Recaps

Lorgar destroyed the Cabal and recruited Nibelung, then waged war on Reincarnation Heaven after discovering its vast system of slavery and human sacrifice. The arc ended with Lorgar pursuing the Warp entity Kasara into the Warp and attacking its colossal form.

• Nibelung challenged Lorgar, conceded after seeing his six-winged psychic form, and led Anna and Grom to the Cabal’s hidden warship, which Anna exposed to the Word Bearers’ fleet.
• Lorgar’s forces stormed the Cabal base, where Lorgar killed Gulan and offered Nibelung a place in the Word Bearers, which Nibelung accepted on his own terms.
• Ferrus Manus forged a purple sword for Fulgrim, while Omega told the Emperor that Alpha had joined the Cabal and was instructed to keep acting as usual.
• Lorgar’s negotiations with Reincarnation Heaven collapsed after its envoys presented a drum made from slaves, and Seras killed them before the Word Bearers launched an assault.
• Lorgar discovered the theocracy’s human captives and ordered his forces to leave no survivors, while its ruler prepared the Crusade Army and Knight Order to fight the Imperium.
• Imperial pilots led by Richthofen and the Imperial fleet broke Reincarnation Heaven’s defenses as Lorgar joined the battle and confronted its bloodied Divine Emissaries.
• Lorgar used the Lectitio Divinitatus to free souls bound inside animated skeletons, then burned the Divine Emissaries and dragged Kasara out of the Warp rift.
• Lorgar shoved the wounded Kasara back into the Warp, followed it inside, and charged its planet-sized form with his flaming greatsword.

Lorgar destroyed the corruption on Davin’s Moon before it could claim Horus, while Abaddon returned to the Sons of Horus and challenged Brutus’s growing influence. The arc left Abaddon battling Makro and the Justaerin, with Henry helping him defeat their force.

• Lorgar destroyed Kasara with his golden power, then returned to the battlefield as Imperial forces advanced against the enemy defenses.
• Johnny helped the Colchis Auxiliary Army break through enemy positions, while Leki ordered civilians rescued and underground fortresses demolished.
• Lorgar demanded ten righteous souls from a surrendered planet, found none, and burned it after rescuing its slaves.
• Angron and Hercules defeated Samael’s Bone Giant and destroyed the Palace, freeing its enslaved people.
• Brutus received a mysterious black ring from Soren, while Horus set out for Davin after Eugene declared independence.
• Lorgar accompanied Horus to Davin, then secretly went to its corrupted moon and destroyed the temple and Eugene before the moon crashed into Davin.
• Abaddon awoke after more than a decade, regained command of the Justaerin, and clashed with warriors loyal to Brutus.
• Makro brought the Justaerin against Abaddon in the fighting pits, where Henry joined him and helped him defeat the attackers until only Makro remained standing.

Brutus accepted a plan to use the Black Eye to free Horus from the Black King’s control while rings and Warp influence spread among the Primarchs and their allies. After surviving an Aeldari attack on Taal, Brutus met Sharrowkyn, who disguised him as Abaddon.

• Abaddon defeated Makro in the arena, while Brutus’s transfer to the Oathbreaker deepened tensions between the Legion’s old and new guards.
• Brutus read Terra’s plan to restrict Legion authority, put on Soren’s ring, and saw visions of the Emperor discarding the Primarchs and Space Marines before Isildur gave him twenty-nine rings to distribute.
• Ferrus Manus showed Utio the Leviathan, where Vashtorr used a Warp connection to corrupt Utio and provide him with forbidden weapon-making knowledge.
• Corax found the Warp creature Dholga and returned with it fused to his warship, while Bella told him Giselle had to be sacrificed to complete the ritual.
• Fulgrim gave Akurduana the Laer Blade, and Magnus chose to embrace the Warp despite the Emperor’s warnings as Mortarion refused to watch footage of Lorgar wielding psychic power.
• Brutus agreed to Isildur’s plan to wound Horus and take him to the Black Eye, while Sharrowkyn directed Entres to excavate where the artifact lay and Dammekos received a black ring in his meal.
• After Lorgar departed, Horus led his forces to rescue Brutus from the Aeldari on Taal, where Isildur saved Brutus from a Warlock and the Aeldari Craftworld was destroyed.
• After Horus’s victory celebration, Brutus met Sharrowkyn underground, received an ancient black dagger, and was transformed to look like Abaddon.

Horus was betrayed and remade by Chaos as Brutus tightened his grip on the Legion, while the Khan survived Khorne’s brutal trial. As Ferrus pursued his weapons and the Pharos, Magnus uncovered Lorgar’s secrets and began preparations for the Grand Spell.

• Brutus, disguised as Abaddon, led the Ringwraiths in attacking Horus, then brought him to the Dark Eye, where Corax drew his consciousness into the Warp.
• The Four Gods broke down Horus’s resistance and reshaped his soul, and Horus returned to life as Brutus imprisoned Abaddon and moved against his allies.
• The Khan charged the Lord of Plunder’s forces, pursued Abial into Khorne’s trap, and fought through waves of Chaos Warriors before killing Abial and dying himself.
• Khorne restored the Khan and returned him to the battlefield, while Lorgar sent Caspar Royst and Word Bearers to investigate Magnus on Prospero.
• Ferrus Manus oversaw construction of Gungnir and studied the Pharos as its connectors began to light up.
• Brutus imprisoned Abaddon, Loken, Torgaddon, and other warriors, ordered them killed, and worked with Horus to turn against the returning Word Bearers.
• Magnus learned from a Warp voice that Lorgar controlled a Blackstone Fortress, had activated Anna, and secretly ruled Colchis and a thousand worlds.
• Royst showed Magnus the Lectitio Divinitatus, and Magnus began preparing the Grand Spell with a double ordered to keep Word Bearers from leaving Prospero alive.