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The history of the Screaming Vortex is lost to legend and myth, but a popular legend has been propagated by the denizens of the Vortex throughout its history: before it was formed, the sector now dominated by the Screaming Vortex was thought to be a nest of [[Eldar]] worlds until the [[Fall of the Eldar]]. As the [[Eye of Terror ]] erupted, the Screaming Vortex was formed as one of several secondary warp storms. Uniquely, the Vortex resonates with the tormented voices of the slain original residents, audible to any [[psykers]] outside the Vortex, and to all within, hence its name; when the storm wanes, the voices grow louder and more desperate.

The Screaming Vortex encompasses an area much larger than the original grouping of worlds it formed around, swallowing many additional systems and even pulling additional systems into itself via realspace disruption. It also has varied in size throughout its past, - the world of [[Saint Annard's Penance]] was thought to be held within the Vortex for a time, though it currently sits in Imperial hands at the edge of the [[Malfian Sub-Sector]]. As with many Warpstorms, relative time and space within the Screaming Vortex are highly mutable as the laws of physics are constantly warped by the influence of the Immaterium. The [[Imperium ]] remains largely ignorant of the interior of the Vortex, and the various powers within are largely preoccupied trying to dominate one another or otherwise survivsurvive; but if they were to unite even for a short time, they would make a powerful force against the Imperium. Because of the difficulty of traversing the Vortex, and the tides of the storm constantly shift the relative positions of [[System|planetary systems ]] therein, conquest is a difficult proposition, and a given warlord will have considerable difficulty conquering more than a handful of worlds at a time or for a meaningful length of time. Aside from small-scale wars and developing war materiel, slavery and [[Pirate|piracy ]] are major enterprises within the Vortex.{{Fn|2}}

A hidden splinter route from [[the Maw]] formed by the Maw and the Screaming Vortex disrupting each other, the 13th Station of Passage is the safest and most stable, and thus the most frequented pathway into the [[Calixis Sector]] and [[Koronus Expanse]], and back into the Screaming Vortex. Though it requires an acts act of obeisance and sacrifice, testified by the debris field of frozen corpses orbiting the passage. The passage was reputedly discovered by the [[House Haarlock|Haarlock]] or [[House Winterscale|Winterscale]] [[Rogue Trader]] lines, though there's no corroborating evidence for either.{{Fn|2}}

The worlds on the outer section of the vortex are known as the '''Gloaming Worlds'''. The most daring Navigators [[Navigator]]s who would look into the Vortex would glimpse only a few of these worlds.{{Fn|2}}

*[[Arbuthno]]: — A minor world, with little details available*[[Berin]] and [[Asphodel (planet)|Asphodel]] — Twin worlds populated by [[Ork]] and [[Kroot]] tribes, respectively.*[[Dwimmer]]: — Minor world.*[[Exile]] — Minor worldat the fringes of the Screaming Vortex, little details available.*[[GulephGhibelline]]: — A grimdecadent, Nurgle[[Slaanesh]]-worshiping world with a bitter rivalry with GhibellineGuleph.*[[GhibellineGuleph]]: — A decadentgrim, Slaanesh[[Nurgle]]-worshiping world with a bitter rivalry with GulephGhibelline.*[[Hindrance]]: — A minor world*[[Sturm (Planet)|SturmKurse]] and — A ruined, radioactive world, famed for its orbiting gladiator pits.*[[Drang (Planet)|DrangKymerus]]: — Minor twin worldsworld, little details available.*[[Malignia]] — A [[jungle world]] filled with bizarre and deadly life.*[[XuruntMessia]]: — A Feral deadly [[desert world of primitive savages ]] where the inhabitants mine [[promethium]] and massive beaststry to survive the [[mutant]]-infested wastelands.*[[Q'Sal]]: — An arcane world ruled by Sorceror Technocrats.*[[BerinRedemption (Planet)|Redemption]] — Minor world at the extreme edge of the Screaming Vortex, little details available.*[[Sturm (Planet)|Sturm]] and [[Asphodel Drang (planetPlanet)|AsphodelDrang]]: Twin — Minor twin worlds populated by .*[[OrkXurunt]] and — A [[Krootferal world]] tribes, respectivelyof primitive savages and massive beasts.*[[The Hollows]]: — A [[forge world ]] trapped in perpetual civil war and mined nearly to total exhaustion.*[[The Writhing World]]: — A world covered with enormous, maggot-like lifeforms.*[[Kurse]]: A ruined, radioactive world, famed for its orbiting gladiator pits.*[[Malignia]]: A jungle world filled with bizarre and deadly life.*[[Sacgrave]]: — A small, ruined world saturated with the Warp, and formerly the seat of the pirate lord Margrave until the Eldar drove the world to ruin and Margrave into hiding.**The ''[[Kasserkratch]]: '' — Margrave's flagship, until he fled Sacgrave and the ship was lost in the Vortex; its final resting place is a subject of interest in many legends and to treasure hunters.*[[The Anathema]]: — A tiny, mysterious anomaly that keeps the influence of the Vortex at bay.*[[Messia]]: A deadly desert world where the inhabitants mine promethium and try to survive the mutant-infested wastelands.*[[The Cat's Cradle]]: — An archipelago of asteroids ruled over by daemons [[daemon]]s and psykers, who can shape this section of space to their will, often to amazing effects.*[[Pillars of Eternity]]: — A frozen world populated by primitive tribes of mutants that worship [[Tzeentch]]. Also a [[Necron]] [[Tomb World]] of questionable dormancy.*[[Exile]]: Minor world at the fringes of the Screaming Vortex, little details available.*[[Scoured Lands]]: — Minor world, little details available.*[[The Wailing Eternity]]: — Minor world, little details available.*[[Kymerus]]: Minor world, little details available.*[[Redemption]]: Minor world at the extreme edge of the Screaming Vortex, little details available.

The region known as the [[Ragged Helix]] is the line of demarcation into the Inner Ring, where the relative stability of the Gloaming Worlds gives way to the heavy influence of the [[warp]] within the Inner Ring. The Ragged Helix is a chain of asteroids that hold their own atmospheres, and impossibly connected by bridges. It's not determined whether this occurs due to forgotten xenos technology within the area, or due to the influence of the Warp. It's home to numerous workshops and shipyards of many [[techpriests]] of the [[Dark Mechanicus]]. More infamously, the Ragged Helix is home to the [[Pirate Princes of the Ragged Helix|Pirate Princes]] that plague the Screaming Vortex.{{Fn|2}}

*[[Aphexis]]: — a half-dead world of eternal twilight.*[[Melancholia (Screaming Vortex)|MelancholiaFuria]]: a world where building is impossible due to some unnatural law.*— an [[Mireocean world]]: a world where the debris of swampswars across the galaxy regularly washes up.*[[Mammon]]: — a world entirely populated by warlike cultists devoted to their belief in the [[Imperial Creed]].*[[FuriaMelancholia (Screaming Vortex)|Melancholia]]: an — a world where building is impossible due to some unnatural law.*[[ocean worldMire]] where the debris — a world of wars across the galaxy regularly washes upswamps.

*[[Crucible (planet)|Crucible]]: — a world which re-shapes according to the [[Chaos God]] whose forces currently hold sway.*[[Contrition]]: — a world of daemonic cities.*[[The Frozen Heart]]: — The eye of the storm, and reputed to be where the dynamo which fuels the warp storm is located.

*3: [[Black Crusade: The Tome of Decay]]: