Recaps

Saul led the Sons of Sorrow from the evacuation of a besieged world through the Badab conflict and Huron’s Chaos uprising, earning recognition as the Living Saint Ember. With his power and Cawl’s work transforming the Chapter, the Sons of Sorrow grew into a vast force and split to answer threats across the galaxy.

• Malakai and his squad escaped the collapsing mine with Sarah and her baby, and Saul’s presence restored the damaged communications system and gave Jason hope.
• Jason named the infant Saul, whose touch healed Malakai, and the Sons of Sorrow repaired an Ork ship and escaped with eight million civilians aboard the Ark of Hope.
• Saul’s golden flame protected the Ark from Warp daemons, and the ship reached Optera, where Saul later became a powerful warrior whose blood stabilized damaged gene-seed.
• Inquisitor Van Helsing accused Saul of heresy, but Saul’s trial exposed Van Helsing’s wrongdoing, and the Sons of Sorrow chose to protect civilians during the Badab conflict.
• The Minotaurs attacked the Sons of Sorrow, and Saul defeated Asterion Moloc before the High Lords branded his Chapter rebels and ordered Exterminatus.
• Saul uncovered Huron’s plan to sacrifice the Maelstrom’s inhabitants, killed Huron and unleashed golden power that destroyed the Chaos Fleet and cleansed corruption across the sector.
• Trajann Valoris declared Saul the Living Saint Ember and absolved the Sons of Sorrow, while Saul gained Cawl’s help to stabilize the Chapter’s gene-seed.
• The Sons of Sorrow expanded into a massive force, then split under Phoros and Saul to reinforce Macragge against the Tyranids and join the Damocles Crusade against the T'au Empire.

Saul led the Imperial forces through victories over the T'au before Shadowsun lured the fleet into a trap at Viola. The Blackstone Device suppressed the Imperials’ psychic power and luck, and Shadowsun’s forces targeted Saul with a concentrated railgun barrage.

• Calgar welcomed Malakim Phoros and the sixty thousand Sons of Sorrow as they joined the Ultramarines against Hive Fleet Behemoth, while Saul took supreme command of the Imperial forces in the Damocles Gulf.
• Saul’s fleet swiftly captured Cysel and Sydas, then destroyed a T'au diplomatic vessel after Po Dalis offered terms, prompting Anva to give Farsight and Shadowsun command of the defense.
• Admiral Yanis’s fleet routed Farsight’s ships, but Shadowsun’s stealth attacks and T'au raiders inflicted heavy losses on Imperial forces landing on Dal'yth Prime.
• Saul outfitted Astartes with anti-stealth equipment, turning the T'au raiders’ battlefield traps against them and helping the Imperials advance on the capital.
• Farsight led a desperate attack on Saul at Twin Peaks, but Saul defeated him and broadcast his death, after which Aun'Va concealed the defeat and proclaimed Farsight a martyr.
• Shadowsun trapped the Imperial fleet in the Viola nebula, where mines and a coronal mass ejection devastated the fleet until Saul shielded the Blade of Sorrow and nearby ships, then ordered a ground assault.
• The T'au’s brutal defense of Viola stalled the Space Marines, while the Blackstone Device suppressed their psychic powers and luck, causing heavy casualties and undermining their lines.
• Saul flew to the academy to destroy the device, but Shadowsun activated the Godslayer phase and ordered a concentrated railgun barrage against him.

After Saul’s devastation of Viola, he unleashed Ghazghk and the Gretchin against the T'au while Imperial reinforcements gathered. The Imperium invaded Sa'cea, and Saul led the Custodes to Aun'Ve’s headquarters, where Aun'Ve and Monta prepared to face them.

• Saul survived the T'au’s concentrated attack on Viola, then unleashed his psychic power and destroyed the Blackstone Device, the Military Academy, and tens of thousands of T'au soldiers.
• Saul suppressed the planet’s energy wells long enough to shield surviving Imperial troops, then halted the campaign and sought reinforcements from Terra.
• Saul traveled to XR-734 and awakened the Ember Legion, ordering Ghazghk and Sharpfang to build a fleet from the scrapyard and attack the T'au.
• Ghazghk’s Logic Blenders overwhelmed the T'au’s AI defenses and minefield, while Sharpfang led Gretchin assaults that destroyed T'au forces and installations.
• Qingxi prepared a trap for the Gretchin as Aun'Ve fortified Sa'cea, and Imperial Fists, Adeptus Custodes, Knights, and a Warmonger Emperor Titan arrived to reinforce Saul.
• Admiral Yanis invaded Sa'cea, but a hidden T'au fleet and fierce urban resistance slowed the Imperial advance as Saul realized the Gretchin had been wiped out.
• Saul used a bombardment to force Aun'Ve to broadcast from his hidden headquarters, then sent Vilen and thirty-six Shield Guards to assault it.
• The Custodes broke through Sa'cea’s defenses and killed Kor and his Fire Warriors, while Aun'Ve ordered the technicians to escape and Monta stayed beside him.

Saul led the Imperium’s campaign against the T’au, which ended with T’au’s destruction and Shadowsun’s vow of revenge. After becoming Chapter Master of the Lamenters, Saul confronted a Chaos Engine on the Star of Hope and endured the power of the Dark Gods.

• Saul defeated Aun'Ve and Monta on Sa'cea, then joined the Imperial assault on T'au as Shadowsun withdrew the T'au fleet behind the planetary shield.
• Saul led attacks on the shield generators, and the T'au defenses collapsed as Imperial forces occupied New Dawn City and devastated the planet.
• Shadowsun arranged an evacuation for 180,000 survivors, but Aun'Va stayed behind as Saul launched the authorized Cyclonic Torpedo and T'au was destroyed.
• Saul returned to the Lamenters after Phoros’s death and accepted the Chapter Master’s mantle, then led the Chapter to victory over the Bloodskull Marauders at Ragnarok.
• Over the following decades, the Lamenters grew under Saul’s leadership, while Governor Ivan Karamazov accepted the blessing of a mysterious Engine and spread its corruption across nearby planets.
• Terra sent Saul to the Star of Hope, where he and the Lamenters fought corrupted soldiers and found the Chaos Engine beneath the Governor’s Palace.
• Tzeentch offered Saul a choice between leaving and absorbing the Engine’s power at the cost of his life, and Saul sent his battle-brothers away before touching it.
• Saul endured Khorne’s rage, Nurgle’s decay, and Tzeentch’s madness, resisting their visions and insisting that people deserved to live.