Flayed Ones

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Flayed Ones are Necrons who go about wearing the bloody flesh of their victims. They are getting their fashion tips from Chaos victims of the Flayer virus, a program error where they develop a desire to reclaim their flesh and blood existence by devouring the flesh of the living. It's the end result of the C'Tan known as Llandu'gor the Flayer, who was not sharded like the others, but completely destroyed. Still, he had enough warning to curse the Necrons who killed him to suffer the Flayer virus as a last "fuck you;" they spread the virus to others, who spread it still further, and so on for quite some time until the other Necrons caught on.

Flayed Ones are basically the Lepers of Necron society, feared and ostracized for their disease. Although instead of sending them to a Leper colony, the Necrons simply try to kill them to prevent the spread of infection (that's disease control in Warhammer 40,000 for you); the ones that don't die end up in a weird subspace dimension where they hang out with other Flayed Ones until they sense bloody battle.

This new lore comes from the Fifth Edition Necron Codex. In Third Edition, Flayed Ones were just close-combat specialists who liked to play dress-up with the skins of their slain foes, for reasons unknown to us; they were plenty scary to look at, but otherwise lacked character. Unfortunately, their models did not get updated as nicely as their lore -- they went from "pray we kill you before we flay you" to "dance party."

See Also

• Never Forget You, a sad story about a Flayed One.