Recaps

Du Mu received the Essence of Destruction and became one of the Primarchs, but Erda’s attempt to free them scattered their pods through the Warp. One pod landed on Nul, where the infant Doom saved humanity from the Orks and began revealing his power.

• Tzeentch’s bargain with the Emperor helped create twenty-two Primarchs from the Emperor’s and Erda’s genetic material, Warp power, and divine essence.
• Erda, misled by Warp visions, freed the Primarchs by destroying the laboratory’s psychic barrier, and the Chaos Gods scattered their pods through the Warp.
• King Norwick and the Night Watchers fought the Orks on Nul until a fireball struck the battlefield and revealed the infant Doom.
• Norwick named the child Doom Norwick and entrusted Queen Daisy with raising him, while the Night Watchers swore loyalty to him.
• Three months later, Doom astonished Norwick and Daisy with his rapid growth and abilities, then defeated a Special Ops Boy in the arena.
• After the fight, Doom woke in a blood-red wasteland where the Four Chaos Gods tried to reach him, but he rejected their demand for an incantation.

Doom accepted his role as Norwick’s son and Warlord while learning the truth of his origin and leading the campaign against the Orks. On Terra, Li Tang survived the gene-seed’s brutal trial and became the Firstborn of the Twenty-First Legion, Doom Slayer.

• Doom rejected Khorne’s offer of power, returned to Nul, and earned Harlan’s oath by defeating an Ork and winning the Night Watchers’ trust.
• Norwick reassured Doom that he could choose his own path, investigated the Warp’s role in Doom’s arrival, and resisted Tzeentch’s offer to explain his origins.
• The Chaos Gods recruited Isaac, while Doom discovered that eating flesh let him learn memories and watched Norwick depart to fight the Orks.
• Doom began training with Harlan and Xilan as the Emperor and Gene-Warlock implanted Li Tang with gene-seed tied to the Doom Slayer’s soul.
• Li Tang endured ten thousand years of combat in the Blood-Colored Wasteland, awoke after one week in reality, and was named the Firstborn of the Twenty-First Legion, Doom Slayer.
• Norwick invested Doom as Warlord and sent him to destroy the Orks, while secretly binding Harlan to kill Doom if he turned toward the gods.
• Doom killed thousands of Orks and used coordinated orders to gather seventy thousand more, then helped Harlan make Gu Ya their boss so scattered Orks would rally to him.
• Doom’s forces trapped the Orks for six months until their reinforcements ceased, Gu Ya grew stronger, and the Forge Master reported that Nul was clear of Orks and spores.