Recaps

Nurgle made poisonous yogurt from Isha’s milk, and Isha drank it to keep him from spreading it, leaving her gravely ill. As Nurgle began making soup for her, Isha continued quietly countering his diseases and grew interested in Lin Fan and the mysterious Subjective One.

• Slaanesh teased Nurgle about Isha, prompting Nurgle to ask Isha for milk so he could brew yogurt.
• Nurgle made toxin-filled yogurt, and Isha drank the entire pot to prevent him from scattering it among the Aeldari.
• Isha suffered severe illness, which Nurgle mistook for praise and took as inspiration to make her hearty soups.
• Nurgle continued making soup for Isha while she secretly sent antidotes into reality, and he used their effects to improve his diseases.
• Isha observed Lin Fan through the eyes of Yilafren and other Aeldari, then recognized that Bai Huan, called the Subjective One by the Necrontyr, was no C'tan and could not be underestimated.

Isha revealed that she had supported Lin Fan in hopes of escaping Nurgle's Garden, then summoned the dead Aeldari and led an attack on Nurgle. The battle left her intentions and the limits of her strength clear, while she hoped spreading the Tree of Life and Life Vaccine would help her recover enough power to challenge Nurgle.

• Isha recalled her failed attempt to ally with The Emperor and explained that she had used life force from Lin Fan's soup to create the Gold Kela and Tree of Life.
• Isha formed Wraithbone armor and a weapon, then summoned and prepared the buried Aeldari dead for battle.
• Isha ordered the Aeldari and Tree of Life to attack Nurgle, while Lin Fan fought the largest daemons.
• Nurgle treated the attack as play, and Lin Fan saw that his daemons were trying to trap Isha rather than seriously harm her.
• Isha fought through Nurgle's daemons with skill but remained far weaker than a god, and she hoped spreading the Tree of Life and Life Vaccine across the Imperium would restore her strength.

As Nurgle’s daemons overwhelmed the battlefield, Leman Russ and Kaldor Draigo arrived with the chained Magnus and helped Lin Fan escape. Lin Fan and Isha reached Magnus after breaking through Nurgle’s grasp, leaving Isha’s army behind in the battle.

• Isha and her summoned army developed beastly traits as they fought Nurgle’s daemons, whose corpses spawned more parasites and pests.
• Leman Russ and Kaldor Draigo arrived riding on the chained Magnus, and Nurgle tried to seize them.
• Leman Russ pressured Magnus to accelerate, and Magnus used a spell to carry them away from Nurgle’s attack.
• Lin Fan asked Isha to throw him toward Magnus, and Isha followed after arranging for the Tree of Life and Aeldari warriors to protect her.
• Lin Fan tore through Nurgle’s body and adjusted his flight with a spear of light, while Isha caught him with a vine and brought them both onto Magnus.

Lin Fan, Leman Russ, Magnus, Diego, and Isha fled Nurgle’s pursuit, with Diego proposing they escape through a gate into Gork and Mork’s territory. Isha used Lin Fan’s purified essence from Nurgle’s Cauldron to slow Nurgle, leaving Leman Russ asking why Slaanesh was involved.

• Magnus grew to more than ten meters tall as Leman Russ and Lin Fan caught up and talked.
• Nurgle pursued the group through his ruined garden, and Leman Russ dodged an attack by yanking Magnus’s armor ornament.
• Diego told Lin Fan that a blocked gate led toward Gork and Mork’s territory, and Magnus raged when Diego revealed he had burned Magnus’s library.
• Isha asked Lin Fan to produce purified essence, and Lin Fan vomited into her hands while Diego, Leman Russ, and Magnus watched in shock.
• Isha scattered the essence to raise shrubs that briefly obstructed Nurgle, and Lin Fan explained that Slaanesh had poured the material into him.
• Leman Russ asked why Slaanesh was involved, and Lin Fan asked whether the Emperor had told him about Slaanesh.

Lin Fan told Leman Russ about the Primarchs and the Imperium’s current situation as the group approached Nurgle’s Sphincter Gate. Isha offered them veils to block the gate’s stench, but Leman Russ refused to let her give one to Magnus, prompting her to remind him that Magnus was his brother.

• Lin Fan explained the state of the Imperium and the other Primarchs to Leman Russ, who accepted that the Emperor must have his reasons for keeping him uninformed.
• Lin Fan revealed that Slaanesh had built her palace beside the Golden Throne, shocking Diego and Magnus, while Isha laughed at his description.
• The group reached Nurgle’s Sphincter Gate and endured its foul stench until Isha created fragrant veils for them.
• Isha offered Magnus a veil, but Leman Russ snatched it away and called Magnus a traitor.
• Isha challenged Leman Russ by reminding him that Magnus was his brother.

Leman Russ led the group through Gork and Mork's toilet after Lin Fan broke open the Sphincter Gate, then explained how he had captured Magnus. The group remained in the strange, lifeless region as Leman Russ recounted the hunt that led him to Magnus.

• Isha tried to persuade Leman Russ not to harm Magnus, but Leman Russ tore up the mask she had made and stuffed it into Magnus's nostrils.
• Lin Fan charged the Sphincter Gate and tore it open, allowing Leman Russ to carry Magnus through to Gork and Mork's toilet.
• The group regrouped in the quiet region, and Lin Fan asked Leman Russ how he had captured Magnus.
• Leman Russ described solving hundreds of mazes and puzzles in Tzeentch's domain before finding a false location and sensing Magnus elsewhere.
• Leman Russ said he found Magnus trying to drown Fenris in a Warp storm, then used Diego and a library as bait to draw Magnus out.

Lin Fan’s group captured Magnus and learned that Tzeentch’s weakening influence may have left him more mentally stable. Leman Russ revealed that the Wolftime could control temporal currents in the Warp, offering a way to reach Cadia without losing time, though it could not function in real space.

• Magnus attacked Diego, but Leman Russ ambushed him with a spinal strike and helped Diego bind him with a chain forged from Magnus’s wisdom.
• Lin Fan questioned Leman Russ and Diego about Magnus’s behavior, then suspected Tzeentch’s weakening control had affected Magnus.
• Concerned about the fighting on Cadia, Lin Fan urged the group to find a Warp rift there as quickly as possible.
• Leman Russ revealed the Wolftime artifact and explained that it could control time in the Warp, though it could not be used in real space.

Lin Fan learned that the Wolftime was a powerful time-manipulating artifact tied to the Necrons, and Leman Russ revealed that Cegorach had helped him obtain it. After hearing about Cegorach’s cryptic guidance and Harlequin performances, the discussion ended with Magnus and Leman Russ trading insults.

• Lin Fan examined the Wolftime and learned that it could greatly slow time, though it could not reliably find timelines from the past.
• Lin Fan realized the artifact was likely connected to the Silent King’s efforts to contain damaged timelines, and Leman Russ admitted he and Diego had taken it from a Necrontyr dynasty with help from Cegorach and the Harlequins.
• Isha said Cegorach had helped strengthen her resolve to leave Nurgle and had directed her toward the meeting in Nurgle’s Garden.
• Leman Russ recounted Cegorach’s guidance through Harlequin performances, leaving Lin Fan and the others overwhelmed by his wolf-filled descriptions.
• Magnus mocked Leman Russ for his obsession with wolves, and Leman Russ retaliated by insulting Magnus’s library.

Lin Fan, Leman Russ, and Isha discussed the Harlequins’ performance and the Emperor’s task for Leman Russ before Leman Russ set course to find Corax. Isha then asked about the books that had inspired Lin Fan, and he began recounting a story about her arrival on Terra during the Emperor’s early rise.

• Diego described the Harlequins’ performance as exceptionally fast and dangerous, while Isha admitted she knew little about Cegorach.
• Leman Russ slowed time with the Wolftime and told Lin Fan that the Emperor had sent them to learn from Corax how to liberate the essence of the Warp.
• Isha thanked Lin Fan for tolerating her children and explained how Asuryan’s decree severed the Aeldari gods from their people.
• Lin Fan said books from the Black Library had inspired him, prompting Isha to ask what he had read.
• Lin Fan began describing a story in which Isha escaped the four gods and arrived on Terra while the Emperor was still conquering its warlords.

Isha’s alliance with The Emperor transformed Terra and strengthened the Great Crusade through advances in agriculture, genetics, psychic technology, and the Webway, while Craftworld Iyanden joined the alliance despite initially suspecting Isha was enslaved. Lin Fan reflected on how his own work had similarly improved life under Big Canteen, whose expanding systems brought prosperity and safer colonization.

• Isha restored Terra’s ecology, revolutionized agriculture and genetics, repaired the Thunder Warriors, and led The Emperor to abandon the Astartes Project.
• Isha shared Aeldari knowledge of Wraithbone, Soul Stones, and the Webway with The Emperor, while asking surviving Craftworlds to meet her and avoid conflict with humanity.
• Craftworld Iyanden answered Isha’s call, became Big Canteen’s messenger, and later supported the Great Crusade alongside Mars and the Jupiter Shipyards.
• Iyanden initially accused The Emperor of exploiting Isha and insulted Terra, angering The Emperor, but the Aeldari then improved human psychic technology and helped protect psykers from Chaos.
• Lin Fan considered how Big Canteen’s agricultural system, Aeldari knowledge, New Psyker Department, Webway routes, Tree of Life, and Life Vaccine had reduced hardship and Chaos risks across its territory.

Lin Fan reflected on how Isha had softened the Emperor and helped the Primarchs, and imagined bringing them together for a kind-hearted confrontation after the Battle of Cadia. He considered the human-Aeldari alliance’s future wars and planned to speak with the Silent King about the Tyranids once the galaxy’s other crises were resolved.

• Lin Fan realized that Isha had helped Angron avoid capture, guided the Primarchs emotionally, and encouraged the Emperor to express his love for them.
• Lin Fan imagined bringing Isha and the Primarchs to confront the Emperor after the Battle of Cadia, then told Leman Russ that he was laughing about Nurgle’s poor strategy.
• Lin Fan recalled that humanity and the Aeldari had joined forces, overcome old prejudices, and built a flourishing alliance over ten thousand years.
• Lin Fan remembered an Astra Militarum soldier and an Aeldari militiaman who had rescued each other, and wondered whether they were now together.
• Lin Fan considered the awakened Necrontyr dynasties and Tyranid swarms, then planned to discuss the Tyranid threat with the Silent King after the Eye of Terror was sealed, the Golden Throne repaired, and Isha had planted trees across the Milky Way.

Lin Fan suspected Tzeentch and The Deceiver were working with the C'tan and possibly manipulating the Degraded Ones, while he considered how to help the Emperor and free the Primarchs' Warp essences. Nurgle caught up with Lin Fan, Isha, Leman Russ, and Magnus in the Warp, and they fled through an endless expanse of filth giants.

• Lin Fan reasoned that Tzeentch and The Deceiver might be cooperating with the C'tan and directing the Degraded Ones, but he feared that reviving the Fundamental God would damage the Milky Way's physical laws.
• Lin Fan decided to consult the Emperor's plans and go with Leman Russ to retrieve Corax, possibly confronting Lorgar along the way.
• Lin Fan considered freeing the Primarchs' Warp essences and wondered what Leman Russ's essence would look like.
• Nurgle gathered mountains of filth into colossal giants and pursued Lin Fan, Isha, Leman Russ, and Magnus through the Warp.
• Lin Fan destroyed a giant's hand with his light spear, and Isha's vines diverted the falling filth while Nurgle continued calling for her.

Lin Fan and the others escaped Nurgle’s pursuit through Gork and Mork’s toilet, where Nurgle emerged from a cesspit and Gork attacked him. Nurgle protected Isha from Gork’s blows, but Gork’s assault left him shaken as the confrontation continued.

• Gork and Mork resumed fighting after Gork blamed Mork for interrupting his bowel movement.
• A gurgling cesspit erupted, revealing Nurgle’s body, and Gork accused him of scraping against his backside.
• Leman Russ led the group riding Magnus past the giant Orks while Isha helped Lin Fan see Gork and Mork through the mist.
• Gork recognized the tiny group and tried to swat them, but Nurgle knocked his hand aside to protect Isha.
• Gork attacked Nurgle despite his attempt to explain himself, shaking loose fragments and dust without injuring him.

Lin Fan and the others escaped Mork while Gork and Mork fought Nurgle, but Magnus warned that Nurgle would keep pursuing them as long as Isha was with them. The group traveled on, where Lin Fan turned their escape into a meal despite Magnus's protests.

• Mork attacked Lin Fan and the others with a flyswatter, but Lin Fan struck his forehead repeatedly and injured his skull, disrupting Orks across the Milky Way and giving the Imperial forces an opening to attack.
• Lin Fan and his companions escaped while Gork and Mork resumed trying to force Nurgle back into the latrine pit.
• Leman Russ celebrated the escape, while Magnus warned that Nurgle would continue hunting them because Isha remained with them.
• Lin Fan ate fruits and vegetables ripened by Isha, then asked Diego to grill some raw meat as Magnus protested.

Lin Fan and Leman Russ used Isha’s magic to seek Corax in the Warp, setting a fifty-year limit before they would head to Cadia. Guided by a flower grown from Leman Russ’s blood, they began traveling toward Corax or Lorgar while fighting off Warp creatures.

• Lin Fan shared roasted meat with Leman Russ and asked whether he knew Corax’s location.
• Leman Russ said they would have to search the Warp by luck, and he agreed to spend no more than fifty years looking before going to Cadia.
• Isha offered to use Leman Russ’s blood to find his brother, and Leman Russ gave her a drop.
• Isha grew a flower on Magnus using Leman Russ’s blood, and the flower pointed toward Corax or Lorgar.
• Lin Fan and the others followed the flower through the Warp and fought off waves of creatures, hanging their remains on Magnus.

Lin Fan’s expedition found signs that they had reached a Primarch, while Isha confirmed Cadia remained stable. The chapter then showed Lorgar overseeing the Word Bearers’ daemon-bonding ritual as he awaited news of Abaddon’s attack.

• After more than fifty years wandering the Warp, Lin Fan’s group saw the guiding flower wither, and Isha said they had found a Primarch.
• Lin Fan asked Isha to check Cadia through the Tree of Life branches, and she reported that the Black Legion was being pushed back without an all-out assault.
• Lin Fan decided to continue according to their plan rather than return to Cadia or retrieve Corax.
• Lorgar preached in his cathedral and watched Word Bearers undergo a ritual that joined them with daemons.
• Some Word Bearers gained controllable daemonic powers, while others failed and melted into scalding meat slurry.

Lorgar celebrated the Word Bearers’ success and ordered the execution of a pontiff who had converted to worshipping the Emperor. He then inspected Corax’s seal, confident in its strength despite the vast losses it had cost his Legion.

• Lorgar praised the successful Word Bearers and proclaimed that the true gods walked among them.
• A pontiff reported that an imprisoned Word Bearers pontiff was persuading priests to worship the Emperor, so Lorgar ordered his execution.
• Lorgar visited the site where Corax was sealed and crushed the guards with his psychic power when they warned him of the danger.
• Lorgar reflected on the costly battle in which thirty thousand Word Bearers and a daemon host had helped him trap Corax in a vortex-shaped seal.
• Lorgar accused Corax of destroying families on Sicarus, where devout residents lived alongside daemons under Word Bearers rule.

Lorgar taunted the sealed Corax, but Corax’s hatred and power overwhelmed him with visions of defeat. After recovering, Lorgar erased a recorder’s memories and altered the written account to portray himself as fearless and compassionate.

• Lorgar approached Corax’s seal and boasted that he had won and changed after enduring over a thousand years.
• Corax’s raven form filled Lorgar with terror and visions of Corax defeating him at Isstvan V and later crushing him as a Daemon Primarch.
• Konrad Curze intervened against Corax, declaring that he had acted only to prevent Corax from winning.
• Explosions jolted Lorgar out of the illusion, and he realized Corax remained bound by the seal.
• Lorgar used psychic power to erase the recorder’s memories and revise the account in his book to make himself appear fearless and merciful.

Lorgar learned that Kaldor Diego had left him a brick said to be made from the ashes of Perfect City, and the reminder enraged him enough to prepare to confront Diego. Meanwhile, Diego waited outside the recreated city as Lin Fan, Leman Russ, and their allies hid nearby and prepared to spring their plan when Lorgar arrived.

• The Word Bearers told Lorgar that Diego had defeated their forces and left a stone brick as a message.
• A Word Bearer relayed Diego's claim that the brick had been made from the ashes of Perfect City, reviving Lorgar's memories of its destruction and humiliation.
• Lorgar flew into a rage and prepared to capture Diego, break his limbs, and spread Chaos through his screams.
• Diego waited at the edge of Sicarus beside the defeated Word Bearers, while Lin Fan, Leman Russ, Isha, and the others watched from concealment.
• Leman Russ doubted Lin Fan's plan to lure Lorgar with the brick, but Lin Fan insisted they would follow the plan when Lorgar arrived.

Lorgar confronted Diego with the Word Bearers, but Leman Russ’s ambush failed when Lorgar escaped using sorcery. With Isha’s forest shielding their advance, Russ and Diego moved toward Lorgar while Lin Fan searched Perfect City for Corax and Magnus.

• Lorgar and Diego clashed in a battle of faith, each loudly proclaiming his beliefs.
• Lorgar attacked Diego with psychic power, but his instincts warned him of Leman Russ’s ambush, and he escaped by leaving behind a sheet of skin.
• Leman Russ and Diego destroyed the discarded skin, then faced Lorgar’s order to attack with the Word Bearers’ concentrated fire.
• Isha raised a vast forest to block the Word Bearers’ weapons, allowing Leman Russ and Diego to advance toward Lorgar.
• Isha rested while Magnus watched, and Lin Fan infiltrated Perfect City to search for Corax and Magnus.

Lin Fan fought his way through Perfect City to Corax’s seal and tore it open, freeing the raven swarm. Corax emerged as a monstrous, feathered figure that stared at Lin Fan and answered his calls with shrieks.

• Lin Fan defeated a daemon and forced it to reveal where Corax was being held.
• Lin Fan reached Corax’s seal, fought through the Word Bearers guarding it, and tore a gap open.
• Corax’s raven flock poured through the breach and slaughtered the two thousand Word Bearers guarding the seal.
• Corax took a crude humanoid shape from darkness and feathers, but responded to Lin Fan only with piercing cries.

Lin Fan let Corax’s shadows infiltrate his body, where they encountered the entities in his stomach and became locked in a struggle that devastated Lorgar’s Perfect City. Lorgar arrived to confront Corax and found Lin Fan unharmed but visibly unwell, with something in his stomach about to emerge.

• Lin Fan removed his helmet to lure Corax’s shadows into his body, but Corax found that Lin Fan’s cells could not be controlled.
• Corax’s shadows entered Lin Fan’s stomach and provoked the Deep Dread and the Two-Dimensional Prison into attacking them.
• The battle between the Deep Dread and Corax’s shadows caused widespread destruction in Lorgar’s Perfect City.
• Lorgar broke away from Leman Russ, teleported to Perfect City, and used incantations and a golden net to push back the shadows.
• Lorgar found Lin Fan sitting amid the shadows, while Lin Fan’s stomach rumbled and he opened his mouth as if something were about to come out.

Lin Fan freed Corax from the two beads and knocked Lorgar unconscious as the group escaped Perfect City. Magnus delayed their departure until Gork, Mork, and Nurgle surrounded them, and Corax exposed Magnus’s lies by licking his face.

• Lin Fan defeated Lorgar, broke the golden net, and freed the figure forming between the two beads.
• Corax emerged with his sanity intact and told Lin Fan not to touch the beads.
• Leman Russ and Diego arrived, and Lin Fan knocked Lorgar unconscious before the group left Perfect City.
• Isha laid Magnus down so he could help them escape the Warp, but Magnus stalled as the power of decay approached.
• Gork, Mork, and Nurgle surrounded Lin Fan’s group, and Leman Russ confronted Magnus about his role in their arrival.
• Corax licked Magnus’s face and said he had tasted the flavor of lies.

Corax used his extraordinary sense of taste on Magnus’s face and uncovered the hidden motives behind Magnus’s summoning of Gork, Mork, and Nurgle. Magnus had manipulated the gods with scandalous stories about Slaanesh and Isha, then began urging them to target someone else.

• Corax’s history with Guilliman revealed how his acute sense of taste could detect even the smallest details in wine.
• Corax licked Magnus and tasted the memories Magnus had tried to conceal.
• Corax learned that Magnus had summoned Gork, Mork, and Nurgle because he feared facing the Emperor and wanted a chance to escape.
• Magnus told Gork and Mork a story about Slaanesh’s Green Album and Fulgrim’s fabricated tale about Isha and Cain.
• Gork and Mork agreed to consider teaming up with Nurgle against Slaanesh, but Magnus tried to redirect them toward another target.

Gork and Mork attacked Lin Fan to provoke Slaanesh, while Nurgle demanded that the others hand over Isha. Lin Fan fought the Orks, and Corax and Leman Russ sided with Isha as she rejected Nurgle’s worldview.

• Magnus told Gork and Mork that Lin Fan was Slaanesh’s beloved, and they decided to attack him to provoke her.
• Gork swung his club at Lin Fan, who shattered it with his light spear and blocked the falling fragments with Isha’s vines.
• Mork ambushed Lin Fan with a flyswatter, but Lin Fan tore through it and fought both Orks.
• Lin Fan crawled inside Gork’s body, prompting Mork to strike Gork by mistake and start a brawl between the Orks.
• Nurgle demanded that the others surrender Isha, while Corax and Leman Russ stood by her and refused.
• Isha told Nurgle that she rejected his ideals, and he insisted he was acting for her own good.