Maugan Ra

Maugan Ra, the Harvester of Souls, is the founder and Phoenix Lord of the Eldar's Dark Reaper Aspect Warriors.

History
Maugan Ra came from the once-lost Eldar Craftworld Altansar, one of the many Craftworlds, both large and small, that survived the Fall of the Eldar, following the birth of the Chaos God, Slaanesh. Altansar rode out the psychic shock-waves that destroyed the Eldar realms but was subsequently caught in the gravity well of the Eye of Terror. Although the Eldar of Altansar fought valiantly against the encroachment of Chaos, they were unable to escape their inevitable doom, and within five hundred years of the Fall their Craftworld was swallowed by the Warp. Nothing remained of Altansar except for Maugan Ra, the mightiest Exarch of Altansar's Shrine of the Dark Reapers.

When Asurmen taught his brethren the arts of war it was Maugan Ra that fell furthest from the fold. He fashioned baroque weapons of occult nature; not the blades of his brethren but dark and malefic artefacts that could slay his foes from afar. As his craft progressed, Maugan Ra learnt that even the mightiest weapon could be wielded with surgical precision. This led to the creation of the deadly Maugetar, the Harvester, and later to the disciplines of the Dark Reaper aspect itself.

In more recent history, Maugan Ra played a vital role in the defence of the Eldar race. He made a significant contribution to the defense of Craftworld Iyanden from the Tyranid invasion of Hive Fleet Kraken. During the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41, Maugan Ra came to the aid of the Ulthwe strike force deployed against the Forces of Chaos. It is known that during this time, Maugan Ra was successful in finding and rescuing his long-lost home Craftworld, guiding Altansar out of the Eye of Terror and denying Abaddon the Despoiler his ultimate victory over the Imperium of Man. Unfortunately, many Eldar from the other Craftworlds view the survivors of Altansar with suspicion after they were lost in the Eye of Terror for millennia, for they believe that no Eldar could remain untouched by the temptations of Chaos for so long.

Wargear
He wields the Maugetar ("Harvester" in the Eldar Lexicon), an ancient and more potent variation of the Eldar Shuriken Cannon. Maugan Ra's armour is composed of fragments of the Dark Reaper Aspect Shrine of Altansar. Maugan Ra emerged from the Fall encased in black armour "sculpted with golden bone" wearing a helmet adorned with a red skull, the "very image of Death itself".