Recaps

Lin Fan and the Orks built the Gork-Emperor and fought their way through Commorragh, where Amalaga’s experiment destroyed the city and separated Lin Fan from his companions. Lin Fan tracked Khan and Yilafren to a Drukhari death arena, where they faced a Tyranid swarm alongside Yvraine, Lelith Hesperax, and Drazhar.

• Lin Fan and the Orks built Gork Rehmannia, later called the Gork-Emperor, and burst into Commorragh to attack the Drukhari.
• Drukhari Voidravens breached the fortress, and Lin Fan, Khan, and Yilafren fought back before Lin Fan unleashed a gravity and dark matter field that flattened the district.
• Amalaga’s Dead Saint killed Old Ironhead and Old Ironleg, while Rys spoke the True Word “Annihilate” and vanished along with the Dead Saint and the Lorn crowd.
• Lin Fan found Amalaga fighting Aurora and destroyed him, then followed Aurora’s map toward his missing companions.
• Lin Fan encountered Yvraine in the Bone Yard, boarded her slave ship, and learned she was taking Tyranids to the death arena.
• Khan and Yilafren fought their way through the arena with Prosperity, a giant insect Khan had tamed, as Lin Fan watched from a private box.
• Lelith Hesperax released a Tyranid swarm into the arena, where Khan fought through the creatures and faced Drazhar while Yvraine and Yilafren survived nearby.

Yvraine’s resurrection brought her together with Lin Fan and his allies to pursue the Croneswords, but it also opened a way for Slaanesh to enter the Webway. Lin Fan encountered Slaanesh and later vanished during the gods’ conflict, while the Emperor returned to confront Khorne and a mysterious, indestructible man appeared on Cadia.

• Khan and Drazhar fought until Lin Fan broke up their duel, while Yvraine was killed in the arena and awakened by the god of death as his chosen to find the five Croneswords.
• Lin Fan and Visarch rescued Yvraine from Commorragh, and Yvraine reunited with her former teacher Larian, who had become Many-Faced.
• Lin Fan explained the Croneswords’ locations and helped Yvraine and Khan agree to a cautious alliance, but Yvraine’s resurrection opened Cain’s Gate and allowed Slaanesh into the Webway.
• Lin Fan accompanied Slaanesh to his realm, obtained a Cronesword, and urged him to become gentler, while Slaanesh revealed the Chaos Gods’ plans involving Horus and the primarchs.
• Lin Fan insisted Slaanesh send him to Khorne, then vanished after Khorne struck him as Slaanesh and Khorne fought across the Warp.
• The Emperor arrived, became the God-Emperor through the Imperium’s faith, fought Khorne, and demanded that Slaanesh return Jaghatai and Yilafren.
• The Emperor sent Khan and Yilafren through a Warp portal to find Fulgrim, then remained behind to recover and maintain the Astronomican.
• On Cadia, soldiers failed to harm a mysterious man who emerged from a crater, ate a vast store of corpse-starch, and slept as Crusaders’ blades shattered against him.

Number 0 joined the Krieg assault and gave the Grenadiers a vision that replaced atonement through death with a hope for peace. As the Penitent Legion’s rebellion engulfed the hive city, Taro and Dumb-Dumb fought their way toward the besieged Inquisition fortress, while the Hive Mind neared the world.

• Bishop Marian recognized the sleeping man as Saint Lakuras’s prophesied redeemer, but after waking he insisted that he was Soap and ordered the bishops to send him to the Krieg 141st Regiment.
• Colonel Hans assigned Lin Fan to a grenadier unit in the Scrap Plains, where Grenadier 19 and Number 0 fought through the fortified traitor positions.
• Number 0 led the Grenadiers through tunnels, defeated cultists and a flesh-and-machinery overseer, and helped bury their dead as the squad continued advancing.
• Principal Tzeentch sent Rokasna to Landes, where Rokasna took control of the archbishop’s body and prepared the Penitent Legions and infiltrated demons to rebel.
• Number 0 and the Grenadiers were captured in the Old Cannon Factory, but Number 0 showed them a vision of the Emperor, who told them to live and build a peaceful world after the war.
• The Penitent Legion launched its rebellion against the Inquisition, and Taro escaped the attack with Dumb-Dumb after Rena’s restaurant was destroyed.
• Taro and Dumb-Dumb fought their way through the city, rescued a family from Penitent Legionnaires, and entered the Inquisition fortress using a captured transport’s jump pack.
• The Hive Mind neared the world, threatening to consume the Genestealer Cultists who had mistaken it for a liberator.

Lin Fan and his allies stopped the daemon plots on Landes, then tried to rebuild the devastated hive through Saint Sashiko and a miraculous source of fertilizer. When the Daemon Inquisition treated the recovery as evidence of corruption, Lin Fan challenged its forces and confronted Kaiser Whitefang with the Imperium’s own history of cruelty.

• Draco, Taro, and Dumb-Dumb fought through the fortress to destroy Laster’s books, but Taro and Draco died in the blast after the bishop revealed himself as a daemon.
• Omar and Laster confronted Archbishop Rokasna at the cathedral, where Laster died and the Archbishop sacrificed himself as a golden flower drove back the Warp.
• Number 0 and Dantik joined forces against Amalaga, whose flesh mountain collapsed when the golden flower hidden beneath Grenadier 19’s armor spread through him.
• Lin Fan surveyed the devastation on Landes and agreed to Slaanesh’s plan to make Sashiko a Saint and turn despair into hope to draw out Nurgle.
• Sha Si and Marian helped the lower districts, fought the horrors below, and became embroiled in gang violence before Lin Fan and Slaanesh used Sashiko’s suffering to attract Nurgle’s daemons.
• Sha Si led the afflicted against Nurgle’s corruption, became Saint Sashiko, and helped restore the hive as food and Gold Kela revitalized its farms.
• The Daemon Inquisition and Grey Knights came to Landes, but Lin Fan defeated the Grey Knights who attacked him and demanded that the Imperium retrieve them.
• Kaiser Whitefang questioned Lin Fan about Chaos and the Imperium, and Lin Fan recounted the Month of Shame, when the Inquisition persecuted Armageddon’s survivors and fought the Space Wolves.