Editing Mephet'ran

[[File:The Deceiver Warhammer-40000-фэндомы-C'tan-Necrons-2117750.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Look at his golden smarmy smug-ass face.]]
<div style="text-align:center;font-size:1.10em;font-weight:italic;font-style:bold;font-family:Papyrus;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:gold;font-size:100%'> '''Hello there my little puppet! - The Deceiver being the Dickhead like usual''' '''</span></div> 

''“Lies cannot succeed without some perception of honesty”''<br>
― Aniekee Tochukwu

==Introduction==
Mephet'ran; more commonly known by such nicknames as the Deceiver, the Jackal God, the Golden One, the almighty Golden Six Pack, and the master of trolling is the Necron's answer to Tzeentch, and [[Cegorach|Cegorach's]] best drinking buddy as well as something of an expy of Nyarlathotep.  He is one of the main C'tan gods with some relevance alongside [[Aza'Gorod|the Nightbringer]] and [[Mag'ladroth|the Void Dragon.]] He is known as one of the greatest [[Trolls]] of Warhammer and is actively competing with [[Tzeentch]] and [[Cegorach]] on who can pull off the greatest lulz. He alongside the aforementioned two are some of the key players of the Emprah's super psychic cosmic eternal strip poker and has been at this game since the days before even the stars had formed and all the other players were little more than scattered high energy particles in the first epochs of the universe after the big bang.

During the [[War in Heaven]] he alongside Cegorach made a deal with each other on creating a plan so dickish and so trollish that it would help break the universe itself. The plan was to convince the Nightbringer and the Outsider as well as the other C'tan gods that if they ate each other due to their immense powers, they would stand on top as the greatest beings in the galaxy. Of course being the idiots that they are, the other C'tan gods completely [[FAIL|fell for it]]. With the old ones essentially beaten at this point and the C'tan squabbling for the spoils, the [[Necron|Necrons]], with Szarekh tired of all the horror of the galaxy's greatest war, ashamed that he sold his people's souls, and seeing that reality was splitting at the seams as the C'tan and Old Ones tore apart the Materium and the Warp decided he had to do something if they were to have a future beyond being the slaves of lovecraftian gods.  As the C'tan were busy eating each other and the armies of the old ones cowered and hid, Szarekh went "Fuck this" and shattered the remaining C'tan into pieces with an unknown weapon that was said to cause damage to the very fabric of reality itself after slaughtering the remaining old ones, ridding the galaxy of the influence of both factions of gods.

The Deceiver, is claimed by some to be shattered alongside his C'tan brothers [[Not as planned|which he possibly did not intended]] and possibly spends the remaining of his life being mocked by the [[Tzeentch|giant blue bird]] and the [[Cegorach|laughing clown.]] On the other hand he may have pulled of a dastardly move that possibly fooled everyone into thinking that he was turned into a glorified Pokemon if the various contacts/shenanigans between him and the [[Imperium of Man|IoM,]] [[Eldar|Eldar,]] [[Blackstone Fortress|Blackstone Fortresses,]] [[Failbaddon]] and others are reported as truth.  Battlefleet Gothic: Armada seems to hint that his sharding was actually a deception and that he's very much fully functional.  Deception from the Deceiver? Who would have guessed!  Though to be fair, what better way to have a free hand to manipulate the galaxy than for everyone to be convinced you're no longer a factor at play?

== Accomplishments ==
*Convinced his brother C'tan to eat each other
*Manipulated a society (though there was no mention of its species) called the Silvae into worshiping him so that they could be turned into Necrons. They ended up getting purged but such was of little consequential loss to him.
*Has been secretly manipulating the [[Imperium of Man]]'s hierarchy through shape shifting. A Callidus assassin was sent to kill him (in his guise as a governor after committing a fair deal of [heresy]) but failed as she stabbed him, only to find to her horror that he simply absorbed her C'tan phase sword as if it were a lost part of him returning home. To add insult to injury, the Deceiver commented on [[troll|how the Callidus  polymorphine drug "gives human essence such a delicate flavouring"]]
*Gives [[Abbadon|Abby]] an awesome demon stick so that not only it will be even harder to [[Sindri]] him, he will continue to be [[just as planned|manipulated by the Deceiver]].
*Possibly started the [[Black Crusade|Gothic War/12th Black crusade]] by telling [[Abbadon|Abby]] about the Blackstone fortresses while disguised as a crone (or the old crone was Moriana and she was informed about the fortresses by the deceiver). This was done to take the powerful warp weapons out of the picture so that they could not be used against the C'tan (like him) in the future while also weakening the [[Imperium of Man]] at the same time by having the traitor legions and Imperium bleed each other dry.  Further supported by the ending of the Battlefleet Gothic: Armada game, which also gave him his first ever bit of voice acting.

==On the Tabletop==
When The Deceiver was a model, he was bit weaker in combat than the Nightbringer, but still deadly. Rather than getting into melee, however, his abilities were based on a bunch of illusory tricks that fucked with the enemies' heads, like forcing them to take a pinning test even if they were fearless. 


== DoW Soulstorm ==
Similar to the Nightbringer, the Necron Lord in Soulstorm can turn into a manifestation of the Deceiver. It couldn't dish out nearly as much damage as the Nightbringer, but was still invincible and could do a bunch decieve-y stuff like temporarily take control of an enemy squad or create a fake monolith. The ability shared cooldown timers with the Nightbringer ability, but was considered overpowered regardless.

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