal_by_morporg-d78ectd.jpg|400px|right|thumb|The greatest trick Malal ever pulled was convincing the Galaxy he didn't exist.]]
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">404 ERROR! PAGE NOT FOUND! THE PAGE YOU WERE LOOKING FOR WAS EITHER DELETED OR MISSING! - The Script of Malal on Himself'''</div>

{{topquote|... and he that went before now came last, and that which was white and black and all direction was thrown against itself. Grown mightily indignant at the words of the Gods, Malal did turn his heart against them and flee into the chambers of space... And no man looked to Malal then, save those that serve that which they hate, who smile upon their misfortune, and who bear no love save for the damned. At such times as a warrior's heart turns to Malal, all Gods of Chaos grow fearful, and the laughter of the Outcast God fills the tomb of space...|from The Great Book of Despair.}}
{{topquote|There is no greater evil than anarchy.|Sophocles}}

=="Chaos Divided"==
===Malal===
[[File:Malal.jpg|300px|right|thumb|What Malal ''might'' look like...if he actually wants us to believe that he exists in the first place.]]
The character Malal was created in [[The Citadel Journal]] for second edition [[Warhammer Fantasy]] by John Wagner and Alan Grant as the patron of the [[Warriors of Chaos]] character Kaleb Daark, who allied with the forces of good to fight Chaos while pursuing his own goals by confronting Khornates and Skaven using his soul-drinking magic axe. He was sent by Malal to assassinate one of the [[Chaos God of Law]] Arianka to prove himself worthy, a story which continued in three chapters. In 1986 Kaleb and his mount were given stats in Journal and his miniature was advertised, and it along with the fourth chapter were never released for unknown reasons ("creative differences" is all that was ever revealed). Malal was referenced in several other Games Workshop works, with the [[Ogre Kingdoms]] character Skrag the Slaughterer originally being a worshiper of him (later retconned to [[Great Maw]] instead) who was cast out from his tribe for stealing an axe made of "starmetal" (later retconned to cooking his chief's favorite [[Gnoblar]]), escaping to a [[Chaos Dwarf]] hold to force them to forge him armor before slaughtering all of them, followed up by a skirmish scenario called "The Crude, the Mad and the Rusty" where the surviving Chaos Dwarf plus two Goblin Fanatics and a golem fight against him. The first edition of [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]] states he is a rogue Chaos God who wants to destroy the Four, a Champion of Malal is killed by the protagonist in a short story found in the [[Ignorant Armies]] short story novels, and the [[Chaos Marauders]] cardgame had a card which depicted [[Beastmen]] preparing to fight other Chaos beings.

All in all, Malal was designed as an anti<s>hero</s> villain side to Chaos who is beneficial to the side of Order but is too Chaotic Evil for any being to trust, and actively drains both friend and enemy of energy to feed himself. Serving him is advancing oblivion, fighting him is to be annihilated. Any infighting on the part of Chaos resulted in Malal growing in power, essentially introducing the concept of total war to the Warp entities. Only by cooperating and shifting their attention to the mortal realm could the other Chaos Gods escape his influence, where they found his minions waiting for them.

During the year 1987 Wagner and Grant experienced a falling out over several comics they were producing at the time including Judge Dredd and work for DC Comics as well as several works for smaller publishers. This was followed by a sudden scramble for rights earned by them during their time creating for different companies and resulted in them suing Games Workshop for total ownership of Kaleb and Malal. Games Workshop had hired them for freelance work rather than as actual employees meaning Wagner & Grant technically owned the characters they created. If Games Workshop ever used Malal again, they would either have to pay a royalty fee or enter into a lawsuit over the ownership of the character, which they surprisingly never did. Malal was only used once more, in the [[The Dying of the Light]] campaign where a Chaos sorcerer of [[Tzeentch]] named Heinrich Bors switches to Malal in order to have control over his own fate again.
[[File:Malal and Kaleb.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Malal's (only) "canon" appearance and I have to say, for something that ''technically'' doesn't exist he looks pretty good.]]
Although technically owning Malal and Kaleb, neither author has done anything with the characters, as Wagner continues to mostly write Judge Dredd while Grant now works on zombie-related stories. Despite the lengths to which /tg/ will go to bring attention to [[Pretend|evidence]] of Malal's existence in the canon, he is strictly fanon for now. Btw it's worth pointing out that Malal was "reconnected" out of Warhammer ''Fantasy,'' and that was before 40K was even a thing. He was never canon to 40K until the Sons of Malice came around (see below).

Zuvassin the Undoer and Necoho the Doubter were created by Games Workshop to replace Malal in the "The Enemy Within" adventure for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay during the "Something Rotten In Kislev" campaign.

Zuvassin and Necoho together represent the same thing that Malal did, the concept of Chaos destroying itself and Khorne, Tzeentch, Slaanesh, and Nurgle plus the Chaos Gods of Order each falling prey to the primordial nothingness they emerged from in the same way the mortals do into them.
[[File:Kaleb_Daark_CJ86.jpg|thumb|right|300px| Kaleb Daark in all his "glory." Yes, he's a brooding, basically albinistic bad-guy-who-fights-evil in the name of Chaos using a demonic sword and therefore just Elric.]]
Zuvassin and Necoho were only given a second mention, listed as Chaos Gods in the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay supplement "Tome Of Salvation".

===Zuvassin===
Zuvassin is a rogue Chaos God who undoes the plans of any being, Chaos or not, including Tzeentch. He accepts all followers for all reasons and doesn't issue instructions since his followers should technically be working to subvert them, so that anything Zuvassin gets involved in becomes a complete mess where nothing can be predicted and everything goes wrong for everyone to varying degrees making him the only Chaos God who embodies the concept of "Chaos".
Any time you could make a list of possible outcomes for any given thing then draw in Zuvassin, the [[Not as Planned|"INCONCEIVABLE"]] result will occur; a coin will fall through a portal into another dimension and land on all surfaces at once, a six-sided dice will crack in half while being rolled and reveal a 7 and 8 inside results, both factions in a battle will actually somehow end the day with more soldiers than they began with.

What is heavily implied to be a worshipper of Zuvassin appears in the Age of Sigmar novel "Shadespire: The Mirrored City". A Chaos Warrior named Zuvass is a major character, claiming to be the worshipper of a minor god. Fittingly all of his schemes ultimately seem to amount to screwing over everybody else. Including quite possibly himself, as its implied he's the future version of the protagonist after a time loop.

===Necoho===
Necoho is the god of contradictions and paradoxes, and represents the "Chicken or the Egg" question where the supernatural exists and doesn't. He fights against the concept of belief and faith and as a result is the enemy of all spiritual creatures and faithful worshipers. He only ever actually appears as a simple mortal being and counts everyone and nobody to be his followers.
Necoho will one day bring about the end of the Chaos Gods when nothing left will worship them and they will cease to be.

Surprisingly still canon, the Age of Sigmar short story Auction of Blood mentions an antitheist tract called "The Revelations of Necoho, or the Light of Doubt".

===Legacy of Malal===
Both players and Eavy Metal painters alike continued to use Malal even if he had gone without a mention, and was still considered to be canon. The early days of the Warhammer forums had the discovery of Malal as something of a rite of passage for Chaos players as well. Malal paintjobs continued to show up in many [[Golden Demon]] competitions and Eavy Metal showcases alike.

===[[Be'lakor]]===
With the introduction of [[Mordheim]], a Cult of Chaos faction emerged that revolved around a character called the "Shadowlord", a being who was reputed to be a Chaos God of some kind and who had caused the ruin of the city. Many players believed him to be the return of Malal, and many early paintjobs for the Cult were in Malal's white and black skull motif. The story was later revealed to actually be a plot by Be'lakor, a mere [[Daemon Prince]] of [[Chaos Undivided]] who had wanted to escape the control of the Four and had made the ruined city his domain before realizing he had only traded one cage for a much smaller one, and slunk back to the laughter of the Four with his tail between his legs and a revisionist version of the story already in his head. In many ways Be'lakor was intended to replace Malal as the non-Four alternative to Chaos, although Games Workshop writers by this point had [[Skub|made Chaos the Mary Sue faction for so long that the concept of anything being a danger to them was laughable]]. Thus the idea of the "Chaos outsider" became just a whiny petulant part of Chaos that had managed to wreak great destruction in the mortal world while attempting, and failing, to give a black eye to his masters.

===Malice===
Malice was created for 3rd edition [[Warhammer 40000]] in the [[Chaos Space Marine]] Codex. A Chaos Space Marine Chapter in Malal's colors was shown under the name "[[Sons of Malice]]", with an axe identical to Kaleb Daark's, described as being 'created to kill other beings of Chaos.' They later got a short story in [[White Dwarf]] where a Sister of Battle discovers they were a loyalist Chapter who had apparently fallen to Chaos while still fighting for the Imperium, exalting in cannibalism & blood rituals and praising 'Malice' as the god of anarchy and fear. They then proceed to cannibalize the Sister and her group, and were exiled from the Imperium for their heresy, even as they continued fighting against the other forces of Chaos. But once again, Malice was never mentioned again, although his color scheme was repeated in subsequent works.

===Canon/Archaon===
Malal/Zuvassin/Necoho/Malice have existed in a sort of limbo in canon for quite a long time. Technically they were never retconned, and "non-canon by exclusion" is a weak accusation as that would mean every character and every event must be mentioned every edition for them to remain canon. Many statements have been given saying the Chaos Gods only exist in the Four, although this was said both before and after each "Chaos God of Piss Off" was written meaning the statement has always been a false one anyway (this isn't even going into the huge clusterfuck that [[Age of Sigmar]] has made in trying to figure out who actually matters in Chaos, not counting [[Khorne|the one who gets all the new models]]).
Some people have taken on the perspective that the "Chaos God of Go Fuck Yourself" is a continually shifting being, more in flux than Tzeentch and that each incarnation is comparable to [[Doctor Who]] incarnations. In this interpretation, Malal is Zuvassin is Necoho is Malice, and there's more to come still (of course [[Khorne|Peter Capaldi]] is the best one.)

[[End Times]] and [[Age of Sigmar]] for [[Warhammer Fantasy]] both suggest that the concept of a fifth Chaos God is over with as in the leadup to the event Be'lakor snarked that the Chaos Gods of Law never existed and that only the Four exist, with everything belonging to them in the end. But his truthfulness is in doubt partially because even though he is the character who "never lies", this is only stated once in the 40k universe and that the reason he never lies is "because its boring", so as a result he's never been proven to really be a reliable narrator. It is also dubious because of the proven disconnect between [[Black Library]] and the actual army books, evidenced by massive contradictions during the event and the casual attitude of the writers, means that anything in said books must be taken with a huge grain of salt.
Regardless, during the event when every character (that Games Workshop remembered existed) played a part, no fifth Chaos God other than [[Horned Rat]] did anything which means he and his other selves may truly be non-canon.

In Age of Sigmar, [[Archaon]] is promoted to a Chaos God (remember that Fantasy and 40k share the same Warp which exists outside of time, so Archaon is now a Chaos God by technicality in 40k as well) representing the combined strength of the other Chaos Gods as the embodiment of [[Chaos Undivided]] (with the exception of Slaanesh's replacement in the Great Game, Horned Rat, whom he rejects) and his Black Library novel life goal is to destroy all gods and kings to let men control their own destiny and exalt in their own achievements in a spectacularly Ayn Rand way. Due to his rejection of the pretender [[Keeper of Secrets]] trying to take Slaanesh's position, Archaon himself wound up being the target of worship by former Slaaneshi who in turn are empowered by him as if Slaanesh was still around (which is not gameplay/story segregation as they still have their powers in the narrative as well) meaning that he's 1/4 of the way to his goal.
Although the actual army books state he is loyal to Chaos, the Black Library sources have his goals falling very much in line with the ideals of Malal, and in an accidental bit of extra-meta story extrapolation his contradiction in goal even fits into Necoho's sphere. Beyond that, Be'lakor (who styles himself as Archaon's creator and father) manipulated Archaon's entire early life, from a Warrior of Chaos raping his Empire mother and him becoming a devout priest of [[Sigmar]], to him losing his faith and becoming a being of pure evil who rejects both Sigmar's light and Be'lakor's blackness. This blend of light and dark fits quite well into Malal's scheme.

So it may be possible that Archaon is the latest incarnation of the Malal concept, albeit as a German rapeviking this time rather than a giant boar...thing or a fat old <strike>fedora</strike>trilby-tipper.

Archaon's endgame in Age is to somehow remove the new pantheon of Order (which includes Death and Destruction by technicality) from their Realms, which is very difficult because the "near infinite" planets that are the Realms are literally made of the old Winds of Magic (making them very chaotic and only really willing to obey the will of beings of a similar nature) with the very souls of those new gods at the cores. As a result Archaon is facing an uphill battle of trying to eliminate their armies (and all civilians, because this is Lord Edgemaster after all) then trap them and figure out a way to remove them without destroying the Realm itself all while battling against the rest of Chaos which periodically tries to backstab him despite them being his only supporters. If he achieves his goal, he will rule over all of reality (including whatever the fuck the Warp can fairly be called) as the sole being of any concept of power.

===Malign===
[[Tony Ackland]] was one of the artists employed by early Games Workshop to create the illustrations for their supplements and books, and they tasked him to design the Daemons that would be the models for Malal's eventual inclusion into Warhammer Fantasy as an army. The Wagner/Grant debacle left Malal in limbo with Games Workshop having never produced a model, and as a result Ackland was technically the owner of the designs he created since, just like Wagner and Grant, he was only a freelancer who owned what he made.

Not knowing about the boar appearance decided on in the comics nor the white/black color scheme, Ackland's idea for Malal combined insects with a general Chaos mutant themes (as he was the artist to quite a bit of the original Chaos Mutant and [[Chaos Spawn]] images) to produce extremely surrealist combinations of man and beast in a lean and segmented nature, featuring skeletal motifs coincidentally.

He eventually released his designs to the public (seen below in the Gallery section), then created new versions which he assigned to an unknown being called "Malign" in order to have them produced by third-party companies for sale.

According to Ackland, his version of Malal was going to be very similar to Khorne in that the two were extremely violent and focused mainly on sending warriors into combat rather than any politicking. But his version of Malal was much more elite and fanatical than Khorne, describing Khorne as the Wehrmacht (German army) and Malal as the Nazi SS. Yes you read that right, Malal's troops would basically be [[Commissar|BLAMMMING]] [[Bloodletters]] for cowardice or harboring Elves.

===Malice (Pantheon Of Chaos)===
Ackland has proceeded to partner with various people including sculptor Diego Serrate Pinilla to create a new model range and eventual wargame, [[Pantheon Of Chaos]], which brings not only all of the Malal Daemons into production, but also all of Ackland's Warhammer Fantasy artwork he has ownership of.
Malal is known as Malice (because that's a public domain name), and is exactly as originally imagined.

So players who for years have wanted their very own Malal army now can have exactly that.

===Malal and the [[Tyranids|Tyranids]]===

When [[Rogue Trader]] was being devised and the creatures that would later form the [[Tyranid]] Hive Fleets with it, Malal was originally going to have (as had been conceived for WHFB) armies of insectoid and beast-like chimeras that would consume everything in their path, including themselves. This bought Malal's very special form of true-chaos to each game system as well as possibly the most horrific and alien of all 40K fauna.

After the planned narrative for the other four Chaos Gods to conspire to remove Malal from the warp in M36, all of them fearful that Malal was too powerful in the Great Game, Malal was to in fact be "killed" by being booted from the warp and into the material realm.

When Malal appeared in the material realm he moved into the void between galaxies, hidden from view to everyone, from the populations of the infinite galaxies of the universe that now surrounded him to the other Chaos gods themselves who were busy enjoying their assumed victory and continuing the great game. From this dark and empty space Malal devised a plan; he would create a new form of life, one that was capable of consuming all life in the material realm whilst feeding his own power. This life would then consume itself returning it's life-energy to the renegade god. In turn the Hive Fleets were born and Malal braved a sly smile.

Malal sent the fleets across the universe, entering galaxies and consuming all life and matter within; each galaxy consumed giving even more strength to the lost god hidden in the void.

Just before the 41st Millenium (Though the exact date varies throughout RT lore), Malal sent the Hive fleets into the Milky Way; slamming into the Eastern Fringe of the Galaxy. Since this initial conflict two other major hive fleets have also attacked and as the clock races rapidly towards the 42nd Millenium the galaxy finds itself assaulted from all sides by Malal's creatures.

If the Hive fleets succeed Malal will be boosted in his objective of re-ascending to the Immaterium as the most powerful god of the warp. Whether the renegade god will succeed is left open, but as the Hive Fleets continue to spread amongst the galaxies and worlds that make up the 40K universe, things do not look good for anyone, including the other Chaos Gods.

Sadly as Malal has gone from lore due to legal issues, so have the plans for his Tyranid organisms. They remain without a clear origin story. The last hint GW gave for Malal still being behind the tyranids was in 5th Ed when the tyranids were described as being "guided by a hidden intelligence far more powerful than even the norn-queens". Since then nothing, if anything, has really been said on the matter.

==/tg/ Fluff==
[[File:Painted Malice Guardian of Contradictions.jpg|400px|left|thumb|We have a painted model of a <s>Malal</s> <s>Malign</s> Malice Greater Daemon! Praise the true atheist god!]]
Followers of Malal are kind of like [[Chaos]] Agnostics. They doubt that anything exists, including the [[Emperor]], Chaos itself, and you. ''Especially '''you'''''. The Chaos Space Marines chapter known as the "Sons of Malice", with their alternating black/white colour scheme are as likely to kill Chaos Forces as anyone else on the field, except for each other.

Malal, when he was actually canon (the very fact that He's non-canon [[Not as Planned|makes him canon]]), was the Chaos God of Fear, Darkness, Anarchy, and batshit loony self-destructive urges; Chaos battling Chaos. This also made him the God of paradoxes, Radical Inquisitors and the like trying to turn Chaos against itself, and the outcast god since he was trying to buttfuck every other Chaos God and their followers. The thing about Malal was that even though he was one of the biggest personifications of Chaos there could be, he constantly tried to destroy Chaos and if he were ever successful in ending Chaos he could be destroyed as well. Not that this pants-on head crazy a-hole cared, as suicidal tendencies and teamkilling just became part of his portfolio instead. When Malal gets involved, the [[Great Game]] turns from [[Risk]] to [[Call of Cthulhu]] with [[Old Man Henderson]] as the head cultist.

Since Malal was supposed to be the antitheses of Chaos he had only a few champions, all of whom were supposed to be [[Cheese|STUPIDLY powerful]] and would go around bitch-slapping other Chaos champions with their anti-daemon daemon-axes of doom while wearing warp-resistant warp armor. The servants of Malal fight in utter silence, but that makes them way more badass than the rest of chaos. So yeah. They work with the forces of Order, but are fairly likely to engage in teamkilling to the degree that [[Orks]] are shocked by their sudden but inevitable betrayals.
Because of this followers of Malal have to already be balls to the wall nuts and have superhuman will. Malal's trademarks were black and white bisecting armor and a horned skull equally bisected black and white. His sacred number was 11. His signature weapon was the Dreadaxe which was a daemon weapon made out of a [[derp|Daemon that hates Daemons]], and it looked like a pterodactyl head on a stick. You can still find examples of this weapon in the CSM 3.5 dex and in Your [[Matt Ward|Spiritual Liege]]'s wonderful fluff assassin of a Codex: [[Grey Knights]].

Malal has a fortress in the Chaos Wastes in Warhammer Fantasy where he captures and [[trolls]] Greater Daemons by trapping them for all eternity unable to do whatever it is that they embody. This one [[Keeper of Secrets]] he has, for example, is caught in a field that nullifies all sensation so it can't indulge in cocaine fueled sex parties with [[Doomrider]], thus eternally pissing off said daemon forever in the only way that works. He also put a [[Great Unclean One]] in a vat of disinfectant; blinded and binded a [[Lord of Change]] and put him in a stasis-field; and locked a [[Bloodthirster]] in an indestructible zen garden.

Unlike his brother gods he is capable of entering the materium/Warhammer World through demonic possession if his followers had enough sacrifices, but since his followers rarely manage to not kill each other long enough to make headway towards any particular goal it mostly falls to his Champions to get shit done.

In Age of Sigmar, Malal actually controls the space between the Realms and decides when the Realmgates will function and when they will not, plucking those he desires from the space between spaces and doing with them as he wills. Since Chaos no longer fights itself he has weakened to a degree, and must now rely on his plan to turn Archaon to his will and take the massive powers the Four invested in him which will mark the beginning of the end of Chaos.

(''In 40k, Malal is actually THE ELEVENTH PRIMARCH!! Think about it: Malal's sacred number is 11, the Renegade warband [[Sons of Malice]] worship the god Malal, and the Sons of Malice also center their rituals and trophies around the number XI. And what is the number of one of the missing legions? ELEVEN. And their warband contain a large amount of unknown (Read: ANCIENT) suits of Power Armour that predate even the [[Great Crusade]].
This could mean that The [[Sons of Malice]] are actually serious possibilities as candidates of the XI Legion! '''*Mind Blown*''''')

At one point in the 36th Millennium (though of course time is a nebulous concept in the warp), the other four gods got really sick of Malal's constant interference in their plans. While Malal was at the time the strongest individual god, the other four knew that he couldn't deal with them all at once. [[Elder Scrolls|So Tzeentch gathered the other gods and]] [[Just As Planned|formulated a plan]] [[Elder Scrolls|to deal with Malal once and for all.]] So one day Nurgle knocked on Malal's door and asked Malal to step outside, at this point Tzeentch signaled the others to attack and the other Chaos Gods jumped out from behind their cover and beat Malal to death. It required about a century of constant beating, but eventually Malal died. Upon his death the other Four Chaos gods celebrated for one thousand years now that the cheese lord was out of the way.
Sadly Malal's bastard offspring Malice and Zuvassin managed to slip away.
'''However, it might be possible that Malal/Malice may just be an Alias for the Emperor, working incognito, looking into ways he can ultimately end the four-fold scourge of the Warp. It might be possible he would use "Malal/Malice", using the powers of the Dark Gods against them. That includes using the Sons of Malice(Grey Knights?). Just as soon as Kaldor stops sniffin' Warp Dust.'''
A final theory is that he's become a sneaky git and painted himself [[Ork Kommando|purple]] to wait out until the time is right to hit the big four just hard enough to finish them (considering the current state of Daemons on the tabletop, that might not be too far off), and in the meantime manipulates Orks into fighting each other by pretending to be Gork, then Mork (or Mork then Gork?) to draw them into arguments while causing the Imperium to weaken itself by BLAMMING everyone capable of uplifting the condition of man. He probably got the idea sometime after he left a giant sword for Farsight to eventually find, but before he altered Macha's biochemistry to amp up her hormone output.
In fact, the truth is much more terrifying. Malal in fact managed to travel back through time to the present, where he is now trying to manifest. This is the source of the Zalgo legends across the internet.

In Warhammer Fantasy he still exists, and is secretly sponsoring [[Nagash|Nagash's]] recent [[The End Times|rise to power]]. He hasn't been seen or mentioned because he's been crashing on the [[Horned Rat|Horned Rat's]] couch after burning his own house down.

===Getting Malal on the Table===
[[File:Warhammer-40000-фэндомы-art-красивые-картинки-681896.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The Sons of Malice gives thumbs up on [[/tg/ Gets Shit Done|/tg/ getting shit done!]]]]
As Games Workshop have proven themselves to be a bunch of IP abusing faggots, it once again falls to /tg/ [[/tg/ gets shit done|to get anything done.]]
====Humans====
To field rapevikings of Malal in Warhammer Fantasy, run Warriors of Chaos models on Skaven bases. Nothing like blowing yourself AND the enemy up to say "It doesn't matter".
Ironically (or appropriately depending on how you look at it) one of the best ways to represent 40k Malal dedicated Chaos Marines would be to use the Grey Knights codex. Think about it; elite marine units with sick powers and a plethora of daemon killing hardware, small army sizes, and more. Take an Unbound Dreadknight spam list and use Chaos bitz for a nasty Chaos smashing elite warband of Malal followers and lolstomp your opponents into the ground. Alternatively you can use C:CSM if you aren't a cheesed-out 12 year old or Daemonhunters vet.

====Daemons of Malal====
Have you ever lamented how you always wanted to put together a Malal themed army, but you didn't, because it wouldn't be worth it without the proper daemons? Well, now you no longer have a fucking excuse. Grown mightily indignant at Malal's lack of presence on the tabletop, several anons conspired together to bring you this. [http://www.cpmodelsminiatures.co.uk/CP%20Models%2028mm%20Night%20Terrors%20Demons.htm We even found models for it]; they're at the bottom, listed as Hook Horrors. Play-testing would be very much appreciated.

Alternatively, modification to existing Daemon models using their original stats is fine too (a popular idea for example is a gleeful white and black Daemon Prince tearing itself in half along the color separation).

====Malal Homebrew====
Due to the fact that there is little concrete information about Malal content, especially in 40k where he is essentially non-existent, there are a number of ways to interpret the lore into a whole. Here is the link to the fan-created rule set: [[Malal Daemonkin]]

====Forces of Malal====
Here is some fanfluff of Malal/Malice due to how little proper fluff there is. Information is subject to change of course: [[Forces of Malal]]

====Daemons of the Ruinstorm====
Book Eight – Malevolence of the Horus heresy books added a new set of rules for daemon armies with a much, much wider set of options to build from, these include 6 army wide themes called Aetheric dominions to represent the four main gods and chaos undivided, along with one called "mirror of hate" which which grants you hatred for daemons and psykers, 1 VP for each unit of the aforementioned you kill and costs you a victory point for each unit you lose, you also win automatically if you end with 0VP. Unfortunately this option doesn't give you any of the nifty extras that the others get like unique emanations and the option is literally an instant lose against a non-psyker army due to you losing VP for every unit you lose, however this fits nicely in with the fluff.

===Dirges of Malal===
Take the rot, to make it flesh. 
Take the skull, the soul to rest. 
Take their mind and give them peace. 
Take their will. Sensations cease. 
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"We shall deny Nurgle their flesh to fester and rot" 
"We shall deny Khorne their blood and skulls" 
"We shall deny Tzeentch their destinies and fates" 
"We shall deny Slaanesh their pleasure and pain" 
"Death to the Dark Gods" 
"For the Renegade God" 
"Let the galaxy burn!" 
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To the Skin, Ice 
To the Rot, Fire 
To the Skull, Steel 
To the Mind, Night 
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"We are the flames that scorch the garden of rot." 
"We are the waves that erode the mountain of skulls." 
"We are the quakes that shatter the labyrinth of lies." 
"We are the storms that rend the palace of perfection." 
"We are Malice." 

===Followers of Malal===
The [[Sons of Malice]]

Kaleb Daark

<s>The Alpha Legion and their two primarchs</s> {{BLAM|No such legion nor primarchs exist!}}

Suicidal people who don't want to die.

Scottish Koreans

Jumbo shrimp

Military intelligence

The two missing primarchs

Tau assault units([[Farsight]])

The living dead

<s>You</s>

<s>Me

Us and them</s>

Anarchist dictators

Hypocrites

Dead [[Sly Marbo]]

Atheist preachers

Your girlfriend and the guy you shouldn't worry about

You if you actually had a girlfriend

Full semi-automatic gun owners

[[Lofn|Domesticated Tyranids]]

Tall midgets

Black albinos

Grey Knights

Billy Mays

Honest politicians

Traps

Gabe Newell

C.S.Gotohell

[[Chris-chan|Chris-chan's]] long-lost perfect, popular brother

Josef Fritzl

Eldar units that aren't utterly overpowered

Screaming Mimes

Turks without a diagnosed clinical retardation

Uncle Ruckus

Ork snipers

Assurances that don't leave Lord Bale cold

Vladimir Putin's estranged twin brother that isn't a complete <strike> badass </strike> <s> bigoted imperialist asshole </s> [[God-Emperor of Mankind|THE YUGEST, INCREDIBLE, MOST AWE INSPIRING BEING IN EXISTENCE]]

Athiest Word Bearers

Ronald McDonald

Ultramarines that deserve to live

Vegemonster

[[Sorcerers of Khorne|Khornate Sorcerers]]

Tzeentch Berserkers

[[Plague Surgeon |Nurglite Doctors]]/[[Festus the Leechlord |medics]]

Bill Gates

Blinker fluid salesmen

[[Genestealer Cult|Tyranid allies]] (7th edition anyone)

Ork mathematicians (a.k.a. Mathboyz)

Matt ward Fans (Newfags)

Chaos centurions and knights (Forge world made them.)

Pacifist Marines

Black Templar Librarians

[[Nerdmonette|Celibate and Sober Slaanesh Daemon]] (The 5th deamonette creation)

Cheap GW models

Loyalist Dark Angels

Egalitarian Eldar

Sorcerers that can light water on fire

Asexual and Altruistic Dark Eldar

Industrial Exodites

Led Zeppelin

Germophobic Plaguebearers

Ahzek Ahriman {{BLAM|DOUBLEHERESY!}}{{BLAM}}

Two-Face

Cool people wearing crocs

Mikhail Bakunin

People who finish gobstoppers/jawbreakers

Justin Bieber's popular twin brother

The Deceiver

Necrons in flesh bodies

Pacifist army ants

Abstinent Daemonettes

Commissars that don't {{BLAM}} their own troops.

Virgin Bards

Cuddly Night Lords

Loving, compassionate Iron Warriors

[[DOOM: Repercussions of Evil|People who don't worship Malal]]

[[Everyone Is John|John]]

[[Derp|People that aren't John]]

DC Comics editorial and writer staff

Kid friendly [[Lovecraft|Lovecraftian]] authors

Safe for work pornography photographers

Carnivorous gorillas

Your mom

Gay Pirates

Manly douches

Half-necron organisms

Eskimo cactus farmers

Vegan sharks

Jewish Nazis (ashkenatzis)

Malal

Jesus

Matt Ward (himself)

Remleiz (40k theories)

Capitalist Tau

Old people. after all, dying of old age is just dying of not dying.

Black KKK members

Chinese factory workers

Old-fags

New-fags

Handicapped Dreadnoughts

George Soros...is this [[Tzeentch]]'s thing?

[[Commander Puretide]] of the Tau, [[Grimdark|as his brain was being chewed out by computer chips to preserve his]] [[tactical genius]]

/m/ after 2013

Libertarians

Acraphobic birds.

Transgender Seahorses.

UNDERCROFT MALICE.

Straight guys who have sex with men.

People who like mustard-flavoured ice cream.

==Malal's Favorite Pastimes==

*No-scoping Khorne in [[/v/|FPSes]].

*Reverting Tzeench's edits.

*putting band-aids on Nurgle's sores in his sleep and replacing his morning coffee creamer with ointment.

*<s>hacking onto Slaanesh's computer and censoring all their porn.</s>
**"Uh, Sir? Slaanesh developed a censor bar fetish."
***Hacking onto Slaanesh's computer and deleting all their porn.

*Re-blogging old adages like "less is more," "opposites attract," and "the more things change, the more they <s>don't</s> stay the same".

*Counting eggs before they've <s>hatched</s> been layed.

*Directing Mormons to the addresses of Jehovah's Witnesses, and vice versa.

*bringing spoons to gunfights.
**Winning said gunfights

*Suing his Lawyer.
**Suing his Lawyer's Lawyer

*Punching himself in the face.

*Committing identity theft and proceeding to raise the victim's credit score and pay off their mortgage.

*Driving to Schrodinger's house to play with his cat.

*Claiming to be Rule 34's exception.

*Dividing by zero.

*You know how every single awesome video on Youtube always has a few dislikes? At least five of those are always him.
**Yes, even if there are fewer than five dislikes.

*You know how every single godawful video on Youtube always has a few likes? At least five of those are always him.
**Yes, even if there are fewer than five likes.

*Just enjoying his state of semi-canonical limbo.

==Dungeons The Dragoning==

For those of you who want to roleplay with Malal, [[Dungeons: the Dragoning 40,000 7th Edition]] has Malal as a Chaos God, because of course it does. In DtD, he's the Chaos God of Teamkilling Fucktards; nobody gets along with him or his followers.

==Gallery==
{{Promotions}}
<gallery>
Image:Lesser_Daemon_of_Malal.jpg|One of Malal's canon Daemon designs from Tony Ackland.This would either be a Lesser or Greater Daemon.
Image:Malal Daemon Sale.jpg|This model was actually produced by a third party company called [[C-P Models]] and is available for sale [https://cpmodels.co.uk/product/ntd13-hook-horror-demon/ here.]
Image:Greater_Daemon_of_Malal.jpg|Another Ackland Malal Daemon. This would have either been a Lesser or Greater Daemon.
Image:Beast_of_Malal.jpg|Another Ackland Malal Daemon. Ackland said this would have been one of Malal's monsters.
Image:Steed_of_Malal.jpg|Another Ackland Malal Daemon. Identified as what would have been a mount.
Image:Son of malice.png|A Son of Malice.
Image:Malal Hipster Cultistchan.jpg|Cultist offending Malal by not wearing his colours nor the number 11. Frequently posted Meme every-time someone mentions the true god of Chaos.
Image:Malal Warriors.jpg|Prototypes for mortal worshipers of Malal, created in cooperation with Ackland which will be eventually available [http://easternfront-studios.net/ here.]
Image:Malal Lesser New.jpg|Ackland's newer rendition, which he called a "Lesser Daemon of Malign".
Image:Malal Greater New.jpg|Ackland's "Greater Daemon of Malign".
Image:Malal Chaos Steed 1.jpg|Ackland's "Steed of Malign".
Image:Malal Chaos Steed 2.jpg|Ackland's second version of a "Steed of Malign".
Image:Kaleb Daark Battle.gif|Kaleb Daark single-handedly slaughters an entire Khornate warband on the hour before its otherwise assured victory over Praag.
Image:Malalette.png|Because /tg/.
Image:Malal_Daemonette.png|Also because /tg/.
Image:Malal_Daemonette_NSFW.png|Because Rule 34. Also /tg/.
Image:MalalPossessed.jpg|Malal Possessed
Image:MalalHerald.jpg|Herald of Malal
Image:Doomrider.png|[[Doomrider|Not that Doomrider]].Demonic cavalry
</gallery>

==See also==

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZI0ZX1DrRw| His greatest champion, even if the champion himself didn't know it...]

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Mag'ladroth

2019-08-27T09:41:44Z

2600:1700:A341:9920:6CE6:5820:4F09:7E94: /* That's Awkward */

[[File:Ctan-Void-Dragon-510x733.jpg|right|350px|thumb|A possible painting on what he looks like...not as grand as we thought it would be. Very...not dragon-y]]
<div style="text-align:left;font-size:1.10em;font-weight:italic;font-style:bold;font-family:Papyrus;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"> ''01101111 01101101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101000'' - The Void Dragon's Hidden Identity'''</div>

{{Topquote|What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.|Stephen Hawking}}

{{Topquote|1=I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine—just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness. Dark. Rigid. Cold. Alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen.|2=[[Alpha_Centauri|Comissioner Pravin Lal ,"Man and Machine"]]}}

==Introduction==
'''Mag'ladroth''', more commonly called '''The Void Dragon''' (or more controversially as the [[Omnissiah]]) is one of the main C'tan along with [[Mephet'ran|the Deceiver]] and [[Aza'Gorod|the Nightbringer]]. He is the most powerful C'tan, and is most likely one of the only C'tan to have evaded capture by the Necrons. The Void Dragon's "divine" portfolio includes [[Nova Cannon|destruction]], [[Necron|mastery]] [[Titan|over]] [[Ordinatus|machines]], and [[STC|technology]]. During the [[War in Heaven]] his warriors were by far the strongest and they could electrocute fools like the [[Heresy|other Emperor]] from Star Wars. He made several gadgets to help shut down [[Old Ones|assholes]] who made [[Eldar|use]] of the [[Warp]]. The [[Necron Pylon|pylons]] formerly keeping the Eye of Terror in check are the most notable and also the [[Dakka|shootiest]].

It's hard to overstate how insanely powerful Mag'ladroth is. He survived a brawl with multiple [[Blackstone Fortress|Blackstone Fortresses]], of all things. Y'know, the ones who can cause suns to explode. A weak, small shard of the Dragon kicked the absolute shit out of several Necron worlds when they tried to snatch it up. To put how terrifying this bastard is into [[Awesome|perspective]]: [[Mephet'ran|the Deceiver]], who was unafraid of talking to psychos like the Nightbringer and the Outsider and convincing them that cannibalism was a spiffy idea, actively avoid this ballin' Dragon. Fortunately he is not all-powerful. The Void Dragon, like all C'tan, is (more) vulnerable to the power of the warp, which is perhaps why the Empra was able to kick his ass. With the Master of Mankind mostly dead though, the Void Dragon is probably be the most powerful being in setting other than the gods of Chaos. This guy is [[Exterminatus|not to be fucked with]].

==Identity==

[[File:Void Dragon by Blabyloo.jpeg|300px|thumb|A fine thing to worship if you like chopping off your dangly bits and replacing them with cyberdongs.]]
The Void Dragon, [[Omnissiah]], and Dragon of Mars are most likely all the same creature. It helps to compare what we know ''for sure'' -
The Void Dragon has some kind of supernatural(?) power over machines, and his location is unknown.
The Dragon of Mars was roughed up by the Emperor before the [[Age of Strife]] and sealed inside Mars.
The Omnissiah is worshipped by the Adeptus Mechanicus as the god of machines.
Worship creates gods, yet somehow the widely venerated machine god does not seem to exist in the warp.
C'tan think the warp is just the [[FAIL|worst]] thing ever.

So, common traits -
Most importantly, Voidy and the Omnissiah are both ancient demigods who control machines.
Voidy and the Dragon of Mars are both extremely dangerous "dragons".
Dragon of Mars and Omnissiah are both on/in/of Mars.

And what other people think -
Some of the Mechanicus believe that their cult actually worships the Void Dragon, and treat the Necrons as heralds.
The Necrons think something very, very important is inside of Mars, as they suicidally charged straight into Mars.
Some CSMs think something deadly and destructive is inside of Mars.
[[Just as Planned|You think]] that all three entities are the same.

With all of these hints piled up, it has become pretty clear that "those guys" are actually just one guy.

==That's Awkward==

This has profound and also profoundly weird implications that get weirder the longer you examine them. The first is that the Adeptus Mechanicus are [[Heresy|heretics]] of the highest level, who worship an actual xenos demigod. The second and perhaps even worse possibility is that [[Machine Spirits]] are the working of the Dragon, suggesting that he is a big part of what even allows Imperium technology to work. Or, perhaps if he's having a [[RAGE|bad day]], to [[Troll|''not'' work]]. So if the Dragon woke up and decided to lay the crackdown on the Imperium, the best case is that the Imperium would lose a bunch of the guys who make their tech and make their tech work. The worse case is that their tech would mostly just stop working on its own. The even worse case is that all of their complicated machinery would start actively attacking everybody.

Strangely, this means that the most powerful user of physical forces and the most powerful user of [[Psyker|psychic]] forces are imprisoned almost right next to each other. This also means that the Corpse Emperor's fancy life support machine is a stone's throw away from a being who could probably turn it off with a thought, except that presumably the Emperor is psychically protecting it. This might not be as [[Grimdark]] as it first appears - while the Dragon might just be super pissed and waiting for an opportunity to press the eject button on the golden throne, in the long run the Dragon has more to gain from [[Noblebright|''protecting'']] the Emperor. [[Ecclesiarchy|As we know]], the Emperor is holding back the forces of Chaos, and the C'tan [[RAGE|despise]] Chaos above all else. So grab some popcorn and [[Alpha Legion|sneak]] into the Imperial Palace to see if some ''seriously'' weird cooperation takes place.

It is also likely that the only reason Big.E's golden toilet continues to function is because good old VD has realised the fact that Emps currently functions as a cork for an infant eye of terror and as such has deemed it a bad idea to try offing him because the consequences of such an action would most likely result in him getting [[Rape|buttfucked]] by the forces of Chaos.

But the sad truth is that the VD is making sure the Golden Throne flushes only to prevent Sigmar shit from overflowing into 40k...

==Babysitter==

[[File:VoidDragon.jpg|400px|thumb|left|A face you can trust around children.]]
On a more [[derp|derpy]] note, [[Black Library|for some reason]] it can talk to human children, like Gamera, and sometimes involuntarily gives them power to heal and manipulate machinery. Soooo... the Void Dragon might secretly be in fact be the guardian of children all along? Just picture a cosmic being from beyond conventional science having a soft spot for kids would generate much [[lulz]] and [[/b/|pedophile]] jokes on /tg/. Or maybe, just maybe, humanity earned his favor with the Dark Age of Technology and the Machine Cult. Considering his powers. Which would be wonderfully hilarious. Even the Laughing God would be amazed at such a cosmic joke.

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Do YOU get it?

Of course you don't, you're not a Tech-Priest. Fucking fleshbag.

==On the Tabletop==
If you want to play him in an army, simply buy a Balrog or a Daemon Prince (make sure to give the latter wings), paint it suitably black, silver and green, and use it as a Transcendent C'tan. Have fun. Also, since you're controlling the pseudo-god of controlling machines, that also gives you the right to install a trojan on your opponent's phone so you can send [[Slaanesh|exciting]] photos to his mom during the game.
===Custom Rules (8th Ed)===
This unit contains 1 C'tan Shard of the Void Dragon ('''Power Rating 13'''). Only one of this model may be included in your army.
{| class=wikitable
|- valign=top
! Name !! M !! WS !! BS !! S !! T !! W !! A !! Ld !! Sv !! Points
|-
| C'tan Shard of the Void Dragon || 8" || 2+ || 2+ || 8 || 8 || 9 || 5 || 10 || 4+ || 260
|}

'''Wargear:'''
*Claws of the Dragon:
::{| class=wikitable
|- valign=top
! Weapon !! Range !! Type !! S !! AP !! D !! Abilities
|-
|'''Claws of the Dragon''' || Melee || Melee || User || -4 || D6 || Invulnerable saves may not be taken against wounds inflicted by this weapon.
|}

'''Special Rules:'''
*'''Enslaved Star God'''
*'''Machine God:''' Roll a die for any enemy {{W40kKeyword|vehicle}} between 18" of this model; on a 4-5, until the beginning of your next turn, that model may not move/advance/charge and only hits on an unmodified roll of 6. On a 6, until the beginning of your next turn, consider that model as it was part of your army.
*'''Necrodermis'''
*'''Powers of the C'tan:''' This model knows three powers from the Powers of the C'tan. It can use two of its powers at the end of each of its Movement phases.
*'''Reality Unravels'''

'''Keywords''':
*Faction:{{W40kKeyword|C'tan Shards}}, {{W40kKeyword|Necrons}}
*{{W40kKeyword|Elites}}, {{W40kKeyword|Monster}}, {{W40kKeyword|C'tan Shard of the Void Dragon}}, {{W40kKeyword|Character}}, {{W40kKeyword|Fly}}

{{Necrons-Characters}}

[[Category:40k and Fantasy Gods]]