Recaps

Lin Fan joined Yvraine and the Ynnari in their search for Biel-Tan, fighting Ughul ghouls and capturing a Carcharodons strike cruiser. As Slaanesh manipulated Yvraine’s dreams and Celestine received a mission from The Emperor, the party continued toward the Ghoul Stars.

• Yvraine arrived through the Wraithbone gateway with three Croneswords, and Lin Fan summoned Slaanesh to discuss the last sword, and Yvraine attacked him before accepting the fifth Cronesword.
• Yvraine and Koens asked Lin Fan to help find Biel-Tan and Iyanden, and Oedmeir sent him with her blessing while warning that the Ghoul Stars held Tzeentch’s influence.
• Lin Fan and Perturabo joined the Ynnari fleet, fought off Ughul ghouls during its escape from a shattered Webway, and helped the Aeldari clear the ships.
• The Ynnari found an unfamiliar Drukhari Kabal attacking a planet and encountered two damaged strike cruisers, which opened fire after the Kabal departed.
• Yvraine and her warriors boarded one cruiser and trapped the Carcharodons, while Perturabo intervened to stop a Contemptor Dreadnought from exploding and subdued the Chaplain.
• Lin Fan recognized the Chaplain’s Blindness, and Perturabo injected him with a hallucinogen, and the Ynnari then took control of the cruiser while Yvraine defended her trust in Lin Fan.
• Slaanesh altered Yvraine’s dreams of Guilliman and bargained with Cegorach to release corrupted souls in exchange for his attack on Khorne’s legions.
• The Emperor sent Celestine toward the Ghoul Stars with a vase, telling her to find the man in his portrait when the flower bloomed and turned to crystal.

The Emperor reunited with Perturabo and pushed the Lamenters and Carcharodons into an alliance with the Aeldari, while Perturabo began building a Second Empire with Hope. On Howens IV, Lin Fan and Trazyn uncovered a Necron crisis, as Valgull’s Flayed Ones revealed their vast harvest and the location of missing Craftworlds.

• The Emperor and Slaanesh set out to attack Khorne’s forge, while Tzeentch sent Rokasna to help mortals in a hive city, where Celes healed him after he fought bandits.
• Lin Fan and Perturabo learned of the Lamenters’ history and losses, then the Emperor appeared through Perturabo, commanded the Space Marines to ally with the Aeldari, and persuaded Hope and Bashar to obey.
• Perturabo reconciled with the Emperor and began repairing the Lamenters’ warship, then offered to teach Hope gene-seed surgery and convinced him to help establish the Second Empire.
• Perturabo, Hope, and Bashar went to Howens IV to investigate a disturbance at Ranko’s factory, while Lin Fan and Yvraine discovered signs of a Necron presence.
• Trazyn and Lin Fan entered the Necron stronghold, where Flayed Ones infected Trazyn’s forces and destroyed his Immortals before Lin Fan’s scratch eased Trazyn’s fear that he had contracted the Flayer Virus.
• Trazyn and Lin Fan confronted the Necron overlord, then found Flayed Ones massacring factory workers on the surface as the creatures escaped with Ranko.
• Valgull revealed that the Flayed Ones gathered living meat from 150,000 planets and feasted on the bodies of Tyranid hive fleets, then forced an Alaitoc Farseer to use a Blackstone prism that revealed the missing Craftworlds’ locations.

Perturabo and Jaghatai reached a tense truce as their allies faced Drukhari, Necron, and Imperial threats. Perturabo proposed a Second Empire to Jaghatai, while Trazyn revealed that Iyanden and Biel-Tan had been rescued and placed under the Executioner Fleet’s protection.

• Amalaga freed Fabius Bile from Valgull’s underground prison, while Perturabo expanded Carcharodons Apothecary training and Trazyn sought the missing craftworlds.
• Rotaros ordered Szeras to stop experimenting on Aeldari captives, and Szeras repaired the survivors after accidentally shattering a girl.
• Tyberos learned that his 3rd Company was working with the Aeldari, while Jaghatai recounted the Ashen Claws’ history and secured their help on the condition that they never return to the Imperium.
• Celes and Roka fought Drazhar during the Drukhari raid on Saint Codgas, and the conflict brought Jaghatai and Perturabo into a confrontation that Lin Fan and Trazyn stopped.
• Vect dismantled Commorragh, became the Black Muse’s chosen, and sent his fleet toward the map’s destination as the Deceiver trapped Yvraine’s fleet in a vortex.
• Roka argued that the Emperor was mortal and that the dead should be buried in lively communities, prompting discussion of Cemetery World’s reconstruction.
• Perturabo proposed founding a Second Empire beyond the Ghoul Stars, then showed Jaghatai Iron Bone recruits and gave him a mechanical warhorse while explaining his regrets and ambitions.
• Trazyn freed Yvraine from spatial turbulence and introduced her to Inamars, whose allies had rescued Iyanden and Biel-Tan and placed them under the Executioner Fleet’s protection.

Lin Fan reunited Clone Fulgrim with the Emperor’s Children, then led the primarchs into the Executioner Dynasty’s territory as the Necrons, Aeldari, Drukhari, and Chaos forces converged. The Necrons sealed the battlefield in dimensional mirrors, leaving the exhausted Phoenix Lord cut off from the Pantheon and the Warp.

• Rotaros refused Iyanden and Biel-Tan’s request to leave with Annis, while Inamars ordered a search for the Aeldari girl’s parents’ Soul Stones.
• Lin Fan introduced Jaghatai and Perturabo to Trazyn’s Fulgrim clone, who embraced Perturabo and vowed to make the original atone.
• Fulgrim remembered killing Ferrus and abandoning his Legion to corruption, then refused Lin Fan’s offer to execute his sons and embraced Aiken Nykona instead.
• Lin Fan’s fleet reached Phaeron Inamars, where the banquet was disrupted by a Flawless Cube seal that infected Necron systems and drew Slaanesh’s daemons.
• Valgull sent Drazak and the Executioner Fleet into a hidden dimension, while Vect and Amalaga became entangled in the fighting between Necrons and Aeldari.
• Yvraine gathered Craftworld forces, but the Deceiver dragged Vect and Amalaga through a rift as Rakarth’s rune corrupted the Dream Tree and awakened the war Phoenix Lord.
• Isha healed countless beings with her tear, but Nurgle’s daemons spread disease among them, prompting Inamars to ask Lin Fan to handle the threat.
• Phaeron Inamars activated dimensional mirrors that trapped the Necrons and Phoenix Lord inside while isolating the other forces, and the exhausted Phoenix Lord lost access to the Pantheon and the Warp.