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===The 41st Millennium===
[[File:HarlequinsTau.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[Masque of the Frozen Stars]] battle the [[T'au]]{{Fn|7a}}]]
In '''056'''.[[M41]] the [[Masque of the Frozen Stars]] removed [[Imperial Knight]] [[House Terryn]] from the [[Maiden World]] of [[Velos]] in a [[Harlequin#Saedath|Saedath]] known as the '''Giant's Lament'''.{{Fn|7e}} not Not a single super-heavy war engine makes it back to its landing craft.{{Fn|14g}}
The [[Tzeentch]]ian [[Sorcerer]] [[Yelgth'ir]] is slain in his inner sanctum by a [[Troupe Master]] of the [[Masque of the Weeping Dawn]], across . Across the galaxy the fates of three planets are altered for the better as [[Necrons]] do not awaken.{{Fn|14g}}
In '''215'''.[[M41]] Harlequins of the [[Masque of the Veiled Path]] double-crossed the [[Imperial Navy]] after a surprising offer of help in defence of a base at [[Roth]] against pirates.{{Fn|14g}} Instead, the imperial officers were vented into the void of space.{{Fn|7e}}
From '''785''' to '''795'''.[[M41]] the [[Masque of the Dreaming Shadow]] would engage in a decade-long campaign to purge [[Necron]]s from the tomb world of [[Maedrax]]{{Fn|7e}}, following a forced retreat of [[Ulthwé]] at the hands of the [[Blood Angel]]s in '''783'''.[[M41]].{{Fn|14g}}
[[File:TheVeiledPath.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Masque of the Veiled Path fight [[Chaos Space Marine]]s{{Fn|7h}}]]
After the collapse of a [[Necron]] [[Dolmen Gate]] allows a horde of [[Khorne]] [[Daemons]] to spill into the [[Webway]], the [[Masque of the Veiled Path]] divert diverts the Daemons to [[Magnor Prime]] which they had defended nearly a millennium prior, the . The resultant war leads to the mutual destruction of both Imperial and Chaos forces. The [[Black Library of Chaos|Black Library]] remains undisturbed.{{Fn|14g}}
With the aid of [[Shadowseer]]s from the [[Masque of the Midnight Sorrow]], [[Inquisitor]] [[Sophia Vilimas]] is able to defeat the [[Alpha Legion]] on [[Safehaven]] in '''948'''.[[M41]] and a massive [[Daemon]]ic incursion is prevented.{{Fn|14g}} For their aid, the seers inform Vilimas that she now owes them a debt.{{Fn|7e}}
In '''990'''.[[M41]]{{Fn|7e}} a [[Great Harlequin]] wins the [[Cult of Seventh Woe]]'s [[Cult of Seventh Woe#The Dance of the Blinding Blade|Dance of the Blinding Blade]] in [[Commoragh]] with impossible speed and skill before vanishing. Rumours begin among the Commorites that the attendant had been none other than [[Cegorach]] himself.{{Fn|14g}}
In '''991'''.[[M41]]{{Fn|7e}} Harlequins of the [[Masque of the Dreaming Shadow]] bring a warning to the [[Tech-Priest]]s of the [[Forge World]] of [[Noctillus Dhega-Nox]], but are met with [[Skitarii]] instead. Thirteen days later the Harlequins return in force and strike at high-value targets across the planet – the [[Imperial Titan]] manufactorum, fuel supplies, and munitions macrofactorums, are attacked and assassinating [[Archmagos]] [[Fabricatus Phogali]]is assassinated. Furious, the Magi call for military assistance from nearby [[Imperial]] worlds. When the [[Imperial]] forces arrive, they are suddenly engaged by the invading warships of the [[Oruscar Dynasty]] of [[Necron]]s.{{Fn|14g}}
In '''993'''.[[M41]]{{Fn|7e}} several masques combine their forces to topple the [[Echospire]] of the [[Shrine World]] of [[Baedros]], earning the enmity of the [[Space Wolves]].{{Fn|14g}}
In '''997'''.[[M41]] the [[Masque of the Veiled Path]] trick the [[Khorne]]ate Warband on [[Jai'Hallaer]] into the razor-edged landslide of the planet's Shattered Rift.{{Fn|7e}}
[[Image:LabyrinthWar.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Harlequins battle the [[Thousand Sons]] and the forces of [[Tzeentch]].{{Fn|32}}]]
In '''998'''.[[M41]] [[Ahriman]]'s [[Thousand Sons]] invade the [[Webway]] to reach the [[Black Library of Chaos|Black Library]]. They are rebuffed by the coalition of Masques, aided by [[Craftworld]]s [[Ulthwé]] and [[Lugganath]].{{Fn|7e}}
In '''999'''.[[M41]], to prevent [[Hive Fleet]]s [[Leviathan]] and [[Kraken]] from combining at the [[Maiden World]] of [[Dûriel]]{{Fn|7e}} (also known as [[Valedor]]), the Harlequins broker an alliance between [[Craftworld]]s [[Biel-tan]] and [[Iyanden]] along with the [[Dark Eldar]] to fight an apocalyptic war that sees the planet annihilated in the name of victory.{{Fn|14g}} Following the destruction of Dûriel, deep within the [[Black Library of Chaos|Black Library]] the '''Crystal Tome of Cegorach''' laid open.{{Fn|14g}}
[[File:PortDem.jpg|thumb|200px|the The [[Masque of the Midnight Sorrow]] fights beside [[Eldrad]] on [[Coheria]].{{Fn|42}}]]In the closing days of the [[M41|41st Millennium]], the [[Masque of the Midnight Sorrow]], through the [[Death Jester]] known as [[Inriam|Inriam's Shade]], worked with [[Eldrad Ulthran]] of [[Ulthwé]] to bring about an early awakening of [[Ynnead]]. They planned to flood the ''[[carrecenad]]'' surface of [[Coheria]] with the souls of two warhosts (one of Ulthwé and one of [[Saim-Hann]]) while the crystalised [[Farseer]]s of Ulthwé's [[Dome of Crystal Seers]] would serve as conduits to the [[Infinity Circuit]]s of every craftworld across the galaxy, in order to temporarily join the spirits of all craftworlds into one place in [[Reality]]. This would create a psychic beacon magnitudes brighter than the [[Astronomican]] which could guide Ynnead's abstract soul from the immaterium into reality. The consequences of this plan which would not be without incident, as fleets in [[Warp Travel]] across the galaxy would be thrown off course and every [[Craftworld]] would be left temporarily as inoperable dark husks as their Infinity Circuits would be left bare awaiting Ynnead's intervention. However, the [[Battle of Port Demesnus]] foiled the plan when [[Deathwatch]] agents employed a [[Stasis Bomb|stasis bomb]], an act which defied farsight, and the newly formed skeins of fate revealed Ulthwé's destruction. The Harlequins retreated, as the energies they brought together were cast into the void.{{Fn|42}} Those energies were not lost, rather their divine anima found its way to [[Yvraine]] in the arenas of [[Commorragh]].{{Fn|14g}}
===The Great Rift===