


M41: The Wulfen Return and Fenris is besieged. Desperate, the Tech-Priests and Radical Inquisitors journey into the Webway and strike a dark bargain with Commorragh. 999.M41: As the light of the Astronomican grows dimmer, Techpriests discover irreparable failures in the Golden Throne.998.M41 onwards: The 3rd War for Armageddon.997.M41 onwards: Hive Fleet Leviathan arrives in the galaxy.990.M41: Hive Fleet Kraken arrives in the galaxy.897.M41: First contact with the Necrons.745.M41: Hive Fleet Behemoth arrives in the galaxy.The Draxian Hegemony, the Tau Empire, the Worldweave of Noisome Reek, the Uluméathic League and numerous others have prospered, ready to stand their ground against the besieged Imperium of Man. The Time of Ending is also a time in which young, upstart alien races are able to establish their own fledging realms in the galaxy. The Tyranids, as well as other threats such as the Necrons which rose in the subsequent years, made it apparent that the galaxy was turning into an even more dangerous place, challenging the millennia-old belief of the Imperium's perpetuity. The term was first coined in 744.M41, by Taggarath, the Seer of Corrinto, who predicted a time of upheaval in which both the Imperium and the Light of the Emperor would be swallowed by an approaching darkness.

Ultimately, the Time of Ending was followed by the Age of the Dark Imperium. M41, following the Imperium's first encounter with the extragalactic Tyranid threat.

The Time of Ending refers to the last centuries of the 41st Millennium. Age of Rebirth - The Forging - Nova Terra Interregnum - Age of Apostasy - Age of Redemption - The Waning - Time of Ending - Age of the Dark Imperium
