Recaps

Lin Fan reunited with Isha in a peaceful mountain meadow, where he spent time with her, Delia, and Yilafren. Delia acted on her long-suppressed feelings for Lin Fan, then invited Yilafren to approach him.

• Isha traveled through the Webway and found Lin Fan writing in a meadow with Delia and Yilafren.
• Lin Fan embraced Isha, and the women gathered around him while Isha watched them affectionately.
• Lin Fan drew Delia onto his lap, and she responded to his affection by taking the lead.
• Delia outmaneuvered Lin Fan in their intimate encounter while Yilafren watched anxiously from nearby.
• Delia withdrew and opened the way for Yilafren, who moved closer but did not make a move.

Lin Fan and Delia overwhelmed the inexperienced Yilafren with affection while Isha watched. On Krieg, Erika tried to guide her people toward peaceful life before Isha teleported her into Lin Fan’s arms, intending to bring their long-buried feelings together.

• Yilafren hesitated before Lin Fan, then Delia and Lin Fan pinned her between them and left her exhausted.
• Delia laid Yilafren on the grass to recover while Isha asked Lin Fan what else he wanted.
• Erika addressed Krieg’s commanders about helping their people build a peaceful future after the God-Emperor absolved them.
• Erika lost her balance after the meeting, and Isha teleported her into Lin Fan’s arms.
• Lin Fan realized Erika had long admired and longed for him, and Isha intended to draw the two closer.

Lin Fan and Isha discussed the Aeldari's future and the Space Marines' peaceful lives after the war, while Jaghatai returned to Chogoris and began secretly writing about the final battle. The chapter left the Aeldari's proposed changes to their lifespan and reproduction undecided, and Jaghatai's coded manuscripts growing on his desk.

• Lin Fan's forces infiltrated Erika's Krieg defenses, and Isha helped coordinate the battle until it ended.
• Lin Fan told Isha he was recording worldviews that would open portals to other worlds, and they agreed to leave Mork and the swarm under Necrontyr supervision.
• Isha described the Aeldari's small population and limited integration with humans, while Lin Fan suggested they interact with the long-lived Space Marines.
• Isha explained that the Space Marines were settling into civilian roles and might later choose whether to return to ordinary human lives or follow the Primarchs through the galaxy's central gate.
• Isha proposed shortening the Aeldari lifespan to about five hundred years and increasing their fertility, and Lin Fan told her to proceed with her idea.
• Jaghatai returned to Chogoris, shut himself away, and filled his desk with coded manuscripts inspired by the final battle and the newly revealed Siege of Terra events.

Jaghatai secretly wrote books that Celes and the Blood Ravens discovered during their covert mission on Chogoris. As Guilliman and Sanguinius shared tea with Jaghatai, the Blood Ravens prepared to bring copies of the books to them.

• Jaghatai finished writing and shelving his books before learning Guilliman and Sanguinius had come to visit.
• Guilliman and Sanguinius discussed their suspicions about Jaghatai as they traveled to meet him.
• Corax escorted Celes and the Blood Ravens toward Jaghatai's quarters, where they secretly infiltrated the tent.
• Celes found Jaghatai's hidden, untitled books and became absorbed in their contents, then ordered the Blood Ravens to copy them for Guilliman and Sanguinius.
• Jaghatai served Chogoris white tea to Guilliman and Sanguinius, and Sanguinius lamented that Baal's harsh conditions would not support it.

Sanguinius and Guilliman left Chogoris after sensing the Blood Ravens had uncovered Jaghatai’s secret, and Guilliman found Jaghatai’s scandalous book portraying Sanguinius as the only female Primarch. The story ended with Horus throwing Curze aside and confronting Sanguinius.

• Sanguinius sensed the Blood Ravens had succeeded and left Chogoris with Guilliman, while Jaghatai returned to his writing.
• Guilliman, Sanguinius, and Corax met the Blood Ravens, and Guilliman opened one of Jaghatai’s books.
• Guilliman read Jaghatai’s story, which depicted Sanguinius as a female Primarch admired by her brothers and Horus as consumed by jealousy and desire.
• Horus shoved Abaddon aside, grabbed Curze, and hurled him against a marble pillar.
• Sanguinius confronted Horus and demanded to know what he was doing.

Horus’s drunken assault on Sanguinius was interrupted by Perturabo’s shot and a Chaos invasion, after which Horus turned against his brothers and claimed her as his own. Sanguinius fought him after he killed Angron, but Horus tore her wings apart.

• Horus embraced and kissed Sanguinius until Perturabo shot him, allowing her to escape.
• Chaos forces poured through rifts as Horus joined the Dark Gods’ Greater Daemons and attacked the Primarchs.
• Horus and the daemons killed or wounded the Primarchs; Fulgrim died protecting Ferrus Manus, and Vulkan was captured and mutilated.
• Sanguinius urged her brothers to flee, then confronted Horus after he defeated Angron and tore out the Butcher’s Nails, killing him.
• Sanguinius vowed to kill Horus and fought him, but Horus seized her wings and tore them apart.

Guilliman, Corax, and Sanguinius read Jaghatai’s disturbing story and reacted to its alternate account of Horus’s fall. Guilliman hid a book about himself and Yvraine, while Jaghatai sensed an unexplained threat as he struggled to write.

• Guilliman and Corax were shaken by Jaghatai’s story of Horus torturing Sanguinius and plunging the Imperium into disaster.
• Sanguinius praised the story, and Guilliman recalled the grim aftermath of the battle aboard the Vengeful Spirit.
• Guilliman opened a book about himself and Yvraine, then quickly concealed it when Sanguinius asked to read it.
• Celes avoided explaining the book’s contents after Guilliman gave him a threatening look, and Sanguinius chose another book to read.
• Guilliman hid the book inside his armor, while Celes planned to secretly give Sanguinius his privately copied set.
• Jaghatai felt uneasy in his study, paced around, and searched the room with pale Warp lightning.

Jaghatai discovered that Roboute Guilliman and Sanguinius had secretly copied his private books and pursued them through a minor Webway branch. Meanwhile, Sanguinius learned that one book described Guilliman marrying Yvraine and having mixed-blood children, and decided to find out whether the Emperor approved.

• Jaghatai realized the Blood Ravens had copied books from his secret bookshelf and summoned Kor'sarro to help pursue Guilliman and Sanguinius.
• Jaghatai ordered a warship into the Webway, explaining that he knew its routes from his time among the Aeldari.
• The warship navigated the dangerous minor Webway branches and drew closer to Guilliman and Sanguinius's fleet.
• Celes told Sanguinius that Jaghatai's book described Guilliman and Yvraine marrying and having mixed-blood children.
• Sanguinius considered the implications of the marriage, planned to learn the Emperor's attitude, and saw a chance to embarrass Guilliman among their brothers.

Cegorach stole Jaghatai’s books from Roboute Guilliman’s room and replaced them with obvious fakes, while Sanguinius let him go and hoped the books would embarrass Guilliman. Weeks later, Jaghatai confronted Guilliman and Sanguinius and demanded the stolen texts and the erasure of everyone’s memories.

• Sanguinius caught Cegorach sneaking through the ship, but let him leave after hearing his case for Guilliman and Yvraine’s marriage.
• Cegorach found Jaghatai’s books in Guilliman’s room, stole them, and left fake books in their place.
• Guilliman spent weeks reading Jaghatai’s story about himself and Yvraine and wondered aloud whether he should ask Magnus for help changing his physique.
• A soldier told Guilliman that Jaghatai’s ship had blocked the fleet and demanded to speak with him and Sanguinius.
• Jaghatai accused Guilliman and Sanguinius of stealing secrets from Chogoris and demanded the return of the texts and the erasure of related memories.
• Sanguinius blamed Guilliman for persuading him to join the theft, while Guilliman apologized and insisted he had never intended to reveal the books’ contents.

Guilliman admitted to Jaghatai that his Warp awakening was tied to his despair over Yvraine, and the two bonded over their secret fears of exposure. They discovered Cegorach had taken Jaghatai’s books and was heading to Terra, forcing them to race there before their secrets were revealed at the civilization summit.

• Guilliman told Jaghatai that imagining Jaghatai exposing his relationship with Yvraine had been his moment of despair, and Jaghatai sympathized because he feared exposure of his private books.
• Guilliman, Jaghatai, and Sanguinius opened the sealed crate and found empty books marked with Cegorach’s Joker smile.
• Sanguinius used his prophetic abilities and revealed that Cegorach had taken the books to Terra.
• Guilliman and Jaghatai realized Cegorach could expose their secrets at Terra’s civilization summit, where Yvraine and T'au leaders were present.
• Guilliman and Jaghatai resolved to go to Terra and stop Cegorach, while Sanguinius urged them not to despair.

Jaghatai, Sanguinius, and Guilliman raced toward Terra to confront a crisis, while Corax followed after them. On Terra, The Emperor and the Silent King discussed where to settle the Orks and Tyranids as Dorn, Trazyn, Yvraine, and Shadowsun competed at mahjong, ending with Yvraine winning a rare hand.

• Jaghatai took control of his fastest warship and raced with Sanguinius and Guilliman through the Webway toward Terra, leaving the Ultramarines and Blood Angels behind with orders to follow.
• Corax emerged from a hidden room, learned from Celes that his brothers had gone to Terra, and decided to follow them.
• On Terra, The Emperor's forces celebrated the threat's containment while priests and nuns helped the Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence clear the ancient sewers.
• The Emperor and the Silent King discussed settling the Orks and Tyranids in the Ghoul Stars under the dynasty's supervision.
• Dorn, Trazyn, Yvraine, and Shadowsun played mahjong as Oedmeir and others watched, and Yvraine won with a self-drawn Big Three Dragons.

Shadowsun, Trazyn, Yvraine, and Perturabo escalated their cheating as the mahjong game drained their chips. Trazyn believed he had blocked Perturabo’s attempt to win with Thirteen Orphans, but the chapter ended just after Perturabo drew a Six Bamboo.

• Shadowsun mistakenly discarded a White Dragon disguised as a Two Dots, and Trazyn claimed it for his quads.
• Perturabo took Dorn’s seat and used his modified mechanical hand to identify and select tiles.
• Yvraine won with Big Three Dragons, leaving Perturabo close to losing his chips.
• Trazyn unleashed his computational power and disrupted Yvraine’s psychic predictions while winning a powerful hand from Perturabo.
• Perturabo filled the Throne Room with surveillance drones as Trazyn activated high-definition recording, and Farsight persuaded Shadowsun to keep playing.
• Trazyn concluded that Perturabo was waiting on Thirteen Orphans and that all the White Dragons were in his hand, then watched Perturabo draw a Six Bamboo.

Perturabo used a counterfeit tile to win the mahjong round, but Tzeentch then took over Shadowsun and challenged the Emperor to a game. Tzeentch dominated through repeated impossible wins, and Trazyn ended the chapter trapped in a game where even losing once counted as losing four times.

• Perturabo turned a Six Bamboo tile into a White Dragon and won with Thirteen Orphans Thirteen-Sided Wait, giving the Imperium of Man a large lead.
• Tzeentch took control of Shadowsun and challenged the Emperor, who joined the game as Trazyn and Yvraine were forced to stay at the table.
• The Void Dragon and the God-Emperor forged new tiles, and Tzeentch repeatedly won from the first discard by manipulating the game's outcomes.
• The Emperor self-drew All Honors and struck Tzeentch's phantom with golden light, prompting Tzeentch to continue the contest.
• Tzeentch won after Trazyn discarded a Sparrow tile and explained that the same tile had completed four winning hands at once, leaving Trazyn furious and helpless.

The Emperor and Tzeentch fought a supernatural mahjong match, escalating their cheating and psychic attacks until The Emperor completed an impossible hand and defeated Tzeentch. The Emperor returned to the cheering Imperials, where Rogal Dorn asked whether his body was all right.

• Tzeentch took control of Trazyn and attacked The Emperor with an All Green hand, but The Emperor scraped a Five Bamboo tile into the winning tile and sent the jungle attack back at him.
• The Emperor and Tzeentch traded powerful mahjong hands, and The Emperor created fourteen White Dragon tiles for his unprecedented Creation of Heaven and Earth hand.
• Tzeentch used his foresight to find a favorable opening hand and drew all four Nine Bamboo tiles, leaving The Emperor seemingly unable to complete Thirteen-Sided Thirteen Orphans.
• Tzeentch declared victory by robbing his own quad, but The Emperor altered tiles with his fingers, chaos, and blood until he completed his hand.
• The Emperor's Thirteen-Sided Thirteen Orphans struck Tzeentch's phantom and sent him back into the Astronomican as the Primarchs and Adeptus Custodes celebrated humanity's victory.
• Rogal Dorn asked The Emperor whether his body was all right.

The Emperor and Magnus sensed Jaghatai approaching Terra, so the Emperor summoned the Primarchs to hear what he had to report. Before Jaghatai arrived, Cegorach appeared and distributed books from Chogoris, prompting Magnus to begin reading one about Leman Russ.

• The Emperor joked with Dorn and Oedmeir about cheating at mahjong and suggested holding more games.
• Magnus detected Jaghatai's ship racing toward Terra, and the Emperor summoned the Primarchs.
• Several weeks later, the Primarchs gathered in Terra's Throne Room, while Angron remained away farming and several others were also absent.
• Cegorach appeared in Jaghatai's seat, summoned Yvraine, and gave everyone books from Chogoris to read.
• Magnus opened The Wolf and the Book and read about Leman Russ's intelligence and role as the Emperor's executioner.

Magnus and Leman Russ read a story imagining their friendship ending in tragedy during the Horus Heresy, with Leman Russ left grieving beside Magnus on the Golden Throne. They finished the tale together, while the author’s note explained that future Warhammer stories would appear in extras rather than a new novel.

• Magnus noticed Leman Russ’s sadness and pressed him to reveal what was wrong, prompting a dramatic scene that made Magnus recoil from the book.
• The story portrayed Magnus and Leman Russ as close brothers whose friendship was destroyed when the Space Wolves attacked Prospero during the Horus Heresy.
• Leman Russ found Magnus’s desiccated body in the ruined library and later saw him chained to the Golden Throne after the Emperor’s death.
• Leman Russ defended Magnus against an Adeptus Custodes’ condemnation, ordered the guard to leave, and mourned his brother alone.
• Magnus objected to the book’s masculine pronouns and praised its depiction of the Battle of Terra, while Leman Russ tried to hide his smile.
• The author’s note said there would be no new Warhammer novel and that additional stories would be published as extras.

The Primarchs and The Emperor read books depicting romances involving Guilliman, Yvraine, and other Primarchs, while Perturabo worried that his role in Guilliman and Yvraine’s relationship might be discovered. Guilliman openly declared his love for Yvraine and left with her, after which Jaghatai confessed to writing the books and faced questions from Konrad Curze.

• The Emperor questioned Yvraine about a possible relationship with Guilliman, and her startled denial made him more suspicious.
• Perturabo feared The Emperor would discover his involvement in Guilliman and Yvraine’s romance, while Fulgrim enjoyed a book that implied he and Ferrus Manus were its leads.
• Guilliman and Yvraine arrived as the other Primarchs reacted to the books, and Guilliman declared that he loved her despite her being an Aeldari.
• Guilliman pulled Yvraine into an embrace, kissed her, and left with her as Sanguinius blessed their love.
• Jaghatai confessed that he had written the books and declared that he was proud of them.
• Konrad Curze placed his claws on Jaghatai’s shoulder and demanded an explanation of the books’ contents.

The Primarchs joked about Jaghatai’s books and debated which of them should have been genderbent, until Magnus’s uncontrolled psychic blast made their jokes come true. Corax arrived at the Imperial Palace to find the transformed Primarchs and nearly fainted.

• Konrad Curze angrily read Jaghatai’s story about himself and Corax, but The Emperor restrained him and he settled down at the mention of the God-Emperor.
• Rogal Dorn asked why Jaghatai had not written a genderbent Fulgrim, and Fulgrim admitted Jaghatai had a point about his past transformations.
• Rogal Dorn questioned The Emperor about making female Primarchs, prompting The Emperor to explain why he had not created them; Fulgrim, Perturabo, Leman Russ, and Magnus then debated who should have been genderbent.
• Magnus lost control of a psychic blast after Leman Russ teased him, and the blast engulfed Leman Russ before exploding.
• Cegorach appeared behind Isha, who said Dear would enjoy the amusement, while Lin Fan remained unaware of the chaos on Terra.
• The Primarchs and The Emperor realized the genderbent Primarchs had appeared, and Corax rushed into the hall, saw the scene, and nearly fainted.

Guilliman brought Horus, restored after his return from erasure, to meet his transformed Primarch brothers and sisters. Horus reunited with Sanguinius and Lion El'Jonson, then encountered Dorn and Perturabo at the dining hall.

• Guilliman warned Horus to stay calm as they approached Sanguinius, who had been transformed into a woman by a spell linked to Jaghatai's books.
• Sanguinius learned that the spell might remain in place, recovered from her distress, and welcomed Horus back despite their past.
• Guilliman explained that the spell had changed the Primarchs' bodies and personalities, and Horus struggled to adjust to Sanguinius's appearance and gentleness.
• Lion El'Jonson warmly embraced Horus and revealed that she had become the Imperium's Warmaster.
• Dorn brought the struggling Perturabo into the dining hall, where Perturabo confronted Horus about his betrayal of her admiration.

Horus toured the transformed Primarchs with Roboute Guilliman, finding them caught up in bickering, pranks, and unexpected tenderness. They eventually reached The Emperor, whose childish appearance and affection for Valdor left Horus longing for the same attention.

• Perturabo rambled at Horus until Dorn kicked her and she went to play with Lion El'Jonson.
• Magnus and Leman Russ wrestled until Angron calmed them and made them reconcile.
• Aurora and Fulgrim pranked Lorgar and Ferrus Manus, and Roboute Guilliman explained that Aurora was the merged Alpharius and Omegon.
• Horus met Konrad Curze in Corax's arms and received a crushing hug from Vulkan.
• Horus saw The Emperor in a little dress being fed ice cream by Valdor and wished she would dote on him too.

After the Emperor reunited with Horus, Roboute Guilliman visited the imprisoned Jaghatai and Cegorach to learn how to reverse the Primarchs’ gender changes. Jaghatai revealed the possible cures, but Guilliman refused to release her from prison, leaving her furious.

• The childlike Emperor forgave Horus, while Roboute Guilliman left them to speak privately and went to deal with those responsible for the crisis.
• Roboute Guilliman found Yvraine and Mortarion in the underground prison, where Mortarion reported that the equipment was stable.
• Jaghatai explained that the Primarchs could either wait 666,666 days for the changes to fade or find Isha to remove Slaanesh’s power.
• Cegorach laughed at Roboute Guilliman, who punched him in anger without stopping his giggling.
• Roboute Guilliman offered to let Jaghatai out, then refused and said he would keep her imprisoned so she would miss the entertainment.

Jaghatai remained imprisoned while Isha ignored his pleas, and Lin Fan spent several days with her and the others on Catachan instead of writing. As Isha and her companions questioned him about alternate worlds and gender-swapped Primarchs, Terra grew uneasy over the Primarchs’ and Emperor’s long absence.

• Guilliman told Jaghatai that he was holding him at her request, and Cegorach mocked Jaghatai when he hoped to see his sisters’ lives.
• On Catachan, Isha ignored Jaghatai’s call for help and stayed with Lin Fan while Delia, Erika, and Yilafren explored the planet.
• After several days with Isha and the others, Lin Fan resumed writing, and Isha questioned him about Terra, its Emperor, and possible female Primarchs.
• Erika called female Primarchs and a female Emperor blasphemous, while Isha teased her about her recent behavior.
• Yilafren described a prank toy that could change sex, and Lin Fan shared imagined stories about gender-swapped Primarchs with the group.
• On Terra, the Space Marines noticed that the Primarchs and Emperor had been absent for a long time, and Dante wondered what had happened.

Dante, Calgar, and Kor'sarro tried to understand why the Primarchs had ordered large women's garments, while Dorn and Guilliman debated how to explain the secret project to the Space Marines. The Primarchs settled on presenting it as a temporary Emperor-led experiment to comfort warriors scarred by war.

• Calgar guessed that the clothing orders were part of a new gene-warrior program, while Dante suspected the Emperor and Primarchs were creating female Gene-Primarchs.
• Kor'sarro stayed silent, convinced that Jaghatai's secrets pointed to an unimaginable disaster on Terra, and Dante began requesting an audience at the Imperial Palace.
• Dorn argued that other Imperial forces should share the duty of guarding the palace, and Perturabo dismissed the value of its defenders against any truly major threat.
• Dorn and Guilliman reviewed petitions from Space Marines and debated whether to reveal the truth about the project or limit its effects with an explanation.
• Dorn proposed calling the project a temporary experiment by the Emperor to comfort war-weary warriors, then said his emotional needs were already met by his grandfather and grandmother.

The Emperor invited Space Marines from Legions and successor Chapters to the Imperial Palace and announced that their Primarchs would live in female forms so the warriors could experience a mother's love. Sanguinius comforted Dante and the other Blood Angels, while Perturabo struggled to connect with the Iron Warriors before embracing one of them.

• The Emperor welcomed Space Marines from across Terra and explained that the Primarchs would take female forms to offer them maternal affection.
• Dante remembered leaving his father on Baal II and imagined speaking to him before Sanguinius comforted him.
• Dante called Sanguinius Father and thanked her, while the other Blood Angels veterans called her Mother.
• Roboute Guilliman observed that the Blood Angels had accepted Sanguinius's affection and wondered how the other Legions would react.
• Perturabo confronted the Iron Warriors over their discomfort with her appearance, then embraced one of them and gently patted his head.

Perturabo departed to build wearable Dreadnoughts, while Guilliman concealed Jaghatai's imprisonment and kept Kor'sarro from questioning the Emperor's mission. Elsewhere, Lin Fan finished recording a new setting, and Orikan reported that the gate was visible.

• Perturabo left with the Iron Warriors to make Dreadnoughts that could be worn over their power armor.
• Helbrecht asked Rogal Dorn why he had not become a woman, and Dorn claimed it was because the Imperial Fists were his strongest children.
• Guilliman told Kor'sarro Khan that Jaghatai had gone on a secret mission, then warned him not to question the Emperor's arrangements.
• Dante and the Blood Angels showered Sanguinius with gifts, while Bjorn accepted Leman Russ's changed appearance after recognizing his wolf-like soul.
• Lin Fan finished writing the settings and character details, then contacted the Necrontyr technicians to ask about the gate.
• Orikan told Lin Fan that the gate was visible.