Recaps

As the Warp’s destructive fate threatened the Imperium, the Primarchs and their allies used the Flames of Truth to save Prospero and prepared the Golden Throne to search for the missing Father of Night. On Terra, the Night Haunter began fueling the search with Drukhari faith while Slaanesh delivered Han Mingxuan’s letters to Curze and the Evernight Legion.

• Dante summoned the Blood Angels’ successor Chapter Masters to address their practices, while Han Mingxuan appeared in the Relic Archive and challenged Dante and Mephiston over the Evernight Code.
• As the Warp fell into chaos, the Night Haunter and the Necrontyr joined the struggle against the Black Sun, while Magnus warned the Primarchs that despair threatened the Warp and the Great Angel’s death was coming.
• Horus and Dorn tried to contain the growing conflict around Terra, but Curze’s forces defeated the original Seventh Legion and the Evernight Legion incapacitated the Custodes.
• The Night Haunter revealed himself as another Curze, wounded the Emperor, and explained that the Emperor’s plan involved confronting an illusory fate with a real fate of destruction.
• The Black King’s curse engulfed Prospero, and Magnus led the Thousand Sons toward the City of Truth as his warriors sacrificed their souls and power to him.
• Magnus burned Prospero’s books with the Flame of Truth, cured the Flesh Change, and sent the Book of Knowledge into the Warp to form a third flame and stabilize a passage.
• Magnus returned to Terra with Slaanesh and Grandfather, who helped prepare the Golden Throne and the Klein bottle to search for the Father of Night.
• The Night Haunter began using Drukhari faith as fuel for the search, while Slaanesh delivered Han Mingxuan’s letters to Curze and was allowed to speak with the Thirteen-Person Group.

As the illusory fates gathered into a threat, Han Mingxuan crossed into the 41st Millennium and helped secure the Lamenters’ future while Sinleech prepared a plan involving the Emperor and the Dark King. The Primarchs learned how the original Horus Heresy unfolded, and Curze began recounting the betrayals and battles that followed.

• Slaanesh chose to fuse with the other half of the Positive Authority, while Angron and Mortarion agreed to wield the powers of war and death against the gathering illusory fates.
• Han Mingxuan crossed Terra’s history, reached the 41st Millennium, and went to find the Lamenters as the Four-Armed Emperor and its forces threatened the galaxy.
• The Necrons joined the battle and used the Celestial Orrery to destroy star systems, while Mortarion accepted the Power of Death and Curze helped stabilize the Warp.
• Han Mingxuan revealed himself to the Lamenters, rejected the Custodes’ request to visit Terra, and secured the chapter’s pardon, fortress-monastery, and Homeworld through Sinleech.
• Han Mingxuan met Sinleech on New Prospero, then helped reinforce the Golden Throne as they prepared to act after Cadia’s fall and the Emperor’s power could affect reality more strongly.
• The Primarchs learned how the Emperor created them and how the original course of fate led to Horus’s fall, Magnus’s rebellion, and other Primarchs’ betrayals.
• Curze recounted how Horus became corrupted, Magnus lost Prospero, and Fulgrim resisted Slaanesh’s corruption with Han Mingxuan’s help.
• Curze described Horus’s attack on Isstvan III, where loyalists including Saul Tarvitz, Garviel Loken, Torgaddon, and Nathaniel Garro survived the betrayal and carried news toward Terra.

The Night Haunter recounted the original fate of the Heresy, the Siege of Terra, and the later Imperium, forcing the Primarchs to confront the losses and betrayals awaiting them. When Han Mingxuan called from the 40k era, the Council prepared the Eighth Legion and gathered supplies for the Night Haunter’s return.

• The Night Haunter revealed how Fulgrim’s betrayal and possession led to Ferrus Manus’s death, then described the Word Bearers’ attack on Calth and the devastation that followed.
• The Night Haunter recounted the creation of Imperium Secundus, Angron’s transformation into a Daemon Prince, and the Siege of Terra, including Sanguinius’s death and the Emperor’s final battle with Horus.
• Curze described Dorn’s return to Terra with the dying Emperor and explained how the Imperial Fists suffered through the War of the Beast and the destruction of their Legion.
• The Night Haunter recounted Caliban’s fall and the Dark Angels’ hunt for their lost sons, leaving Lion El'Jonson distressed.
• Han Mingxuan contacted the Council through the Klein bottle, said he was in 40k with Sinleech, and ordered the Night Haunter to organize the Eighth Legion for a meeting near Baal.
• Trazyn took the Council to Nostramo, where the Necrontyr prepared supplies, while Russ and the other Primarchs raided Mars for Mechanicum assets needed for the operation.
• Trazyn showed Curze the prepared battleship, star-made staves, and dimensional pockets holding Necrontyr worlds, while the Evernight Legion prepared recordings and letters for Han Mingxuan.
• Sevatar announced that the Evernight Power Armour had been stolen, Curze identified the Night Haunter as the thief, and the Legion confronted him and began beating him on Curze’s order.

The Night Haunter rebuilt his Eighth Legion by rescuing Sevatar, reforming him through the Evernight Code, and defeating Jando Sclavoc to reclaim the Nightfall. Meanwhile, Han Mingxuan gathered recruits and revived the Necrontyr, leaving the Silent King and Imotekh ready to cooperate with him.

• Trazyn sent the Night Haunter back to his fate, but the Emperor’s Warp Storm carried him to Terra, where Sinleech restrained him and explained that Han Mingxuan and the Emperor had planned his return.
• The Night Haunter freed Sinleech’s Tzeentch double by opening its sealed book, then left the Rock with Sevatar and Otani and began reforming Sevatar through the Evernight Code.
• Han Mingxuan taught the Code to Dante’s successors and the Lamenters, discovered Trazyn’s vast stores inside his Blackstone ring, and arranged for ten thousand Necrontyr to be revived.
• The Silent King met Han Mingxuan and received a soul seed, while Han recruited ten thousand candidates for the Eighth Legion and the Night Haunter hunted Daemons with Sevatar and Otani.
• The Night Haunter found Corvus Corax, defeated him, and persuaded him to cooperate after the Emperor healed him, and together they studied the Code and tracked Chaos strongholds.
• The Night Haunter killed Lucius, confronted Khârn, and led Sevatar and Corvus to the Nightfall, where they uncovered the Tattoo-faced Earl’s Warp-corrupted exhibition and Jando’s claim to the Legion.
• Jando attacked Zoe Sahar to seize the Crown of Night, but the Night Haunter arrived, defeated the Chaos forces, and reclaimed the Crown as Sahar entrusted it to him.
• The Night Haunter welcomed Decimus and Valier into the Legion and declared its allegiance to law and justice, while Han Mingxuan revived the Silent King in a flesh body and secured his cooperation in restoring the Necrontyr.