Recaps

As Abaddon’s invasion intensified, Perturabo and Rogal Dorn returned to Cadia and began drawing Iron Warriors and Imperial forces together. The expeditionary force secured ground near Blackstone Tower Seven and repelled a Chaos assault, while Benedict’s battered regiment continued toward Lumbas Mountain.

• Benedict’s forces fought the Degraded Titans until Space Marines destroyed one, and Warsmith Drau dismissed the Titans’ usefulness while holding his defenses.
• Abaddon unleashed the Warp storm and Degraded Void Stations against the Imperial fleet, but Yarrick helped the Imperium escape the Deathmatch Cage as Orks and Chaos forces remained trapped together.
• Carl Bohar and Amalaga pursued their plans with the Deceiver, while Tzeentch trained Rokasna and prepared for the Biel-Tan Craftworld’s arrival.
• Drau’s daemon engines attacked Olwen and Dimit until Aeldari arrivals preceded Rogal Dorn and Perturabo, who urged Drau to join the Imperium.
• Drau rejected Perturabo’s appeal and died fighting him, after which Perturabo vowed to reclaim the Iron Warriors’ souls and called on the Iron Warriors to join the Imperial battle line.
• Claude pledged loyalty to Perturabo, stopped the Iron Warriors’ encirclement of the Black Templars, and let Imperial forces pass through his lines despite the Ecclesiarchy bishop’s protest.
• Dorn and Perturabo built a larger teleportation device, while Benedict insisted on reinforcing the trapped Imperial forces near Lumbas Mountain and Dorn sent Hope to assess their position.
• Creed and expeditionary troops arrived on Cadia, and Perturabo and Dorn identified the hidden Viper’s Fang beneath Blackstone Tower Seven before the expeditionary force captured nearby mining zones and vaccinated freed captives.
• Harken Worldclaimer’s warbands attacked the expeditionary position, but the soldiers destroyed Raptors and Predator Tanks, stopped a Vindicator shell with a portable shield, and burned charging auxiliary troops with Deflagration Rifles.

Lin Fan’s expedition broke through Abaddon’s forces as Lin Fan confronted the Warmaster and pursued Drach’nyen into the Warp. He reached Nurgle’s garden, where he found Isha and began freeing her while learning how her power connected to his worlds and the Life Vaccine.

• The expeditionary force defeated Harken Worldclaimer’s assault, with Commissar Cain leading the Cadia Special Group against the Chaos Space Marines.
• Lin Fan boarded the Vengeful Spirit, fought through its defenders, and confronted Abaddon, severing both of the Warmaster’s arms before taking Drach’nyen.
• Abaddon surrendered Izara’s soul to Carlos for a ritual, but Carlos deceived him and unleashed the Vengeful Spirit’s true Warp form as Chaos forces collapsed around them.
• Lin Fan swallowed Drach’nyen, then pursued its scattered fragments through the Warp until Nurgle picked up the sword’s golden hilt.
• Lin Fan purified Nurgle’s Beasts of Nurgle with old soup and used the transformed pill bugs and a flower to cleanse parts of Nurgle’s hand.
• Lin Fan followed a jade-green tear to Isha’s garden, where Isha asked him to free her from her thorny shackles.
• Isha gave Lin Fan Wraithbone glasses and helped protect him from Nurgle, then explained how her power connected to the Trees of Life, the Life Vaccine, and fertilizer.
• Isha reflected on the Aeldari lost to Slaanesh and her separation from Lileath, while Nurgle and his children failed to draw her out of her silence.

Lin Fan and his companions escaped Nurgle’s garden, found Corax, and freed him from Lorgar’s seal. Magnus’s deception brought Gork, Mork, and Nurgle against the group, leaving Lin Fan fighting the Orks while Corax and Leman Russ protected Isha from Nurgle.

• Isha and Lin Fan fought their way through Nurgle’s garden, then escaped through Gork and Mork’s territory as the Orks fought Nurgle.
• Lin Fan followed a flower grown from Leman Russ’s blood through the Warp and found Lorgar’s stronghold after more than fifty years.
• Lorgar visited Corax’s seal, while Lin Fan and his companions lured him away with Diego and a brick made from Perfect City’s ashes.
• Lin Fan breached Corax’s seal, and Corax’s raven flock killed the Word Bearers guarding it.
• Corax’s shadows entered Lin Fan and battled the Deep Dread and the Two-Dimensional Prison, devastating Perfect City before Lin Fan defeated Lorgar and freed Corax.
• Corax tasted Magnus’s concealed memories and revealed that Magnus had summoned Gork, Mork, and Nurgle to avoid facing the Emperor.
• Magnus turned Gork and Mork against Lin Fan by claiming he was Slaanesh’s beloved, and Lin Fan fought them as Isha rejected Nurgle’s ideals.

Lin Fan’s power devastated Nurgle’s forces and erased lives across the galaxy, while the Primarchs confronted their past failures and Imperial forces rallied at Cadia. As Tzeentch pursued his plans through Khayon and Rokasna, Vect used the Cronesword to draw on a god’s power.

• Isha hurled Magnus into Perfect City, where Lin Fan’s white light erased Gork and much of the Ork population, then proved unable to spare Nurgle’s victims from the same destructive power.
• Lin Fan reflected on the deaths he had caused and confronted Lorgar and Magnus about their choices, while Corax recounted his own losses and led the group toward Cadia through shadows.
• Mork’s grief over Gork’s silence pushed him toward invention, while the surviving Orks refitted Gork’s Head and the Silent King’s fleet fought The Deceiver and the revived ancient ships.
• The Emperor’s forces battled on Terra and Mars as Jaghatai Khan’s fleet reached Cadia, joined the Imperial forces, destroyed the Vengeful Spirit, and began driving back Chaos.
• Fulgrim faced the divided Emperor’s Children on Biel-Tan, while Curze punished Night Lords raiding the craftworld and followed a strange ripple deeper inside.
• Carlos tempted Khayon with visions of his losses and an alternate life, but Khayon rejected the offer before Tzeentch raised the End Times and Rokasna as parts of his plans.
• Vect confronted Yvraine on Biel-Tan and let Many-Faced stab him with the Cronesword, drawing on Death God’s Power as Yvraine weakened.