Recaps

The Night Haunter recounted the doomed Isstvan V campaign and revealed how Fulgrim killed Ferrus Manus in the original course of fate. Ferrus Manus collapsed after hearing that the daemon in Fulgrim’s sword had controlled him and cut off his head.

• The Night Haunter explained that the loyalist forces gathered for Isstvan V were betrayed by traitors within their ranks.
• He described the campaign’s terrible consequences for the Salamanders, Raven Guard, and Ferrus Manus.
• Fulgrim and Ferrus Manus learned that Fulgrim had secretly tried to recruit Ferrus Manus, who had refused and later defeated him.
• The Night Haunter revealed that the daemon in Fulgrim’s sword took control of him and killed Ferrus Manus.
• Ferrus Manus collapsed, and the Night Haunter asked Lord Chancellor Ma to wake him because his story was not over.

The Night Haunter recounted more of the Emperor's Children's original fate, including Fulgrim's fall and the horrors Lucius became, while the Primarchs listened in shock. Fulgrim fainted after learning he had nearly sacrificed Perturabo to attain Daemonhood, and the others prepared to wake him so the story could continue.

• Malcador woke Fulgrim, who grabbed Ferrus Manus's hand and realized they had avoided their original fate.
• The Night Haunter described Fulgrim's soul being imprisoned and tortured in a daemon painting, prompting Fulgrim to try to cut his own face before Curze stopped him.
• The Night Haunter recounted Lucius's betrayal, death, resurrection, and transformation into Lucius the Eternal.
• The Night Haunter praised the Emperor's Children's loyalists and described Fabius Bile's belief in the Imperial Truth and his Primarch clones.
• The Night Haunter revealed that Fulgrim had attained Daemonhood in the original fate and nearly sacrificed Perturabo to achieve it, causing Fulgrim to faint.
• The Night Haunter ordered Lord Chancellor Ma to wake Fulgrim, while Vulkan asked Curze to stop if the story became too cruel.

The Night Haunter revealed how Fulgrim used Morgott's Stone to absorb Perturabo's essence and ascend to Daemonhood, while the Primarchs watched the events of their original fate. His revelations about Fulgrim and Ferrus left Fulgrim, Horus, and Ferrus unconscious, and Vulkan smashing the Throne Room floor.

• The Night Haunter said Horus had ignored the Daemon possessing Fulgrim because Fulgrim was strategically valuable, then described Fulgrim leading Perturabo to Idriss in search of the Angel Exterminatus.
• Perturabo realized that Morgott's Stone was the key to Fulgrim's plan.
• The Klein bottle showed Fulgrim using Morgott's Stone to absorb Perturabo's essence, before loyalists shattered the stone and Perturabo struck Fulgrim with his hammer.
• Fulgrim transformed into a serpentine Daemon resembling the Laer, and the Night Haunter revealed that Fulgrim's tail had become his sexual organ.
• The Night Haunter described Fulgrim repeatedly beheading Ferrus's clones and Horus biting Ferrus's severed head, causing Fulgrim, Horus, and Ferrus to faint.
• Ferrus moved Fulgrim beside the steps, while Vulkan smashed the Throne Room floor with his hammer.

The Night Haunter recounted the Battle of Calth, explaining how Horus exploited the breakdown in communications to bring the Ultramarines and Word Bearers together. He praised Aeneid Thiel’s foresight and questioned Guilliman about his legion’s hypothetical enemies, leaving Curze and Pusilock comparing their assessments.

• The Night Haunter began describing the Battle of Calth, where Horus ordered the Ultramarines and Word Bearers to assemble after the Isstvan III incident.
• The Night Haunter explained that the Ultramarines sought to mend relations after Monarchia while the Word Bearers came seeking revenge.
• The Night Haunter described how the Word Bearers concealed their betrayal beneath friendly banquets and eerie radio transmissions at Calth.
• The Night Haunter praised Aeneid Thiel for proposing that the Ultramarines treat other Legions as hypothetical enemies, and asked Guilliman which Legions Thiel had identified.
• Guilliman admitted that Pusilock usually assessed other Space Marine Legions as hypothetical enemies, and Pusilock defended his expertise.

The Night Haunter recounted Erebus’s role in the Horus Heresy, including the corruption of several legions and the attack on Erda. After placing Lorgar’s burning sceptre beside Grandfather, he teased Sanguinius about being emperor of Imperium Secundus.

• The Night Haunter described the Word Bearers’ surprise attack at Calth and named Kor Phaeron and Erebus as its planners.
• The Night Haunter said Erebus helped corrupt Lorgar, tried to destroy Horus, and used sacrifices and the Warrior Lodge to advance Chaos.
• The Night Haunter explained how Erebus failed to turn Sanguinius, led Calas Typhon toward Chaos, and helped bring about the XIV Legion’s fall.
• The Night Haunter said Erebus helped kill Erda and later ambushed Garviel Loken, then revealed that Erebus had stolen his name and fate.
• Lorgar placed his burning sceptre beside Grandfather, causing its psychic flames to flare.
• The Night Haunter called Sanguinius emperor of Imperium Secundus, leaving the others startled by the revelation.

The Night Haunter described how Calth became a radiation-blasted hell world and how Lorgar and Angron devastated Ultramar in the original fate. He revealed that Nuceria’s slave owners retained their power, leaving Angron furious as the story continued.

• The Night Haunter said the Ultramarines stopped Calth’s sun from going supernova, but radiation turned the planet into a hell world and a hundred thousand Ultramarines died.
• The Night Haunter explained that Roboute’s logistical strength let the Ultramarines replace their losses, and Roboute and Lion El'Jonson discussed the Legion’s administration and Nostramo’s wartime capabilities.
• The Night Haunter said Lorgar and Angron attacked Ultramar’s Five Hundred Worlds to gather sacrifices for a spell, and the populations of a hundred worlds were slaughtered.
• The Night Haunter explained that Angron’s Butcher’s Nails worsened, prompting Lorgar to take him back to Nuceria to attempt to free him.
• The Night Haunter told Angron that nothing had changed on Nuceria and that its slave owners still held much of their power.

Angron learned how badly Nuceria had fared in his original fate, attacked the Emperor, and mourned the world he had failed to save. The Night Haunter then recounted how Angron became a Daemon Prince and Lorgar’s ritual plunged the eastern galaxy into disaster before revealing that Sanguinius, Roboute, and Lion El'Jonson were tied to Imperium Secundus.

• Angron heard that Nuceria’s slaves remained oppressed in his original fate and blamed the Emperor for abandoning them.
• Angron attacked the Emperor, then grieved beside Curze, while Corax and Perturabo also struck and condemned him.
• The Night Haunter described Lorgar’s ritual, which used sacrifices across a hundred worlds and the World Eaters’ Legion to make Angron a Daemon Prince of the Blood God.
• Lorgar’s spell isolated the eastern galaxy with Warp Storms, undoing two hundred years of the Great Crusade’s achievements.
• The Night Haunter confronted Sanguinius, Roboute, and Lion El'Jonson about their connection to Imperium Secundus, and the Khan began to understand.

The Night Haunter recounted how Roboute used the Pharos Device to gather the scattered forces of the eastern galaxy in Ultramar, prompting accusations that he had planned to create a Second Imperium. He revealed that Lion El'Jonson brought the Night Haunter himself to Macragge, leaving Roboute alarmed by the danger of a traitor's arrival.

• The Night Haunter described Roboute's original plan to found Imperium Secundus, and Malcador explained that the Emperor had foreseen that fate.
• The Night Haunter said Roboute put the Necrontyr Pharos Device to use, drawing refugees, fleets, and loyalist Space Marines toward Ultramar.
• Lion El'Jonson and ten Space Wolves arrived, with the Wolves sent by Russ to verify Roboute's loyalty.
• The Night Haunter revealed that he was the secret Lion El'Jonson had brought to Macragge, and Roboute feared the consequences of his arrival.

The Night Haunter recounted his original fate, including his attempt to assassinate Lady Euten and the Eighth Legion’s role in the Warmaster’s plan. He began to explain what happened to the Eighth Legion after Shen asked, but had not yet given the answer.

• The Night Haunter told Guilliman that Fulgrim had poisoned him in the original fate, leaving him trapped in a Stasis Field, and Guilliman punched Fulgrim over the Night Haunter’s plan to assassinate Lady Euten.
• The Night Haunter revealed that Trazyn had collected Lady Euten, who was still alive, and explained that the Warmaster had ordered the Eighth Legion to massacre worlds and intercept the First Legion.
• Sevatar asked about the Eighth Legion’s use of fear, and the Night Haunter explained that terror had been his method of pursuing extreme justice.
• The Night Haunter explained that Sevatar had been called the Prince of Crows because he wore rotting human skin, while the current Sevatar had become the Chief Juror.
• Shen asked what had happened to the Eighth Legion in the original fate, and the Night Haunter admitted that he had failed his Scions before Cyrion pressed him for an answer.

The Night Haunter described how Nostramo’s corruption and the Eighth Legion’s decline drove him to destroy his homeworld, while Sevatar and the others challenged his excuses. He apologized to Shen for failing to heed him in the original course of fate, but Shen rejected responsibility for those events and warned him not to take advantage of him.

• The Night Haunter recounted surviving alone on Nostramo, ruling it through extreme punishment, and admitted to Sevatar that dark prophecies had tormented him.
• Sevatar and Roboute condemned the Night Haunter for avoiding responsibility, and he conceded that he had been cowardly.
• The Night Haunter explained that Nostramo’s nobles had sent criminals into the Eighth Legion while keeping its best recruits for their own forces.
• After discovering that his Scions were criminals, the Night Haunter said he lost control and ordered Nostramo destroyed, with Sevatar carrying out the order.
• The Night Haunter apologized to Shen for failing to listen when Shen tried to stop the destruction, but Shen said the past was not his responsibility and threatened to slap him if he took advantage of him.

The Night Haunter recounted the original timeline’s Thramas Crusade, including Shen’s death and the clash between the Lion and the Night Haunter. He left off when Shen asked him to explain how Shen died.

• The Night Haunter said Shen had remained loyal after the Tattoo-faced Earl’s sabotage and died after the Thramas Crusade, while Curze explained that the Silent King had already dealt with the Earl’s faction.
• The Night Haunter described the three-year Thramas Crusade and said he had warned the Lion that Horus’s scheme would lead to Caliban’s fall.
• The Night Haunter said the Lion attacked him during negotiations, and Corswain wounded him while rescuing the Lion.
• The Night Haunter revealed that Sevatar killed Alajos after Corswain left him to aid the Lion, and said Sevatar had defeated Sigismund in the original timeline.
• The Night Haunter praised Sevatar for saying “Death to the False Emperor,” prompting the Thirteen-Person Group to tease him until Curze stopped their argument.
• Shen asked the Night Haunter to return to the subject and explain Shen’s death.

The Night Haunter recounted the Eighth Legion’s fate and revealed the events on Macragge that led to Imperium Secundus. He left the others with the story of how Roboute, Lion El'Jonson, and Sanguinius became its three leaders.

• The Night Haunter told the group that Shen died after Tattoo-faced Earl seized control of the Eighth Legion, and that Talos was later assassinated.
• The Night Haunter revealed that Sevatar had surrendered to the Dark Angels because of an Astropath girl, prompting the others to tease him.
• The Night Haunter confessed to Vulkan that he had tortured him in the original course of fate, but Vulkan refused to punish him and urged him to face that version of himself if he returned.
• The Night Haunter explained that the Human Mystery Cult helped fuel the Horus Heresy and targeted Vulkan, while an assigned Perpetual destroyed the weapon that could kill him.
• After the turmoil on Macragge, Roboute and Lion El'Jonson agreed that a powerful institution was needed, and Sanguinius’s arrival made Imperium Secundus possible.
• Sanguinius agreed to lead alongside Roboute and Lion El'Jonson, establishing Imperium Secundus as the second imperium in human history.

Curze explained what happened to Imperium Secundus and Vulkan after the Night Haunter’s account, then turned to the coming Siege of Terra. The Primarchs watched the image reveal six thousand Vengeful Spirits deployed to prevent Roboute’s Ultramarines from reaching Terra as Curze began recounting the siege.

• The Night Haunter said Imperium Secundus had been dissolved after news arrived from Terra, and that Vulkan had been resurrected through Numion’s willing sacrifice.
• The Night Haunter described the artifacts Vulkan forged after returning to life, including the Seven Hammers Amulet and the Burning Hand, then traded barbs with Sanguinius, Curze, and Dorn.
• Curze told Dorn that his future during the Siege of Terra had been bitter, and Madian woke the Primarchs who had passed out.
• Trazyn showed the others an image of six thousand Vengeful Spirits, which Curze said the Warp Gods had gathered across timelines to stop reinforcements, especially Roboute’s Ultramarines, from reaching Terra.
• Curze began recounting the Siege of Terra from the moment the three Primarchs of Imperium Secundus set out to help, while Sanguinius protested being called Emperor.

Curze recounted how the Heresy unfolded, including Sanguinius’s prophesied death, Lorgar’s coup, and Horus’s growing power. He revealed that the Siege of Terra was ultimately a backlash from emotions accumulated in the Warp, with the Emperor and Horus caught as pieces of fate.

• Curze said Sanguinius had foreseen dying beside the Emperor, and the Warp Gods admitted they had wanted him but would destroy him if they could not claim him.
• Curze explained that Russ failed to stop Horus aboard the Vengeful Spirit, giving Lorgar the chance to control Fulgrim with his true name and rebel.
• Horus made another bargain with the Warp, grew more powerful, and eventually banished Lorgar.
• Curze told Lorgar that his resemblance to the Emperor and his strength against Warp creations made serving Chaos a terrible choice, and said Erebus and Kor Phaeron had helped corrupt him.
• Magnus deduced that the Siege of Terra was fundamentally a backlash of emotions built up in the Warp, with the Emperor and Horus turned into pieces by fate, and Curze confirmed it.

The film showed the Khan and Sanguinius defying Dorn’s defensive plan to fight beyond the Imperial Palace walls, where the Khan confronted and defeated Mortarion. The watching Mortarion learned that his daemon form could return from death, while Lorgar was told his power might be able to destroy Warp creations.

• Dorn asked the Khan and Sanguinius to remain inside the palace, but they chose to fight outside after Sanguinius’s Prophecy showed they could save countless lives.
• The Khan led the White Scars against the Fourteenth Legion and cut through its forces to reach Mortarion.
• The Khan fought Mortarion, who had become stronger through Daemonhood and Nurgle’s blessing, and eventually cut off his head.
• The present-day Mortarion praised the Khan, and Curze explained that a Daemon Prince killed in Realspace would return to the Warp rather than truly die.
• The God of War warned Lorgar that his power posed little threat to the Warp Gods, while Lorgar remained privately cautious of them.

Sanguinius inspired the Imperialis Militia to hold their positions and used the prophecy of his Fated Death to fight with overwhelming strength until it approached. Curze filled in events the vision omitted, including Sigismund’s clash with Little Horus Aximand and Abaddon’s disastrous command decisions.

• The Word Bearers urged the defenders to surrender, but Sanguinius admitted the war was likely unwinnable and chose to stay and fight.
• The Imperialis Militia rallied behind Sanguinius, returned to their posts, and prepared to face the rebels.
• The God of War explained that Sanguinius had borrowed fate’s power, becoming invincible until his Fated Death arrived.
• Curze revealed that Sigismund had cut off one of Little Horus Aximand’s arms and that Perturabo’s command kept pressure on the loyalists despite Horus’s absence.
• Curze recalled that Abaddon had thrown away the Justaerin while claiming the age of the Primarchs was over, embarrassing Abaddon as Sejanus urged him not to blame himself.

The Night Haunter recounted the War of the Webway, the Emperor’s sacrifice of a thousand Psykers, and the Webway Project’s failure, while the Warp Gods explained the threat of the Dark King. He left the Primarchs with the Emperor’s grim fate and the Great Angel’s foretold death.

• The Night Haunter rebuked Lion El'Jonson for giving Perturabo the Great Cannon during the Siege of Terra.
• The Night Haunter described the Daemons flooding into the Webway and the Emperor turning the battle by sacrificing one thousand Psykers and summoning the Legion of the Damned.
• The Night Haunter explained that the Webway gate was closed at the cost of the Emperor’s dream, leaving him to maintain both the Astronomican and the sealed gate with a daily sacrifice of a thousand Psykers.
• Grandfather and Slaanesh warned that the Dark King could emerge, and Slaanesh said he would kill him if Han Mingxuan’s plan required it.
• The Night Haunter revealed that Horus Lupercal’s arrival on Terra would be the Emperor’s last chance to leave the Golden Throne and that the Great Angel would die.

The Night Haunter recounted how Malcador sacrificed himself on the Golden Throne in the original fate and described the final battle aboard the Vengeful Spirit. He revealed that Sanguinius died at Horus’s hands, leaving Horus shocked and tearful.

• The Night Haunter said Roboute was delayed outside Terra by the Chaos Gods while Horus and the Emperor’s forces prepared for their final confrontation.
• The Night Haunter explained that Malcador had taken the Emperor’s place on the Golden Throne, sacrificing himself and helping launch the Grey Knights Project.
• The Night Haunter bowed to Malcador and praised his loyalty, while Malcador silently reflected on the tragic original timeline.
• The Night Haunter said the Emperor boarded the Vengeful Spirit with Sanguinius and Dorn, but the Chaos Gods scattered them to different locations.
• The Night Haunter revealed that Horus killed Sanguinius in the original fate, and Horus reacted with shock and tears.

Curze explained how Horus’s soul was destroyed and how the Emperor defeated him with help from Oll Persson and Garviel Loken. After hearing the tragic account of the Horus Heresy, Dorn insisted on learning what happened next, but Defensio and Sigismund took him out for a break.

• The Night Haunter said Horus had remained loyal until the Warp Gods destroyed his soul, and revealed that Horus had smashed Sanguinius before the Emperor boarded the Vengeful Spirit.
• Curze explained that the Emperor abandoned his plan to absorb the Warp’s power after Oll Persson and Loken advised him against it.
• Oll Persson protected the dying Emperor with Enuncia, while the Emperor used an illusion of Garviel Loken to expose an opening that let him kill Horus.
• Curze called the Heresy a tragedy between father and son, prompting the Primarchs to struggle with what they had heard.
• When Dorn demanded to hear what happened afterward, Curze sent Defensio and Sigismund to take him out for a break before continuing.

Curze recounted how Rogal Dorn returned to Terra with the dying Emperor, Sanguinius's corpse, and Ferrus Manus's head, then endured the Emperor's placement on the Golden Throne and the Imperium's aftermath. Dorn learned that Roboute Guilliman split up the Legions and wrote the Codex Astartes, while Curze warned that the Imperial Fists' suffering was not over.

• Mortarion suggested playing cards, but Curze instead continued explaining what happened to the Imperial Fists after the Horus Heresy.
• Curze revealed that Dorn returned to Terra carrying the dying Emperor, Sanguinius's corpse, and Ferrus Manus's head, with Valdor following in tears.
• Curze explained that the Emperor was placed on the Golden Throne, Malcador gave him his remaining Psychic Power and turned to ash, and Dorn vowed, "I am Rogal Dorn. I will never fall."
• The Primarchs showed Dorn respect, and Curze said humanity faced ten thousand years or more of war.
• Curze explained that Guilliman split up the Legions and wrote the Codex Astartes, with Dorn agreeing to support the division.
• Curze warned that the Imperial Fists' suffering was not over.

The Night Haunter described what happened to the Primarchs after the Heresy, including Dorn’s disappearance and the Last Wall Protocol he left for the Imperial Fists. He then recounted the War of the Beast and began explaining the Age of Apostasy, naming Vandire as its central figure.

• The Night Haunter explained that the loyalist Primarchs spent two hundred years rebuilding the Imperium before disappearing one by one, with several leaving to pursue their own missions.
• The Night Haunter told Dorn that he fought relentlessly after the Heresy, suffered grievous losses at Sebastus IV, and ultimately disappeared after attacking the Sword of Desecration, leaving behind only his hand.
• The Night Haunter said Dorn had established the Last Wall Protocol, which Koorland later activated when the Imperium faced the War of the Beast.
• The Night Haunter described how The Beast’s Ork Empire built Attack Moons, including one that hovered over Terra and demanded the Imperium’s surrender.
• Guilliman questioned how the Orks could threaten the Imperium after the Scouring, and the Night Haunter introduced the Age of Apostasy and Vandire.

The Night Haunter recounted how the War of the Beast devastated the Imperial Fists and described Caliban’s fate in the original timeline. Dorn learned that the Emperor had given Old Han his gene templates, while Lion El'Jonson was left desperate to learn more about Caliban.

• The Night Haunter described the Age of Apostasy and said Koorland activated the Last Wall Protocol before Vulkan defeated the Beast.
• The Night Haunter told Dorn that the Imperial Fists were nearly wiped out and later rebuilt from their successor Chapters, leaving Dorn devastated.
• Dorn asked to return and save his Scions, but the Night Haunter said he could not find a way back.
• The Emperor explained that Old Han had Dorn’s gene templates and could use them to remedy the Imperial Fists’ deficiencies if he had reached the original future.
• The Night Haunter explained how Luther’s resentment and Chaos led to Caliban’s civil war and the creation of The Rock.
• The Night Haunter said the Scions hunted the Dark Angels’ sons cast into the Warp, leaving Lion El'Jonson distressed by what he had heard.

Slaanesh restored the path through the Klein bottle, and Han Mingxuan contacted the Primarchs from 40k to summon the Night Haunter back and warn of trouble ahead. The Primarchs rushed to prepare supplies and support, while the Night Haunter was left stunned and eager to see his father again.

• Slaanesh told Curze that the disturbances in fate had cleared and that she had found the Klein bottle’s pointer, but the bottle soon began flashing violently.
• Han Mingxuan’s voice came through the Klein bottle and said that he and Sinleech were in 40k, that Tzeentch had gone mad, and that he needed the Night Haunter to return in a little over nine hours.
• Han Mingxuan told the Night Haunter to organize the Eighth Legion and said they would meet near Baal, then greeted Curze and the members of the Council of the Long Night.
• Malcador and the others scrambled to gather information and supplies, while Trazyn ordered the Necrontyr to cooperate and limited what the Night Haunter could transport to inanimate objects.
• Trazyn took the Council of the Long Night to Nostramo, where he set the Necrontyr to preparing supplies and told the others to write letters as the Night Haunter realized he would soon see his father.

Slaanesh ordered Xarathi to double the daily Drukhari sacrifices as an unknown feeling stirred within her, while the God of War went to investigate the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. On Mars, Ferrus Manus and the other Primarchs used the Emperor’s orders to seize half of the Adeptus Mechanicus’s most important assets for the Father of Night’s support.

• Slaanesh ordered Xarathi to increase the daily Drukhari sacrifices from ten thousand to twenty thousand.
• The God of War left the Terra Throne Room to search the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, while Grandfather stayed to watch Slaanesh and The Accursed.
• Ferrus Manus demanded all the STC Templates from the Adeptus Mechanicus, and Russ led the Thirteenth Legion in a raid on its headquarters.
• Russ presented an order signed by the Emperor, and the arriving Primarchs insisted that the Adeptus Mechanicus cooperate with their urgent operation.
• The Primarchs and their Retinues spent five hours looting Mars, taking half of the Mechanicus’s most important assets after the Emperor’s psychic command reached the sages.

The Imperium and Necrontyr prepared immense supplies, fleets, and star-powered Staves for Han Mingxuan, while the Evernight Legion wrote books and made recordings to send with him. The Night Haunter stole the Legion’s sacred armour, and Curze ordered the others to beat him until he handed it over.

• Trazyn showed Curze the supplies prepared for Han Mingxuan, including a Gloriana-class Battleship named the Father of the Evernight and Staves made with tens of thousands of stars.
• Trazyn said the Necrontyr had also prepared dimensional pockets containing every Necrontyr world that had not yet been resurrected.
• The Evernight Legion spent five hours revising letters and preparing photos, audio, and video recordings for Han Mingxuan.
• Sevatar announced that the Evernight Power Armour had been stolen, and Curze identified the Night Haunter as the thief.
• The Evernight Legion confronted the Night Haunter, and Curze struck him and ordered everyone to beat him until he handed over the armour.