The Eye of Terror
The Eye of Terror, called the Ocularis Terribus in High Gothic, is a massive Warp rift and permanent Warp Storm nearly twenty thousand light years across, a nexus of psychic energy and physical space-time where the Immaterium co-exists with realspace. It is the largest and most well-known Warp rift in the Milky Way Galaxy and is located at the rimward edge of the galaxy, to the galactic northwest of Terra, in the Segmentum Obscurus.
It is home to the largest concentration of the Forces of Chaos in realspace, including the Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines that fled from Terra after the end of the Horus Heresy.
Incursions by Chaos forces into the surrounding Imperial star systems are common, and the recent 13th Black Crusade launched in 999.M41 by Abaddon the Despoiler from within the Eye of Terror marked the greatest assault by the Forces of Chaos upon the Imperium of Man since the Heresy. In its wake, the Cadian Gate was breached and the Fortress World of Cadia itself finally fell to the servants of Chaos.
Travel and communication through the Warp suffered increasing disturbances as the events of the 13th Black Crusade unfolded. Eventually, the Materium could take no more, and a titanic Warp rift tore across the galaxy, spreading from the Eye of Terror to the Hadex Anomaly on the Eastern Fringe.
So was born the Cicatrix Maledictum, the Great Rift.
Extract From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Eye_of_Terror
"The Eye of Terror is a realm of madness and despair, where skies weep blood, ancient stars burn in multi-coloured flares and the whims of the Dark Gods of Chaos hold sway. Synonymous with discord, terror, ancient secrets and insanity, no other place in the galaxy fills the mind with such dread and foreboding."
— Extract from the Galaxia Daemonica Perpetua of Jerome (By order of Inquisitor Dalma, 453.M35)
Alternative Name(s)
Ocularis Terribus; Cicatrix Maledictum; The Great Rift
Type
Star System Sector
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