Chapter Summaries

Nimrod prepared to confront the Hraf’s living Psy-Titans, assigning research on captured Hraf artifacts and ordering Petronella to accompany him. Meanwhile, William Wood’s Chapter engaged a Hraf Titan whose psychic assault incapacitated many Shadows of Order.

• Nimrod considered the Psyker Dragonet needed to advance to Sequence 5, Dreamwalker, and hoped Santiago could locate Origin Space through the Dice of Prophecy.
• Nimrod ordered Arsena Dunn to have the Lord of the Forge study the Extermination Carbine before passing it to Santiago.
• Arsena reported that Lady Hera’s forces were deploying Psy-Titans and that the 12th Chapter had lost twenty-six Shadows of Order aboard enemy ship E-13.
• Nimrod said William and his Chapter would handle their Psy-Titan, then ordered Petronella to accompany him against another one.
• William Wood faced a Hraf Titan that shifted in size and unleashed psychic pressure, dropping two neophytes and incapacitating dozens of Shadows of Order.
• The Honor Guard resisted the Titan’s psychic attack and fired his Bedrock-pattern Bolter, but the Titan shrank to Knight Mech size and the rounds missed.

William Wood captured the Hraf Titan and made it his second puppet, while the Hraf Originator suffered a devastating psychic backlash from the Titan's loss. The weakened Originator blamed the Shadow of Order and Nimrod.

• The Hraf Titan fought the Farseer Puppet and the Shadow of Order, shifting size and resisting their attacks with psychic shields and flames.
• William Wood used the Farseer Puppet's mental interference to distract Hraf, then began controlling the Hraf Pilot with Spirit Thread.
• Hraf's psychic attacks killed several Clowns and Magicians, but William gradually strengthened his control over the Titan.
• William ordered the Shadow of Order to cease fire, and the Hraf Titan bowed and called him Master.
• The Originator aged five million years in an instant as Hraf's death destroyed a branch of the Web of Nests and killed its warriors.
• The weakened Originator endured the psychic backlash and hissed, blaming the Shadow of Order and Nimrod.

Lord Nimrod joined the battle against the Hraf aboard their Web-ship and destroyed the Hraf Titan with the Spear of Dionysus. The attack shattered the Hraf Originator’s War Crown and killed thousands of Hraf, while Petronella survived the psychic backlash under Jurjur’s protection.

• The Hraf Titan broke free of the Bronze Gate, burned thirteen Hermits to ash, and badly injured Ramsey as he tried to delay it.
• Lord Nimrod boarded the Hraf Web-ship with Petronella Viva and Magad, resisted the Hraf’s psychic assault, and killed fifteen Hraf with the Spear of Dionysus.
• Magad killed a Hraf that attacked him, and Lord Nimrod ordered Jurjur to protect Petronella and the others as they advanced toward the Titan.
• Ramsey’s strength failed as the Hraf Titan attacked, but Lord Nimrod arrived and shielded him from its lightning.
• Lord Nimrod stopped the Titan from shrinking and hurled the Spear of Dionysus, destroying its crystal body and shattering the Hraf Originator’s War Crown.
• The psychic backlash killed over ten thousand Hraf, and Jurjur’s Dawn Light helped Petronella recover from the Originator’s psychic howl.

Adams and the Gatekeepers fought Lady Hera’s forces, enslaving fallen Hlav wraiths and growing stronger. After Santiago Bergkamp located the entrance to Origin Space, Nimrod ordered the decisive assault, while Muspel and the Originators rallied fifty-one World Terminators to stop him.

• Adams summoned the Bronze Gates and used the Evil Spirit within him to seize and kill the first Lady Hera who emerged.
• The Gatekeepers and Necromancers fought Lady Hera’s forces, killing and enslaving Hlav wraiths as their undead ranks grew stronger.
• Santiago Bergkamp reported to Nimrod that he had located the entrance to Origin Space.
• Nimrod ordered the 7th Legion and the Royal Court’s Viscounts to the entrance and put the Second Legion’s Smart Machines on standby.
• Muspel and the Originator with the shattered War Crown alerted fifty Originators and sent them to stop Nimrod, while one Originator set out to find his Reaper Lord.

Sanchez and Wilshire trapped the Hraf Originator aboard the Monarch Heavy Landing Craft using the Overseers and Smart Machines, then Sanchez revealed the conspiracy and drank the potion the Black Emperor had given him. After fighting through a deadly hallucination, Sanchez killed the paralyzed Originator, and the Shadow of Order prepared to offer the body to their Lord.

• Sanchez and Wilshire arrived in Origin Space, where the Hraf Originator demanded to know the source of the black-patterned blade that had wounded him.
• Wilshire activated the imprisonment protocol, and Overseers and Smart Machines overwhelmed the Originator with their combined attacks.
• Sanchez used a time-stopping instant created by the Brainy Cat to inject the anesthetic developed from the Originator's tentacle.
• Sanchez explained how he had lured the Originator into the trap, then drank the potion bestowed by the Black Emperor.
• Sanchez battled Hrud and a Slaugth in a hallucination while the paralyzed Originator watched and tried to resist the drug.
• Sanchez hurled a Blazing White Spear into the Originator's head, killing him, and the Shadow of Order prepared to take his body to their Lord.

Nimrod discovered that fifty-one Hraf Originators had gathered to attack the Shadow of the Throne, far more than expected. He proceeded with Hasik Noyan-Khan’s plan to lure them, and the Originators teleported aboard the ship to surround him.

• Diana Pauline reported that fifty-one Hraf vessels were attacking the Shadow of the Throne and that its shields were weakening.
• Nimrod sensed the fifty-one Originators and recalled how Lion had been suppressed by three before killing them with an extinction relic.
• Nimrod asked Hasik Noyan-Khan whether he could still capture an Originator alive, and Hasik said he could adjust his plan.
• Nimrod ordered the Conspirators to prepare and went to the lower deck to act as bait.
• The Hraf Originators shattered the Simian Field, teleported onto the lower deck, and surrounded Nimrod with over a thousand Champions.

Nimrod used the Hand of Order to seal the Shadow of the Throne’s lower deck, strip the Hraf Originators of teleportation, and divide them into battlefields for the Conspirators to capture alive. After suppressing the Originators, he turned to face the four who remained.

• Nimrod invoked the Hand of Order to reshape the lower deck’s rules and remove the Hraf Originators’ teleportation ability.
• The Hraf attacked Nimrod, but he escaped their encirclement and created forty-seven sealed battlefields.
• Nimrod sent Hasik, Thomas, and the fifth-strongest Originator to Battlefield One, where Hasik received orders and Thomas filled the zone with starlight.
• Nimrod assigned Polti and Mikel to Battlefield Two with another Originator, giving Polti a Reaper potion and instructions to capture his target alive.
• Nimrod distributed the remaining Originators among the battlefields, then used the Hand of Order to partially suppress them.
• Nimrod surveyed the four Originators left outside the battlefields, including the King of Hraf and two Originators with black crystal spiral horns.

Stevens captured and killed a Hraf Originator through a Catachan-inspired trap and the Reaper trial, triggering the deaths of Hraf across the Web of Nests. Nimrod then discovered that a Conspirator had failed on Battlefield Forty-One and prepared to face four Originators himself.

• Stevens and Ivos Jovan weakened a Hraf Originator with poisoned plants and traps across Catachan-like battlefield zones.
• Stevens used Devil's Fang, a Glass Grenade, a Warp Brain-worm, and an anesthetic needle to capture the Originator alive.
• Stevens entered a drug-induced trial, defeated the enemies in the illusion, and killed the Originator with successive Reaping strikes.
• The Originator's death caused Hraf across the Web of Nests and their ships to collapse and die.
• Nimrod sensed that the Conspirator's plan on Battlefield Forty-One had failed and saw an Originator charging toward the Shadow of Order.
• Nimrod faced four attacking Originators and prepared to end the battle before rescuing his offspring.

Nimrod defeated the Hraf Originators with Willpower Suppression, captured them and the surviving Hraf Champions, and broke through to rescue the Conspirators on Battlefield Forty-One. After helping most of the Conspirators advance to Reapers, he ordered a battlefield cleanup as vast numbers of undead emerged.

• The four Hraf Originators attacked Nimrod, but his Willpower Suppression crushed their minds and forced them to kneel.
• Nimrod bound the Originators in the Kingdom of Disorder, severed the Hraf from their Web of Nests, and swept surviving Hraf Champions into the Kingdom.
• Nimrod broke through the golden barrier around Battlefield Forty-One and rescued Ethan from an Originator.
• Nimrod rescued Conspirators across the battlefields; forty-three advanced to Reapers, while one of the four who failed was killed.
• Nimrod told Arsena Dunn to have Adams's battle group clean up the battlefield as undead gathered in the Ghoul Stars and Origin Space.

Nimrod explored the Hraf Origin Space with Santiago and Arsena, found a way to observe the Imperial Hive World of Sussex, and decided Necare’s head would improve his potion ingredients. He ordered Santiago to study Hraf technology and retrieve Psyker Dragonets, then received a report on the Legion’s campaign losses.

• Nimrod, Santiago, and Arsena entered Origin Space, where Hraf souls attacked them and fled when Nimrod projected his will.
• Santiago explained how Hraf Originators used their Shadow Thrones and psychic spider silk to infiltrate real worlds and devour their inhabitants’ minds.
• Nimrod followed the throne’s Rule Lines to Sussex and concluded that obtaining Necare’s head would give him better potion ingredients.
• Santiago found fourteen more Originator corpses, bringing the number of potential Fallen Counts Nimrod could cultivate to sixty-five.
• Nimrod ordered Santiago to study the Originators’ minds and web-ships, including their Extermination Carbine, and to establish coordinates in the Psyker Dragonets’ pocket dimension and bring back at least four.
• Nimrod’s silver-haired attendant reported that she had compiled the Legion’s campaign losses.

Nimrod weighed the Shadow of Order’s losses against the spoils from the war with the Hraf, then rewarded Togon with a Hunter potion. He turned to the surviving Originators, seeking to subdue them, but one refused to yield.

• Arsena reported that 14,925 Shadow of Order had died, and Nimrod ordered the War Council to be told the total was 41,500.
• Nimrod reviewed the war’s gains, including Reapers, Hraf spirits, Extermination Carbines, and Hraf ships, and concluded he had gained more than Lion.
• Togon arrived at Nimrod’s summons, drank a Sequence 9 Hunter potion, and pledged loyalty to Nimrod above the Emperor of Terra and his Primarch.
• Nimrod entered the Fifth Layer Space and confronted the nine surviving Originators, hoping to use their knowledge and corrode them into submission.
• An Originator with black crystal spiral horns rejected Nimrod’s demand, prompting Nimrod to consider how to find weaknesses in their minds.

Pat and Santiago searched the Psychic Mist for the Psyker Dragonets, following Pat’s guidance when Santiago’s divination failed. They found the creatures and subdued most of them, then prepared to capture them for their lord.

• Pat identified the supernatural haze as Psychic Mist, while Santiago admitted he could not divine the Psyker Dragonets’ location.
• Pat directed the Thunderhawk formation through the mist, and Santiago discovered that the surrounding space shifted like Tanith’s woods.
• Santiago used his Psychic Marks to lead Pat through the moving spaces, and they found a dozen Psyker Dragonets.
• Pat’s Dragon Might disoriented the creatures, and his psychological suggestion drew eleven of them toward him.
• Pat and Santiago praised their lord and continued their command to acquire the Psyker Dragonets.

Diana Pauline signed a psychic contract with the Psyker Dragonet Sera and awakened as a Dreamwalker after receiving a potion and Sera’s scale from Nimrod. Nimrod declined to join the battle at Ullanor and ordered a course plotted for Argos to find Magnus, whose discovery there could change his fate.

• Diana used hypnosis and Mandrake candles to ease Sera’s resistance, then helped the Psyker Dragonet sign their contract.
• Diana sent the sealed contract to Wilshire for notarization and went to meet Nimrod, while Sera sensed the terrifying psychic pressure in his office.
• Nimrod gave Diana a potion and ordered her to take a scale from Sera; Diana fell into a dream and awakened as a Dreamwalker.
• Diana absorbed the information revealed by her dream and left Nimrod’s office as Arsena Dunn arrived with news that the Emperor and Horus had reached Ullanor.
• Nimrod refused to go to Ullanor and ordered the ship to set course for Argos to find Magnus, whose unprecedented discovery could change his fate.

The Thousand Sons waited on Argos for Lord Nimrod, hoping he would help them find their missing Primarch, while Ahriman and Hathor prepared to welcome him. Remembrancer Lemuel Gaumon set out with Camille Shivani and Callista Orestes to seek Nimrod, hoping to find a way to save his wife, Marika.

• Phosis T'kar, Hathor Maat, and Ahzek Ahriman discussed the unnatural mountains and worried that their Primarch had not returned after three months.
• Ahriman asked Hathor to have Lord Nimrod help find their Primarch, and Hathor agreed that Nimrod could meet with him despite the Primarch's ban on entering the mountains.
• Ahriman sent Sobek to deliver water to Lemuel Gaumon and the other Remembrancers near the Death Stone.
• Camille Shivani explained that the Death Stone's runes were ancient Aeldari script and that Ankh-Anen's Rosetta Scroll might help decipher them.
• After Sobek confirmed Nimrod was coming to Argos, Lemuel set out to find him, and Camille and Callista followed.

Nimrod traveled with the Thousand Sons to Argos, where he discovered that the mountains concealed an Aeldari-made prison and an entrance to the Webway. As Magnus described the paths he sensed there, Nimrod recognized Argos as part of Tzeentch’s plan to tempt Magnus and undermine the Emperor’s Webway Project.

• Nimrod arrived at the Argos salt flats and gave psychic Dragonets to Hathor Maat, Ahriman, Phosis T'kar, Kalophis, and Ankh-Anen.
• Hathor told Nimrod that Magnus had entered the mountains and had not returned, so Nimrod set out to find him with Santiago and Pat.
• Nimrod entered the sacred mountain range and identified its precisely shaped terrain, the Death Stones, and two ancient Aeldari Titans.
• Atiri explained that the Aeldari had built the mountains to imprison Chaos creatures, while Nimrod recognized the Death Stones as material connected to the Death God pathway.
• Magnus emerged from the cave and told Nimrod that he sensed countless paths from the mountain range reaching into the stars.
• Nimrod recognized the mountains as an entrance to the Webway and understood that Tzeentch had arranged for Magnus to discover it.

Tzeentch used the Agoru tribe’s sacrifice to shatter the Aeldari seal and awaken two Psy-Titans, unleashing a psychic storm on the camps. Nimrod and Magnus rallied their forces against the Chaos-tainted Titans, with Magnus proposing that they each take one.

• Tzeentch watched Atiri return to the Black Basalt altar and reassured himself that Argos’s plan was under control.
• Atiri received an oracle in a dream, then led the Agoru tribe in a mass sacrifice and killed himself last.
• Tzeentch crushed the blood-dark sphere, breaking the Aeldari seal and awakening two Titans from the mountains.
• A psychic storm struck the camps, and Nimrod helped Khalophis resist its surging power while Magnus and Hathor Maat assisted the Thousand Sons.
• Nimrod ordered Santiago Bergkamp and the Recorders to document special coordinates, then joined Magnus and the gathered Thousand Sons.
• Magnus told Nimrod they had to restore the broken balance, and Nimrod proposed that they take one Titan each.

Nimrod and Magnus destroyed the two corrupted Aeldari Titans guarding the mountain, with Nimrod’s telekinesis proving stronger than Magnus’s. Magnus warned that the power beneath the mountain had awakened, and Nimrod prepared to descend into the Abyss while ordering Pat to mine the Death Stone.

• Nimrod used a telekinetic hand to crush one Titan’s arm, while Magnus destroyed the other arm with fire and lightning.
• Nimrod opened a rift into the Warp and tore apart one Aeldari Titan with a Doomsday Vortex.
• Magnus pierced the remaining Titan’s head with a lightning spear and brought it down.
• Magnus told Nimrod that the power sealed beneath the mountain had awakened and that they had to enter the Abyss.
• Nimrod assured the Recorders he would bring their sixteen people back and sent Pat a Thought Impulse to mine the Death Stone.

Magnus and Nimrod entered a Chaos-corrupted cavern, where Magnus defeated Atiri and discovered the Webway. After escaping the Abyss and its serpent, Magnus sealed the rift, while Nimrod rescued the scattered Shadows of Order and recorded a small portion of the Webway’s layout.

• Nimrod and Magnus found a vast pit beneath the mountains, where black tentacles and Chaos corruption surrounded the remains of Atiri.
• Magnus fought Atiri, burned his body to ash, and sensed the Primordial Annihilator beneath the pit.
• Magnus opened his Mind’s Eye, discovered the Webway’s network of passages, and leapt into it with Ahriman and Hathor.
• Nimrod used his marked targets to locate and rescue three Shadows of Order from Daemons in the Aether storm, then set out for a fourth.
• A giant black serpent confronted Magnus in the Webway and tried to tempt him, but Magnus rejected it and drove it away with Aether flames.
• Magnus returned with Ahriman and Hathor, destroyed the dark power, and restored the seal as Nimrod welcomed him back.

Nimrod advanced Santiago Bergkamp and fifteen other Recorders to Travelers, then received Lemuel Gaumon and directed him to learn from the Thousand Sons. Magnus announced that he was going to Ullanor, and Nimrod agreed to join him, intending to find a chance to kill Necare.

• Nimrod gave Santiago and fifteen other Recorders Traveler potions, and Santiago used four memorized coordinates to find a special point before Nimrod awakened them.
• Lemuel Gaumon asked Nimrod about his wife Marika, and Nimrod told him he needed to learn from the Thousand Sons to discover what he wanted to know.
• Magnus instructed Hathor Maat and Azek Ahriman to teach Lemuel to control his psychic ability.
• Magnus told Nimrod that Jaghatai and Guilliman had opened the road to Ullanor and asked whether he would attend the decisive gathering.
• Nimrod agreed to go to Ullanor, where he hoped to find an opportunity to kill Necare, and accepted Magnus's challenge to a contest during the journey.

Nimrod attempted to navigate the Great Ocean to Ullanor using his newly developed Warp vision, while Magnus demonstrated superior navigation and blocked the Shadow of the Throne fleet’s route. Nimrod prepared to use another option to free his ships, as Magnus planned to help him after nine hours.

• Hathor Maat reported to Nimrod that Magnus had shared insights about Warp travel during the Primarchs’ Council.
• Nimrod began navigating from Mandeville Point, using his Warp vision and star charts to plot a route toward Ullanor.
• Magnus plotted a competing course that interfered with Nimrod’s route and left the Shadow of the Throne fleet stranded.
• Nimrod concluded that his navigation worked only in relatively stable Warp conditions, then told Diana Pauline he would return soon and had another option.
• Magnus planned to share his navigation knowledge with Nimrod in nine hours, while Santiago Bergkamp studied the data pillar angrily.