The All-Gates

The climax of the Realmgate Wars was fought not in any single realm but at the crossroads of them all, in the campaign remembered as The All-Gates. At the centre of reality lay the Allpoints, a shattered realm where the greatest realmgates converged, and whoever ruled it could strike into any land at will. It was a place where the laws of the realms frayed, a wasteland of drifting islands and broken sky where distance meant nothing and every step might open onto a different world.

Archaon the Everchosen had made this nexus his throne, ringing it with fortresses and the black-armoured host of the Slaves to Darkness. To break the Chaos stranglehold on the realms, Sigmar knew the Allpoints had to be stormed, for so long as it stood the enemy could fall upon any of his cities in an instant. He committed his finest Stormcast Eternals, alongside duardin sky-fleets and the tree-kin of the Sylvaneth, to a battle for the very hinge of creation.

The fighting was apocalyptic, waged across floating bastions and through gates that opened onto a dozen realms at once. Ghal Maraz, Sigmar's lost hammer, had been recovered in the wider war, and the reclaiming of such relics steeled the alliance for this final push. Stormhost after Stormhost was spent to seize a foothold at the world's crossroads, and the Varanguard of Archaon met them blow for blow.

The All-Gates ended with Order's banners planted in the heart of the Allpoints: the first true strategic defeat Chaos had suffered since the Age of Chaos began. It did not win the war outright, but it broke the enemy's grip on the realmgates and proved that Sigmar's storm could strike anywhere. From that hard-won foothold, the long reconquest of the realms could truly begin.