Chapter Summaries

The Emperor sold Human Civilization’s future to Orsaga in exchange for humanity’s ascension to demons, while Orsaga secretly passed Nurgle an unknown item. Years later, the Zerg overwhelmed the Pan-Racial Alliance, leaving its leaders despairing and considering flight.

• The Emperor agreed to Orsaga’s offer and traded Human Civilization’s labor and his own life for humanity’s ascension to demons.
• Orsaga shared Nurgle’s germ-filled soup, praised its flavor, and discreetly gave him an unknown item, which Nurgle put in a jar.
• Over several years, the Zerg adapted to the Alliance’s attacks and multiplied until the Pan-Racial Alliance’s defenses began to fail.
• The Silent King and the other rulers reviewed worsening casualty reports as an elderly Skaven lamented the Zerg’s strength and compared their reproduction to that of the Abyss of the Star Sea and the Xenomorphic Infestation Legion.
• The elderly Skaven’s despair spread through the leaders, and many began considering escape.

The Silent King persuaded the Pan-Racial Alliance to share powerful technologies and reserves against the Zerg and future threats. On Terra, the Emperor and Sanguinius oversaw a secret ritual for Orsaga, which was nearing completion as its deadline approached.

• The Silent King warned the alliance that the Zerg were not yet strong enough to crush them and urged its members to reveal their hidden capabilities.
• The Silent King and several powerful civilizations contributed advanced technologies, prompting other civilizations to share their own treasures.
• Deep beneath Terra, the Emperor and Sanguinius supervised Adeptus Custodes inscribing a vast, concealed ritual space dedicated to Orsaga.
• The Emperor had surrendered most of the Imperium of Man's territory and resources while focusing on the ritual, leaving humanity dissatisfied but unable to challenge the military.
• The Emperor had created 666666 Adeptus Custodes to complete the inscriptions by the 666th day, and 652 days had passed.

Orsaga began wagering his power and status to draw the other Chaos Gods into his plan, while the Emperor completed a ritual beneath Terra that opened a connection to the Bottomless Abyss. The Chaos Gods sensed the threat and attacked Crimson Heaven as its barrier split apart.

• Orsaga told Golanel to leave the plane with Allison as he began his final gamble, and Golanel resolved to use his contingency if he failed.
• Golanel left, while Orsaga sensed that his companions shared her willingness to die rather than live without him.
• Beneath Terra, the Emperor tore out his heart and used his blood to complete a prayer and Death Tribulation Flower in the sealed chamber.
• The completed ritual drew power from the Bottomless Abyss, alerting the Chaos Gods, especially Tzeentch, to a threatening presence from another plane.
• Crimson Heaven’s barrier split open, revealing blood-red lines connecting to different Timelines, and the four Chaos Gods launched full-force attacks.

Orsaga activated his sacrifice ritual, using the Emperor, his own divine rank, and Nurgle’s betrayal to drag the entire plane and its Timelines into the Bottomless Abyss. As the plane faced destruction, Orsaga secured Nurgle’s escape, preserved the records he needed, and began his advancement from Great Demon to Demon Lord.

• The Emperor learned that the plane had cursed him, then poured his remaining power and Life Force into the Sacrifice Ritual before dying.
• Orsaga disrupted the plane’s Timelines and sent a wisp of energy into the Milky Way, annihilating it and a region millions of light-years across.
• Shi Tiankong and the Ozhaki activated their ritual, amplifying the sacrifice and pulling the Physical Universe and the plane’s Timelines toward the Bottomless Abyss.
• Orsaga sacrificed his divine rank, drawing the Abyssal Will’s attention, while Nurgle accepted Orsaga’s offer and attacked Tzeentch instead of helping the other Chaos Gods stop him.
• The Bottomless Abyss began dissolving the plane, and Orsaga cast Nurgle out with a fragment of the plane’s consciousness and knowledge of Outer Planes.
• Orsaga preserved the Imperium of Man and Crimson Heaven Timeline records, then accepted the Abyssal Will’s reward and began advancing to Demon Lord.

Orsaga gambled the Warhammer plane as a sacrifice to the Abyssal Will, which infused him with power and began his advancement into a Demon Lord. His body, authority, and divine statuses transformed as the process concluded, leaving him reborn at a new level of power.

• Karto sensed Orsaga's advancement and recalled once trying to recruit him, while most Abyss Demons reacted with envy and resentment.
• Orsaga used his Chaos God status, the Emperor, and the Physical Universe to open a path for the Abyssal Will and sacrifice the Warhammer plane.
• The Abyssal Will granted Orsaga a powerful infusion, breaking through limits in his body, bloodline, and soul.
• Orsaga guided his own transformation, gaining the Lord's Seal and new forms for his horns, wings, and eyes.
• The Abyssal Will restored Orsaga's Twin God Status and bestowed three more Twin God Statuses from Slaanesh, Khorne, and Tzeentch.
• The pillar of light stopped, and Orsaga opened his eyes after undergoing a complete sublimation.

Orsaga escaped the Abyss of Ashes and searched the Void Stratum for a place to feed. He found Farrow Courtyard, seized its ruler, Korenya El, and devoured the entire Otherdimensional World.

• Orsaga escaped the Abyss of Ashes using the passage permission granted by the Abyssal Will.
• Orsaga appeared in the Void Stratum and found the hidden artificial dimension of Farrow Courtyard.
• Orsaga used Sole Dominance to encroach upon Farrow Courtyard and trigger Korenya El’s warning spells.
• Korenya El attempted to teleport to his secret base, but Orsaga altered the coordinates and drew him to himself.
• Orsaga’s red light decomposed every lifeform and structure in Farrow Courtyard, absorbing their power, knowledge, and memories as the dimension vanished.

Orsaga gathered Space-Time Fragments from a ruined Abyss Layer and used them to create his own Abyss Layer in the vacant Eye in the Mist. Once his wards blocked outside observation, nearby Abyss Lords began considering how to deal with him.

• Orsaga learned that he was between two owned Abyss Layers and traveled to a shattered Abyss Layer whose Demon Lord had been sealed away.
• Orsaga gathered the Space-Time Fragments and killed the creatures living on them.
• Orsaga moved to the abandoned Eye in the Mist, where he planned to keep a low profile among mostly non-native Abyss Lords.
• Orsaga purified the fragments, shaped them into seven blood-red spears, and used them to seize the surrounding region's authority.
• Orsaga used that authority to create and fortify his own Abyss Layer as neighboring Abyss Lords watched from afar.

Orsaga transformed the inhabitants and powers he had gathered to survive in his newly formed Abyss Layer, then fused the Warp Origin with himself, his Lord’s Proof, and the layer. After awakening stronger and effectively immortal within his domain, he named it Crimson Heaven and announced the birth of a new Abyss Lord.

• Orsaga released Shi Tiankong, the Void Legion, the Imperium of Man, and others into the Abyss Layer, transforming them to adapt to its deadly conditions.
• Orsaga merged the Warp Origin into himself and the Abyss Layer, binding it to his Lord’s Seal and combining the four into one.
• Orsaga’s power rose to the middle tier or above among Demon Lords, and he gained the ability to revive unless all four parts were destroyed together.
• The transformed eggs hatched into Orsaga’s subordinates, including Imokku, Eldar, the Fallen Machine Intelligence, humans, and Primarchs.
• Orsaga turned the Abyss Layer’s space-time scars into living patrol creatures and named the domain Crimson Heaven.
• Crimson Heaven’s name and location spread through the Bottomless Abyss, marking the formal birth of an Abyss Lord.

Orsaga returned to Howling Forest, the place where he had begun his journey, and recruited newborn demons for Crimson Heaven. He left the forest’s creatures fighting over a rain of Soul’s Boons and reflected on having fulfilled his oath to escape an ordinary life, while still aiming to reach the Multiverse’s pinnacle.

• Orsaga and his companions arrived in Howling Forest, where he set coordinates for newborn demons to join Crimson Heaven.
• Orsaga explained that the newborns would provide recruits and negative energy to strengthen Crimson Heaven, whether they survived or not.
• Orsaga visited the hillside where he had planted Death Tribulation Flowers and caused Soul’s Boons to rain across Howling Forest.
• Abyss Creatures stopped hunting to gather the Soul’s Boons, then resumed slaughtering one another to claim the remaining rewards.
• Golanel asked Orsaga why he had given away so many Soul Crystals, and he recalled his oath to avoid mediocrity and his ambition to reach the Multiverse’s pinnacle.

Orsaga spent several hundred days redirecting a Styx tributary to make a deadly natural barrier around Crimson Heaven, then allowed Halutelius to operate as the local leader of the Styx Ferrymen. He regarded the factions and newcomers gathering in his territory as harmless distractions, since his power let him observe everything there.

• Orsaga used Sole Dominance to redirect the Styx tributary and arrange for spatial invaders to emerge above its waters.
• After completing the barrier, Orsaga granted Halutelius permission to conduct business in Crimson Heaven in exchange for tribute.
• Halutelius declared himself the boss of the Styx Ferrymen on the Abyss Layer and ordered the others to work diligently.
• Orsaga ignored the tribute and considered the merchants, explorers, and agents of other Abyss Lords entering Crimson Heaven to be trivial.
• Orsaga relied on Sole Dominance to monitor everything in Crimson Heaven and believed he could remove the newcomers whenever he wished.

Several years after establishing Crimson Heaven, Orsaga handled routine affairs and lamented that the other Abyss Lords still ignored him. With no opponents to fight, he turned his attention to developing his plan to reconstruct the memories of the dead through the Pain Authority.

• A Fallen Titan reported that a Demon Legion from another Abyss Layer had killed more than twenty Upper Demons, and Orsaga ordered a tenfold retaliation and told his subordinates to respond the same way to future attacks.
• A subordinate reported that Shi Tiankong's captured plane had been dismantled and that half the Void Legion had left Crimson Heaven to feed elsewhere; Orsaga left both matters alone.
• After his subordinates departed, Orsaga complained that no Abyss Lords had challenged him, having learned that they avoided him because of rivalries and the risks of fighting him.
• Orsaga decided to study the Pain Authority and work toward recovering the memories of the dead from the pain emotions scattered throughout the Bottomless Abyss.

After more than eight hundred years of research, Orsaga used negative emotions and Sole Dominance to reconstruct and resurrect a long-dead Great Demon, then devoured him to study the result. He concluded that the method worked on weak beings but was too risky to use on Abyss Lords and stronger entities.

• Orsaga developed a method to reconstruct minds and memories from negative emotions, using the Chaos God statuses of Slaanesh and Tzeentch to strengthen his abilities.
• More than eight hundred years later, Orsaga used Sole Dominance, Pain Authority, and other powers to restore a creature that had been dead for hundreds of millions of years.
• The revived four-armed Great Demon questioned Orsaga, who immediately devoured his body and soul and absorbed his life and knowledge.
• Orsaga considered the experiment and concluded that Abyss Lords and stronger beings could detect his attempts or use them to revive themselves.
• Orsaga decided to limit his method to low-level beings and use their knowledge and wisdom as a foundation.

Orsaga perfected a mass-production process for harvesting memories and resources from revived targets, then received and accepted Faltershi’s invitation to a gathering of nearby Abyss Lords. He planned to attend through an Avatar and agreed with Golanel to visit the Elsera Elf Kingdom.

• Orsaga established isolated Subsidiary Spaces in Crimson Heaven and turned the recovery and processing of valuable targets into an assembly-line operation.
• Orsaga sensed an approaching object, crushed its protective sphere, and found an invitation from Faltershi, master of the Gemstone Sea of Clouds.
• Faltershi invited Orsaga to a gathering in three Abyss years to meet nearby Abyss Lords and discuss trades, and Orsaga accepted.
• Golanel urged Orsaga to be careful, and he told her he would send an Avatar rather than enter Faltershi’s Abyss Layer himself.
• Orsaga and Golanel agreed to visit the Elsera Elf Kingdom.

Orsaga, Allison, Golanel, Keliya, and Kaila returned to the Ainter Plane and visited the Elsera Elf Kingdom. They reunited with its Elf King, who welcomed them with a banquet after the kingdom had grown beyond Orsaga’s barrier.

• Orsaga entered the Ainter Plane with his companions and found that 130,000 years had passed since his last visit.
• Golanel eagerly led the group toward the Elsera Elf Kingdom, while Keliya and Kaila felt little attachment to their former home.
• The group saw ships traveling through Orsaga’s once-sealed barrier, and Golanel recognized the kingdom’s blend of technology and magic.
• The Elf King recognized Orsaga and the others, rushed to greet them, and invited them to a banquet.

Orsaga showed Allison the Elsera Elf Kingdom’s future history, which ended with the extinction of the Elves, and gave her the power to rewrite it. Allison was left holding the pen with authority to change the plane’s past, present, and future.

• Orsaga watched the fireworks alone until Allison appeared and reflected on how her long time in Warp Space had estranged her from her kin.
• Orsaga told Allison that things inevitably changed, then showed her a book describing the Elsera Elf Kingdom’s rise and eventual destruction.
• Allison read that the Elves would be exterminated, with only a few mixed-blood descendants surviving.
• Orsaga told Allison to change the history however she liked and gave her a pen empowered to make whatever she wrote become reality.

Allison used a book to rewrite a rival race’s history, ensuring it remained technologically backward and was eventually destroyed, then made the Elsera Elf Kingdom destined to rule the plane. Orsaga accepted the changes and told her to invite Golanel, Kaila, and Keliya to decide whether they wanted anything altered.

• Allison examined the history of a race that had destroyed the Elsera Elf Kingdom and crossed out several hundred of its most influential figures.
• The race’s revised history left it feudal until it was destroyed in a war between two Interstellar Civilizations.
• Allison changed the Elsera Elf Kingdom’s future so it would inevitably reach the plane’s peak, and added safeguards against its people becoming corrupted by power.
• Allison gave the book to Orsaga, who told her to have Golanel, Kaila, and Keliya review it and request any changes they wanted.

Three Abyss Years later, Orsaga arrived at the Gemstone Sea of Clouds with an Invitation from Faltershi. Faltershi’s royal guards welcomed him to the banquet, and Orsaga entered the lavish gemstone palace complex, where he felt tempted to loot it.

• Orsaga reached the Gemstone Sea of Clouds using the coordinates Faltershi had given him.
• The Invitation opened a gate, and Faltershi’s royal guards welcomed Orsaga as the Crimson King and said the banquet was about to begin.
• Orsaga examined the guards’ multicolored bodies before riding into the Gemstone Sea atop one of them.
• Orsaga saw the luxurious gemstone palace complex and considered smashing, looting, and burning it.

Orsaga toured Faltershi’s Myriad Color Palace and examined its powerful spell formations and the living, tormented skulls decorating its entrance. He joined the gathering of Abyss Lords, where Faltershi welcomed him to the banquet and served him food.

• Orsaga was carried through the Myriad Color Palace while his guide explained its buildings and the fearful attendants avoided him.
• Orsaga observed the palace’s extensive spell formations and the clouds linked to the Gemstone Sea of Clouds.
• Orsaga examined the palace’s gemstone door and admired the powerful beings trapped alive in its decorations.
• Orsaga entered the hall and surveyed the Abyss Lords gathered around crystal tables.
• Faltershi welcomed Orsaga as the Crimson King, provided him a seat, and had maids present food in spatial bowls.

Orsaga attended Faltershi’s feast, where Faltershi served specially cultivated Children of the World as delicacies. Orsaga shared his pain-infused wine, prompting the Abyss Lords to trade treasured foods and drinks as the gathering grew lively.

• Orsaga examined Faltershi’s bowls of food and learned that Faltershi had cultivated Children of the World into delicacies.
• Faltershi plucked a powerful humanoid from a golden bowl and ate him before he could finish speaking.
• Faltershi invited Orsaga and the other Abyss Lords to eat the Children of the World he had prepared.
• Orsaga opened bottles of wine brewed from painful emotions and Sub-Universe lifeforms, and the wine’s wails caused the maids to writhe in pain.
• Faltershi and the other Abyss Lords praised Orsaga’s wine and began sharing their own treasured collections, leaving Faltershi pleased that he had spent the least.

Faltershi proposed a Resonance Assimilation Ritual, and several Abyss Lords agreed to cooperate despite the risk of being overwhelmed by stronger versions of themselves from other planes. Orsaga declined to join for now, preferring to gather more of his possibilities in his current plane, and made simpler trade agreements instead.

• Faltershi proposed holding a Resonance Assimilation Ritual and invited the Abyss Lords to join him.
• The Abyss Lords considered the ritual's dangers, including the possibility of being assimilated by stronger selves from other time and space planes.
• Several Abyss Lords partnered with Faltershi to reduce the ritual's risks.
• Orsaga declined to participate because he still had possibilities to gather in his current plane.
• Orsaga made simple agreements with Faltershi and several Abyss Lords to trade special gemstones, mineral veins, and biological servants.