Recaps

Headquarters tried several weapons against the plant, then released a smooth black sphere from a hidden prison beneath Terra. The prison’s creatures overwhelmed the Adeptus Custodes, while the chapter ended with an Earth Caste technician admitting he could not understand the captured human computer.

• Headquarters sent Blood Tide against the plant’s insect swarm, but it could not multiply using the Warp-born creatures.
• Headquarters opened a singularity beside Lin Fan, but Lin Fan casually brushed it away and caused Headquarters’ data core to suffer immense damage.
• Headquarters used the Magnificent Hammer to open a prison, releasing a black sphere and other contained objects beneath Terra.
• Tokman and the Adeptus Custodes faced the escaping prisoners as their armor turned against them and a metal box compelled one guard to open it.
• An Earth Caste technician asked F for help with a captured human computer, but F admitted he could not understand it.

The black sphere that terrified the underground prison reached Lin Fan, who turned it into a century egg and ate it, prompting Headquarters to build real weapons. Meanwhile, Perturabo and the Primarchs fought their way toward the central skyscraper, destroying a spider robot at the cost of casualties.

• The black sphere terrified the Adeptus Custodes and the prison’s inmates before the Magnificent Hammer sent it through a conceptual breach to Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan chewed and swallowed the sphere after it became a century egg, and Headquarters began constructing weapons in response.
• Perturabo received Jaghatai’s call for support as Jaghatai battled a spider robot protected by ultra-slow fields.
• Yvraine’s seers disabled the spider robot’s field for three seconds, allowing Perturabo, Rogal Dorn, Fulgrim, and Jaghatai to attack and destroy it.
• Rogal Dorn emerged from the explosion carrying Jaghatai and an unconscious Fulgrim, and told Perturabo he had been unable to save the corrupted Emperor’s Children.

Perturabo and the others entered the building, where they admired its artwork and graceful mechanical maidservants. When some of their forces condemned the robots as heretical, Perturabo tried to stop them, but the Primarchs still prepared for battle.

• Trazyn watched the wounded recover while Perturabo counted the casualties, and Jaghatai urged everyone to keep moving without waiting for help.
• The group entered the building through its functioning doors and crossed a carpet that astonished Perturabo with its durability.
• Yvraine and Fulgrim admired the enormous chandelier, while Perturabo praised the artistry of the palace.
• Elegant maidservant robots appeared and performed to classical music, captivating the Primarchs, Aeldari, Trazyn, and Orikan.
• Rogal Dorn criticized the robots' design, and some Space Marines, crusaders, and Battle Sisters denounced them as creations of Slaanesh.
• Perturabo called for the forces to stop, but the Primarchs ordered them to prepare for battle as Jaghatai and Fulgrim recalled destroying service robots in the past.

Trazyn and the primarchs tried to confront the company’s maid robots, but the maids subdued the group with anti-violence and anti-psychic measures. The maids prepared to take their captives on a company tour and recruit them into service.

• Trazyn stepped between the primarchs and the maids, but a Necrontyr maid immobilized him with a data blockade.
• Trazyn broke through the blockade and asked Orikan for help, but the maids’ countermeasures stopped Orikan from using temporal sorcery.
• Perturabo ordered an attack, but the maids jammed the Space Marines’ weapons and locked Jaghatai and Fulgrim inside their armor.
• Yvraine and the other Aeldari tried to resist with psychic power, but the maids restrained them with psychic-suppressing collars.
• The maids formed a floating train and announced they would take the captives on a company tour before compelling them to serve.

The primarchs and their companions viewed humanity’s history, including ancient Aeldari debates over humanity’s fate and Trazyn’s disastrous gifts. At the end of the corridor, they encountered a holographic figure resembling Oedmeir.

• The group watched humanity’s history unfold, and the records revealed that the ancient Aeldari had chosen to spare humanity and withdraw.
• Yvraine and the Aeldari factions reacted to the records, with some finding hope in cooperation and others remaining wary of the Imperium or the Necrontyr.
• The primarchs saw Trazyn leave dangerous creatures in a human city and demanded an explanation, while Orikan let him struggle to answer.
• Orikan identified the objective historical recordings as the work of the C’tan Observer sealed in the Hypercube Crypt.
• The group reached a gate inscribed with a message about surpassing humanity, and a holographic figure resembling Oedmeir appeared beyond it.

Scientist 02 described humanity’s history, existential threats, and failed social experiments before proposing that humanity might need to abandon its current form to advance. Orikan and Trazyn began to consider whether humanity, the Aeldari, and the Necrontyr shared a deeper connection.

• 02 introduced himself and showed the primarchs millions of planets from the Ascension Dream experiments, prompting them to recognize their homeworlds.
• 02 recounted the War in Heaven, humanity’s conflicts, and the dangers still threatening its civilization.
• 02 explained that experiments across millions of planets had failed to create a utopian society and suggested humanity might need to give up being human to progress.
• Orikan and Trazyn initially reacted with outrage, then reconsidered 02’s argument and noticed similarities among the Necrontyr, Aeldari, and humanity.

Trazyn and Orikan concluded that the Golden Throne was designed to gather souls and might soon activate automatically, while the Obelisk tried to force the gathered humans into ascension. Celes and Roka’s miracles inspired the faithful, and their message reached the God-Emperor as the four Chaos gods fought.

• Trazyn and Orikan examined the Golden Throne’s purpose and suspected it was nearing its activation threshold after millennia of collecting soul energy.
• Scientist 02 vanished as the train reached the rooftop, where a Blackstone Obelisk freed the group and demanded they choose between ascension and the old cycle.
• The Obelisk attacked, but Celes’s golden holy shield protected the group as Perturabo, Jaghatai, Fulgrim, the Battle Sisters, and crusaders prayed.
• Roka shattered into golden light, inspiring the humans to praise the Emperor while Rogal Dorn stood stunned and asked what his father had become.
• The faithful message passed through Tzeentch’s barrier to the God-Emperor, while Khorne struck Nurgle during the gods’ battle and insisted he needed no help.

The Four Gods, Gork, Mork, and the God-Emperor battled across the Warp, with Khorne attacking everyone while the others traded blows and taunts. Nurgle gained strength again and prepared a clean-looking dropper as the God-Emperor supported worshippers in the Ghoul Stars.

• Khorne attacked Slaanesh, Gork, Nurgle, and the God-Emperor while Gork and Mork joined the battle.
• Gork headbutted Khorne, whose blow sent Gork’s blood into the mortal world and briefly empowered melee-loving Boyz.
• Mork struck the God-Emperor from behind, then vanished with purple tattoos, prompting Gork to abandon his attack on Khorne and confront Mork.
• Slaanesh taunted Khorne and groped the God-Emperor, while Nurgle attacked the God-Emperor with a bell and bubbling sludge.
• Nurgle surged in power as the God-Emperor sent fire to aid worshippers in the Ghoul Stars, then pulled a clean-looking dropper from his belly.

Nurgle spread his gifts through the hive worlds, provoking the Imperium’s brutal purges, while Tzeentch manipulated the battle around Rokasna. Trazyn and Orikan encountered Cegorach, whose cryptic dance warned them not to kill Slaanesh.

• Nurgle’s cultists recruited the suffering people of the hive worlds, and the God-Emperor sent Imperial forces to burn and purge them.
• Nurgle hurled a rain of disease into the mortal realm as the God-Emperor continued directing the purges and replenishing the planets with colony ships.
• Tzeentch replaced the flames striking the Obelisk with Carlos’s flames of faith, causing the Obelisk to lose power and shatter beneath the primarchs’ attack.
• Roka awoke from Tzeentch’s whispers while Celes praised his devotion, and Orikan remained troubled by the Obelisk’s strange fluctuations.
• Trazyn and Orikan reached the Deceiver’s eye and found Cegorach, who danced, vanished, and left Yvraine with a warning not to kill Slaanesh.

Yvraine reconsidered killing Slaanesh, while Perturabo and Rogal Dorn discussed the Imperium’s faith. The Deceiver’s eye revealed a second battlefield, where Vect and his allies ambushed the group and the fighting began.

• Yvraine lowered the Cronesword after recalling Slaanesh’s warning that killing them would also kill the merged Aeldari gods.
• Perturabo offered Rogal Dorn a copy of the Book of Holy Words, and Dorn accepted it in revulsion.
• Orikan sensed the seal expanding and spotted Amalaga’s phantom before Amalaga shot him in the head.
• Amalaga’s forces blasted Trazyn apart, and Yilafren wrapped up his head before preparing to rescue Orikan.
• Vect appeared with Amalaga and Fabius, then released Incubi as Jaghatai charged into battle against Drazhar.
• Perturabo ordered the Space Marines to attack the xenos forces.

The Deceiver manipulated the sprawling battle by turning chance into a weapon, causing improbable successes and failures across the battlefield. His meddling ended with Yilafren’s death at Jaghatai Khan’s hand after she recovered Orikan’s data core.

• Rogal Dorn stood with the Book of Holy Words as Amalaga unleashed degraded warriors and kept Fabius imprisoned, while Yvraine and the Aeldari attacked Vect.
• The Deceiver reveled in the battles around him and stirred a distant star system into chaos, turning its planets into dice and rolling them for amusement.
• The Deceiver’s rolls caused bizarre battlefield outcomes, including an autocannon exploding, an Aeldari Ranger killing dozens of degraded ones, and Hope suddenly doing the splits.
• Perturabo noticed that unlikely mishaps and successes were occurring across the battlefield in clusters.
• Yilafren removed Orikan’s data core with Trazyn’s guidance, but the Deceiver’s critical-failure roll made her stumble into Jaghatai Khan’s path, where his blade beheaded her.

Yilafren tried to retrieve Orikan’s data core while Jaghatai fought Drazhar, but Vect captured and tortured her, distracting Jaghatai long enough for Drazhar to poison him. Yilafren escaped the torture and recovered Orikan’s core, but her cloak misdirected her into Amalaga’s reach.

• Yilafren blinked to Orikan, cut through his casing, and removed his hot data core while evading the degraded ones.
• Yilafren accidentally appeared before Vect, who tortured and mutilated her as Jaghatai fought Drazhar.
• Jaghatai spotted Yilafren and lost focus, allowing Drazhar to stab him with toxin-coated blades and poison him.
• Yilafren recovered Orikan’s data core, pressed it against Trazyn’s head because it was too hot to carry, and tried to flee.
• Yilafren blinked to the wrong location and appeared before Amalaga, whose tentacles lashed toward her.

Yilafren’s lucky shot disrupted Amalaga, while Jaghatai protected her and the allied forces gained ground against Vect’s Incubi and degraded forms. Vect empowered his warriors and revealed the devastation he had caused in Commorragh, driving Yvraine into a furious attack against him.

• Yilafren accidentally shot a crystal shard into Amalaga’s brain, disrupting his control, then teleported away and landed on Drazhar before Jaghatai kicked him aside and carried her to safety.
• Trazyn checked on Orikan while Vect mocked Amalaga, and the allied forces continued battling the Incubi and degraded forms.
• Vect raised a Black Muse rune that strengthened the Incubi, prompting Yvraine and the Aeldari seers to attack him as the Imperials and Iyanden’s Wraithguard broke through a wall of flesh.
• Yvraine asked Vect what he had done to Commorragh, and he said he had demolished it after the Lord of Pleasure collected a tax.
• Yvraine charged Vect in a rage, cutting down the Incubi who tried to protect him.

Yvraine and Many-Faced fought Vect, whose power waned as he acknowledged Ynnead’s gift and explained why he had tried to create a new god for the Drukhari. As Vect began to reveal information about Malys, Yvraine realized she had already taken him into her lap instead of letting him die.

• Yvraine, Many-Faced, and the seers battled Vect, who broke free of their psychic cages and drained power from Many-Faced.
• Yvraine and Vect clashed with the powers of Ynnead and the Black Muse until Vect withdrew his power and Yvraine’s attack crushed his body.
• Vect told Yvraine that Ynnead connected the Aeldari and admitted he had tried to create a new god to protect the Drukhari from Slaanesh.
• Yvraine asked why Vect had pursued his goal, and he explained that Commorragh’s people lacked Soul Stones and remained vulnerable to Slaanesh.
• Vect said Cegorach had given him information about Malys, and Yvraine checked his fading life force before realizing she had lifted him onto her lap.

Vect reversed his confrontation with Yvraine through a trick involving Isha’s Tear and a yellow die, then detonated himself and left her badly wounded. As the battle continued, Celes restrained the shadow beast from Vect’s explosion, while Amalaga gave Drazhar a blood relic and the Primarchs launched an assault.

• Vect revealed the yellow die in his chest, reversed his and Yvraine’s positions, drained her psychic power, and detonated himself.
• Fulgrim found the wounded Yvraine and handed her over to the Aeldari seers as Vect’s explosion formed a monstrous shadow beast.
• Celes transformed the crystal flesh-flower into a dove and hurled it at the shadow, where its fragrance and vines began to bind the creature.
• Tzeentch told Roka to wait, while Amalaga handed Drazhar the blood relic and Perturabo ordered an all-out assault led by Rogal Dorn, Jaghatai, and Clone Fulgrim.
• Drazhar ignored Amalaga’s offer and saluted Jaghatai before their next clash, exciting the blood relic; Dorn then reacted with rage to the mention of a monk servitor.

Drazhar fought Jaghatai while the Primarchs battled Amalaga’s creations, and Amalaga used the True Word “Possess” to transform them into a living fortress. After Roka attacked Drazhar under Tzeentch’s influence, Khorne answered by summoning a corrupted Khârn, leaving the Primarchs facing his advancing bloodlust.

• Drazhar ignored Khorne’s whispers and continued his duel with Jaghatai as Perturabo prepared to shoot him.
• Dorn and Fulgrim drove their Legion toward Amalaga, and Dorn joined his shields to protect the Apothecaries and crush the degraded creatures.
• Amalaga used the True Word “Possess” to merge the degraded creatures into a living fortress, then hid with Fabius inside while it bombarded him.
• Tzeentch urged Roka to attack Drazhar, and Roka struck him with a beam of faith that provoked the Blood Relic.
• Khorne’s corruption transformed the living fortress into a shrine, from which a blood-soaked figure emerged and paid respects to Drazhar.
• The Primarchs recognized the figure as Khârn, who fixed his killing intent on Roka as bloodthirsty visions overwhelmed the group.

The God-Emperor manifested through Celes and fought Khârn, who was possessed by Khorne, while Perturabo and Dorn confronted how much the Imperium had changed. After Celes defeated Khârn and healed, she welcomed Fulgrim back, and Dorn called her “Mother.”

• The God-Emperor descended into Celes, whose holy light melted Khorne’s fortress and shocked Dorn.
• Perturabo told Dorn that the Imperium had embraced what the Emperor once opposed, and Dorn said he would read the Book of Holy Words.
• Celes and Khârn fought fiercely as the warriors watched, unable to join the battle.
• Khârn pierced Celes’s chest and crushed one wing, but Celes cut him down and sent his body crashing into Khorne’s shrine.
• Celes healed her wounds and greeted Fulgrim and Dorn; Fulgrim broke down in tears, and Dorn called her “Mother.”

The God-Emperor watched the Imperium’s varied forms of worship while Celes and Khârn continued their battle. Roka followed Tzeentch’s instructions, disguised himself as a devout believer, and flew toward Celes after Perturabo exposed him as a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch.

• The God-Emperor reflected on the strange ways people across the Imperium worshipped him and accepted their faith as long as humanity endured.
• Rogal Dorn called the God-Emperor in Celes “Mother,” prompting Slaanesh to laugh and the God-Emperor to punish Dorn with silence.
• Khârn regenerated and charged at Celes, while Roka decided the battle was meaningless and sought Tzeentch’s guidance.
• After Tzeentch left him to choose his own actions, Roka recalled being told to collect a debt and approached the Primarchs disguised as a believer.
• Roka gave Fulgrim a Book of Holy Words, but Perturabo realized he was a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch and attacked him.
• Roka transformed into a white dove and flew toward Celes.

Lin Fan used the restored hard-light printer to prepare for battle while Tzeentch’s plan expelled the God-Emperor and left Celes wounded. As Khorne overwhelmed the primarchs, Lin Fan appeared and shattered the Doomsday Greatsword, leaving everyone to flee the falling fragments.

• Tzeentch and The Deceiver rolled dice that granted Lin Fan success and Khorne failure, while Lin Fan found the hard-light printer and ordered it to print equipment.
• Khorne’s intervention caused the Doomsday Greatsword to wound Celes, and Tzeentch expelled the God-Emperor by detonating a portion of Khorne’s power.
• Khorne attacked the primarchs, badly injuring Perturabo and Rogal Dorn and cutting Jaghatai’s neck as their weapons failed to stop him.
• Lin Fan appeared in green armor, drove a golden spear into the Doomsday Greatsword, and shattered it with a punch.
• Perturabo ordered everyone to flee the falling sword fragments and dragged the helpless Rogal Dorn to safety while they argued about the fanatics’ devotion.

Lin Fan fought Khorne aboard the Ark, using his improvised Praetor Suit and light spear against the Blood God's overwhelming weapons and war powers. After severing Khorne's foot, he faced the now-smaller Lord of War as Khorne attacked with a double-bladed axe.

• Amalaga escaped the rooftop while Yilafren dragged the grieving Trazyn away from the collapsing building and its ruined collectibles.
• Lin Fan checked his self-made Praetor Suit and light spear as the evacuated survivors watched from safety.
• Khorne battered Lin Fan with a warhammer and a wall of weapons, but Lin Fan used his spear, suit jets, fists, and bayonets to fight back.
• Lin Fan blasted through Khorne's War Wall and slaughtered demons, then Khorne pinned him down and struck him with the Unbreakable Hammer.
• Lin Fan vanished into a pit in the Ark's floor, pierced Khorne's foot, and slashed off part of his ankle.
• Khorne shrank to Lin Fan's size, steadied himself on two longswords driven into his wound, and swung a double-bladed axe at Lin Fan.

Lin Fan struggled against Khorne while the primarchs searched for a way to turn the battle around. Trazyn and Orikan devised a plan to temporarily awaken the Subjective One, but the Silent King rejected their proposed relic and ordered the universe’s time reversed.

• Khorne dodged Lin Fan’s bayonet, wounded him with his axe, and deflected his spear attacks while Lin Fan endured the beating.
• Perturabo and the other primarchs discussed summoning the Emperor, but the Aeldari seers warned that the ritual would be difficult without Yvraine.
• Trazyn persuaded Orikan to use the Brilliant Star Map to create a convincing fictional relic that might influence the Subjective One and suppress his awakening.
• The Silent King approved Orikan’s request, then judged giving the relic to Lin Fan too risky and summoned his Chronomancers.
• One hundred and twenty thousand Chronomancers reversed time across the universe at the Silent King’s command, undoing attacks on the Necrontyr warships.

The Silent King altered an earlier timeline to preserve the Black Glass Throne, allowing the God-Emperor to help Lin Fan defeat Khorne’s avatar on the Golden Ark. After Lin Fan shattered The Deceiver’s watching eye, the Ark’s temporal lock weakened and the survivors returned to their warships.

• The Silent King used the Brilliant Star Map to alter two white dwarfs’ paths, destroying two resource systems and preserving the Black Glass Throne amid the battle’s aftermath.
• Orikan and Trazyn activated the Black Glass Throne, letting the God-Emperor bind Khorne’s avatar long enough for Lin Fan to behead it.
• The Black Glass Throne disintegrated after the God-Emperor’s light faded, and Khorne’s avatar collapsed into a sea of blood.
• Lin Fan threw his spear toward The Deceiver’s eye, then shattered it with a slap after The Deceiver’s power failed against him.
• The Deceiver’s eye’s hold over the Ark weakened, and Lin Fan watched the warships become solid as the survivors returned to them while the Golden Ark collapsed.

Perturabo and Rogal Dorn found a gigantic fortress that might have housed the Golden Throne, but the battle between Executor Inamars and Valgull threatened the gathered fleets. Lin Fan entered the battlefield and reached the depths of Valgull’s flesh-covered domain, where he hurled his spear at Drazak and charged toward Valgull’s throne.

• Perturabo recovered aboard the Mother of Tears and saw the human fleet and three Aeldari arks facing a gigantic octagonal fortress that Rogal Dorn believed could house the Golden Throne.
• Perturabo detected the battle between Executor Inamars and Valgull, whose flesh spread through the void as Inamars burned it with atomic chain reactions.
• Trazyn and Orikan asked Lin Fan to help Executor Inamars, and the Silent King ordered the Executor to let Lin Fan fight Valgull.
• Lin Fan entered the corrupted hyperspace portal and reached the Executioner Dynasty’s pyramid, where Chief Assassin Rotaros opened a route to the surface.
• Executor Inamars burned Valgull’s flesh to help Lin Fan descend into its depths, where Lin Fan found Drazak merged with Valgull and charged toward his throne after throwing his spear.

Lin Fan defeated Valgull by eating him, sealing Valgull and the Flayed One God inside the Two-Dimensional Prison, and weakening the flesh across the planet. At the postwar review, Inamars warned the humans and Aeldari that the gathering of gods and the new forms of the Deceiver and Flayed Ones were connected to humanity’s vast supply of souls and emotions.

• Lin Fan cut Valgull apart repeatedly, then discovered that he could consume the regenerating god and ate him bit by bit.
• Inside Lin Fan’s stomach, Valgull encountered the starfish Oedmeir called the Two-Dimensional Prison, which flattened and devoured him along with the Flayed One God.
• Valgull’s weakened control let Phaeron Inamars’s forces clear the flesh, while Lin Fan’s burps warned him that he could not eat much more.
• Inamars reviewed the Ghoul Stars battle’s heavy losses, including the sealing of the Flayed Ones and the destruction of fleets and dynasties.
• At the postwar meeting, Perturabo and Jaghatai reacted to the report, and Inamars said the gods’ latest manifestations were connected to humanity’s vast supply of souls and emotions.

The Silent King let the Tyranid swarm pass the Necrons’ defenses so he could see how the Subjective One would face it, while the T’au and Oedmeir’s world prepared for the looming invasion. A Black Templars fleet attacked Oedmeir’s planet, and Dorn opened a sealed door to find the Templars waiting inside.

• Inamars and the other primarchs accepted the warning about C’tan worship, and the Phaeron left to continue searching for the hidden Deceiver.
• The Silent King received Inamars’s battle report and ordered the Necrons to let the Hash Tyranid swarm through their defensive line.
• T’au probes detected a massive Tyranid invasion, and Shadowsun and Farsight discussed the threat and Oedmeir’s support.
• Marshal Helbrecht ordered the Black Templars to attack Oedmeir’s world after condemning its xenos and human inhabitants.
• Oedmeir went to nap as the Black Templars’ macrocannon shells struck the planet’s shields, and Dorn opened a sealed door to face the Templars.