Editing Warhammer 40,000 7th edition (section)

==Fluff Updates==
===Orks===
*After leaving Armageddon, Ghazghkull engaged in a space battle with Helbrecht and Yarrick and was saved by the direct intervention of Gork and Mork, who commanded him to make a Waaagh! so massive that they could lead the Orks personally. And then they threw him through the warp, 300 years into the past, from M41.990 to 694. He's currently on his way to Octarius to krump the Tyranids and show the Overfiend who's the real boss of the Orks. Since the first recorded mentions of Thraka are from about 7 years before the first Ork invasion of Armageddon, in M41.934, this means that he traveled into a past in which his giant WAAAGH and his huge reputation amassed from it didn't even exist yet. So he's literally building an army in the past, possibly to jump into the future with again and back up his M41.990-era horde once it's big enough. Emperor preserve you if Ghazghkull ever meets with himself due to time shenanigans. Source: [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Da_Great_Waaagh!]
* There is a huge emphasis on the End Times theme, with the Orks suddenly being seized with a religious fervor to gather for the Last WAAAAAAGH!!! - that often mentioned hypothetical galaxy-conquering unification of the Orks seems to be less and less hypothetical as time goes on, especially given Ghazghkull's new blessings from the Ork gods.
* The idea that Orks' psychic fields help their otherwise impossible technology work has been really downplayed, possibly removed. The Meks are really competent in this edition. The book Evil Sun Rising places a lot of emphasis on Meks going off of luck and inspiration with little memory about how they did it.
* More theories as to how the Orks reproduce are thrown around with the spores thing being offered as just one possibility and it is unconfirmed as to how they do it. This is dumbfounding, as even normal guardsmen in novels know how Orks reproduce.
* The infamous Ork Kaptin Badrukk has created a massive armada after raiding a Ad Mech world. After spotting a wounded Void Whale, Kaptin Badrukk is heading straight towards it. The Void Whale itself is heading straight towards Catachan. The Imperium predict that it's likely one, if not both, will end up involved with Catachan. The Imperium are unable to warn Catachan of this impending crisis. Perhaps a certain famous Catachan will return to save the day...
* Orks can now tell the difference between [[Gork]] and [[Mork]] (in previous editions it was a running gag they had no idea which god favored which aspect of Ork warfare).

===Space Wolves===
*A few retcons about Leman Russ- some time after he was adopted by wolves, a hunting party stumbled across his cave and killed his wolf-mother. After killing twelve men in an attempt to protect his "brothers", the hunters realized Russ was special and convinced him to go with them to King Thengir. When the Emperor revealed himself, Leman Russ challenged him to a duel on the spot (no mention of any eating or drinking contests), which lasted for hours before the Emperor finally knocked him out. Apparently Emps KOing Russ in one punch wasn't flattering enough to justify being included.
*The long-lost 13th Great Company has reappeared in the Imperium. Unfortunately for the Space Wolves and everyone else, they've all turned into Wulfen and daemons seem to be following their every move. Needless to say, now that the Curse of the Wulfen is no longer the Space Wolves' little secret quite a few factions in the Imperium are convinced that the Wolves have some kind of Chaotic taint. And after being egged on by the Changeling, the Dark Angels have begun an all-out invasion of Fenris just as a massive Chaos attack is occurring.
**The situation goes from bad to horrible as the Thousand Sons invade Fenris yet again as a unified legion, with Magnus the Red himself leading their forces. By the end of the whole mess, one of the Wolves' planets is destroyed, the rest of them including Fenris are in shambles, Egil Iron-Wolf is dead, and the Planet of the Sorcerers emerges into the Materium over Prospero as the Thousand Sons begin their attacks on the Imperium in earnest. The remaining Space Wolves head off to the Cadian Gate to battle in the 13th Black Crusade.

===Grey Knights===
*[[Vorth Mordrak]] has been mentioned to be Admiral of the Fleet.  Any mention of the whole "Ghost Knights" deal is practically nonexistent, as is any mention of [[Anval Thawn]].  However, it's never explicitly said if these events are noncanon, and considering GW's stance at continuity, this likely will remain so.
*[[Khornate Knights|That one incident with those Sisters of Battle]] has now mostly been completely replaced with a new story in which the Sisters not only save the Knights from failing their mission, but then proceed to heroically hold the line against the daemonic tide long enough for Draigo and co. to confront the [[Greater Daemon]] responsible for the incursion.
* The new hero to come from the Chapter is Aldrik Voldus, who managed to summon [[Kaldor Draigo]] to physical realm on the death of his previous Grand Master. Draigo promotes him to leader of the 3rd Brotherhood before fading back to the warp. 
** It seems that Voldus has now <s>publicly outed the Grey Knights, seeing as he and his men fight openly with the Terran Crusade, then take part in the two day long parade from the space port to the Emperor's throne room.</s> > Although it was rare, whole companies of the Grey Knights were already, from time to time, allowed to enter in the ''Sanctum Imperialis'' as a special privilege for an Imperial audience (as are any newly inducted [[Astropath]]). Furthermore, even if [[Black Crusade|the Grey Knights participated in the Terran Crusade,]] [[Minotaurs|it does not means that data about them are disclosed]]. So, yeah, Geedubs is giving us [[Derp|a demo of logic and continuity again]].

===Dark Eldar===
*Commorragh is not as secure as once thought - there is a sealed hole in the bottom (how can there be a ''bottom'' of Commorragh when it's made of numerous inter-dimensional realms where ''up'' is a subjective concept?) of the Dark City called Khaine's Gate, and something is whispering through it out of the Warp, trying to get in. Vect's putting up some failsafes in the vain hope of containing whatever is on the other side, but they aren't working. Rumors abound that he's making a sanctuary, so if things turn to shit in Commorragh he can get away and start a new Dark Eldar empire somewhere else. Between [[Khaine|the name of the Gate]] and the Warp connection, this suspiciously has Eldar cheese Renaissance written all over it, which they've been [[Just As Planned|prophesying about since 1st Edition]]. Most hopeful news for the setting since [[Farsight]] rebelled against the [[Tau|fascist confucian weeaboo empire with a Pope]] and [[Alpha Legion|speculated operatives]] stopped the Horus Heresy from leading to [[The Cabal|prophecies of doom]] [[Alpharius|by possibly killing each other]].
*Vect and Lady Malys are at all-out war with one another, and each is convinced the other wants to flood Commorragh with daemons. Ironically, that's exactly the opposite of what either of them wants and their fighting is weakening the failsafes further.
*Having noticed unnerving parallels between the greatly increased raiding and the frenzy of depravity that occurred shortly before the Fall, Urien Rakarth and several of his fellow Haemonculi have taken to placing numerous slaves in stasis pods so they can continue feeding off their suffering even if the Dark City is wiped out.
*Yvraine's birth causes Khaine's Gate to open, flooding Commorragh with Daemons. As a result, Vect's failsafes fail and all the Dark Eldar start thinking about uniting to overthrow him until Kherdruakh gets his last skull and opens a portal into the mandrake realm. Mandrakes flood the city and basically beat back the Daemons. However, the damage to Vect's image is irreversible; many Dark Eldar including Lelith Hesperax join the Ynnari, leaving the Haemonculi as Vect's only allies as Malys openly calls for a revolt against Vect.

===Blood Angels===
*There are some rumors that the only reason the Red Thirst exists is because of some genetic decay during the process in which the gene-seed is activated by injecting aspirants with Sanguinius' blood.  Of course, this is assuming that this all wasn't [[Khorne]]'s fault in the first place. 
*The Carmine Blades (Originally called the Swords of Hadroth) are a new chapter.  Originally they were feral worlders who were listed as Ultrasmurf successors for some reason and considered the Red Thirst some sort of tribal curse.  However, [[Astorath]] made one trip to their homeworld and explained who their true [[spiritual liege]] is (Hint: It's the one with wings).  They're all well and cool with this revelation, though it is gonna take a deal of effort and time to curb their more crazy habits.
*The Blood Angels-Necron alliance wasn't nearly as friendly as it seemed- the Silent King was only using the Blood Angels as meat-shields to cover the Necrons' escape from the Tyranids of Cryptus and told the Blood Angels as much after the battle's end when they were too far away to be threatened by any sort of retaliation. Dante ordered the records falsified into the "noble alliance" story (as presented in the Wardex) to cover up how the Chapter was tricked and swore to kill the Silent King for his deception. To be fair, Dante was planning to kill the Silent King anyway when the war ended. (Incidentally, the Silent King claimed to know Sanguinius and have allied with him in the past, which is rather peculiar given that he wasn't even in the Milky Way at the time of the Great Crusade. [[Sanguinor|Unless...]])

===Necrons===
*One funny tale involves some [[Kroot]] eating Necrons.  This ends up badly when nanoscarabs start flooding the place.  Other tales involve Szeras kidnapping a [[Culexus]] to figure out the Pariah gene, Orikan locking a company of marines into a Time-Loop, and two empires hiring Deathmarks and ending up leaderless at the same time.
*C'Tan are now counted as lower than even the mindless warriors.  Every Overlord from here to the Dyson Sphere gets their jollies off on this.
*Dynasties got fluffed out: Mephrit is like the Space Wolves in that they were the Silent King's executioners and they blew up stars, Nihilakh are greedy mofos with a head that could see the future.  A few other have some stories, but less detail is on them.  Also, no mention of the Maynarkh.
*Apparently Tomb Worlds can be corrupted by Chaos now as the Daemon Prince Shukketh Voidmaw infected a tomb world with taint of Chaos, but not the Necrons within. The invaders pulled the old chaos trick of "transform the landscape to my wishes" nonsense while they were still asleep and altered their crypts and landscape. When the Necrons awoke and saw what he was doing they engaged the daemon hordes to retake the planet. Necrons are immune to direct corruption as they have no souls to taint, but apparently a planet is fair game somehow.
*The Silent King has returned from his exile after encountering the Tyranids and is now desperately attempting to reunite the Necrons to fend off the Hive Fleets. So far, he hasn't been very successful.
*Trazyn pops over on Cadia and offers to help on a whim. He releases most of his Cadian collection to help fight against Abaddon, but gets bored halfway through and decides to stick around for a suitable addition to his collection in recognition of the momentous event unfolding. Though he initially hoped he could claim Abaddon, he settles for taking Creed instead.

===Harlequins===
*At the heart of the Black Library, there is a book penned by the Laughing God himself which tells of the ultimate jest: a way by which Slaanesh can be tricked into expending all of her/his/its power to save the Eldar species instead of destroying them.
*Harlequin Masques are divided into three different Troupes: Light (which represents day, swiftness, and heroic combat), Dark (representing night, villains, and violent endings), and Twilight represents change, like the webway, or a fateful journey).  It's mainly to weave together their entertainment and their jobs as murderous space elf clown ninjas.
**Some of the Masques are fleshed out.  The Midnight Sorrow are the local obsessed Chaos-killers.  The Veiled Path is composed of trolls and tricksters so good at their job that even Eldar don't know whether or not to trust them (and they're also responsible for driving [[Lady Malys]] crazy and convincing [[Prince Yriel]] into taking the Spear of Twilight).  The Frozen Stars is essentially the Harlequin equivalent of Biel-Tan and there are also smaller entries on other troupes, though only a few of these minor ones get color schemes.

===Khorne Daemonkin===
*The Khorne Daemonkin are a sect of Chaos Marines that are apparently subservient to the wishes of daemons as opposed to any mortal champions.  In this respect, they're not exactly related to the [[World Eaters]] (thus giving a probably flimsy excuse as to why [[Kharn]] doesn't show up in the codex).  However, they aren't exactly mutually exclusive either, as it's noted that several of them joined [[Angron]] in fucking up [[Armageddon]] the first time around.
**Due to their worship of the daemons of Khorne, they tend to form a hierarchy not unlike the one governing the daemonic hosts they serve.  Each of these Daemonkin warbands is commanded by a [[Bloodthirster]] of Unfettered Fury (the bottom rung of Bloodthirsters, for a given term of bottom).  The chain goes up by eights until you reach the top.
**Since Khorne has a thing against psykers, these bands don't use them.  Instead, whenever they decide to summon daemons, they use insane fanaticism and a metric fuckton of murder (represented in crunch as the Blood Tithe).  If they're lucky, they'll have a Bloodthirster possess someone and break out the old-fashioned way.

===Eldar Craftworlds===
*In the same vein as the IG becoming the Astra Militarum, the Eldar have now gotten a name change to the '''Aeldari'''. Cue obvious comparisons with Age of Sigmar and the Aelves.
*'''Fuegan's''' role at the Rhana Dandra is expanded upon; he is said to be forging a cosmic chain based upon every kill he's ever made across the galaxy, and that when the final battle comes to pass, this chain will be strong enough to ''"bind the Dragon to his will"''  and unleash it upon the [[Chaos Gods|Dark Gods]]. It is said that the soul of the Dragon lives in him though what this actually means can only be conjecture at this point, so it could be a portion of the C'Tan, some alpha-plus level psychic potential, or merely a metaphor for something else. So he's like a badass Jacob Marley.
*'''Baharroth''' is prophesied to make some kind of significant final sacrifice at Rhana Dandra that will change the fate of the galaxy. ''(ie: more significant than merely dying just like the other Phoenix Lords)''.
*"Lesser" craftworlds have had their fluff expanded, though not gaining any more screen time. '''Yme-Loc''' apparently has a doomsday device that is powered by the souls of the dead which can strip a continent of life in minutes, but they recently were raided by the Adeptus Mechanicus who left with plenty Eldar technology to play with. '''Lugganath''' is looking for a webway portal big enough to take its entire craftworld into the webway.
*[[Eldrad]] leads a force of Harlequins to raid '''Port Demesnus''' and activate a ritual to awaken [[Ynnead]] without requiring all Eldar to die. Captain Artemis and the Deathwatch proceeded to fuck up the ritual, and temporarily stopped the inevitable squatting of Slaanesh like his Age of Sigmar counterpart. 
*Unknown even to Eldrad, the ritual is still able to awaken Ynnead, but in its current state it is not yet able to defeat Slaanesh. The newborn god travels to the Gladiatoral Pits of Commoragh, where it chooses a dying Wych called Yvraine to be its first servant. Her subsequent resurrection reawakens her once-atrophied psychic powers, and shortly after fleeing Commorragh she gathers a growing number of followers from all three major groups of Eldar, chief of which is the reanimated Exarch/Incubus (it's complicated) known as the Visarch. The new faction dubs itself the Ynnari, and seek the ancient relics known as the Crone Swords to allow Ynnead to reach its full strength.
**In spite of the book's name, Biel-Tan is not physically destroyed, but after a Daemonic Incursion floods Biel-Tan Yvraine is forced to reclaim the Crone Sword embedded within its structure; the weapon is able to banish the Daemons, but the Craftworld soon begins to break apart under the strain. In order to preserve the souls within its Infinity Circuit, Ynnead takes them into itself, using them to form its avatar, the Yncarne. 
***Despite the destruction of the Craftworld proper, the Eldar of Biel-Tan are able to evacuate and take up a new lifestyle as a roaming fleet.
*Iyanden gets attacked by a host of Nurgle Daemons. Prince Yriel is possessed by a Nurgle Daemon Prince, but while he forces it out of his body the Daemon Prince kills him in its death throes. However, Yvraine uses her powers to banish the Nurgle Daemon prince and resurrect Yriel.
*Due to his involvement with the revival of Ynnead, the Seer Council of Ulthwe grows tired of Eldrad's incessant meddling with fate. The intervention of the Harlequins prevents Eldrad from being executed outright, but he is nevertheless banished from Ulthwe on pain of death.

===Imperial Knights===
* The Damocles Crusade was broken up majorly by the Freeblade known as the Obsidian Knight.  He was tough enough to break Stormsurges and Riptides, but was (supposedly) laid low by some Hammerheads.

===Skitarii===
* Apparently the Mechanicus found an STC containing every psyker related STC. Every cogboy in the sector loses his collective shit and billions of Skitarii are immediately sent with all haste. Given that it's on a Daemon World, and considering [[Sabbat Worlds Campaign|what happened when a STC was found on a world that had simply been corrupted]], this will likely backfire spectacularly should it somehow get recovered.

===Cult Mechanicus===
* Some Techpriests were desperate enough to fix the Golden Throne that they decided to hire some Dark Eldar for tech support. To their disappointment they were transferred to some dude in India.

===Space Marines===
* Raven Guard Chapter Master Corvin Severax got owned by Shadowsun. Now [[Kayvaan Shrike]] is the new Chapter Master.
* Similarly, [[Kor'Sarro Khan]] tried to kill Shadowsun, but just got a building on his legs for his troubles.
* The Black Templars and numerous other chapters lend their support to Cadia during the 13th Black Crusade. After Cadia is engulfed by the Eye of Terror, the surviving Black Templar forces escape into the Webway with the Visarch, Greyfax, Celestine, and Archmagos Cawl.
** Marshal Almarich is the only Black Templar of the Celestinian Crusade to survive the following battle of Macragge, but is declared blessed and gets made into the Emperor's Champion. However he falls against Skarbrand and his Black Sword is destroyed as Guilliman's shoots it to bits as a means of defeating the Daemon.
* The combined efforts of Archmagos Cawl and Yvraine are able to revive [[Roboute Guilliman]], the Primarch of the Ultramarines. Upon learning of the Imperium's situation, he reclaims his original 500 worlds, fights his way back to Terra, duels his brother Magnus on Luna, and gets an audience with the Emperor behind closed doors. When he returns, he declares that he will resume his old position of Lord Commander of the Imperium and begins to form plans to counterattack the forces of Chaos, setting the stage for a whole new Great Crusade. Needless to say, he is extremely upset with how spectacularly the Imperium went to shit since he was put in stasis. 
*The Red Corsairs attack the White Scar homeworld in a costly attack with huge casualties on the WS's side.

===Dark Angels===
*The Deathwing is said to consist of 20 regular squads and 3 Deathwing Knight squads as well as a command squad, clocking in at a bare minimum of 115 Marines; the actual number is a carefully kept secret of the Dark Angels and is likely to be much higher than that. Same goes for the Ravenwing. Furthermore; company veterans are also now formalised as an additional part of the 3rd-9th companies (rather than being #1 of the "regular" squads) meaning the companies are each about 10% bigger than Codex guidelines.
*There are even more "Circles" of secrets being revealed, all the way down through the companies, even at squad level. For example, the 3rd squad of the 5th company knows less than the 2nd squad, but both know less than any member of the 4th company who themselves know less than the 3rd. How this doesn't make the marines intensely suspicious of their chapter as a whole despite it becoming painfully obvious that every tiny promotion gives them more knowledge hinting at some terrible secret in the chapter's past is unknown.(Probably because all space marines are brainwashed as part of their training)
*In Curse of the Wulfen, after being tricked by the Changeling Sammael orders the Implacable Justice to nuke a chunk of Fenris. The Space Wolves were literally asking for it for when they abandoned other chapters [[Heresy|to save some mutants instead of helping their brothers in arms fight daemons]] (Obviously, yes, the Dark Angels do this regularly, [[Fallen Angels#Ophidium Gulf Crusade incident|even fighting other marines]] in order to capture members of the Fallen; the only real difference is, [[Cypher|the Dark Angels have never been caught]]). Funny, last time I checked the Space Wolves were still loyal to the emprah and the Dark Angels were "being loyal" (not their fault their fluff is poorly thought out and full of contradictions - see the above dot point. Just like the Wolf Wolves, they might as well be called the Secrets Secrets.)
**During the aforementioned clusterfuck, the Changeling masquerades around the Rock and leads them into conflict with the Wolves, then attempts to breach the lower dungeons where the Fallen Angels are kept with the intention of releasing the old nemesis: [[Luther]], even managing to open some cells of unnamed Fallen on the way, leaving only empty cells and no doubt setting "The Hunt" back centuries. The Changeling gets turned around before finding Luther in an encounter with a Watcher and is set upon by Azrael, along with [[Arvann Stern]] and [[Ragnar Blackmane]] who manage to beat it back and close the Warp rift it opened on the Rock, though this foreshadows the arrival of the Thousand Sons. The Dark Angels then swear to hunt down the Changeling to the edge of real space and beyond as revenge, even though the Grey Knights tell them that it would be a wild goose chase. After agreeing with the Inquisition that a conclave will be summoned to deal with the Wulfen matter at a more convenient time, the Dark Angels then tell the rest of the crusade fleet to withdraw and aid the Wolves in holding off the Thousand Sons.
**The book ends statement that agents of the Inquisition are now embedded in the Dark Angels fleet as they report from the Rock that Magnus has returned, which suggests they'll be on a very tight leash from now on, especially since later, Guilliman ordered the Custodians to arrest [[Cypher]] and a bunch of Fallen Angels on Terran soil, the secret will be extremely close to being revealed.

===Tau Empire===
* During the Damocles Crusade, an Execution Force was deployed against three major Tau leaders: Farsight, Shadowsun, and Aun'Va.
** The poor Vindicare ends up intercepted by Sub-Commander Darkstrider, who manages to blind him with a photon grenade (despite the visor which is explicitly designed to prevent that) and fill him with holes from a Pulse Rifle,[[What| despite being wounded himself because the Vindicare somehow missed his head]].
** The Callidus ambushes Shadowsun by disguising as a member of her team. The assassin still dies, but not without scaring Shadowsun by using some really deadly poisons on one of the bodyguards.
** Of the three Tau, only Aun'Va gets killed because he had the horrible luck of getting the [[Culexus]]. His death was painful. Desperate to keep morale, the Tau managed to put up holograms to give orders, making them think he was alive. This is one of the few deaths of a major character with a model in 40k since 40k was a thing (Tycho, Naaman & Eldrad have also been killed off in the fluff, but Eldrad's death was retconned). 
**Commander Torchstar gets killed, and Commander Bravestorm sacrifices himself to save Farsight from an assassin, now leaving two vacancies in Farsight's Eight. In addition to all this Ob'Lotai 9-0 is badly mauled trying to stop an Eversor that was cleaving its way through Farsight's battlesuit teams to get to him. Until replacements can be found, "The Eight" at the moment is merely a ceremonial name.
* Longstrike and Pask fought to see who was the better tank commander. Pask beat Longstrike badly in their first battle but Longstrike survived and later returned to destroy Pask's Lemun Russ without him even seeing. Pask's probably still alive, salty as all hell. (Hilariously this mirrors the crunch; whoever gets first shot will basically stunlock the other with Penetrating Hits/forcing Longstrike to Jink).
*The Tau expansion into the Damocles Sector is halted by the Imperium, and the AdMech have formed a blockade cutting their remaining colonies in the sector off from the Empire proper.
*The overall theme with the Tau currently is that after all their success the Tau have finally been handed their first real string of defeats after provoking a serious response from the Imperium. They are currently cut off from all their new colonies, which will likely be attacked soon and many of their leaders and commanders are dead or wounded leaving the Empires political future in question. The golden age of expansion the Tau had hoped for seems to be over and the Tau appear to be on the defensive for a change. On another note Shadowsun and Farsight seem to have buried the hatchet, though she is still under orders to arrest Farsight at the first opportunity.

===Genestealer Cults===
* Lots of fluff regarding the Genestealer cults and how they operate, with several notable ones being fleshed out in great detail.
* Reintroduction of the Genestealer Patriarch and Magus, as well as info on the hybrids. No word on where Broodlords fit in. 
* A few extra stages are added to the Genestealer lifecycle. The [[Genestealer Primus]] is a specialized hybrid born when the cult is ready to operate openly, and serves as a frontline commander for the cult. The Hybrid Metamorphs are a response to a Hive Fleet nearing a planet where a cult is in place and sport a variety of biomorphs normally found on other Tyranid organisms (e.g. a Carnifex's crushing claws, a Lictor's scything talons, or a Warrior's lashwhip and bonesword), while the [[Genestealer Aberrants]] are apparently failed hybrids used as muscle by the cult.
* Genestealer Cults have somehow infected Holy Terra. Through the efforts of Arbites, Inquisition, Assassins and even the Adeptus Custodes, the majority of uprisings were defeated. The Genestealer infestation was covered up as an outbreak of disease; though with a closing comment that the fake disease would have been a much better event than the truth.

===Chaos Space Marines===
* Lots of stuff on the Daemon Primarchs returning to aid Abaddon's Black Crusade.
* As mentioned above, Magnus the Red's attack on the Fenris system has brought the Planet of the Sorcerers into realspace, giving him the opportunity to launch direct attacks on Terra. 
* Fulgrim, Mortarion, and Magnus are able to sense the return of Guilliman and make their own plans to deal with their Loyalist brother.
* Abaddon nearly takes Cadia, but after a grievous wound from Saint Celestine and the Triumvirate overcharging the Cadian pylons he and his forces retreat. They manage to inflict major losses on the Imperials before being driven off- but not before Abaddon crashes his remaining Blackstone Fortress into the planet, destroying the Pylon system and causing Cadia to be consumed by the Eye of Terror.

===Imperial Guard/Astra Militarum===
* The Thirteenth Black Crusade thus far is looking to be a pyrrhic victory for the Imperium. While Abaddon, the Chaos Space Marines, and the Daemons were fended off, countless Space Marines and Imperial Guardsmen died in the process. Meanwhile, Archmagos Belisarius Cawl uses the Cadian pylons to eradicate the Black Crusaders, but Abbadon manages to destroy the pylons entirely when he crashes his Blackstone Fortress into the planet. The remaining Imperials are forced to retreat, with the Cadian 8th Regiment volunteering to stay behind to buy time for everyone else before the planet is engulfed by the Eye of Terror.
* Color-Sergeant Kell is dead after sacrificing himself to save a heavily wounded Castellan Creed from a rampaging Abaddon.
* The [[Creed|Tactical Genius]] himself is missing after getting his arm cut off by Abaddon, though he ended up being the sole survivor of the Cadian 8th. It is heavily implied that Trazyn snatched him up for his collection before he could succumb to his injuries.