Recaps

The Imperium fought across multiple fronts as Vulkan defeated Boomblasta, Dorn captured Magnus, and Kaldor Draigo returned to sustain the Emperor. The arc left Jaghatai Khan wounded and trapped aboard the Vengeful Spirit amid attacks from Abaddon and Fulgrim, while Leman Russ sought to restore the Space Wolves.

• The Crimson Tide and Imperial forces fought Khorne’s Blood Legion, while Kazhaniv and William faced attacks across their fronts.
• Boomblasta’s Waaagh overwhelmed Number Four World until Vulkan returned and killed the Ork warboss, though the Deathskulls rallied under a new boss and the system was abandoned.
• Khârn’s Blood Legion was devastated when an Aeldari Craftworld plunged into a star, while the wider war intensified around the Blackstone Spires and Terra.
• Rogal Dorn’s forces defeated Magnus at the altered Blackstone Spire, and Dorn took him away in a blackstone War Coffin as Ralph carried Ina’s body.
• Ken led Penal Legion survivors through the Blackstone Fortress battles, but the Night Lords later seized the fortress and Kaldor Draigo returned to sustain the Emperor.
• Alpharius, disguised as the Lion, fought Angron and helped defeat him, but Angron’s axe pulled the Lion into Khorne’s Domain before Titus freed him.
• Abaddon attacked the Iron Fist as Jaghatai Khan was diverted into Tzeentch’s labyrinth, where Fulgrim wounded him and Tzeentch’s forces carried him to the Vengeful Spirit.
• Abaddon struck the blinded Khan, but loyalist reinforcements arrived by teleport beacon, Fulgrim confronted Ashlan, and Leman Russ secretly asked Bjorn to help restore the Space Wolves.

The Emperor’s forces survived the assault on Terra and the Webway, while Evan became a Primarch and then found himself in the Warp fighting to gather strength and followers. The stretch left Evan aboard an Imperial Battle Barge, urging a resistant Chaplain to fight nearby Word Bearers.

• Morigen’s White Scars joined Leman Russ’s forces, and Russ helped Jaghatai drive Fulgrim back before Abaddon withdrew to regroup.
• Vulkan fought across the Ork Battle Moons as the Imperial fleet destroyed most of them, but the last Moon escaped toward Terra and became Gork’s Mockery.
• Dorn awakened his power and sealed the Webway breach, while Alpharius and Vulkan battled Orks on the Moon and Constantin Valdor brought reinforcements to Terra.
• The Emperor told Evan that his soul had to disappear for a new batch of Primarchs to be created, then sent him to the Webway, where Evan grieved for Ina and joined the fight against Boomblasta.
• Evan helped Vulkan defeat Boomblasta and stop the Ork threat, then the Emperor revived Guilliman, Lion El’Jonson, and Russ and sent Evan to begin his transformation into a Primarch.
• Evan’s memories returned after he reunited with Xiao Lan and William, but he soon fell into the Northern Lands in soul form and began gathering strength by eating souls and attacking the forces of Chaos.
• Evan fought Orks and daemons, seized command of their forces, and became known as the Great Mushroom King before leading them against a Chaos Knight House on a Forge World.
• Evan boarded an Imperial Battle Barge in red-sludge form, disabled a Word Bearer, and urged a Chaplain of the Sons of War to fight the approaching Word Bearers.