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Worlds & Places
Throne worlds, forge worlds, death worlds, daemon realms and the cities of the xenos. Each entry covers the world itself, the people who live and die there, and the wars that made it famous.
Background art: “Cardinal Planet, Hive Spires & Orbital Sky” by Fabrizio Carminati (used with permission) · source
The heart of the Imperium
Throneworld · Sol System · Segmentum SolarumHoly TerraThe cradle of humanity and the seat of the Golden Throne, a world buried under ten thousand years of palaces, shrines and bureaucracy.
Forge World · Sol System · Segmentum SolarumMarsThe Red Planet, birthplace of the Cult Mechanicus, a world of rust deserts, manufactoria and sealed vaults that answers to the Machine God before any Emperor.Artwork coming soonChapter Homeworld · Realm of Ultramar · Eastern FringeMacraggeCapital of Ultramar and home of the Ultramarines, a cold, noble world of marble cities, high mountains and the Fortress of Hera.
The Archetypal Hive World · Segmentum SolarNecromundaA poisoned world of colossal hive cities, where noble Houses rule from the Spire and gangs fight to the death in the lawless depths of the Underhive.Chapter homeworlds
Death World · Fenris System · Segmentum ObscurusFenrisA world of ice, fire and endless storms, home of the Space Wolves and the mountain-fortress called the Fang.Artwork coming soonChapter Homeworld · Baal System · Segmentum UltimaBaalA dead desert world and its two irradiated moons, where Sanguinius was raised among mutants and the Blood Angels keep their fortress-monastery.Artwork coming soonDeath World · Chapter Homeworld · Segmentum UltimaNocturneA volcanic world of ash and fire, shaken by quakes whenever its moon draws near, where the Salamanders forge their weapons and guard their people.Artwork coming soonRuined World · Former Legion Homeworld · Segmentum ObscurusProsperoThe lost world of the Thousand Sons, once home to the shining pyramids of Tizca, burned to glass by the Space Wolves at the start of the Horus Heresy.Artwork coming soonHomeworld of the Iron Hands · Segmentum ObscurusMedusaA storm-wracked, tectonically tortured world of darkness and ice, where nomad clans live in vast land crawlers and the Iron Hands cut away the weakness of the flesh.Artwork coming soonLost Hive World · Segmentum SolarCthoniaA hollowed-out mining world of gang wars and endless tunnels, where Horus Lupercal was raised and the Luna Wolves found their hardest recruits.Fortress & war worlds
Artwork coming soonFortress World · Cadian Gate · Segmentum ObscurusCadiaFor ten thousand years the shield-world at the mouth of the Eye of Terror, a planet where every child was a soldier, until Abaddon broke it.Artwork coming soonHive World · Armageddon System · Segmentum SolarArmageddonAn industrial hive world of ash wastes, poisoned jungles and colossal hive cities, fought over by daemons and Orks in three of the bloodiest wars of the 41st millennium.Artwork coming soonDeath World · Catachan SystemCatachanA planet-wide jungle where almost everything is trying to kill you, and the breeding ground of the toughest light infantry in the Imperium.
Dead World · Krieg SystemKriegA radioactive wasteland of craters and buried hives, scorched by five centuries of nuclear civil war, whose grim sons march to die in atonement for their ancestors' treason.Artwork coming soonGuardian of the Nachmund Gauntlet · Segmentum ObscurusVigilusA sprawling hive world at the mouth of one of the few stable passages through the Great Rift, and the battlefield where Abaddon tested the Imperium's will.Artwork coming soonJewel of Ultramar · Realm of UltramarCalthOnce a shining jewel of Ultramar, Calth was betrayed by the Word Bearers and scorched by its own sun, and its people have lived beneath the ground ever since.
Dead World · Krieg SystemKriegA radioactive wasteland of craters and buried hives, scorched by five centuries of nuclear civil war, whose grim sons march to die in atonement for their ancestors' treason.Artwork coming soonGuardian of the Nachmund Gauntlet · Segmentum ObscurusVigilusA sprawling hive world at the mouth of one of the few stable passages through the Great Rift, and the battlefield where Abaddon tested the Imperium's will.Artwork coming soonJewel of Ultramar · Realm of UltramarCalthOnce a shining jewel of Ultramar, Calth was betrayed by the Word Bearers and scorched by its own sun, and its people have lived beneath the ground ever since.Realms of Chaos & the xenos
Artwork coming soonThe Great Warp Storm · Segmentum ObscurusThe Eye of TerrorA vast wound in reality where the warp spills into realspace, home to the Daemon Worlds and the Traitor Legions since the end of the Horus Heresy.Artwork coming soonThe Pirate's Haven · Near the Segmentum SolarThe MaelstromA great warp storm a short voyage from Terra, haunted by daemons and pirates, and the lair of Huron Blackheart and his Red Corsairs.Artwork coming soonThe Dark City · Hidden in the WebwayCommorraghA sprawling, impossible city hidden in the Webway, where the Drukhari feed on the suffering of slaves to stave off the hunger of their souls.Artwork coming soonThe Craftworld of Ghosts · Aeldari CraftworldIyandenOnce among the largest and proudest of the craftworlds, Iyanden was gutted by Hive Fleet Kraken, and now its dead march to war beside the living.