Recaps

The Emperor’s forces defeated Horus’s rebellion at great cost, but new threats emerged as the Necrons and Zerg awakened and a vast cosmic entity approached. Sanguinius received Golden Age technology from Sena as she departed to seek the Crimson King and resurrect her captain.

• The Emperor ordered Makado to power the Warp Limiter while Leman Russ went to capture Magnus, and Horus resolved to rebel against the Imperium.
• Magnus rejected Tzeentch’s offer and ordered his Legion not to resist, but Leman Russ’s forces devastated Prospero and broke Magnus in battle before Tzeentch rescued him.
• Lorgar helped Angron ascend to become a Demon Prince, and the two joined Horus’s rebellion against the Imperium.
• The rebel Primarchs attacked loyalist Legions and advanced on Terra, where the Emperor defeated Horus and the rebel forces after Makado took over the Warp Inhibitor.
• The Silent King awakened the Necrons, who fought the rapidly growing Zerg, while Imperial forces encountered the Zerg consuming worlds and named them the Tyranid Zerg.
• The Emperor ordered Sanguinius to evacuate vulnerable worlds as Eldrad foresaw a colossal threat, and Walend warned the Silent King that the Abyss of the Star Sea had consumed a tenth of the universe.
• Sanguinius boarded the Golden Age warship Eternal Soul, where Sena told him how her crew had reached the end of time and suffered persecution after returning to the past.
• Sena gave Sanguinius a device filled with Golden Age technology and departed through time and space to seek the Crimson King’s help in resurrecting her captain.

Orsaga helped the Emperor transform humanity through a ritual that consumed the Warhammer plane, then ascended as a Demon Lord and founded Crimson Heaven. After building his new domain and developing a way to recover the dead, he returned with his companions to the Elsera Elf Kingdom and gave Allison the power to rewrite its fate.

• Sena reached Crimson Heaven, where Radgritel explained the factions and offered guidance on how she could meet the Crimson King.
• The Silent King’s campaign against the Zerg drove the Pan-Racial Alliance to unite in the Milky Way, but the Zerg overwhelmed the Orks and pushed displaced civilizations into the galaxy.
• As the Imperium faltered, the Emperor rejected the Silent King’s demands and accepted Orsaga’s offer to transform all of humanity into immortal Warp Space beings.
• The Emperor completed Orsaga’s ritual beneath Terra and died in the sacrifice, while Orsaga drew the plane and its Timelines into the Bottomless Abyss and Nurgle turned against Tzeentch.
• The Abyssal Will elevated Orsaga to Demon Lord, and he destroyed Farrow Courtyard before claiming authority over a region and creating the Abyss Layer Crimson Heaven.
• Orsaga released his allies into Crimson Heaven, merged the Warp Origin with himself and the domain, and established the new Abyss Layer as his realm.
• Orsaga distributed Soul’s Boons, opened Crimson Heaven to outsiders, retaliated against a rival Demon Legion, and developed a method to reconstruct the dead from negative emotions.
• Orsaga accepted Faltershi’s invitation to meet nearby Abyss Lords, then visited the Elsera Elf Kingdom with his companions and gave Allison a pen that could make her writing real after showing her the kingdom’s predicted destruction.

Orsaga chose to conquer a promising plane and sent Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire to prepare it, while they manipulated Wujin and the Planeswalkers into sealing them. Orsaga then entered the plane himself, built a force in a city he destroyed, and grew powerful by hunting in its forest as adventurers arrived to investigate.

• Allison revised the Elsera Elf Kingdom’s history and future, then gave the book to Orsaga for Golanel, Kaila, and Keliya to review.
• Orsaga attended Faltershi’s banquet, declined to join the Resonance Assimilation Ritual, and traded with several Abyss Lords before sending legions into the Abyss Blood War.
• Orsaga improved his illnesses and empowered Imokku, Ulamo, Kojire, and Shi Tiankong, then ordered Imokku to open a passage into a promising plane.
• Imokku, Ulamo, and Kojire corrupted the plane while evading its defenders, then let Wujin and the Planeswalkers capture them as part of a plan to spread their influence from within.
• Orsaga arrived in the plane without equipment, made clothes and a vehicle from forest materials, and entered a Kou Clan city.
• Orsaga hypnotized gang members and recruited followers, but when the City Lord confronted him, he summoned Foggy Butcher and used magic to kill the city’s defenders and inhabitants.
• Orsaga hunted in the primeval forest for three months, gathering cards and upgrading his Duel Disk until his strength increased more than a thousandfold.
• An adventurer party assembled at the forest’s edge to investigate disappearances and strange disturbances, while its client’s supervisor prepared a teleportation item.