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|Reputation=Shadowy, under suspicion
|Main Enemy= [[Chaos]]
}}'''Altansar''' is an [[Eldar]] [[Craftworld]] that was caught in the [[Eye of Terror]], until it was saved after the great odyssey of the [[Phoenix Lord]] [[Maugan Ra]]{{Fn|6}}, thought for many years to be the Craftworld's only survivor.{{Fn|2a}}
==Overview==
[[imageImage:AltanasarHead.png|right|300px|thumb|Aeldari of Craftworld '''{{PAGENAME}}'''{{Fn|6}}]]
The Eldar of Altnassar are paler, quieter, and appear almost deathly to their [[Asuryani]] brethren, who regard them with distrust and spread rumours of their ordeal in the Eye of Terror: that they were tainted irrevocably by the Eye itself or perhaps by a dread pact with [[Ynnead]]{{Fn|6}}, for how could any Eldar remain untouched by the predations of Chaos for so many millennia?{{Fn|2a}} The truth of their time imperilled is known only to [[Maugan Ra]] and the Eldar of the doomed craftworld themselves.{{Fn|6}}
Altansar is a highly militarized militarised craftworld, with almost all roles seen as secondary to those related to war, relying heavily on infantry as much many of its vehicles have been destroyed over the millenia millennia in the [[Eye of Terror]] where it was difficult to replace them.{{fn|5}} Due to their diminished population, the Altansari are also heavily reliant on [[Wraith Construct]]s and have lost the revulsion to using them, mostly resigned to the reality that their death will offer no rest.{{Fn|5}} A significant population of it's its warriors are [[Dark Reaper]]s, in honor honour of [[Maugan Ra]], and many others are [[Swooping Hawk]]s to honor honour [[Baharroth]] , who is himself close in bond to Maugan Ra's.{{Fn|5}}
==History==
===The Fall of Altansar===
Altansar was one of the many Craftworlds that survived the [[Fall of the Eldar]] race. It rode out the [[psychic]] shock waves that destroyed the Eldar empire but was subsequently caught in the gravity well of the [[Eye of Terror]]. Although the Eldar of Altansar struggled valiantly against the encroachment of [[Chaos]] by erecting increasingly twisted runes to seal their [[Webway]] portals from [[Daemon]]s,{{Fn|5}} their doom was inevitable. Within five hundred years of the Fall, their Craftworld was swallowed into the warp[[Warp]]. Daemonic outbreaks immediately erupted as the runes collapsed, and it fell to the famed [[Phoenix Lord]] [[Maugan Ra]] and his [[Dark Reaper]]s to lead the defense defence against them. But not even raising the dead of the Craftworld into [[Wraith Construct]]s or awakening an [[Avatar of Khaine]] could hold back the endless Daemonic tides. The struggle took the form of decades of near-constant Daemonic invasions from Altansar's Webway Portals, grinding down the Craftworld's numbers and seeing the dead outnumber the living.{{Fn|5}}
As the years passed, the time between Daemonic incursions got shorter and shorter and Eldar casualties mounted as the Craftworld was turned into a grim warzone. With the Eldar slowly ceding more and more ground, it had become clear to Maugan Ra that Altansar was doomed. The Phoenix Lord proposed splitting the link between the Craftworld's Webway gates and the Warp, and the desperate ploy was approved by the Craftworld's [[Seer Council]]. Maugan Ra took a mixed force of [[Aspect Warriors]] to the Webway Gates, battling Daemons and taking grueling losses. They eventually reached the gates, and Maugan Ra had [[Fire Dragon]]s plant fusion charges on the structures. When the charges detonated, the Daemonic invaders were cut off from their Warp source and quickly dissipated. However, the Craftworld was now cut off from the rest of the Eldar race, potentially for millennia.{{Fn|5}}
===Altansar in [[M41]]===
Altansar is now a shadow of its former self, with 2/3rds of its space remaining quarantined from Chaos taint by rune-shielding. Warriors remain vigilant at all times for any signs of Daemonic encroachment. Despite escaping from the Eye, sporadic Daemonic invasions still erupt due to lingering Warp-Taint. Thus the Craftworld is completely militarized to confront the Chaos threat, and all other roles are seen as secondary to war. This war is waged in secret, for Altansar knows how the rest of their kind would react to such a revelation. Only a select few of the Ynnari have been allowed to return to Altansar and witness this dark truth. This includes their [[Bonesinger]]s, which are vital for Altansar's reconstruction.{{CME}}
====Fracture of Biel-Tan====
==Uncited==
*[[Eye of Terror: Final Newsletter]]
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