Chapter Summaries

Ron publicized Ka'bandha’s victory across the Warp, and Ka'bandha defied the Chaos Gods’ wrath rather than kneel. When Khorne cursed him with a Blood Axe, Ron intervened to protect him, then praised him and began mobilizing Fel Energy for a long-planned attempt.

• Ron broadcast Ka'bandha’s victory over the first Beastman God-Chosen, spreading his fame and the Lord of Hell’s name through the Warp.
• Ka'bandha endured the Chaos Gods’ pressure, refused to kneel, and declared that he would return to the Blood Soil for Khorne.
• Khorne summoned a cursed Blood Axe to erase Ka'bandha’s consciousness, but Ron blocked the strike and removed Ka'bandha’s mark.
• Ron hailed Ka'bandha as a little Blood God, and Ka'bandha vowed to lead the Hell Demon Army into the Blood Soil and topple the Brass Fortress.
• Ron began mobilizing more Fel Energy for a new attempt as the Abyss Volcano rumbled.

Ron controlled the Lord of Hell’s true body and discovered that the Warp’s unwanted Wild Daemons could help expand his armies and consume his surplus Faith Fel Energy. He gave a barren Chaos Realm a Spirit Stone, leaving its daemons with the chance to become believers of the Lord of Hell.

• Ron moved the Lord of Hell’s enormous body through several Chaos Realms, accidentally damaging one impoverished region and terrifying its Wild Daemons.
• Ron realized that recruiting weak Wild Daemons could bolster the Hell Divine Domain’s stretched armies and provide a use for his excess Faith Fel Energy.
• Ron established an anchor in the barren Chaos Realm and sent down a Spirit Stone before extending his influence toward more distant regions.
• The Wild Daemons watched Ron depart, then saw the Spirit Stone land without destroying their home.
• The Wild Greater Daemon and the other Wild Daemons recognized the Spirit Stone as an offer to become believers of the Lord of Hell.

Ron recruited the Wild Daemons into the Hell Divine Domain, empowering them and establishing their barren realm as a new domain node. After Ka'bandha won his battle, Ron showered him and other Hell believers with blessings, then extended his power across the Warp, alarming nearby Chaos beings.

• The Wild Greater Daemon offered his soul essence to Ron's Spirit Stone, became a Hell Warrior named Baron, and received an immediate blessing that strengthened him.
• The other Wild Daemons accepted recruitment, and the Spirit Stone embedded itself in their barren realm as a new node in the Hell Divine Domain.
• Baron gathered the Hell Daemons and organized construction of hell Altars to anchor their realm and guard it.
• Ka'bandha defeated the invading Beastmen, and Ron sent him thirteen more blessings along with rewards for the other Hell believers.
• Ron extended his authority across the Warp, causing nearby Chaos beings and Greater Daemons such as Ang'grath to fear that he was about to unleash divine wrath.

Ron extended his hell authority across the Warp, making the Chaos Gods fear that he was about to unleash a suicidal strike on their domains. As they tried to stop him, Ron used the distraction to construct a brand-new faith channel, leaving its purpose unrevealed.

• Ron spread his hell authority across hundreds of thousands of Chaos regions and realized the Chaos Gods feared catastrophic losses as much as he did.
• The Chaos Gods awakened their true bodies and rushed to persuade Ron to stop, while Khorne began threatening him before the others restrained him.
• Ron concluded that the Chaos Gods would not risk mutual destruction and considered using that fear in future plans.
• Ron ignored the gods’ warnings and mobilized even more Faith Fel Energy, prompting them to brace for an attack.
• Tzeentch realized Ron was not unleashing Wrath of the Gods, while Ron constructed a new kind of faith channel without interference.

Ron established a vast Faith Channel Network across the Warp, enduring the Chaos Gods’ attempts to destroy it and using it to distribute blessings more efficiently. After bolstering his own followers, he extended his blessings to believers of other gods and urged them to follow him instead.

• Ron used Faith Fel Energy to build Anchor Channels and a network across the Chaos Realms and the edges of the gods’ Divine Domains.
• The Chaos Gods attacked the network, but Ron’s channels recovered faster than they could afford to destroy them, so they stopped.
• Ron used the network to bless believers across many regions, restoring Baturu and raising the morale of his battered hell army.
• Ang'grath and other beings near the Abyssal Hell survived Ron’s power struggle and watched him distribute further blessings while the Chaos Gods’ believers received none.
• Ron projected his crimson daemonic body before other gods’ Greater Daemons and believers, promised them what their gods could not, and showered them with Chaos Blessings.

Ron used the Faith Channel Network to send massive fel-energy blessings to Chaos believers across the Warp, defying the Chaos Gods and rejecting their offer of an alliance. He left Ang'grath accepting his blessing after Ron burned away the power Ang'grath had refused, while the Warp's faith began to waver.

• Ron blessed believers across the Chaos Gods' domains, and the Chaos Gods failed to block his Faith Channel Network.
• The Chaos Gods offered Ron compensation and an alliance to stop his blessings, but Ron refused and vowed to keep subsidizing Chaos Daemons.
• Ang'grath refused Ron's blessing, and the Khorne Daemons under his command followed his lead.
• Ron increased the blessing before Ang'grath, then began burning the fel energy when Ang'grath still resisted.
• Ang'grath finally accepted the remaining blessing, and more Khorne Daemons took Ron's boon as faith across the Warp began to waver.

Ron, the Lord of Hell, used repeated fel-energy blessings and a secret reward system to lure the Chaos Gods’ believers away, forcing the gods to spend heavily to retain their faith. The Chaos Gods formed a temporary alliance against him and prepared to begin their counterattack.

• The Chaos Gods discovered that their believers were accepting Ron’s blessings and praising him, so they restored withheld rewards and paid back fel energy to keep the daemons loyal.
• Ron continued distributing blessings, while Ang'grath and other daemons secretly praised him to earn small rewards through his Faith Fel Energy Reward System.
• Ron used the Faith Network, Pollution Loudspeakers, and lavish offers to tempt the gods’ believers to defect to the Hell Abyss.
• The Chaos Gods countered with defensive blessings and messages, spending heavily to protect key believers and block defections.
• Grandfather Nurgle, the Lord of Change, and the Lord of Pleasure agreed to Khorne’s alliance against Ron, and Khorne declared that the real war was beginning.

Ron strengthened Abyssal Hell’s forces and sent Ka'bandha to conquer Chaos territory as the divine war against the Chaos Gods intensified. As he worried about the Beastmen and the possibility of the Chaos Gods uniting against him, Ron sought an ally by sending a message to an unknown existence.

• Ron reflected on his growing influence in the Warp and warned himself not to underestimate the Chaos Gods despite his advantage in Faith Fel Energy.
• Ron gave Ka'bandha Abyssal Hell’s elite army and ordered him to conquer territory and recruit followers.
• Ka'bandha accepted the command, renewed his ambition to one day ascend to godhood, and led Bael and the Hell Daemon Genestealers into battle.
• Ron suspected the Chaos Gods had cultivated the Beastmen to counter him and worried they might end their rivalries to unite against Abyssal Hell.
• Ron decided he needed allies and sent a Faith Fel Energy red packet and a message asking an unknown existence, “You there?”

The Chaos Gods agreed to wage a united war against Ron and divide the spoils, while Ron sought to exploit their greed by contacting the Lord of Pleasure. Ron arrived at the Palace of Pleasure as an avatar and confronted the Lord of Pleasure with a threat to cut off his Faith Fel Energy.

• The Chaos Gods settled their disputes, assigned equal forces and spoils, and prepared to attack the Abyssal Hell under the Blood God's command.
• The Lord of Pleasure received Ron's message and accepted a bundle of Faith Fel Energy, hiding the contact from the other gods.
• Ron invited the Lord of Pleasure to meet in his Divine Domain and sent an image displaying his abundant Faith Fel Energy.
• The Lord of Pleasure welcomed Ron's avatar into the Palace of Pleasure, expecting to negotiate while continuing to plot against him.
• Ron sat on the Royal Couch and ordered the Lord of Pleasure down, threatening to withhold Faith Fel Energy.

Ron intimidated the Lord of Pleasure into a secret alliance by threatening his survival and offering Faith Fel Energy. As the Chaos Gods prepared to attack the Abyssal Hell, Ron secretly made deals with the Lord of Pleasure, Grandfather Nurgle, and the Lord of Change to undermine the invasion.

• The Lord of Pleasure threatened Ron, but Ron stopped his attack by warning that he could cut off the Faith Fel Energy the god needed.
• Ron argued that if the Abyssal Hell fell, the other Chaos Gods would target the weakened Lord of Pleasure, then offered him Faith Fel Energy in exchange for an alliance.
• The Lord of Pleasure accepted Ron's terms and summoned Succubi and Slaaneshi Cultists to serve him while the two gods secretly traded.
• Khorne rallied the Chaos Gods' armies and planned to capture Ron, while the gods divided the spoils they expected from the invasion.
• Ron secretly promised benefits to Grandfather Nurgle and the Lord of Change, intending to manipulate the coming war and buy time.
• The Chaos Gods returned to their domains to mobilize for war, while Khorne sensed something was wrong but continued preparing to attack the Abyssal Hell.

A Chaos Realm facing collapse under the Blood God's demands and the Imperium's invasion chose to defect to the Lord of Hell. As the Blackstone Fortress approached, the daemons built a hell altar and declared their loyalty to Pedron, Grand Master of the Grey Knights' 5th Brotherhood.

• The Chaos Lord and Dark Apostle discussed abandoning the Blood God because dwindling favor and heavy losses threatened their territory, and the Dark Apostle urged them to seek the Lord of Hell's protection.
• A rift opened near the Chaos Realm, and an enormous Blackstone Fortress invaded the Warp, destroying a nearby realm with malicious weapons and flames.
• The Chaos Lord realized the fortress had targeted his territory, while the Dark Apostle argued that humanity would spare them if they submitted to the Lord of Hell.
• The Chaos Lord ordered a hell altar built and led his daemons in declaring their allegiance to the Lord of Hell.
• Pedron, Grand Master of the Grey Knights' 5th Brotherhood, appeared before them, and the Chaos Lord insisted they were warriors of the Lord of Hell rather than followers of the Blood God.

Pedron led the Grey Knights’ 5th Brotherhood in a devastating campaign against Khorne’s Chaos Realms, but one target surrendered to the Lord of Hell before the Imperium could attack. As Ron’s larger fleet arrived in the Warp, Pedron moved on to seek other targets while the surrendered daemons accepted the Lord of Hell’s blessing.

• Pedron reflected on how the Savior’s weapons and support had transformed the Grey Knights into a powerful force that could devastate Chaos Realms.
• The 5th Brotherhood destroyed a Khorne realm with a Blackstone Fortress bombardment, then found that the daemons in its next target had raised the Lord of Hell’s altar and surrendered.
• Pedron used a projection to challenge the Chaos Lord and Dark Apostle, but they insisted they were loyal followers of the Lord of Hell and refused to fight.
• A Spirit Stone descended through the altar, and the Chaos Lord and his followers accepted the Hell Mark and its power, securing their protection from the Imperium’s attack.
• Pedron abandoned the surrendered realm and sent the Blackstone Fortress toward another target, while Ron watched a vast Imperial fleet emerge from Warp rifts and hoped Abyss Hell was now secure.

Ron committed the Colonial Expeditionary Fleet to the Warp war while weighing the Imperium’s costly campaign and its hopes of securing resources and researching a safer path to power. As imperial forces struck the Blood Soil, Hark and other neglected Blood God Warriors secretly studied the Lord of Hell’s faith system, while the Blood God realized Ron had been secretly rewarding the other gods.

• Tako reported that the more than hundred-billion-strong Colonial Expeditionary Fleet had arrived and was ready to fight, and Ron told him to reassure the finance department that the Warp could repay the Imperium’s expenses.
• Ron reviewed the battles across the Warp, sent Faith Fel Energy to cooperating gods to delay their attacks, and relied on imperial forces to pressure the Blood God’s territory.
• Ron considered the danger of becoming a supreme Dark God and continued seeking a safer way to ascend while humanity researched the Warp.
• The Colonial Expeditionary Fleet entered the fighting and human fleets advanced toward the Blood Soil, slowing the Blood God’s attacks on Abyssal Hell.
• Hark and other abandoned Blood God Warriors ignored the Blood God’s anger and secretly studied the faith system from the Lord of Hell.
• The Blood God realized the Lord of Hell had secretly sent Faith Fel Energy to the other gods, leaving him out and contributing to his worsening losses.

The Blood God realized that the other Chaos Gods had manipulated the war against the Abyssal Hell to weaken him and target the Blood Soil, so he recalled his armies to defend his domain. Ron used the resulting retreat to reclaim lost territory and proposed that the other gods join him in raiding the Blood God's exposed lands.

• The Blood God discovered that the other gods had accepted the Lord of Hell's gifts and staged a weak offensive against the Abyssal Hell, allowing their armies to focus on Khorne's Army.
• The Blood God saw human forces advancing into the poorly defended Blood Soil and suspected the Lord of Change had conspired with the other gods against him.
• The Blood God sounded a recall horn, pulling his armies from the Abyssal Hell to protect his domain as human forces seized more of his territory.
• Ron ordered the Hell Army to retake lands occupied by the Blood God and the other gods, and warned them that continued attacks on the Abyssal Hell would cost them his Faith Fel Energy subsidies and invite retaliation.
• Ron decided to build alliances and proposed that the other gods exploit the Blood God's exposed defenses by joining him in a raid.

Ron secured an alliance with the Lord of Change, Grandfather Nurgle, and the Lord of Pleasure to raid Blood Soil and weaken the Blood God. He made himself commander by offering Faith Fel Energy subsidies and gained the gods’ agreement before their large-scale plundering campaign began.

• Ron argued that the gods should raid Blood Soil while the Blood God was vulnerable, and the Lord of Change agreed first.
• Grandfather Nurgle and the Lord of Pleasure agreed to join the attack, each seeking revenge and spoils.
• Ron established alliance terms, offered Faith Fel Energy subsidies, and declared that he would command the war; the Lord of Pleasure supported him, and the others accepted.
• The Lord of Change showed anger at Ron, but Ron and the other gods warned him against disrupting the alliance, and he backed down.
• Ron negotiated the division of spoils and responsibilities, then began a plundering campaign against Blood Soil with forces greater than those used against the Abyssal Hell.

Ork worked to keep a Blackstone Fortress running as humanity prepared to attack the Blood God's domain, while Ron reflected on the danger of conquering the Warp and the need to defeat it without becoming a Dark God. The Grey Knights successfully deployed a Spatial Anchor, and Ron ordered the forces to assemble for the assault.

• Imperial Honor Engineer Ork celebrated his chance to serve near the coming battle, then rushed to repair a problem with the fortress's core engine.
• Ron considered humanity's hidden strength, the Warp's history of consuming civilizations, and the risk that victory over the Chaos Gods could turn him into another Dark God.
• Ron reviewed the plan to use Blackstone technology and a Spatial Anchor to open a passage to the Blood Soil for the Chaos Coalition.
• Tako reported that Lord Diego and the Grey Knights had reached the target area and were preparing to drop the Spatial Anchor.
• The anchor activated, and Ron ordered all forces to assemble and proceed to the battlefield.

Grand Master Kovan and the Grey Knights crushed the Blood God's forces, executed the daemon Kagaganas under the Great Savior's decree, and installed Spatial Anchors across Chaos territory. As the anchors activated and their signal reached Blood Soil, Supreme Grand Master Diego ordered the Grey Knights to assemble and withdraw before the Blood God's wrath arrived.

• The Grey Knights, led by Kovan, teleported into a Chaos castle and slaughtered its defenders with their new Nemesis armaments.
• Kovan identified the captured Chaos Lord as Kagaganas in the Liber Daemonica and executed him despite his offer to serve the Lord of Hell.
• Kovan and the Grey Knights mourned their fallen brothers, then installed Spatial Node Machines to establish Spatial Anchors in the Chaos territory.
• Kovan found that daemons in other realms had surrendered or were absent from the Liber Daemonica, so the Grey Knights captured Spatial Fulcrums instead of executing them.
• Supreme Grand Master Diego ordered the Grey Knights to assemble and leave before their actions provoked the Blood God's wrath.
• The Spatial Anchors activated, sending their fluctuations into the depths of the Warp toward Blood Soil.

The Grey Knights activated the Blackstone Rift Generator, opening an anti-psyker rift across the outskirts of Blood Soil and imagining the larger strategic weapon it might someday become. The Blood God reacted with fury and sent a vast Sea of Blood and his warriors toward the human fortresses.

• Supreme Grand Master Diego ordered Heaven's Judgment Fortress to deploy the Blackstone Rift Generator, whose four Obelisks opened a spreading anti-psyker rift in the Warp.
• Kovan and Pedron remembered the Great Rift's devastation and discussed how the Grey Knights had grown stronger, while wondering whether the Imperium secretly possessed a larger version of the weapon.
• The rift became visible across the Chaos Realm, frightening daemons and disrupting the Blood God's influence over the region.
• The Blood God struck toward the rift with a vast Sea of Blood, which carried excited Blood God Warriors toward Heaven's Judgment Fortress and dozens of Blackstone Fortresses.

After centuries of torture in Ashen Purgatory, Grey Knight Champion Ordan nearly gave in to despair before Ron, appearing as the Sun of Hope, answered his prayer. Ron gave Ordan a mysterious blessing and sent him back to the arena, where Ordan discovered his skin had turned faintly green and shimmered blue.

• The Ashen One kept Ordan imprisoned and forced him to fight, hoping to corrupt the Grey Knight and present him to the Blood God.
• Ordan resolved to make a final stand rather than fall to Chaos, and prayed to the Emperor as he prepared to die fighting.
• Ordan's consciousness appeared in a Sanctum before Ron, who accepted his faith and recognized how close the captive was to the Blood Soil.
• Ron decided to rescue Ordan, but changed course when he learned the Blood God was targeting the Grey Knights; he gave Ordan a hidden authority and told him to hitch a ride with the Blood God.
• Ordan returned to the arena, where he found his skin faintly green and shimmering blue.

Ordan’s strange luck let him slaughter the Hell Gladiators before the Blood God’s Sea of Blood swept him and Ashen Purgatory into the battle at the Grey Knights’ fortress line. Thought dead after washing ashore, Ordan was revived by the Apothecaries, and the chapter ended with the Techmarines preparing to place him in a Heaven’s Judgment Heavy Dreadnought so he could fight again.

• Ordan discovered that his inexplicable luck helped him avoid attacks and kill the Hell Gladiators, then defeated every gladiator in the Blood Pit.
• The Ashen One prepared to attack Ordan, but the Blood God unleashed a vast Sea of Blood that swept Ashen Purgatory and its combatants toward the Grey Knights’ fortress line.
• Kovan, Diego, and the Grey Knights braced for the daemonic tide as the blood waves battered the Bastion Line and daemons attacked the fortresses.
• Ordan was battered through the Sea of Blood and lost his limbs before landing on a fortress platform, where Shiwen recognized him and summoned an Apothecary.
• The Apothecary revived Ordan, and after he regained consciousness in the rear, a Techmarine told him the Brotherhood planned to place him in a Heaven’s Judgment Heavy Dreadnought.