In the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop wargame, the Eye of Terror has two meanings. Warhammer 40000 (informally known as Warhammer 40K or just 40K) is a tabletop miniature wargame in a Science In the fictional universe of the 41st millennium, it is a massive rift where Warp space and realspace combine. A fictional universe is a self-consistent fictional setting with unique background elements such as an imaginary history or geography and possibly fantasy or science Eye of Terror also refers to the massive worldwide campaign run by Games Workshop in 2003. The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game or Lord of the Rings SBG rather than Lord of the Rings when
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Fictional perspective
Ten thousand years before the rise of the Imperium of Man, the ancient race known as the Eldar fell into decline, caused partially by an increase in the exercising of primal urges and carnal desires. The Imperium of Man is a fictional Galactic empire of millions of star systems that contains the vastmajority of humanity in the forty-first millennium set in the In the Fictional universe of Warhammer 40000, the Eldar are a race of Elf -like humanoids The emotion generated by these excesses was channelled into the psychically charged medium that is the Immaterium (better known as The Warp), slowly forming into a new power. Gaining strength from the debased actions of the Eldar, the power eventually gave birth to the entity known as the Chaos god Slaanesh, whose birth cries drew the souls of billions of Eldar into the Warp, devastating the once proud race and bringing into being the warpspace/realspace interface that came to be known as the Eye of Terror. In Games Workshop's Warhammer 40000 and Warhammer Fantasy Fictional universes Chaos refers to the often stereotypically
The region of space contained within the Eye of Terror is literally a living hell, home to the darkest evils of the galaxy. The Eye stains the night skies of many worlds with a smear the colour of infected blood; able to be seen from every world within ten thousand light years. A light-year or light year (symbol ly) is a unit of Length, equal to just under ten trillion Kilometres As defined by Deadly warp storms surround the Eye, making interstellar travel practically impossible.
Within the Eye, the laws of reality no longer apply; time flows at erratic rates, and matter and energy are indistinct. Horrible daemons fly through space along Warp currents, terrorizing any creature unfortunate enough to end up inside.
Most of the Traitor Legions fled into the Eye of Terror at the conclusion of the Horus Heresy, and use the Eye as a base of operations, striking out at opportune, seemingly random moments. In the table-top Wargame Warhammer 40000, the Chaos Space Marines or Chaos Marines, are Space Marines who serve the In the fictional Warhammer 40000 universe the Horus Heresy was a galaxy-spanning Civil war that marked the end of the Great Crusade. The close proximity to Chaos causes horrific, painful mutations in the manner befitting whichever Chaos god the Traitor Marines consider their patron. However, this proximity also makes the Traitor Legionnaires astonishingly long-lived compared even to Imperial Space Marines, with lifespans lasting into several thousand years. Each legion has a homeworld somewhere within the Eye; hellish mockeries of their original worlds.
The Imperial world of Cadia lies nearest to the best-known stable gateway between realspace and the Eye. This world, and the surrounding systems, are all dedicated to the military, for these worlds are the first line of defense against the attacks of Chaos. Many believe that the stable route leading to Cadia is caused by an immense network of pylons on the surface of the planet. A widely-held belief is that these pylons are a Necron construction: The Necrons have constructed similar networks on the Sentinel Worlds and on Medusa V, and fought vicious battles to protect them and their ultimate purpose. In the table-top Wargame Warhammer 40000, the Necrons are a mysterious Robot -like race that have lain dormant and largely unknown
Warhammer Fantasy
In earlier editions of both Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy, it was believed that the planet on which the Warhammer Fantasy world existed lay within the Imperium's borders, but surrounded by impenetrable Warp storms. Warhammer The Game of Fantasy Battles, formerly Warhammer Fantasy Battle and often abbreviated to Warhammer WFB or WHFB In later editions of both games this was dropped and revised out of all editions of the background material. Aspects of it are still considered staple Warhammer lore by some in the fan community.
Warhammer 40k
In the background book The Liber Chaotica (von Staufer and Williams, 2005) the author's fictive narrator travels "between worlds". Among his visions is a "place of sorcerers" and a champion of Tzeentch that is a red-skinned cyclops and has given birth to a thousand sons. This refers to Magnus the Red, daemon Primarch of the Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marines. Other references are made to the Traitor Marines, the Black Crusades, the Daemon Primarch Mortarion, Lucius the Eternal, the Birth of Slaanesh, and the Fall of the Eldar. This page lists the most notable Chaos Space Marines, a faction within the fictional universe of Warhammer 40000. In the Fictional universe of Warhammer 40000, the Eldar are a race of Elf -like humanoids
The Worldwide Campaign
The fictional Eye of Terror was used by Games Workshop as the setting for their 2003 worldwide Warhammer 40,000 campaign. The campaign itself represented Abaddon the Despoiler's Thirteenth Black Crusade against the Imperium, primarily the attempt by the united forces of Chaos to break through the Cadian Gate. This page lists the most notable Chaos Space Marines, a faction within the fictional universe of Warhammer 40000.
The playable armies were divided into two factions, Order and Disorder:
- Order - Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Eldar, Tau and their Kroot Mercenaries, Daemonhunters and Witch Hunters. In the fictional Warhammer 40000 setting of Games Workshop, the Space Marines are elite soldiers modified through gene therapy surgical modifications and The Imperial Guard are a specific army or faction in the Warhammer 40000 and Epic tabletop games and universe In the Fictional universe of Warhammer 40000, the Eldar are a race of Elf -like humanoids In the universe of Games Workshop 's table-top Wargame Warhammer 40000, the Tau are an alien race inhabiting a small but dense region of space The Kroot are a fictional species
- Disorder - Chaos Space Marines, Necrons, The Orks, Dark Eldar and Tyranids. In the table-top Wargame Warhammer 40000, the Chaos Space Marines or Chaos Marines, are Space Marines who serve the In the table-top Wargame Warhammer 40000, the Necrons are a mysterious Robot -like race that have lain dormant and largely unknown The Orks are a race from the Fictional Warhammer 40000 universe In the fictional universe of Warhammer Tyranids are a fictional race from the Warhammer 40000 tabletop game and its spin-off media
A Campaign Codex was released by Games Workshop, containing background information on the Eye of Terror and the events leading up to the Thirteenth Black Crusade. A codex (often pluralized as codexes, although the correct Latin word is codices) in the Warhammer 40000 tabletop wargame is a rules Four new supplemental army lists were presented; the Space Wolves Thirteenth Company, the Cadian Shock Troops, The Lost and the Damned, and the Ulthwé Strike Force. This is a list of Craftworlds, or planet-like homes of the '''Eldar''' race in the Warhammer 40000 fictional setting The Codex also marked the first appearance of Ursarkar E. Creed as a playable special character.
The campaign ran for eight weeks, in which more than forty thousand players registered, and submitted over a quarter of a million games results to the campaign website. The conclusion of the campaign resulted in a minor victory for Chaos. The line was held in many places but on the strategic level the Disorder players were considered to have consistently out-fought and out-maneuvered their opponents, and held over half of Cadia itself. The Chaos forces made slow but somewhat steady progress on many fronts, yet made no decisive victory, especially when a "backstage" plan to gain a foothold in the Eldar Webway system turned into a complete and total failure. In addition, Abbadon suffered severe losses to his fleet in the crusade.
The campaign was hard fought, and senior Games Workshop executives have commented that the events of the campaign will set a cornerstone to the rich background of the Warhammer 40,000 universe for years to come.
The Third Sphere Expansion
As the Tau reside on the opposite side of the galaxy to the Eye of Terror, and have minimal faster-than-light capability, a separate mini-campaign was established to run at the same time as the Eye of Terror campaign. In the universe of Games Workshop 's table-top Wargame Warhammer 40000, the Tau are an alien race inhabiting a small but dense region of space All results involving Tau troops as one of the playing races were counted towards the expansion of the Tau Empire, which in the background was caused by the movement of much of the Imperium's forces to protect Cadia and the surrounding sectors, leaving many worlds on the frontier of Tau space with inadequate defenses. The Tau mini-campaign was also presented as an alternate to Ork, Tyranid, Dark Eldar and Necron players who did not wish to 'assist' Chaos.
During the campaign, the Tau Empire expanded to 133% of its original size. This result has been reflected in the background material and rules published in Codex: Tau Empire (Hoare, 2006), which makes reference to these results as the Third Sphere Expansion.
Appearances in Fiction
In the graphic novel, Bloodquest (Rennie and MacNeil, 2005), the main characters of the story, Leonatos and his squad of Blood Angels, venture into the Eye of Terror, onto the Daemon World, Eidolon.
The novel Dead Sky, Black Sun (McNeill, 2004) is set upon Medrengard, deep within the Eye of Terror and home to the Iron Warriors traitor legion.
There is also Eye of Terror (Games Workshop, 2000) novel written by Barrington J. Bayley. Barrington John Bayley ( April 9, 1937 –) is best known for being an inventive Science fiction writer whose works in both novel and short story form
References
- Abnett, Dan (2001). Malleus. Nottingham: Black Library. ISBN 1-84154-204-0.
- Chambers, Andy; Hoare, Andy, and Kelly, Phil (2003). Warhammer 40,000 Codex: Eye of Terror. Nottingham: Games Workshop. ISBN 1-84154-398-5.
- McNeill, Graham (2004). Graham McNeill is a game developer for Games Workshop. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland and studied Architecture and then building surveying Dead Sky, Black Sun. Nottingham: Black Library. ISBN 1-84416-148-X.
- Rennie, Gordon; and MacNeil, Colin (2005). Gordon Rennie is a former music journalist turned Comics writer responsible for White Trash Moronic Inferno, as well as several Comic strips for Bloodquest: The Eye of Terror Trilogy. Nottingham: Black Library. ISBN 1-84416-146-3.
- Bayley, Barrington (1999). Barrington John Bayley ( April 9, 1937 –) is best known for being an inventive Science fiction writer whose works in both novel and short story form Eye of Terror. Nottingham: Black Library. ISBN 1-84154-105-2.
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