The Allpoints, known to the Dark Gods' servants as the Eightpoints, is not a realm but a crossroads between all of them, a broken shard of reality suspended in the seething tides of the aetheric void. Here converge the mightiest realmgates in existence, eight cardinal portals that open onto each of the Mortal Realms. Whosoever holds the Allpoints holds the keys to every realm at once, making it the most strategically vital ground in all creation.
That prize belongs to Archaon the Everchosen, greatest champion of Chaos, who conquered the nexus and raised his black fortress, the Varanspire, at its heart. From this throne of conquest his Slaves to Darkness muster in numberless hordes, poised to pour through the Eightpoints and drown any realm in ruin at their master's command.
The Allpoints is a place warped utterly by Chaos, its skies boiling with impossible colours, its lands riddled with daemon-haunted wastes and the bones of failed conquerors. To seize it is to threaten the doom of all things; to defend it is to guard the very engine of Archaon's endless war. It is, in truth, the dark heart of the Mortal Realms.