Recaps

Lorgar reunited with his brothers and dealt with threats from Mars, the Warp, and the Cabal. After discovering the Cabal’s plan to target Euten, he rushed to warn Roboute Guilliman and protect her.

• Lorgar reunited with Angron and Curze, accompanied Angron to visit Oenomaus on Nuceria, and secretly extended the old man’s life by thousands of years.
• Argel Tal joined the Word Bearers and chose immediate service at the Great Crusade front, while Magnus’s vision of a peaceful Imperium shattered with his crystal.
• Utio stripped Kelbor of his prospects on Mars and sent him to the Forge World Hephaestus, while Vulkan and the Salamanders rescued Plaguebane’s colonists from xenos.
• The Emperor ordered Omega to infiltrate the Cabal, and Rosha killed human traffickers and nobles before defeating Slaanesh Daemons with the Holy Word Army’s help.
• Lorgar challenged Utio’s demands for Word Bearers technology as the Iron Hands sought advanced bionics, then confronted the Cabal agent Mary aboard the Law of Faith.
• Lorgar learned from Mary that the Cabal planned to destroy humanity and assassinate Primarchs, killed her, and prepared to return to Terra after the Emperor said their last brother had been found.
• Lorgar captured a Cabal ship and discovered an imminent plot against a Primarch’s closest kin, after Curze described a vision of Ultramar burning, Lorgar identified Euten as the target and warned Guilliman.

Lorgar helped protect Euten during the Cabal’s attack on Macragge, then joined his brothers on Terra as they contested the Warmaster title and launched a champion tournament. Hercules dominated his opponents and met Sigismund in the final.

• Farseer Isona ordered the Aeldari to protect Euten, warning that failure threatened the Aeldari and the universe.
• Strange, Volando, and their allies escaped Macragge with Euten after Cabal attacks, while Blue Falcon Squadron sacrificed its fighters to protect their Thunderhawk.
• Guilliman thanked the surviving Word Bearers for saving Euten, and Lorgar learned that the Primarchs would gather on Terra.
• Horus and Lion El'Jonson tied in the Warmaster vote, but the Emperor stopped their proposed duel and postponed the decision.
• Lorgar avoided Horus's advances, encountered Basilio F in the palace, and ordered the Custodes to take him into custody.
• The Emperor assigned Horus, Perturabo, the Khan, Fulgrim, and Ferrus Manus to the Ullanor Crusade, while Lorgar introduced Hercules as his bodyguard.
• Hercules defeated Akurduana, Abaddon, and Ahriman in the champions' contest, while Sigismund won his semifinal against Sevatar.
• Sigismund entered the arena to face Hercules in the tournament final.

Lorgar’s campaigns against the Cabal and other enemies unfolded alongside events across the Legions and Colchis. After Grom revealed the location of an unknown STC in the Ghoul Stars, Anna identified the region as a secret research zone and disabled its giant guardian, leaving Lorgar’s party poised to enter the facility.

• Sigismund fought Hercules to the death, and Hercules won after their final clash shattered Sigismund’s sword.
• Lorgar organized a purge of the Cabal, approved Gian Pietro Carafa’s proposal for a secret Tribunal force, and continued the campaign against its networks.
• Grom Ironanvil was discovered aboard the Scharnhorst, offered his craftsmanship and an STC in exchange for remaining with Lorgar, and met Anna, who dismissed his ability to reproduce her technology.
• Ferrus Manus rejected entombing the wounded Morok in a Dreadnought and began replacing his damaged body with prosthetics, while Corax encountered Bella’s apparition and agreed to help her find a vessel.
• Oll Persson enlisted in Colchis’s 48th Army and joined Dragovich’s platoon, while Horus appointed Brutus to lead the First Company and Justaerin until Abaddon returned.
• Emir Timur’s White Scars destroyed the Cassandra Remnant Kingdom, rejected its surrender, slaughtered its people, and built a Jingguan from their heads.
• Grom gave Lorgar the Ghoul Stars coordinates of the STC, and Anna identified them as a top-secret research exclusion zone and warned of its dangers.
• Lorgar brought a fleet to the Ghoul Stars, where Anna disabled an immense security sphere, then led Lorgar, Hercules, Grom, and Cassios toward the research facility’s treasure vault.

Lorgar recovered advanced technology and secured a powerful warship while Horus led the Imperial assault on Ullanor. When Ork reinforcements threatened to surround Horus’s force, Lorgar answered the Emperor’s call and summoned Angron and Curze to the battle.

• Lorgar’s party disabled the ancient facility’s defenses, recovered the Wave Cannon, and found a vast containment shell that Anna warned him not to open.
• Trazyn and Orikan interrupted Lorgar’s claim to the vessel, but Orikan drove Trazyn away before Anna identified the ship as a sealed Dark Age creation.
• Lorgar reported the discovery to Terra, while Gatekeeper vanished in a warp storm and reappeared near an Iron Hands expeditionary Fleet.
• Curze sought comfort from Teresa, accepted Aili Velides as the Nightfall’s new Navigator, and Corax collected a rune-marked vertebra for his quest to resurrect Bella.
• Lorgar traded Men of Iron units and Wave Cannon technology with Lion El'Jonson for the Spear of Logic, then approved testing a Wave Cannon aboard the Yukikaze.
• Horus assembled a vast Imperial force and launched the Ullanor offensive, where the Legions broke through Ork defenses as Horus fought Urlakk Uruk.
• Horus and Urlakk fell from the fortress, and Horus turned from pursuing the fleeing Warboss when Ork ships breached the White Scars’ line and threatened the main force.
• The Emperor told Lorgar that Horus was surrounded on Ullanor, and Lorgar ordered his fleet there as Angron and Curze answered his call.