The Outsider is the most enigmatic and terrible of the C'tan, the Star-God of madness, isolation, and the empty void. Known to the Necrons as Llandu'gor, the Flayer, it is said to have gone irrevocably insane — some legends claim it devoured other C'tan and could not digest their essence, others that the sheer horror of existence shattered its ancient mind. Whatever the truth, the Outsider became a thing of pure lunacy, too dangerous even for its own murderous kin.
Unlike its brethren, the Outsider was not merely shattered and enslaved after the War in Heaven; it was cast out entirely, banished to a dead star at the very edge of the galaxy, imprisoned in isolation absolute. Yet its madness left a lingering curse upon the Necrons who destroyed it — the dread affliction known as the Flayer Virus, which drives afflicted Necrons to strip the flesh from the living and drape themselves in gore, believing themselves alive once more.
The Outsider dwells alone in the outer dark, cut off from the galaxy of stars it once fed upon, gnawing at the bars of its self-made prison. It is a god of the abyss between worlds, of the terror of infinite emptiness, of a mind broken past all repair. Should it ever break free of its exile, even the other Star-Gods might tremble — for madness knows no strategy, no restraint, and no mercy, only the endless hunger of the void.
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