Webway Gate

Eldar Portal

Eldar Webway Nexus^[2]

The Webway Gates, also known as the Webway Nexus, are a series of technological artefacts composed of Wraithbone that are incorporated into the hull of Craftworlds and provide a link into the Webway. Webway Nexuses are also found scattered on worlds throughout the Galaxy, allowing the Eldar to travel to many planets.^[2] Webway Gates large enough for Voidfaring ships to traverse are known as Waygates.^[3]

Overview

Craftworld Webway Gate amongst statues of the Phoenix Lords.

Webway Gates are found on both Eldar Craftworlds and throughout worlds of the galaxy. When not in use, the Gates are dormant and are hidden to the lesser races.^[2] These portals are near unbreakable and virtually indestructible.^[6a][8] Wrought in psychoplastic pseudo-bone by long dead artisans, they are sealed from within becoming little more than obstacles to be navigated around rather than travelled through to the lesser-races.^[6a]

Copper is, in some way, nescessary for the stabilisation of Webway Gates; the Eldar of Craftworld Lugganath were unable to restabilise their primary Webway Gate after a Daemonic incursion without securing a large supply of the metal.^[9]

Webway Nexus

Webway Gates are often built in close proximity in groupings known as Webway Nexuses which allow for easy movement across disparate parts of the Galaxy. Every Craftworld which contains multiple Webway Gates can be considered to serve as a Webway Nexus.^[1a]

The Webway Nexus of the now-destroyed Craftworld Alurmen was famed throughout Eldar society for its unequaled connections in the Webway allowing its citizens to move as easily throughout the Galaxy as the ancient Old Ones.^[1a]

Notable Webway Gates

• Forbidden Portal - Located in The Screaming Vortex^[6b]
• Pontus Avernes - Location of a Dark Age of Technology webway nexus.^[7]

Images

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  Webway Gate miniature

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  Webway Gate in the Void

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  Drukhari fleet using a Webway Gate^[5]

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  Webway Gate observed by Yvraine and The Visarch.^[4]

See also

• Warp Gate
• Webway Portal
• Dolmen Gate

Sources

This article or article section is based on information from a Fanatic Press publication such as Fanatic Magazine or one of its predecessors (e.g. The Citadel Journal, Necromunda Magazine, etc.). These publications regularly featured articles submitted by hobbyists, and as such, their content may or may not be in contradiction to established background lore.

• 1: Battlefleet Gothic Magazine Issue 13 — The Cerberus War: Endgame ^{Fanatic Press}
  • 1a: pg. 22
  • 1b: pg. 23
  • 1c: pg. 25
• 2: Codex: Eldar (3rd Edition), pg. 3
• 3: Voidscarred (Novel), Chapters 2-4
• 4: Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II
• 5: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Video Game), Book event 4 artwork
• 6: Black Crusade Core Rulebook:
  • 6a: pg. 338
  • 6b: pg. 345
• 7: Genefather (Novel), pg. Chapter 20
• 8: Voidscarred (Novel), Chapter 2
• 9: Codex Titanicus (1st Edition), pg. 51