Recaps

Lin En and the 0825th Regiment reached their assigned defensive position on Pollia, where a vast Greenskin horde threatened the planet. As the battle began, Lin En discovered that his dual-trait ability could fuse a single-target power with a group skill, potentially granting the entire regiment extraordinary effects.

• An Ultramarines squad leader assigned the 0825th Regiment to defend Green Zone-7 while the Ultramarines led an assault on the Greenskin command echelon.
• The regiment reached its defensive position, where Iron Hammer armed Sister Cecilia with bombs and Cecilia gave Lin En and Iron Hammer dog tags as keepsakes.
• The regimental commander and commissar yielded the command seat to Lin En as the Greenskin tide approached, and Lin En rallied the 0825th Regiment with a battle cry.
• The system explained that Lin En's dual-trait slot fused skill effects rather than merely activating two skills at once.
• Lin En realized that stacking [Group Healing] with [Emperor's Gaze] could give the single-target effect to everyone in the healing aura, and found that Thirty Days could also be stacked.

Lin En decided to hide his immortality from the Inquisition and climb the Imperium’s ranks through openly demonstrated support powers. During the battle, he covered the Imperial forces with a vast healing aura that doubled their attributes and healed their wounds, leaving soldiers and Ultramarines convinced that a Living Saint had descended.

• Lin En rejected using Thirty Days of Invincibility because it would make the Inquisition suspect him, and resolved to seek an audience with the Emperor after rising through the ranks.
• Lin En activated Group Healing stacked with Emperor's Gaze across the battlefield, covering the Guard positions and nearby Astartes in golden light.
• The aura healed soldiers’ wounds and restored their strength, prompting them to shout that a Living Saint had descended.
• Cecilia realized Lin En might be transferred away from the Guard after revealing his power, while Ultramarines recognized the aura as the Emperor’s sacred power.

Lin En’s Golden Aura turned the Baal Guard’s battle against the Greenskins into a decisive victory, prompting the Ultramarines and other factions to report his suspected Living Saint status. The chapter ended with multiple powers moving to claim or investigate him.

• The Ultramarines squad leader ordered the Tech Sergeant to report Lin En’s records and began trying to secure his transfer before the Blood Angels could act.
• Lin En’s Golden Aura strengthened and healed the human soldiers, allowing them to countercharge the Greenskins and withstand grievous wounds.
• The Astartes squad killed the Greenskin Warboss, and the empowered soldiers pursued the disorganized horde until the battle ended in victory.
• The squad leader reviewed the remarkably low casualty figures as the Golden Aura faded and soldiers wondered whether Lin En was a Living Saint.
• The Ultramarines submitted a transfer request, while the Blood Angels liaison, Inquisition spies, and other officials reported Lin En to their superiors.

After the 0825th Regiment annihilated the Greenskins on Polia with almost no casualties, reports identified its chief psyker as a suspected Living Saint whose aura strengthened and healed nearby troops. The Inquisition’s factions began competing over whether to imprison, investigate, purge, study, or protect him.

• A Blood Angels liaison officer reported that the psyker’s Golden Aura doubled the regiment’s attributes, healed its soldiers, and helped it destroy the Greenskins with fewer than a hundred casualties.
• An Ultramarines Third Company squad reported the suspected Living Saint to Calgar’s aide, who rushed to alert Calgar and recommended transferring the psyker.
• An Ordo Hereticus inquisitor on Polia secretly reported the unregistered suspected Living Saint and emphasized that the Ecclesiarchy had not claimed him.
• The Inquisition’s Ordo Malleus argued that the psyker should be imprisoned and examined, with execution if he failed scrutiny, while the Ordo Hereticus split between investigation and purging him.
• The Ordo Xenos focused on capturing the psyker and studying or replicating his power for use against aliens, while a small protection faction argued that he should be safeguarded.

Inquisitor Valens and two Grey Knights secretly investigated Lin En’s Golden Light on Pollia, finding no signs of Chaos corruption among the healed soldiers and considering recruiting him into the Inquisition. Unaware of their arrival, Lin En focused on drawing cards after earning the Kill Ten Thousand Enemies and Kill One Hundred Thousand Enemies achievements.

• The Inner Circle Conclave united the Inquisition’s factions and ordered Valens, accompanied by two Grey Knights, to investigate Lin En before anyone took action against him.
• Valens arrived secretly on Pollia after the war and persuaded Commander Hux to let him examine soldiers exposed to Lin En’s Golden Light.
• Valens tested a hundred soldiers and found no mutations, Chaos contamination, or other corruption; the soldiers also reported improved health.
• Valens reviewed Lin En’s records and considered recruiting the suspected Living Saint into the Inquisition, while the Grey Knights showed interest in the idea.
• Lin En remained in his Librarius tent, where he realized the Pollia battle had earned him two enemy-kill achievements and at least two gold card draws.

Lin En drew the golden trait Immortal Body, only to find its effect overlapped with his existing Thirty Days trait. A new sacrifice mechanic offered a way to strengthen other traits, leaving him wondering whether the system had secretly borrowed power from Yellow Pelt or another force.

• Lin En used his two guaranteed draws and obtained the golden trait Immortal Body, which made him impossible to kill for twelve hours.
• Lin En realized Immortal Body overlapped with his multicolored Thirty Days trait and demanded that the system return his draw attempt.
• The system explained that duplicate traits could not be refunded, then revealed that sacrificed traits could strengthen other traits permanently.
• Lin En considered sacrificing Immortal Body and questioned whether the system had been possessed by Yellow Pelt.
• The system denied being possessed, and Lin En asked where it had come from and whether it was truly not local.

Lin En drew the gold trait Material Reassembly and decided to keep it despite not understanding its purpose. After the draw, Commander Hux warned him that an Inquisitor and two Grey Knights had arrived and wanted to see him.

• Lin En chose to keep Immortal Body in reserve rather than sacrifice it to enhance one of his other traits.
• Lin En used his second guaranteed draw and received the gold trait Material Reassembly, whose long casting time required him to be out of combat.
• Lin En suspected Material Reassembly might be important and stored it without sacrificing it.
• Commander Hux went to Lin En's tent after Inquisitor Valens ordered him to bring Lin En in.
• Commander Hux told Lin En that a high-ranking Inquisitor and two Grey Knights wanted to meet him, and warned him to speak carefully.

Lin En faced questioning from Inquisitor Valens, who wanted to bring him to Terra as a suspected Living Saint. A transfer order personally signed by Roboute Guilliman sent Lin En to the Ultramarines instead, and he left for the front against the Tyranids.

• Lin En followed the Chapter Master to meet Inquisitor Valens and two Grey Knights, fearing the Inquisition would seize him.
• Valens questioned Lin En about his battle-enhancing power, offered him coffee, and described the Imperium's policies toward Living Saints.
• Lin En worried that Valens was concealing the dangers of the Inquisition and searched for a way to avoid going to Terra.
• Lin En received a transfer order signed by Roboute Guilliman, assigning him to the Ultramarines and their campaign against the Tyranids' Behemoth Fleet.
• Ultramarines arrived to escort Lin En, and Valens accepted that the Regent's order took priority over the Inquisition's plans.

Lin En used Matter Reassembly and a C'tan Shard to restore Necrontyr bodies and souls, then helped revive the race on a vast scale. The Silent King pledged the Necrontyr to humanity, and the galaxy announced their entry into the human faction.

• The Emperor negotiated with the Silent King, and the Necrons withdrew from the Milky Way after agreeing to repair the Webway in exchange for Lin En finding a way to restore their flesh.
• While repairing Cadia and the Blackstone Array, Lin En devised a way to forge Necrontyr bodies and asked the Silent King for a C'tan Shard to recreate their souls.
• Lin En used a fragment of the C'tan Shard and Sal's stored memories to restore Sal as a living Necrontyr, and the Silent King asked Lin En to help revive the race.
• The Silent King swept the Warp with his forces while Lin En channeled the Emperor's psychic energy to restore countless Necrontyr in stasis pods.
• The Silent King and the other leaders who had supported biotransference chose to remain Necrons as guardians, and the galaxy announced that the Necrontyr had joined the human faction.

Lin En received an urgent transfer to the Ultramarines and prepared to leave Baal for the Tyranid war on Macragge. He parted from Sister Cecilia and Iron Hammer, who stayed behind, and departed determined to grow strong enough to return.

• Captain Hux lamented Lin En’s departure while escorting him out of the Inquisition camp.
• An Ultramarines squad escorted Lin En to his tent and told him to pack for their departure that night.
• Lin En gathered his belongings and shared a farewell meal with Sister Cecilia and Iron Hammer, explaining that he was being transferred to the Ultramarines.
• Lin En and Cecilia discussed her mutated eyes, but Cecilia said it was not yet safe to restore them.
• Lin En left with the Ultramarines, promising Cecilia and Iron Hammer that he would return.

Lin En boarded the Macragge's Honour to travel to Macragge and help defend it from the Behemoth Tyranids, while arranging for the system to warn him if Leviathan approached Baal. After the battleship entered the Warp, Lin En accepted an invitation to meet its captain and was escorted through the ship.

• Lin En arrived aboard the Macragge's Honour, learned it was a vast Emperor-class battleship laid down by Guilliman, and received respectful salutes from its Ultramarines.
• Commissar Victor informed Lin En that Cecilia had been promoted to deputy company commander of the Third Company.
• As the ship prepared to depart, Lin En looked back toward Baal and vowed to return before the Leviathan Tyranids threatened the people there.
• Lin En persuaded the system to monitor the Baal System and send him a priority warning if Leviathan came within ten light-years.
• The Macragge's Honour entered the Warp, and an Ultramarines squad leader invited Lin En to meet the captain.
• Lin En accepted the invitation and followed the squad leader, surrounded by an Ultramarines escort.

Lin En met Captain Autolo aboard the Macragge's Honour while traveling to aid Macragge against the Tyranids. Autolo revealed that the Regent had just issued a secret order concerning Lin En, then led him into a private room to explain.

• The squad leader escorted Lin En through the ship to the captain's quarters.
• Captain Autolo welcomed Lin En and reviewed the Pollia Defense Line battle statistics, confirming that Lin En had produced the golden healing and morale-boosting halo.
• Autolo explained that Lin En would serve as a tactical aide on the Macragge front and said his help could reduce Ultramarines casualties.
• Autolo asked Lin En whether he knew about the Regent's secret order concerning him, and Lin En said he did not.
• Autolo sent the squad outside and led Lin En into a private reception room to discuss the order.

An Ultramarines captain betrayed the Imperium and tried to kill Lin En with a Power Fist and poison gas so he could deliver the battleship and its Successor Chapters to Chaos. Lin En survived and activated his Group Healing aura, sending a blinding golden light through the flagship.

• The captain struck Lin En with his Power Fist, sealed him inside a poison chamber, and assumed the attack and gas would kill him.
• The captain revealed his plan to the Navigator, ordering him to adjust course toward coordinates where another fleet would meet them.
• Lin En recovered, tested the room’s reinforced walls with a chair, and realized he could project his Group Healing aura through them.
• Lin En activated Group Healing, flooding the flagship with golden light and drawing the Ultramarines squad’s attention.

After Captain Otelo revealed himself as Alpharius and fled, Lin En survived the poison gas chamber and reunited with the Ultramarines. Lin En tracked Alpharius through the ship and prepared to pursue him.

• The Ultramarines squad saw Lin En’s Golden Aura flare and broke into Captain Otelo’s quarters, but found the captain gone and a hidden passage closing.
• The squad leader questioned the Navigator, who pointed toward the poison gas chamber where Lin En had been trapped.
• The Ultramarines forced open the chamber, and Lin En emerged unharmed and ordered them to ventilate the ship.
• Lin En learned that the captain had escaped and identified him as Alpharius, the spy who had tried to kill him.
• Lin En kept his Mass Healing Aura active and tracked Alpharius as he ran toward the stern through maintenance passages.

Lin En chased Captain Autolo through the Emperor battleship after surviving his assassination attempt, while his Golden Light healed the soldiers he passed. Autolo tried to escape and warn the Legion, but a squad of Ultramarines intercepted him before Lin En arrived.

• Lin En led five Ultramarines after Captain Autolo, and his Golden Light healed wounds and illnesses throughout the ship.
• Lin En tracked Autolo through the battleship using [Thirty Days], while guards and Astartes joined the pursuit.
• Captain Autolo fled toward the lower deck, convinced Lin En’s survival meant his infiltration network was exposed and that he needed to warn the Legion about a Living Saint.
• Autolo encountered a red-helmeted Ultramarines squad and tried to pass them off, but they surrounded him and questioned his suspicious behavior.

Lin En confronted the captain of Macragge's Honour after a Librarian identified him as a traitor, but the captain denied the accusation and demanded proof. Lin En invoked the Emperor's Gaze, and the captain's reaction to its power was about to expose where his loyalty lay.

• A Librarian arrived with the pursuing Ultramarines and declared the captain a traitor.
• Lin En challenged the captain's excuse for fleeing, prompting the gathered Astartes to surround him.
• The captain denied treason and claimed Lin En had attacked him, leaving some Ultramarines unsure whom to believe.
• Fed up with arguing, Lin En activated the Emperor's Gaze, which strengthened loyalists and suppressed rebels.
• The Emperor's terrifying presence descended upon the group as the Warp trembled at his impending ascension.

Lin En exposed Captain Autolo as an Alpha-plus Legion traitor aboard Macragge's Honour, and the Ultramarines captured him before he could detonate his bomb. The ship’s commanders thanked Lin En, while his assigned escort worried that their military records would suffer for letting him uncover the traitor.

• Autolo collapsed under the Emperor’s Gaze, and the Ultramarines recognized him as a traitor.
• Autolo reached for a self-destruct bomb, but two Ultramarines squads shot him before he could activate it.
• The Ultramarines restrained Autolo, and a Techmarine removed his bomb before they took him to containment.
• The vice-captain and Chapter commanders thanked Lin En for preventing Autolo from endangering the ship and its thousands of Astartes.
• Lin En’s escort worried their military records would suffer after his actions exposed the traitor.

After the deputy captain upgraded Lin En’s accommodations, Lin En moved into the captain’s suite and watched the Ultramarines inspect it for hidden threats. He settled in with a view of Macragge and received a special-issue dinner.

• The deputy captain moved Lin En from the temporary cabins in Zone C to the captain’s suite in Zone A and arranged special-issue meals.
• Lin En entered the suite with an Ultramarines escort and met Sergeant Agrippa, who offered to inspect the room.
• Agrippa revealed a hidden screening room, where Lin En waited and watched a holographic display of the Macragge System while the Ultramarines searched the suite.
• After confirming the suite was secure, Agrippa told Lin En that dinner would be delivered to him and his escorts.
• Lin En received a steak for dinner while the Ultramarines ate nutrient paste.

Lin En let the Ultramarines guard him while he rested, then used his newly enhanced mental space to draw a card. He obtained the purple entry Machine Spirit Resonance and wondered whether it could make vehicles operate on their own.

• Lin En offered to let the Ultramarines take turns resting, but the squad leader refused and said they could rest in the lounge if needed.
• Lin En returned to the bedroom, admired the comfortable bed, and settled down while two Astartes guarded the entrance.
• Lin En entered his mental space and saw that the fifteen-day cooldown had ended, granting him one card-draw attempt.
• Lin En coaxed the system into conducting the draw, and the wheel landed on the purple entry Machine Spirit Resonance.
• Lin En read that Machine Spirit Resonance could temporarily awaken a vehicle's Machine Spirit and wondered if the awakened vehicle could move and fire without a driver.

Lin En waited out the Warp journey aboard Macragge's Honour and arrived in the Macragge System. As he saw the Ultramarines' homeworld and its defenses, the chapter left him poised to begin the Battle of Macragge.

• Lin En stored the [Machine Spirit Resonance] card and decided to wait until they left the Warp before testing it on a machine.
• Lin En fell asleep, and a spark from the purple card drifted into the edge of the golden [Emperor's Gaze] card without moving it.
• A red-helmeted sergeant told Lin En that the treasonous captain would be handed over to an Inquisitor and that the ship inspection had found no other infiltrators.
• Macragge's Honour completed its Warp return procedure and entered realspace in the Macragge System.
• Lin En looked through a porthole at Macragge, the Ultramarines' homeworld, and the fleet and defenses surrounding it.

Macragge prepared for the Tyranid invasion after Mortendar fell, and Lin En arrived at Hera Fortress to meet Chapter Master Calgar. The planet stood ready for battle as Lin En was welcomed by Calgar’s Honor Guard.

• Mortendar fell, and the Hive Fleet advanced toward Macragge, prompting the Ultramarines to fortify the planet and mobilize its population.
• Macragge’s Honour entered orbit, and its crew sent Lin En under escort to Hera Fortress aboard a Thunderhawk.
• Lin En admired Macragge’s unpolluted landscape and the imposing Hera Fortress as the Thunderhawk landed at Laphnis Valley.
• A four-studded veteran from Calgar’s Honor Guard welcomed Lin En and escorted him to his arranged audience with Lord Calgar.

Lin En met Marneus Calgar and the Ultramarines’ leaders at Hera Fortress, then chose to join the Third Company for its counterattack against the Tyranids. Captain Mikael Fabian welcomed him and was tasked with taking him to the company’s base.

• An Ultramarines guide led Lin En through Hera Fortress to the Hall of Honour, where Calgar, Tigurius, and Invictus welcomed him.
• Calgar told Lin En that the regent had praised his abilities and would soon arrive, then showed him the Ultramarines’ company structure.
• Lin En chose the Third Company over Calgar’s suggested defensive companies, accepting the danger of fighting at the front against the Tyranids.
• Calgar summoned Third Company Captain Mikael Fabian, who welcomed Lin En and accepted him into the company.
• Calgar instructed Fabian to take Lin En to the Third Company’s base and arrange his equipment and accommodations.

Lin En arrived at Third Company's headquarters, where its leaders debated which department should take him. They decided he belonged with the Chaplains, and Castor welcomed him as a second Chaplain for the company.

• Lin En left the Hall of Honour with Fabian while the Ultramarines squad stayed behind.
• Fabian led Lin En through Third Company's headquarters to its conference hall.
• Librarian Ruetz, Apothecary Sagar, and Chaplain Castor argued over which department should recruit Lin En.
• The three leaders concluded that Lin En's morale-boosting and healing abilities made him best suited to serve as a Chaplain.
• Castor took Lin En's hand and welcomed him into Third Company, proposing that he serve alongside him as a second Chaplain.

Lin En officially joined the Ultramarines' Third Company as a Chaplain and received mortal-adapted Power Armor and weapons. As he prepared to settle in, the Behemoth Hive Fleet arrived over Macragge, and Lin En charged with the company toward the orbital battle.

• Fabian registered Lin En as an additional Chaplain in the Third Company, and Calgar approved the transfer.
• Castor and Fabian arranged Chaplain equipment for Lin En, who received lightweight black-and-gold Power Armor, a Scepter of Truth, and a mortal-use Bolter.
• Lin En completed an armoring ceremony and promised Fabian that he would protect the company.
• The Behemoth Hive Fleet arrived over Macragge, cutting off the planet beneath the Shadow in the Warp as the orbital defenses engaged.
• Fabian led the Third Company toward a Thunderhawk, and Lin En joined them to head for the orbital battlefield.

Lin En watched Macragge’s orbital defenses engage Hive Fleet Behemoth as he traveled aboard a Thunderhawk Gunship. Civilian ships sacrificed themselves to destroy the Tyranid vanguard, and the battle continued as the enemy pressed toward the planet.

• Lin En rode with the Third Company aboard a Thunderhawk Gunship as it climbed into orbit above Macragge.
• Lin En saw the planet’s layered defenses and the Tyranid vanguard advance into the asteroid minefield.
• Tyranid Bio-ships survived the explosions and launched void Hormagaunts and spore assault craft at the defensive platforms.
• The converted merchant fleet fired torpedoes and guns into the Tyranid swarm, then rammed enemy ships as its ammunition ran out.
• A merchant ship broke through the swarm and detonated against a parasite mother ship, splitting it in half.