Recaps

Creed investigated the Vostroyan Rough Riders, where conflicting suspicions led to a clash with Sergeant Aurora and the revelation that Talina was a daemon serving Slaanesh. After the conflict was contained and Creed and Tovens were cleared, the story shifted to Fabricator General Rom’s arrival on Agrippina and his startling xenos-derived discovery.

• Sammael abandoned Kor'sarro Khan and the White Scars, then Azrael told the Inner Circle that Cypher was in the Cadia Sector and learned from Luther that he was waiting in Cadia’s fortress.
• Gegula clashed with a Dark Mechanicum priest over the degraded forms, while Typhus used them in battle and later ordered the planet burned by an arriving Imperial fleet.
• Creed added Sergeant Aurora and her survivors to the Cadian 8th, then learned from Wodhaus that the Vostroyan Rough Riders might be traitors and agreed to test their loyalty.
• Creed visited the Vostroyans with Aurora and Kyle, where Tovens served him Emperor’s Flame, and Creed endured the meal, but Kyle collapsed and Aurora later lost consciousness.
• Talina accused Creed of treachery and showed Tovens a blasphemous talisman scar, while Maletof’s attack and Wodhaus’s warning about Agrippina deepened the suspicions surrounding the regiment.
• At the Mechanicus mine, Creed and Tovens mistook each other for traitors, while Aurora fought Talina and Wodhaus before Wodhaus trapped Aurora in a Warp rift.
• Kaiser Whitefang stopped the planned assault, and Talina revealed that she was a daemon of Slaanesh assigned to the Vostroyan Rough Riders, and Wodhaus later declared Creed and Tovens innocent.
• Fabricator General Rom arrived on Agrippina, presented a Machine God revelation symbol at the Seismic Stabilizer, and argued that its xenos origin could help solve the Imperium’s resource shortages.

The Imperium’s battle to contain Agrippina’s Warp rift spiraled into a wider struggle among the gods, Necrons, and the Void Dragon. Lin Fan and the Emperor confronted the Dragon’s power as Angron was drawn into its domain, while Aurora struck the Deceiver.

• Rom disrupted Per-12’s scrap-code attack, then joined the magi in destroying him as Abaddon and Khorne’s forces turned toward war.
• The Imperium fought to contain Agrippina’s daemonic invasion, but Khorne and Slaanesh’s forces battled over the planet until it shattered and opened a rift.
• Trazyn activated the Blackstone Array to seal the rift, but the Void Dragon awakened and reversed the effort, escaping its sarcophagus beneath Mars.
• Tzeentch sent Biel-Tan into Khorne’s heart before self-destructing, and Lin Fan and Slaanesh’s forces fought Khorne while the Primarchs rallied the Craftworld’s defenders.
• Lin Fan weakened Khorne with Slaanesh’s aid, then returned to Biel-Tan and brought Angron’s Butcher’s Nails to Perturabo as Trazyn proposed using them to restore Angron in Orikan’s body.
• Trazyn reshaped Orikan to resemble Angron, and Angron’s consciousness entered the Void Dragon’s data domain, where the machine spirit identified the Butcher’s Nails as an infection.
• Khorne and the Emperor entered the Void Dragon’s domain over Angron, and the Emperor severed the Nails’ influence while the Void Dragon fought back using Blackstone and the souls of Mechanicus priests.
• The Emperor struck the Void Dragon on Mars with golden light, while the Deceiver showed the Dragon an ancient contract and Aurora froze time and speared the Deceiver.

The Imperium’s forces reunited after Agrippina’s destruction, and Fulgrim’s attempt to reconnect the Iron Hands with Ferrus Manus’s legacy ended in a clash with Stunus. The Emperor sent Ferrus to face his sons, while Jaghatai and Fulgrim’s conversation stirred a Slaanesh demon that revealed the Ruinous Powers were still influencing the Primarchs.

• The Deceiver showed the Void Dragon the Mountain Array before dissipating, and the God-Emperor sent the Array to Cadia as Angron awoke and attacked Lin Fan.
• Tovens found Talina and Wodhaus among Agrippina’s survivors, then shot Talina to spare her further suffering as Wodhaus concealed her daemon-touched pocket watch.
• The Biel-Tan Craftworld brought the surviving defenders together, and Jaghatai announced the Primarchs’ return before leading the fleets toward Cadia.
• Stunus and the Iron Hands confronted Fulgrim, Jaghatai, and the Raven Guard, and Stunus attacked after hallucinating the Emperor’s Children.
• Jaghatai subdued Stunus, while Fulgrim told him Ferrus’s wishes for the Iron Hands and urged him to uphold humanity with iron armor and a fiery heart.
• The Iron Hands resisted Fulgrim’s message, so Jaghatai and the White Scars defeated them as Lin Fan asked the Emperor to bring Ferrus Manus to his sons.
• Ferrus joined the Emperor’s fight against Nurgle, then the Emperor sent him away on a task concerning the Iron Hands while Jaghatai and Fulgrim discussed Ferrus’s past.
• Jaghatai tried to hide a Slaanesh demon that emerged from his thoughts, but Fulgrim caught it and Jaghatai sealed it as the Emperor recognized Slaanesh’s influence.

Ferrus Manus returned from the Warp and learned how the Imperium had changed before joining The Emperor and Slaanesh. As the Primarchs prepared for Cadia, Benedict and Dimit’s forces fought through the planet’s Blackstone disasters and traitor defenses, where the Degraded Ones transformed into deadly Dreadnought-like creatures.

• Ferrus Manus emerged from Yvraine’s ritual and fought his brothers until Lin Fan swallowed his Binding Fire, after which Ferrus shrank and condemned Perturabo and Fulgrim as traitors.
• Lin Fan told Ferrus Manus about the Imperium’s alliances and the Primarchs’ plans for Cadia, and Ferrus punished the Iron Hands before returning to the Warp with The Emperor to meet Slaanesh.
• As Biel-Tan prepared to reach Cadia, Liss ordered Benedict’s regiment toward Blackstone Tower No. 7 while the Imperium assembled forces for the offensive.
• The Blackstone Spires unleashed darkness and earthquakes across Cadia, but Battle Sisters’ hymns rallied Benedict’s survivors as they moved toward the fighting.
• Archmagos Tius sent Krieg troops and Space Marines aboard mechanical behemoths, while Dimit carried an encrypted data-slate and joined the assault.
• Benedict’s regiment and the allied forces fought through traitor defenses, suffering heavy losses from cursed weapons as the behemoths drew enemy fire.
• The behemoths and Imperial troops broke through the fourth line, but surviving Degraded Ones absorbed black liquid and mutated into powerful Dreadnought-like forms.
• Benedict and the Space Marines attacked the Degraded Dreadnoughts as their weapons cut through Imperial forces, and one damaged behemoth finally settled onto the ground after losing too many microgravity generators.