Recaps

Vulkan and Guilliman’s forces broke the Ork strongholds, survived a Chaos assault, and advanced on Greenskin Prime with help from Dantioch and the Necrons. Kork’s death ended the ancient Orks’ Waaagh, while Dorn and Perturabo reappeared elsewhere in the galaxy.

• Vulkan destroyed the Ork battle moons and reached Gork’s Anvil, where his Exterminatus unleashed a Chaos ritual that brought Lorgar, Fulgrim, and Angron into the material universe.
• Vulkan fought the daemon primarchs aboard the Unquenchable Ember until Ferrus, the Legion of the Damned, and Guilliman’s fleet arrived and helped defeat Angron and banish Fulgrim.
• Lox destroyed the remaining Ork fleet with the Anvil System’s white dwarf, while Vulkan continued the expedition and Lox began developing spatial weapons.
• Luther’s forces attacked the Ork battle planet with Necron support, and Dantioch and Adam helped defeat and capture a Beast Warlord before the armies advanced toward Greenskin Prime.
• Guilliman’s fleet attacked Greenskin Prime as Lox and Dantioch sent a raiding fleet through dimensional space to strike the Orks from behind.
• Lox, Guilliman, and Vulkan met Kork, who revealed that he had sent the remaining Orks beyond the galaxy and challenged humanity to prove its strength.
• Lox, Dantioch, Vulkan, and Guilliman killed Kork, collapsing the Waaagh and turning the battle into a rout, while Zoe and the Ashen Claws killed Bloodhowl Zack and rebellious Greenskins killed Thomas Edison.
• Kork’s soul vanished in the Warp, confirming the ancient Orks’ extinction, while Dorn and childlike Perturabo emerged from temporal turbulence and a cobalt-blue armored figure seized Perturabo.

Lox and the Primarchs returned from the War in Heaven with Old One knowledge, raised Vulkan as the Ork Emperor, and worked to unite the Iron Hands and the Alliance of Light. As Qile led the Alliance toward Terra, Malcador lured Abaddon toward Draconyen to create an opening to free the Emperor.

• Lox, Dorn, Perturabo, Dantioch, and Trazyn traveled to the War in Heaven, where Qua healed Perturabo and gave Lox Webway knowledge and a Waaagh-energy crystal before sending them home.
• Lox revealed the Old Ones’ gifts, and the Primarchs chose Vulkan to wield the Waaagh energy, and Vulkan overcame Gork and Mork, became the Ork Emperor, and agreed to unite the Ork tribes.
• Qile exposed Alfreda’s abuses and formed the Alliance of Light, while Vulkan left to gather the Orks and Guilliman sought the Cabal’s Perpetual technology to help Madam Euten.
• Ferrus reunited with the Iron Hands and corrected their doctrines, while Lox’s metal cells restored Mel Ayan and gave the Legion a path combining living tissue and metal.
• Valdor returned with the Emperor’s true names, and Lox, Malcador, Guilliman, and Dorn planned to use the Ecclesiarchy’s conflict to draw attention away from their attempt to free the Emperor.
• Christine burned Mortarion in a ritual meant to empower the Dark King, but Mortarion escaped with Uslan and Cegorach through the Webway.
• Qile’s Alliance fought the Terran crusade at Dimarmal, where Christine unleashed a Warp storm, and Qile led the faithful and the fleet through it toward Terra.
• Lox and Malcador secretly planted Draconyen clues on Mars, prompting Ezekiel to inform Vashtorr and Abaddon, who decided to pursue the blade and ordered a war council.

Abaddon’s assault on Terra helped the Emperor return, after which the Imperium repaired the Webway and reorganized its rule. The Emperor’s forces captured Commorragh and prepared to enter Nurgle’s Plague Garden to rescue Isha.

• Abaddon led the Black Legion through Mars to Terra, where he stabbed the Emperor with Drach'nyen and triggered the planned ritual that awakened the Emperor’s divine aspects.
• The Emperor returned, defeated the invading forces, and sent Lorgar, Omegon, Abaddon, and selected traitors into the Warp as the battle ended.
• The Emperor appointed Guilliman Regent, curtailed the High Lords’ authority, and ordered Dorn and Perturabo to lead the effort to repair the Webway.
• The Emperor and Lox worked with Aeldari artisans and Imperial sages to forge replacement Webway material and seal Magnus’s Folly.
• Lion, Russ, and Jaghatai led an assault into Commorragh, where Vect used them against rival factions as daemons and traitors converged on the Heart of Pestilence.
• Fabius Bile persuaded Heliopolis to surrender, while Lion, Russ, and Jaghatai fought Ku'gath and Lion killed him.
• Typhus destabilized the Heart of Pestilence, but the Emperor contained it and his forces seized Commorragh, and Slaanesh devoured nearly all the Dark Eldar still there.
• The Emperor let Vect and his followers escape toward Biel-Tan, began restoring Commorragh, and proposed entering Nurgle’s Plague Garden with Lox and the three primarchs to rescue Isha.

The Emperor and Lox rescued Isha, restored the Webway tunneling machine, and defended Commorragh from the Chaos Gods before returning to Terra. Meanwhile, cloned primarchs escaped Fabius Bile’s laboratory and crash-landed on Isstvan III, where they found Rylanor still waiting to finish his mission.

• The Emperor rescued Isha from Nurgle’s Plague Garden, and she chose to remain in Commorragh and help the Aeldari and humanity.
• The Emperor destroyed most of Caliban to free the Ouroboros, then joined it with the Heart of Plague and the Tuchulcha Engine as Lox reshaped the machine’s loyalty.
• The Chaos Gods attacked Commorragh, where Angron tore out the Butcher’s Nails and chose death in the Emperor’s battle against Khorne.
• Lox destroyed Vashtorr and helped defeat Khorne’s forces, after which the Emperor entrusted Commorragh to Isha and Cegorach and planned a galaxy-wide Webway network.
• On Terra, the Emperor restored Magnus’s soul and bound him to humanity’s faith, while Leman Russ awoke to discover Fabius Bile had cloned the primarchs.
• Russ and Ferrus fought their way through Bile’s laboratory, and Ferrus died with the original Fulgrim in a dissolution pool before Dorn awakened the other clones.
• The primarchs escaped aboard the Thunderhawk Unyielding, but an unknown force diverted them to Isstvan III, where they found Rylanor beneath the ruined world.