Flayed Ones are an Existential NIGHTMARE

[@blakeoarmboy]

I love how Trayzn’s immune to the curse since his purpose is essentially impossible. To chart and record all of history make the greatest museum. History will out live all sentient things and there’s also the history of the past undocumented he still needs to document. The solution to immortality is to never be able to complete your dreams which is sad I love it.

[@doomfan8603]

it's about the journey... *THE GREAT JOURNEY AWAITS*

[@somerton4383]

​@@doomfan8603 *Halo theme plays*

[@simtexa]

To be fair, it is entirely possible to also be fully aware of this fact and be content with it.

[@blakeoarmboy]

@@simtexa fair the whole one must imagine Sisyphus happy thing

[@Saurophaganax1931]

And Trayzin does seem to be happy (by Necron standards) at the very least he seems to enjoy himself the most and have a generally optimistic approach to situations. He has fun and that's very weird for a Necron.

[@vokkera6995]

The thing that terrifies me about the idea of immortality is the scaling of time in memory. When you’re thousands of years old, you probably barely remember when anything happened because everything feels like it happened just the other day, with generations worth of memories flashing past at any attempt to think back. People are just blips in your perspective, being gone in what feels like minutes. That would certainly drive one to madness.

[@JonathanNormandy]

Nah, I can't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, ain't now way I'm remembering thousands of years of knowledge

[@TheMythicalHaastsEagle]

Live long enough and you'll go "full Eldar", never go "full Eldar"

[@TK-727]

Necrons were there being cucked before they started atomizing everything.

[@axelabdiel4136]

Go full trazyn

[@Enxivity_100]

​@@axelabdiel4136 that is technicly an ever-lasting purpose.

[@jesserains9958]

Guardsman Edgar your skin is hanging off of your bones.

[@SRTifiable]

Give me solar radiation. In water. More.

[@ClothFace]

😃 is this better?

[@blackc1479]

[@ege8240]

"i have no time to lose skin."

[@foller2electricboogaloo575]

Guardsman Three Nurglings In a Trech Coat: "Put you shit together, Ed"

[@mekelwander6551]

GW staff: "Flayed Kings sounds like an awesome model to release." GW: "Is that the name of an obscure Space Marine chapter?" GW staff: "No...? They're Necrons." GW: "Oh... Denied. Now remove the new storm lords from the online shop."

[@cogboy3587]

A cool bit of lore is that there is a Chaos Knight who absolutely loves to tear its victims apart and to display the mangled corpses from its armour, to the point its pretty much just covered in gore, skin and meat almost constantly. Interestingly, this has caused a group of Flayed Ones to constantly follow it around the battlefield as the Knight continues to butcher and slaughter, seeming to not notice the group of murder robots it has gathered who follow in its wake like its an avatar of the flayer virus.

[@satch5471]

Oh thats cool, whats the name of the chaos knight? Or a place to read more about it ?

[@riceboi9535]

Twice Drad King: Ruin has it in the story. Funnily enough, the necron characters think its a Seraptek Heavy Construct due to the size of it​@@satch5471

[@josefstalin9678]

He is their primarch

[@cmanmonkeydog]

@@satch5471 Death Sabre

[@TheOther19]

​​​@@satch5471 The Twice-Dead King: Ruin. About 3/4 of the way through the book. Knight isn't named, at least I don't remember if it does

[@secutorprimus]

A couple of additions: - In respect to fully slaying a C'tan, one of the reasons it is *so* difficult to do is because they're entrenched within the laws of material reality itself. Canonically, the Necron purging of the C'tan broke *causality itself*, and left a permanent stain on objects and individuals involved (including the Flayer curse) - The Flayer curse is heavily associated with a concept known as the Dysphorakh. In essence, it is the logical result of what happens when you copy a biological brain 1:1 into a synthetic body; the subconscious bits that keep you alive (breathing, pumping blood, needing *food*) can begin to panic. A Necron can go mad if they're left to confront this for too long, as the animalistic remnants of what they were override the rational parts of their mind. - Something that does appear to help in staving off this dysphorakh is distraction from old memories. Even more effective seems to be the *loss* of memory... but if that's the case, is it any wonder Destroyers are so common? A thinking machine that only knows peace through destruction and the following silence?

[@speetza6265]

“There is an acknowledgment that if they have no purpose, they will go insane." At last, the Dark Souls of 40k

[@rays5073]

Hence Trazyns infinite collecting to keep busy

[@theodorehodbor5080]

Ngl I feel like the Necrons are one of the best examples in general fiction for how true immortality would be a genuine curse. Literally almost every Necron you encounter that isn't just completely insane or senile sounds absolutely fucking *miserable.*

[@DiscoKevin69420]

Trazyn seems to be having a good time

[@LexYeen]

​@@DiscoKevin69420homie did say "almost every Necron"

[@spnked9516]

​@@DiscoKevin69420a big part of the Infinite and the Divine revolves around Trayzn's musing that immortals don't measure things so much in time as they do in action or purpose. He outright states that immortality is a curse if you're not passionate/obsessed with something, and most "people" simply can't muster that much feeling or dedicated to something.

[@Crouza]

@@DiscoKevin69420 Trazyn is insane, it's why he seems like he's having a good time. He's a hoarder with a compulsion to collect random crap to the point that even Trazyn himself sometimes finds himself confused why he even wants to collect a certain item or person in the first place.

[@lordgod9958]

The death mark in twice dead king also seemed to be rather enjoying himself by trolling his new king lol

[@goingblargh]

_”Give us your flesh. We demand it.”_

[@Ratman36]

"Give-Give warpstones man things now-now!!"

[@HTWW]

Yeah, but they wouldn't promise us a new world, though. Way unfair.

[@creed8712]

@@Ratman36”take-take the man things Jordan-Jordan’s”

[@trenchmouse2438]

Ah yes, The Second Renaissance. *Proceeds to annihilate the last major human city

[@bluequiltedness]

Err: "Hand over your flesh and a new world awaits you. We demand it."

[@boanoah6362]

One thing about necrons that is amazing is their sense of time, they can not only control how fast or slow the perceive it to pass but also take years at a time on trivial things because time has no meaning. So imagine you're a necron, you decide to settle down for a bit to get some paperwork done after saying bye to your friend for a little bit... 100 years later you get up to stretch your legs a little and oops, your friend you just saw 'a while ago' is now nailing hunks of meat to his skull and screaming into the endless void. In our terms that was a couple hours tops.

[@fablion6324]

i like how the flayer virus heavily implies that necron warriors still have their contiousness inside them, its just being heeeevily supressed by the controll protocolls placed on them

[@utes5532]

It's also hinted at in the Twice Dead King books at one point, where Oltyx wonders if the warriors still have their consciousness. It's just that no one has cared to ask one.

[@fablion6324]

@@utes5532 imagine if an overlord just said "at ease" to a unit of wariors

[@_underscore_6970]

Twice Dead King is an amazing book, right behind Infinite and the Divine for me, Flayed Ones play such a huge part in it, and it sets for an interesting backdrop between the drama and action. also fun fact: There is a Chaos Knight that has gone around killing so much, that it’s grown a layer of flesh and gore, and while it had a cult following it around, they got slaughtered by Flayed Ones who noticed him, and saw him as an avatar of their god, so now they just follow him where he goes

[@josefstalin9678]

That chaos knight is their primarch now

[@fluffly3606]

I want the Flayer's concept to be "confirmed" as incomprehensible on a fundamental level _because_ it was completely erased from reality by the destruction of the Flayer. The idea that there was something fundamental to reality (and by extension, life!) that was erased and the closest thing we have to it is "flaying" is sublimely horrifying in precisely the way that my neurospicy brain finds oddly pleasant

[@khorneflakes4446]

I like the fact that the flayed ones are capable of mimicing voices to lure people. Shows they aren't just mindless ghouls but possess a sadistic intelligence.

[@lordgod9958]

They can plan ambushes and in TDK one of them even makes the shhh gesture to Ultyx when he's hiding from a group of retreating space marines Before leading the pack to viscerally tear said marines to literal shreds

[@JonathanNormandy]

Really shows the Wendigo/Skinwalker inspiration. Endless, untameable hunger. The chilling lack of emotion. Even the flaying and wearing of human skins, something Navajo Skinwalkers were said to do. The Flayed are treated very similarly by Necron as the Navajo treated Skinwalkers, seen as the most horrific, disgusting thing that can happen to you, feared by all. I love it so much.

[@darnokx9277]

"Horrors, for once not manmade" ... well, parts of them is manmade... man made cloak, so to speak.

[@philiphockenbury6563]

Oh the metal boys are cold. They need your skin. Give it. Come on. Give it.

[@grimreminder5038]

"What if it's not a virus, maybe I felt nostalgic." - Flayed One's internal monolog probably

[@aSkymne]

The Caretaker Everywhere At The End Of Time music in the background is what i imagine is playing at all times in nurgles land

[@cinderheart2720]

There's a flayer king in the Mechanicus video game! He's one of the bosses.

[@stingray2223]

yeah! his fight was HORRIFYING the endless flayed ones crawling from the depths, the winding path up, to the mad king Ubjao

[@flaviomonteiro1414]

That fight was amazing, one of the most memorable.

[@ADarkAngel4949]

I legit just got my hands on some Flayed Ones, and I am turning them into a Cadian Command Squad, with Steve as the officer.

[@botpenn4672]

"Officer, your men are unarmed!" "'Sir,' If this one may interject... these warriors are equipped with two arms each." "Don't start acting wise with me, Officer. Go fetch some lasguns and get in position! The heretics will be upon us any minute now." "This one understands." "...There's something wrong with that lot..."

[@WhenGoatsWentBaa]

Few notes on things For the flayer kings, they do still exist, but there's only known to be two, one of which is probably a myth (those being Valgul (the myth) and Oltyx) Second thing, Llanugor was actually killed by several dynasties including the Ithikan dynasty (which is why they're so affected by the flayer curse) Third thing, the pocket dimension has been elaborated on. It's a dimension considered to be beneath the intersticial dimension the Necrons use to communicate, teleport and resurrect. It's basically entirely empty with only the flayers actually being capable of navigating it properly. Even when Necron ships travelled there, they had immense trouble actually making their way through it with no easy way to guide themselves. Think that's everything, most of this was from Twice Dead King Reign and Ruin, the two books go incredibly in depth into the flayed ones. Great video Arthur! Have a great day if you read this!

[@Diomedes_XXII]

We got your back, homie.

[@alastor8091]

Literally!

[@jimmcphearson7252]

The dysphorak that turns necrons into flayed ones is the most interesting part of the concept. It is a slip of the mind that leads to a spiraling panic. Before battle one day, your lord orders you to march upon the enemy. You have done this millions of times, the first still being when you were still of flesh and blood. You vaguely recall it and take a breath before marching. But no breath enters your lungs. You can't open your mouth. Your brain craves oxygen it hasn't had in millions of years. Your body that isn't there cries out in every way at once. So you desperately try to take the body of the enemy. Their lungs, their face, their flesh

[@jimmcphearson7252]

As an aside, I had a similar experience on a bad shroom trip. Will definitely go lower on my dose next time. Felt like if I acknowledged the dread that it would consume my entire body

[@utes5532]

Yeah, the Twice Dead King books are really cool and do a good job of humanizing the Necrons. Lysikor my beloved

[@jimmcphearson7252]

@@utes5532 The real MVP is Denet shaking off his madness long enough to summon the monoliths.

[@utes5532]

@@jimmcphearson7252 Only for it to do sweet fuck-all Still loved that moment though

[@JonathanNormandy]

​​@@jimmcphearson7252 Wait this is actually horrifying. Although, using shrooms or some other kind of hallucinogenic drug to try to simulate how it feels to have certain things happen to you is an interesting idea. Imagine experiencing The Black Rage, one of Nurgles plauges, Tzeentch's mutations, or (Emperor forbid) The Butchers Nails. I dont even know if this is possible. An undoubtedly horrible idea, but an interesting one nonetheless.

[@Turnil321]

The hardest part of being an immortal is not dying of boredom.

[@docomalleyd4279]

Flayed ones that still can think for themselves?! *Internal screaming intensifies* Ya see, that's the stuff that makes me so happy that I subbed to your channel Arthur, you give us the good stuff while you get to nerd out a bit. Thanks for posting this and making me smile at a truly horrifying concept. 😁

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

Flesh Eater Courts: _"Mood kindred?"_

[@DeathBy_Chair]

Heavily recommend the Twice Dead King books as they bring Flayed Ones to the forefront and are the main reason I too almost made a Necron Army. The Flayed Ones are such an awesome concept I really hope to see a Flayed King model come out one day

[@Sephiroth36977]

As a Star Wars fan this reminds me of Darth Nihilus. Not so much the physical attempts to eat but just this unknowable ancient force of the universe that exists as a cosmic *negative* to all life. I need more Necron lore, I've only read The Infinite and the Divine as a break from the seemingly neverending Gareth Armstrong Horus Heresy audiobooks. The Flayed Ones were briefly featured but like everything else it was entirely new to me. Thank you Arthur for this video about the *spooky scary skeletons sending shivers down my spine!*

[@Zoshnell]

I hired a flayer once for my butcher counter. 1 out of 10 he was very sloppy with his cuts, but his customer service skills were great, I got 0 complaints about him.

[@simtexa]

I think one thing that is almost always overlooked within any discourse of "living forever would be boring" is the fact that even with eternal life, your memories wouldn't be. You could live for 100,000 years, but you probably wouldn't remember even 1000 of those years. Once you've "done everything", you would've forgot a lot of it, at which point you are free to do it again as if you never have before.

[@ryanexsus]

The descriptions of the "Eaters" in Twice Dead King made my skin crawl. I like how they showed that it slowly degrades the Necron mind over a long period of time. Their insatiable hunger that can never truly be filled.

[@psychetitan3529]

Better touch on Valgul and twice dead king when you cover the ghoul stars. Absolutely amazing books and lore

[@masonevanson2995]

I love that people just look at em as "oh, robot zombies" but no it's literally a robot wendigo curse. That's... fucking horrifying. A planet, full of wendigos. Nope nope nope

[@woundedzilla1517]

I really like the twice dead king books that HEVELY imply the titular twice dead king is in fact that specific flyer king in the pocket dimension

[@michaelschroeder7953]

also the flayed ones were kinda like my intro to 40k. at a party, this one guy who was on some stuff that made him quite chatty, was showing me artwork of them and i listened to his 3 hour monologue about my question, “what is 40k?” and boy oh boy i opened up the floodgates

[@xvrebellion]

You'd like the twice dead king ruin book. It ratchets up the existential horror of being a necron plus flayed ones become a pretty big point in the story

[@uniball5667]

Literally just wipe your memories every once in awhile. "Damn I wish skydiving was still fun. I know! I'll just remove those memories and it will be like new!" Sure, it's still pretty horrifying, buy at least you won't go insane from boredom.

[@Zxr-r6q]

So, essentially, the curse just turns the skele-bois into wendigos.

[@rcIII273]

0:34 I have to write a horror story for a college class I want to use warhammer as a base, any recommendations? I’m already thinking of the first heretic as a source

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

You could show the transformation of the Legion from the POV of a relative outsider, a chapter serf or any of the baseline personnel attached to their fleet, the Word Bearers are silver-tounged charlatans so they have a very powerful pull towards their cause, what would take for a normal person that's enthralled by them to realize, before most others, that something is very wrong but it's already too late. Not Word Bearers related but you might consider also the POV of a Genestealer at the moment the Hive Mind severs its connection to them before being devoured, the realization that their Four Armed Emperor and "his" angels are tyranids.

[@Rok_of_itza]

I think a good idea could be a story about a necron slowly being corrupted by the flayer virus

[@Geebees93]

Interesting. My shipment of 4 boxes of Flayed Ones just came in today and you drop this video on the very same day? Very amusing, Arthur... Coincidence? I think not!

[@Turnil321]

There is a flayer king in the mechanicus game.

[@jackmakinson-sanders7279]

Nice Ellison nod! Also, great work in general. As is the usual with you, your content is super dope.

[@richardnorton3453]

The best treatment of the Flayed Ones that I have run across. Excellent content!

[@robertfancyman3873]

The Twice-Dead King books really sold me on the concept of the Flayed Ones, but I'm definitely not having them be a major thing in my homebrew dynasty. It's one of the worst fates in 40k and I don't want my little dudes to suffer that.

[@JordantheBarbarian]

Whatever you do, don't stop uploading. Your videos itch my brain in a way that a lot of content creators fail to do. Keep it up King 💪

[@plasmyth5501]

2:56 *Squee squeeeak *

[@Enoch_Trismegistus]

Ok, but real talk. The Necron are such an existential shit show that everywhere you look within the race, there's horror. Be it Lovecraftian or (in the case of the Flayed Ones) Cronenberg.

[@topcat59]

The flayed one kind of sound like starved robotic werewolves that could never satisfied their endless hunger.🐱

[@overdog1574]

In the mechanicus game, there’s a flayed one lord, lord ubjao, and he probably has the sickest flayed one design I’ve ever seen

[@dr.stronk9857]

Yeah if I didn’t already have tyranids, thousand sons, ravenguard, and soon the night lords killteam, I’d want to make a necron flayer dynasty, they’re just really cool and spooky

[@caboose759]

I think Llandu'Gor as a constant is some sort of manifestation of senses or stimuli moreso than blood and gore. In a way the antithesis to the Void Dragon in some respects yet just as malevolent given the nature of the C'Tan. The term "Flayer" is a moniker retroactivity given by either the Necrons or Eldar who bore witness while they were still around as a summary of their action in warning, not necessarily what they actually represent. The reason i feel this is what LG is all about is because of how the transformation into a Flayed One or Flayer King manifests in the Twice Dead King books. Hunger is a major component to what drives Flayers mad yes but its the awakening of their senses that remind them that its time to eat. For example, there are moments that are similar to how I'd imagine someone who lost an arm describes the phenomenon of Phatom Limb, where you just suddenly either believe you are feeling an itch when you physically cant or you realize something that you arent feeling isnt there and your "body" starts to react in kind. The scene in Twice Dead King where Oltyx suddenly notices that he isnt breathing really sends that home to me. I dont recall what prompted it but he suddenly realizes he isnt breathing so he starts to think hes choking then begins to panic and feel clammy when thats not something he should be able to feel anymore at all. The concept is horrifying to me and is the perfect revenge you could give to a robotic race.

[@peculiarcomics2255]

I like when you do vids on what your passionate about. Go off King!

[@The1Zubatman]

In the Mechanicus game there is a boss fight against a Necron noble that is affected by the flayed ones disease and it sounds similar to the flayed king you mentioned. I'm nit sure though Mechanicus was one of the first Warhammer things I ever interacted with and it's been some time.

[@pestreiterj.6800]

Speaking of an "Flayed One" Dynastie, back in 5 to 7th Edition i used to Play an custom Dynastie of the Oroskh. They where mentioned only in the Lore parts of the Codex. An Dynastie that is infected with the Flayer Virus very badly. I customized a lot of models with Skin and claws from Warriors up to Cryptecs and Lychguards. It was a pain in the Butt to build but an awesome sight on the Table 😁

[@sockmonkeyjg]

I love your content friend The only feedback is don't be afraid to do more nightlord or chaos horror concepts I think the choas is where the big views are

[@robertwilder4953]

I needed this... just to get through the day... thank you.

[@headshot531]

the idea of a necron army thats basically just a bunch of therizinosaur’s running around is amazing lmao.

[@TK-727]

.... let me see your search history......

[@giominus7402]

This reminds me of the Knight that killed so many Nids it couldn't stop killing and became some weird roaming beast that Flayed ones follow around now cause of the gore.

[@mr.expunged6040]

I like the flayed ones, very interesting concept, very cool/horrifying to look at, and that pocket dimension of theirs is the reason why they are one of the absolute last things I want to run into in 40k.

[@jacks633]

'We goin' to Flayer city bay-BEEEEEEEEY' killed me. Fr tho, got into Necrons after seeing all those awesome little green rods on a GW table years ago. Loved them even more playing Dark Crusade. First time summoning 'Flayed ones' and watching these zombie robots erupt from the ground?! Immediate new favourite unit in the game.

[@Zossel]

If you havent done it read the twice dead king books. They explore the flayed once pretty heavely. And yes please more flayed ones content

[@riokollivier]

Loved the video! Looking forward to your next AoS video.

[@ZechariahWhisenhunt]

I can’t remember which book it was about a cryptic awakening some Lich guard and one was acting odd and was keeping to itself when all of a sudden a loud noise is heard and they look and see the Lich guard face plate has torn open to form a movable jaw so they realize that it has fallen to flyer cause the author did a awesome job of making it sound creepy and scary at the same time

[@Waabbrr]

the dysphorakh and flayed ones are honestly my favorite piece of warhammer lore at the moment

[@samhack7249]

Guys this is Steve our new guardsman.

[@TheXenomorphwarrior]

I’d love for you to cover hive fleet Tiamet and to hear some of your theories on what the hell they’re protecting.

[@ausgreen3761]

More Flayed Ones videos please! These poor guys are criminally under represented.

[@EmonWBKstudios]

There is nothing more horrifying than that moment when you lose any sense of purpose or meaning, that moment when you can only think ahead of the next few moments as you realize you are little more than prey to some uncaring, hungry THING.

[@jackofn0trades29]

If you were interested in flayed ones and their actual origin. Along with a description and story within their pocket dimension, the ghost wind. Then I would heavily recommend the Twice dead king Books.

[@Psyc0Fox]

If you love flayers, read Twice Dead King: Ruin and Reign. Beyond being amazing books, they go into so much detail on the flayer curse.

[@svahn1]

If you like the idea of the Flayed Ones, PLEASE go read/listen to Twice Dead King. I don't want to say much about the plot since it would ruin things, but the flayer curse is discussed a lot, especially in the second book. It's a fantastic story and it discusses many fascinating concepts involving the Necron psyche. Seriously, don't look up anything about it, just read it or get the audiobook. You wont regret it.

[@rexstocephirxiii4263]

There is one example of a flayer king that can be seen. In the game Mechanicus, you lead a cohort of tech priests exploring a waking tomb world. One of the necron nobility, Ubjao, has fallen to the flayed ones plague along with his entire tomb. You can fight him in the game.

[@franciscadigan3876]

Flayed ones are awesome! And not talked about too much. There's also not much about what happens to different types of Necrons when they get infected, they mostly seem Necron-warrior-esque. Well, this is why I've been working on homebrew rules for A Flayer Cult Kill Team for a while!

[@Octohuh2008]

I never really knew anything about flayed ones until now. Neat video.

[@jameskilts555]

Necrons being my main army, the two concepts that have always held my attention have been the flayer virus and the destroyer cult. I hope to see an amalgamation of the two someday, even though they are somewhat contrary to one another. I might make it a goal of mine to make a destroyer cult themed army, part of me is wanting to wait till we hopefully get a resculpt of the common lokhust destroyer and maybe destroyer lord....

[@SeaOfGrey]

You should read Dead Men Walking. A necron tomb world gets woken and you're following average people. The DKOK gets called in to fight but the flayed ones in it give me anxiety, I love it so much!

[@redmammoth8759]

More flayed one or more works would be awesome but you do you Mr. Bones

[@Mistheart101]

I know you use music from The Caretaker in a lot of your videos, but *man* it's fitting for this one in particular.

[@QuartzChrysalis]

For a while I thought that Llandu'gor represents carnivory or maybe hunger more broadly. After giving it more thought I reasoned that carnivory and hunger are either the coherent remains of it's concept or is the feeling of part of the concept being missing or indistinct.

[@ThisIsYourGodNow]

In the twice dead king they go to the flayed ones dimensions and it's a sub layer of reality where there's just straight up nothing there

[@15DEAN1995]

After the twice dead king books I found it very interesting how necrons communicate/show there personalities when they become flayers. With certain characters it's as if their freed from their previous restraints and can truly be who they are. Yes they're mad, they want to consume flesh which they cannot and wear it to imitate skin they no longer possess. The normal soldiers seem to be more free as flayers than they ever were before. When compared to the destroyers the flayers seem far more reasonable and yes that feels like a stretch. Anytime a destroyer is shown in a book they are like a force of nature they cannot be satisfied until they have destroyed every molecule of life until nothing remains. The flayers by comparison look pretty good.

[@ortiznikko]

I'd love to hear more about the necrons from your perspective

[@dogf421]

these are the type of things that would make the most battle hardened individual go "wtf are these and why are they the way that they are?"

[@oddity]

I like it when creators make one for themselves.

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

3:57 Nuh uh (comes up with Necron Tom Bombadil)

[@michaelschroeder7953]

as an addict in recovery, all bad roads tend to root because of boredom. heavily feel the intro of this video

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

The spookiest thing about the flayer curse I learned is from the Infinite and the Divine. The Flayer curse can spread in the same way that the Destroyer cult of the Necrons propagates. It’s basically a computer virus that can spread through transmission of data, even including the most basic of communication. As a Necron, you could literally get the flayer virus by just talking to one.

[@mlgfails2727]

Would be interesting to see how chaos reacts to the flayed ones or in general how they feel about the fallen Catan and a possible resurgence of them one day

[@robertmitchell3495]

Twice dead king is my favorite necron book! Goes into necrons and flesh's them out (pun intended) if you havent read it and like flayed ones please give it a read.

[@pit_shost]

i love that we never get any info on what landagor was a god of, only lightly implied through his curse

[@m.k.738]

Why is it so many think the Flayed Ones have to have human flesh tone paint. I had quite a bit of fun painting all the different 40k races skin tones on them. Tau blue and Ork Green worked out very well. Even tried green stuff to get a Nid plate but it didn’t work as well as I wanted. However that genestealer purple did.

[@iam_sriracha2400]

Ah yes, the “peel people like fruit” bots

[@legionclown2656]

There is a chaos dreadblade knight who went insane and draped itself in skin and the flayed ones showed up and just kind of follow it around

[@mrbreeze3954]

I know you use this background music on every video but in this one... In this one it hits different

[@flaviomonteiro1414]

Young me find the Necrons horrifying when I had to battle against them during my campaigns in Dark Crusade. imagine my surprise when I see those things coming from the ground and killing my troops.

[@nikoazure5235]

So I've got a bit of a head cannon about Flayed ones. That not only do the get the emotion of hunger back but for warriors and immortals some of the personhood as well twisted as it is by the curse. Several times in Necron books we see flayed ones "talk" to each other, offer other Necrons "Food" and most damming of all plan random unranked Necrons planning. Theirs a person in their or is it just the ghost of a dead god?

[@josefstalin9678]

I know the odds of getting one are practically nonexistant but I would love an official GW model of Valgul. Easily one of my favorite characters in 40k despite how little is written about him (I mean, so little that he's really more of a concept than a proper character but I dont care because he's awesome)

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