Recaps

Lynn broke the Ork assault, won the allegiance of the Snow Claw and Ice Fang Clans, and turned Sorine into an unwilling ally. After Erko rallied a new Ork force, Lynn destroyed him at the Forbidden Wall, while Brevis’s nobles began questioning Lynn’s rule.

• Lynn reshaped Quinn’s memories to ensure he would obey orders during the coming operation, then lured Gugga’s army into a prepared kill zone and helped the defenders destroy it.
• Lynn infected the Orks’ starch jelly with the Peyton Virus, killed Gugga, and halted the pursuit before his exhausted forces could advance farther.
• Xuezhao Yu and Ice Fang Kuai pledged their clans to Lynn after he overwhelmed them with psychic power and conjured the Dragon of Frost, and he promised aid for their vulnerable people.
• Lynn and Rena prepared the clans’ settlements and supplies as Frost Soldiers emerged from altar caves and slaughtered Orks, while Sorine discovered their Tyranid nature.
• Sorine infiltrated Lynn’s escort, but Lynn exposed her disguise and used her secret love for Abel Varo and her forbidden methods to make her submit as a Lictor.
• Erko built a Deff Dreadnought Mekboss, rallied the Orks, and led a huge counterattack toward the Forbidden Wall, prompting Lynn to ready the Vanguard.
• Lynn used an orbital strike and Rena’s power to destroy Erko and his mech, and the human forces defeated the remaining Orks.
• As Lynn’s victory spread through Brevis, nobles questioned his rule until Archbishop Goodwin warned them that challenging Lynn meant questioning the Emperor, and Carter entered the council hall.

Lynn returned to Brevis, seized resources from the nobles, and crushed their armed rebellion while the Vanguard battled the Orks. At Saint Garus Castle, Chaos conspiracies plunged Lynn and his allies into a battle that ended with Luna escaping and the rebellion defeated.

• Lynn returned to Brevis to a jubilant crowd, then planned to use Carl II as a staging point and expand factory production through work relief.
• Lynn demanded resources for an expedition against Dorito, then used a Purification Crusade banquet to kill nobles and force survivors to surrender their fortunes.
• Gus eliminated the Winter Family and Holstein Family, while first helping Stella return to battle before killing her and ordering her family destroyed.
• Divine Emissary One and Divine Emissary Three developed Frost Soldier Twos and specialized Lictors, driving the Orks into the icefields as Lynn prepared to confront Brevis’s nobles.
• Lynn’s forces crushed an armed noble uprising, but his investigation of the St. Garus Family led him into Callum’s illusion and a confrontation between Slaanesh worshippers, Tzeentch cultists, and the Ecclesiarchy.
• As Chaos forces attacked Saint Garus Castle, Rena reached Lynn as Isolde, while Leo escaped Aiden’s ambush and was saved by the Ice Fang Clan and Frost Soldiers, and Quinn and Aiden died when their Knight mechs exploded.
• Callum opened a rift, but Canoness Valenia and the Sisters of Battle banished the Keeper of Secrets at the cost of Valenia’s life, before Luna arrived and aged the defenders with her powers.
• Valenia’s sword restored Lynn’s strength, and he and Isolde fought Luna’s forces until Isolde destroyed the Chariot of Change, and Luna revealed she had left a phantom behind and escaped.

Lynn restored Leo’s standing and challenged Luna’s claim to leadership, then let her lead the campaign against the Orks while quietly undermining her fleet’s preparations. Luna’s forces and Lynn’s Tyranids both searched Carl II for Iron Pincers Chandler, but the Orks’ psychic defenses drove the infiltrators back and left Luna seeking help from Him.

• Lynn and Isolde defeated the daemons and Mutalith Vortex Beast at Saint Garus Castle, while Loya disappeared into the darkness.
• Lynn learned that Luna had declared herself Lord Regent, and Goodwin warned him that the St. Garus family’s political conflict had deep roots in the Mechanicus and Chaos.
• Leo returned to the Forbidden Wall, was distrusted by his former comrades, and later connected the conspiracies that had sparked the civil war.
• Gus and Anthony helped Leo prove his purity in a public ceremony, and Leo rallied half the St. Garus forces as Prince Regent while refusing the throne as long as Caladogon might live.
• Lynn challenged Luna’s leadership and proposed that whoever captured Carl II first would become marshal, then quietly sabotaged the Rule of Discipline’s engines by arranging fuel problems.
• Luna sailed for Carl II, where Orks ambushed her fleet with disguised asteroids and Brute Ram Ships, but her Shadow Vortex Torpedoes swallowed the attackers and dragged Karch into the Warp.
• Lynn allowed Tzeentch Cultists to sabotage Luna’s fleet, while Rena’s Genestealers repaired their changes and protected the ships’ preparations.
• After Luna’s five victories failed to take Carl II, she and Lynn sent infiltrators to find Chandler, but psychic attacks destroyed many Sicarian Infiltrators and forced the Lictors to retreat, prompting Luna to seek help from Him.

Lynn’s fleet fought Chandler’s Orks while Rena and Luna pursued the Mecha Cache, and Lynn later infiltrated Carl II as Seven-Smasha to help Toothy rise among the Gretchin. The stretch left Toothy facing Awu’s approaching force while Lynn was away commanding a fleet near Carl II.

• Luna’s fleet was overwhelmed by Chandler’s Orks until Lynn arrived with the Pinnacle Black Obsidian and attacked, while Tyranids turned the Orks’ transports against their own fleet.
• Chandler escaped with the Mecha Cache after Sith summoned the Foot of Gork, which destroyed Luna’s frigate and killed her crew, though Luna later reappeared aboard the Iron Radiance.
• Rena Jingzhe attacked the Orks aboard the Rule of Discipline, but Chandler escaped in a pod and reached Carl II with the cache after defeating her.
• Lynn’s attempt to infiltrate the Orks as a Rena Ork failed, so he and Rena created the purple-skinned Hokage Clan and sent Lynn into Carl II disguised as Seven-Smasha.
• Toothy rescued Lynn at a Squig ranch, and Lynn helped it kill Awen, claim Awen’s position, and gain authority over the Gretchin workers.
• Lynn helped Toothy secure Awu’s western Squig pen and brought it to a group of Orks whose leader submitted after a staged fight.
• Xiaobudian sent Toothy teeth for managing Awu’s territory, but Toothy stayed to face Awu’s approaching force as Lynn left to command a fleet aiding Luna near Carl II.