#mag'ladroth the void dragon

[ocherednoe-dno]

why was there just a random Void Dragon shard on Earth a few thousand years ago for the Emperor to fight [and later imprison on Mars]. where did it come from. if it was sealed, how [and from where] did it get loose. if it was not sealed, did it just spend 59 million years looking at trees and birds.

[that-random-chaos-entity]

Random OC Facts:

With her shard of the Void Dragon, Nehetari has the power to rescue some damaged tomb worlds that would otherwise never reawaken. This is her "official" purpose in the Undying Army. Whenever a tomb world is discovered damaged beyond even Szarekh's ability to fix, he brings his daughter and her companions in.

It's especially helpful for diplomatic reasons too; not all dynasties are too pleased with the Silent King for one reason or another, but MANY of them are still besotted with their Mehlrose. Having her face be the one greeting a new tomb world as it awakens tends to ease things over with more antagonistic dynasties.

Especially since, you know, the last memory many of these overlords & phaerons had of her was her funeral; watching the levitating mourning barge carry her emaciated, cancer-corrupted, stasis-bound body out of the palace to the great black monolith that would serve as her tomb.

[nehetari-of-szarekhan]

When it comes to pets, some folks have dogs, cats, hamsters, goldfish... ...you get the idea.

Nehetari has a shard of the Void Dragon.

Unlike many of its counterparts, this shard is not overtly hostile; mainly contenting itself with sucking energy out of the Iron Reforged's now unused warp drive, deconstructing and reconstructing any Necron that gets underfoot, messing with Crucius' Necrodermis forearms when he's not looking, and bothering the toasters in the mess hall.

Some crypteks believe it's odd behavior could have resulted from spending over 60 million years powering the stasis field over the casket of an extremely powerful (and likely the only) Warp-sensitive Necrontyr. They argue that even an unknowable horror such as a C'tan would start to lose screws being that close to the one thing in existence it actually fears for so long. Others argue that it may actually have become Warp-touched itself. And still some belive it is a ploy to lure their race into a false sense of security.

Nehetari and the Silent King, however, believe differently. Mag'ladroth is the concept of creation and destruction; a creator and destroyer. Essentially, to put it in simple terms, it is an artist living alongside its two greatest masterpieces. What artist wants to see some of its works destroyed? Especially when, by its definition, they are working exactly as intended...

...also because it MAY have latched itself to Nehetari and brought her back to life in an attempt to use her as a meat puppet to bring the Necron race under its control again. A decision which backfired immediately as Nehetari's soul was way too powerful and her will way too strong. Now it's tied to her, robbed of the souls it once consumed, trapped by her soul's tether; forever enslaved by its own creation.

[ocherednoe-dno]

I was about to suggest "and another is Trazyn the Infinite" but I honestly don't know how to rationalize that. it would be funny, I think, if the Emperor had dated a xenos, to add to his immense hypocrisy.

Warhammer 40k Scott Pilgrim AU where Malcador has to fight thousands of years worth of the Emperor's exes. One of them is the Void Dragon.

[deusvervewrites]

I don't know haw familiar you are with Warhammer 40K, but the Heart of Steel x Guardian Spirit x Others ask answer gives me Necron vibes (more specifically, the C'tan, which are reality warping stars gods). So let's add Draconic Hero to have Izuku become Mag'ladroth the Void Dragon

(regarding)

I know next to nothing about Warhammer but that's neat

[troistetesdechien]

Dall-e’s abstract vision of Gork, Mork, Gorkamorkan Emperor of Mankind, Omnimessiah, Kaela Mensha Khaine, Isha, Cegorach, Ynnead, Aza'gorod the Nightbringer, Mephet'ran the Deceiver, Mag'ladroth the Void Dragon... And Nuffle.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Shard of the Void Dragon by Alex Konstad

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

YOOOOO HOLY SHIT this is so good!

C'tan shard of the Void Dragon, by me.

[screamingatthevoid]

They came arrayed in gold, and taught us of glory - and of lies

They walked from darkness, and taught us of death - and of fear

They rose from fire, and taught us of creation - and of oblivion

[ocherednoe-dno]

while Belisarius is working in his lab(s) on Mars, the slumbering shard of the Void Dragon takes note of the Dominatus Dominus, unusual [and unusually powerful] among the mortals swarming like ants over its burial ground, and starts sending him dreams[or half-awake imaginings].

[that-random-chaos-entity]

15. If you had to choose a single object to act as a symbol for your oc, what would it be? Why?

Mag'ladroth (aka a Void Dragon shard): A tachyon arrow? Why a tachyon arrow? You are quite literally my prison; you should be a tesseract maze.

*cuts to a great battle unfolding, with necron armies marching against astartes and two small titans in the distance. Nehetari fits a very real tachyon arrow to the arm of Perturabo, interfacing it with his new set of necrodermis and blackstone power armor.*

Nehetari: Perturabo, fire this at the left-most machine when I say.

Perturabo (staring at the weapon with a deep longing): Don't tell me what to do...

*satisfied, Nehetari turns*

Nehetari: Now.

*Perturabo raises his arm as Nehetari's form flickers. Two beams of color, one green and one black, flash from the hilltop, and across the valley the two God machines EXPLODE.

The entire battle-scape seems to freeze as all combatants are showered with glittering flecks and shredded mechanical parts. In the midst of the quiet, Nehetari comes trotting back up the hill, dodging and weaving between her mechanized soldiers. Her every move is tracked by the somber stares of nobles on their battle barges, logic engrams misfiring in the closest thing to awe that was left to her people to experience. Perturabo's jaw had gone comically slack, and even Mag'ladroth had to admit; perhaps his creation had a point.*

[toaarcan]

Warhammer's Void Dragon is a bit of a weird case because while he's certainly the highest-profile version of the concept, we knew basically nothing about him for years.

All that we knew was that he was one of the C'tan, the star-eating gods of the material realm once served by, then shattered and enslaved by the Necrons (Undead Skeleton Robots from Space Egypt). We didn't even know what he looked like, whether he was actually a dragon or a more metaphorical one.

Given that other C'tan look like this, money was mostly on the latter.

(Left to right, the Deceiver (Basically Space Loki), the Nightbringer (Generic Grim Reaper) and a Transcendant C'tan)

Besides "He existed", the only other thing related to him that was confirmed was that there were a bunch of Eldar (Space Elf) corsairs that used the name for their space pirate crew. They were likely named after him, as the Eldar were the ones that gave him his title (his actual name is Mag'ladroth, but the C'tan having names besides their titles is a relatively new thing, or at least it's new to being prominent).

It's a very common (basically universally accepted at this point) and well-substantiated fan-theory that the Omnissiah, the machine-god that the Adeptus Mechanicus worship, is actually (a shard of) the Void Dragon, based on an old story of the "Dragon of Mars", an exceedingly powerful entity that was defeated by the Emperor and sealed within the Noctis Labyrinth on Mars, which is the AdMech's homeworld.

Chances of anything happening with this are still fairly low, as revealing that all the Imperium's tech is made by guys who secretly worship the Space Terminator Dragon would be a massive status quo shift and GW don't like doing that because the primary purpose of 40K lore is to sell Space Marine minis.

For a long time, we weren't even sure if he was shattered like the other C'tan, or if he was whole and complete below the surface of the planet.

More recently they've given him a bit more attention. It was confirmed that he was shattered alongside his brethren, and that may be for the best, as the whole Void Dragon is by far the most powerful named entity ever seen in the 40K universe. At his full strength, he would be be able to defeat the Chaos Gods, and even the other C'tan were pants-shittingly terrified of him.

Finally, in 9th Edition, he got a model. It's very big, and very expensive. And he does look rather a lot like his siblings.

Given how thin the details about him were until just a couple of years ago, I doubt that 40K's Void Dragon was an influence on other characters with similar names, beyond maybe hearing the name and thinking it sounds cool. But even then he's hardly a household name by 40K standards, so chances of someone hearing about him outside of the 40K fandom specifically are relatively low.

What in particular gave you the idea for the Void Dragon? Any particular character or (doubt it but) real life person?

Considering the Void Dragon was a creation of 11-year-old Red, I legitimately think my thought process was "what's the most apocalyptic final boss I can give my fantasy world? well OBVIOUSLY it's gotta be an enormous fuck-you dragon"

[askjenetiakrole]

🗡 - Swords

The Truth of Oblivion

He named it Veracitas. It was made long ago - not forged, but made - and that first name was forgotten. Disi Illuyanka. Logos. Khanda. Godkiller. It was called many things, but only one name echoed through the ages. The Sword of Oblivion.  It is yours, the Emperor signed. He rarely used Thoughtmark, but there was an unspoken understanding that this was a time for silence. Words would be spoken, soon, though not by Him. As it was always meant to be.  Jenetia Krole knelt before the Emperor of Mankind. He sat on a throne of noctilith, the sword laid across His knees. She would make her vow on that blade, but first she had to understand what it was. Krole placed her hand on the blade  and tasted blood. She felt cold despite the sun beating down on her from a cloudless blue sky. That distant light stirred a longing in her that she could not quite place.  The sky fell away. Beside her, a banner of white and red snaked towards a broken lance planted in the dune on which she lay. Four great, black hooves stood beside it, pawing at the sand. Krole strained to see what had startled the beast to no avail. An indescribable weariness gripped her, and she could not move.  A glint of metal appeared over the horizon. Others, too, approaching from all sides. As they neared, they resolved into human forms. Women, shaven-headed and riven by parasitic technology far surpassing the work of mankind in that, or any other, age. She recognised the scene. The sacrificed Daughters of Cyrene, thought dead, come to reclaim the Dragon’s bones.  Two golden boots dropped into the sand. The dragon slayer knelt before her. A familiar face looked at her with an unfamiliar countenance. He grasped her, pulled her from the Dragon’s mouth. She was the sword. A shard of a shard, broken off from Oblivion Itself.  The present returned. The nature of the dream had not been psychic. It could not. Yet, somehow, the Sword of Oblivion was alive. It was angry. And it was ravenous.

(Send a symbol, and my muse will tell a personal story about…👻 🎁 🐱 😇 😈 🎃 ⭐️ 🌙 ⚡️ 🌨 🌪 ⛄️ 🌊 🤢 😷 😰 🎤 🎬 🎼 🎲 🎪 🏖 ✈️ 🚂 🕯 🗡 🔮 🚨 ⏰ ❤️)

[ocherednoe-dno]

the creation of the necron is essentially a botched Stellaris synth ascension [where the spiritualists are actually right and they do lose their souls and become husks of their former selves], and the Void Dragon is associated with technology [especially as the Dragon of Mars]. There Is Something Here That I Cannot Articulate.

[askjenetiakrole]

Fire & Dragon

Fire: Would you consider yourself hot-headed or more even-tempered?

Commander Krole: *hand gestures* *taps breastplate* *taps temple*

Melpomanei: “Even-tempered. Not idly is it called the Vow of Tranquillity - true silence comes from within, and it requires the mind to be at peace.”

Dragon: What is your favourite mythological creature?

Commander Krole: *touches nose and points* *hand gestures*

Melpomanei: “You have it. When I was young, the Emperor used to tell me stories. One of my favourite was a great dragon that threatened to devour the very stars in the sky until it was cast down by a knight in shining gold.”

(Seventeen Types, Seventeen Questions: Normal Fire Water Grass Electric Flying Rock Ground Poison Bug Ice Fighting Psychic Ghost Steel Dark Dragon)

[nehetari-of-szarekhan]

"Quite imposing," Nehetari muses, particularly at the depiction of the Void Dragon. "It is hard to believe that this is the same being which got itself stuck in a toaster half a cycle ago."

*The shard of Mag'ladroth makes unidentifiable yet clearly irritated noises from within its tessersct vault, which hovers lazily at the princess's side.*

Their Name Is Death

by Ev Shipard