Maugan Ra, the Harvester of Souls, is the least-trusted of all the Phoenix Lords, for he embodies the death that comes on the battlefield from every place and angle.

Not only does he wield weapons that even the other Eldar mistrust, but he hails from Altansar, a craftworld that was sucked deep into the warp many millennia ago during the Fall.

Through unheard-of effort, Maugan Ra managed to snatch it and the souls of the Eldar aboard from the jaws of Chaos, returning them to the mortal realm, but there are many who wonder just how it was they could have survived for so long inside the ever-perilous Empyrean, and what bargains might have been made during that time