Bibliotheca Imperialis

Xenos

The named alien factions of the 41st Millennium — the surviving Aeldari Craftworlds and their Drukhari kin, the Necron dynasties awakening from sixty-million-year tomb-sleep, the great Ork WAAAGH! formations under the most-decorated warbosses, the T'au septs of the eastern fringe, and the Tyranid Hive Fleets converging from beyond the galactic rim. Each is a separate problem.

XENOS · AELDARI · CRAFTWORLD

Ulthwé

The Damned Craftworld · Closest to the Eye

Ulthwé is the Craftworld that did not run far enough.

XENOS · AELDARI · CRAFTWORLD

Biel-Tan

The Reborn · The Swordwind

Biel-Tan was the youngest of the major Craftworlds — founded after the Fall by Aeldari who refused to accept that the empire was gone.

XENOS · AELDARI · CRAFTWORLD

Iyanden

The Ghost Craftworld · Where the Dead Hold the Line

Iyanden was, before the Kraken, the most populous Craftworld outside Ulthwé.

XENOS · AELDARI · CRAFTWORLD

Saim-Hann

The Wild Riders · Of the Cosmic Serpent

Saim-Hann is the Craftworld that did not adopt the Path system in the way the others did.

XENOS · AELDARI · CRAFTWORLD

Alaitoc

The Rangers' Craftworld · The Distance-Keepers

The Aeldari Path is structured to keep its practitioners safe.

XENOS · DRUKHARI · KABAL

Kabal of the Black Heart

Of Asdrubael Vect · Supreme Overlords of Commorragh

Asdrubael Vect was born a slave in pre-Heresy Commorragh, when the Dark City was ruled by a coalition of inherited noble Kabals descended from the original Drukhari founders.

XENOS · AELDARI · NEW SCHISM

Ynnari

The Reborn · Followers of Ynnead, the God of the Dead

The Aeldari religion-of-survival has long held two main paths.

XENOS · NECRON · DYNASTY

Sautekh Dynasty

Of Imotekh the Stormlord · The Galaxy-Conquerors

Imotekh of the Sautekh is, by the standards of awakened Necron Phaerons, the most successful military commander since the War in Heaven.

XENOS · NECRON · DYNASTY

Mephrit Dynasty

The Sun-Killers · The Wrathful

Mephrit was, before the War in Heaven, one of the larger Necron dynasties — by some pre-war census records, the third largest.

XENOS · NECRON · DYNASTY

Szarekhan Dynasty

The Silent King's Own · The Returned

Szarekh was the last of the Necrontyr Triarchs, the three rulers under whom the species was unified before the bargain with the C'tan and the transformation into Necrons.

XENOS · TYRANID · HIVE FLEET

Hive Fleet Behemoth

The First Wave · Broken at Macragge

Behemoth was the wave that announced the Tyranids to the Imperium.

XENOS · TYRANID · HIVE FLEET

Hive Fleet Kraken

The Splintered Approach · The Adaptive Fleet

Kraken arrived after Behemoth and had clearly studied — or had been built by a Hive Mind that had studied — the lesson of Macragge.

XENOS · TYRANID · HIVE FLEET

Hive Fleet Leviathan

The Galaxy-Eater · Arrived from Below

Leviathan came from underneath the galactic disc, a direction the Imperium had not historically defended.

XENOS · T'AU · SEPT

T'au Sept

The Homeworld · Where the Ethereals Hold Court

The T'au Empire is the youngest spacefaring civilisation on the galactic stage — by Imperial dating, the T'au began industrial development less than ten thousand years ago and reached interstellar…

XENOS · T'AU · SEPT

Vior'la

The Hot-Blooded · The Twin-Sunned World

Vior'la orbits a twin-star system: two suns of slightly different mass and temperature, producing a climate that is hot, bright, and constantly variable in radiation level.

XENOS · T'AU · BREAKAWAY

Farsight Enclaves

The Lost Eight Worlds · The Commander Who Walked Away

Commander Farsight (O'Shovah, "the Bright Sword") was one of Commander Puretide's four legendary students and, before his secession, one of the T'au Empire's most successful Fire Caste commanders.

XENOS · ORK · WAAAGH!

WAAAGH! Ghazghkull

The Prophet's WAAAGH! · The Beast of Armageddon

Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka is, by every Imperial Inquisitorial reading, the most dangerous individual Ork alive.

XENOS · ORK · KLAN

Goffs

The Biggest Boyz · Of the Black-and-White Paint

The Goff klan are, by Ork standards, the most physically intimidating.

XENOS · ORK · KLAN

Bad Moons

The Toofy Klan · Where Wealth Grows in the Mouth

The Ork economy runs on teeth.

XENOS · GENESTEALER CULT · TYRANID-AFFILIATE

Cult of the Four-Armed Emperor

The Patriarch's Family · The Hidden Civic

The Cult of the Four-Armed Emperor is the most widely documented Genestealer Cult lineage — a single Patriarch's descendants spread across hundreds of Imperial worlds via subterranean tunnel…

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