Ctho

A craftworld noted for the belligerence and morose nature of the inhabitants, Ctho was home to some of the most talented Bonesingers of recent generations. Investing their artefacts, architecture and warengines with a gracious and brooding touch, the Bonesingers and Timepipers of Malan'Tai were widely respected amongst eldar throughout the galaxy.

The name has variously been translated as The Sorrow Of The Artist, Bereft Of His Tools; Beneath The War God's Heel Vaul Showed His Indignance and most famously The End Of Our Days Is Unspeakable.

Resembling nothing so much as a gossamer teardrop, the craftworld has habitable space for three hundred million eldar. The echoing halls and muted corridors reported by Inquisitor Prosion, the only human known to have visited the suspicious xenos, belie this mass. Prosion estimated the craftworld's populace as no higher than thirteen million, though since he was granted access only to the principal city-spire, Vaul Cerrdiwen, even he admitted his guesses were as vague and elusive as the eldar themselves.

The arc of Ctho's journey drifted directly through the encroaching Hive Fleets within living memory, and Prosion has suggested that some great disaster caused the Craftworld's flight to this area of the sector. Artefacts linking the craftworld to Closette, in the Grovsenor system, were allegedly unearthed by Tech-magos Jul Subbet in M38, though these have since disappeared.

The military forces of this craftworld are noted for their stealth. An insular, secretive and suspicious people, the Ctho regard even other Craftworld Eldar with disapproval, though campaign reports drawn from five millennia of intermittent conflict and skirmishes in the sector note their use of hirtherto-unknown aspect shrines and strange allies. Recent reports note that they are more commonly led by military leaders, rather than the seers common to other Craftworlds.