Recaps

Vulkan rejected Nurgle’s offer but was corrupted and led a plague assault on Colchis, where Anna and the defenders faced Corax and the traitor forces. As Lorgar returned gravely wounded, his loyalists fought off a Chaos assault on his warship after the Gellar Field collapsed.

• Vulkan rejected Festus and endured Nurgle’s corruption, but Nurgle separated Vulkan’s soul from his body and transformed him into a Chaos warrior.
• Festus raised 777 fallen Salamanders as Nurgle’s corrupted champions and sent them to attack Colchis alongside Vulkan.
• Corax infiltrated Anna’s star fortress, but Anna’s Blackstone weapons suppressed his powers until Curze intervened and fought him.
• Lorgar’s suffering sent the Word Bearers into a golden frenzy, while Aakton arrived with news of Horus’s rebellion and pledged to defend Colchis.
• Corax abandoned the fortress when Bella warned him that the ascension ritual could not wait, and Curze told Anna that Lorgar was dying.
• Lorgar’s damaged warship reached Colchis, and his loyalists prepared to carry him through the Warp while Curze and other forces departed on separate missions.
• The Chaos Gods allied to seize Lorgar, and Pius led Raven Guard infiltrators aboard the warship, where Hercules killed him and Royst destroyed Kha'Hamur.
• The infiltrators destroyed the Gellar Field generator, allowing Chaos forces to swarm the ship as Hercules, Royst, Khârn, Nibelung, and the Word Bearers fought to protect Lorgar.

After Lorgar fell, his followers hid his body in the catacombs while Corax and Vulkan brought Nocturne to Colchis and unleashed a massive assault. The defenders fought to hold the planet as Corax’s Raven Guard broke through toward Lorgar’s tomb, with Anna and Hercules heading to confront him.

• Mardell tried to take Lorgar’s soul, but the Khorne daemons and Word Bearers drove him into the Warp before Shalaxi Helbane entered the warship to claim Lorgar’s body.
• Argel Tal revived through Lorgar’s power and joined Hercules and Ang'grath in fighting Shalaxi, who fled into the Warp as the daemons withdrew.
• The Emperor guided Lorgar’s warship to Colchis, where Anna and the Word Bearers hid Lorgar’s body in the Ancient Catacombs beneath the Shroud.
• Bella transformed Corax into an Everchosen, and Vulkan began a ritual that brought the daemon planet Nocturne to the Colchis System.
• Curze entered Nocturne and fought Vulkan to keep him from attacking Lorgar’s body, while the Word Bearers and Colchis defenders prepared for the approaching assault.
• Daemons poured through Warp rifts and attacked Colchis, but the defenders held their positions as the planet’s Power of Faith weakened the invaders.
• Corax teleported Raven Guard forces behind the Antioch fortress and began hunting for Lorgar’s corpse, while Anna ordered Rockefeller, Seras, Abaddon, and Hercules to intercept him.
• Abaddon and the Luna Wolves killed the Daemon Prince Soren, but Corax struck Abaddon aside and slaughtered the First Chapter as Word Bearers reinforcements charged him and Anna and Hercules approached.

Lorgar returned from death, defeated Vulkan and Corax, and began restoring Colchis as the wider Imperium fell into confusion over false beacons and broken communications. While Lorgar prepared to reclaim nearby worlds, Horus tried to draw Mortarion into his march on Terra, and Garro left Barbarus with the Seventh Company.

• Corax fought Hercules, Argel Tal, Royst, and Anna on Colchis while Vulkan endured Nurgle’s transformation on Nocturne and became a seven-headed plague dragon.
• Vulkan and Corax broke into Antioch Fortress, but Lorgar returned as the 189 defenders fell and golden light cleansed the Millennium World.
• Lorgar destroyed the Great Unclean Ones and fought Vulkan and Corax, banishing Vulkan and pinning Corax beneath a storm of golden spears.
• Lorgar praised the survivors and vowed to fight beside them, while Anna and Curze questioned his changed appearance and Lorgar resolved to preserve his humanity despite his growing power.
• Lorgar learned that false Astronomican lights had isolated Terra and misled Imperial fleets, ordered the Herald of the Holy Word repaired within a month, and sent Abaddon with a large force to hunt Brutus.
• Omega reported Alpha’s betrayal to the Emperor and Malcador, who ordered him to infiltrate the Traitor Faction and warned that the coming war might never end.
• Horus invited Mortarion to join the march on Terra, but Mortarion refused unless Lorgar stood with him, leaving the Death Guard uncertain about their allegiance.
• Garro left Barbarus aboard the Eisenstein with the Seventh Company and supplies, while Mortarion watched the ship depart and told Vorx to report that Garro had fled without his involvement.

Guilliman survived Mobius’s assault and reunited with Sanguinius and Lion El’Jonson, while the Word Bearers helped save his ship and Hill reached him through his soul-world. As the loyal Primarchs set out for Ultramar, the Khan moved against it and Fulgrim’s assault on Angron began.

• Mortarion rejected Horus’s Black Rings and declared that the Death Guard would join the Traitor Faction while obeying him alone, hoping Garro would reach Terra.
• Mobius opened a rift aboard Macragge's Honour, but the Word Bearers fought the daemons while Guilliman’s force escaped Mobius’s attack at the cost of Malekith.
• Praeto sent Hill into Guilliman’s soul-world, where Hill rescued Euten from Galan and escaped the collapsing vision before waking aboard Macragge's Honour.
• Guilliman appointed Hill captain of the Second Company, identified Magnus as a traitor, and ordered his fleet to find Sanguinius and Lion El’Jonson.
• Sanguinius defeated Skarbrand on Kohnberg, then reunited with Guilliman as Lion El’Jonson reported that the Sons of Horus had tried to seize his ship.
• Guilliman, Sanguinius, and Lion El’Jonson agreed to go to Ultramar, while Jaghatai Khan ordered the Blade Storm toward the Five Hundred Worlds to ambush the False Emperor’s followers.
• Fulgrim led the Emperor’s Children in a boarding assault on Angron’s ship, and Angron battered Akurduana through the bulkheads before Fulgrim challenged him to a duel.
• Fulgrim and Angron began their battle as Fulgrim thrust his sword toward Angron’s throat and Angron swung both axes at him.