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==History==
===The Fall of Altansar===
Altansar was one of the many Craftworlds that survived the [[Fall of the Eldar]] race.{{Fn|5}} The [[Craftworld]] was shortly involved with the early [[Imperium of Man]], entrusting the site of the [[Etiamnun III|Etiamnun Reclusiam]] and its hidden [[Webway Gate]] to human protectors.{{Fn|8}}
Shortly after the fall, Altansar was 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}}
