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'''Altansar''' ,{{fn|2a}} or '''Altanzar'''{{Fn|8}}, 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==
==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 , and was the homewold of [[Maugan Ra].{{Fn|6}} The [[Craftworld]] was shortly involved with the early [[Imperium of Man]], entrusting the site of the [[Etiamnun III|Etiamnun Reclusiam]] and its [[Webway Gate]] to human protectors.{{Fn|8}} Shortly after the fall, Altansar was subsequently caught in the gravity well of the [[Eye of Terror]]. {{Fn|5}} 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]]. 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 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}}
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex: Craftworlds (8th Edition)]], pg. 24
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Codex: Aeldari (10th Edition)]], pg. 47
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Dawn of War: Tempest (Novel)]]: Chapter Ten
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