Editing Quest:The Long Night:Volume Two:The Rise (section)

=Gilded Skies=

Once again, a Daemon incursion. This time, as expected, it's Tjapa's forces, with their sole objective being the death of Saint Lin. Ridcully warned you about it an hour in advance – enough to redeploy some of your forces and get Lin into your Ultra-Secure Vault. The vault was built to house the most secret of your artifacts and knowledge, and had almost managed to stop He-Who-Walks-Obliquely from getting in. As such, there is no question of the Angyls slipping in. They'll have to cut through.

You evacuate your Psyker trainees, Ridcully's Eldar bodyguards call for help offworld, and Ridcully does his best to guide the Ancient One to hunt down the First Circle Archangyl headed for Dis.

Two days later, fifty million Eldar Wraiths and thousands of living Eldar arrive. So does Areatha. More Avernus natives are converging on Dis. The Archangyl, however, manages to evade the Ancient One until it gets to Dis, but thanks to Areatha's help, with only two hours to spare. The Angyls already at the capital, meanwhile, are attempting a grand ritual to summon another First Circle. Sallies by your forces, along with swarms of Dragons (led by an old one wearing the Black Crystal bracers) stop them... for now. Unfortunately, the First Circle already here is powerful enough to summon its brother quickly. It arrives an hour before the Ancient One. All the forces the Eldar have brought are arrayed against it, along with your elites...

And all they can do is hope to slow it down.

They do manage, by an hour and a half total (a good portion of it is by a division of Caver militia). Then, the old Dragon battles it personally, and delays it by five and a half minutes more. Finally, seven minutes from the Vault (and before you are forced to engage it personally), the Ancient One catches up. An hour later, the battle is over. Of course, a number of districts are wrecked as collateral, but the Archangyl is Truekilled. Meanwhile, a Lizardmen host arrives to aid your armies.

The cost is heavy. Billions of dead. Your elites are a shadow of their former might. And your daughter has lost her husband.

==Chaos and Saint==

The Cultist uprising is stopped in two years this time. Two billion dead; half Cultists and half your troops.

Lin is entering his truly final years now. The ritual cannot be delayed anymore.

As soon as the cults are stomped out, The Saint goes to Ultramar. Ridcully comes with him, bringing Isha's blessing and a purifying Rune. Eldar come. An elixir is brought, made by the best brewers on Avernus. The Chapter Master of the Ultramarines participates, using the Black Crystal Jewelry.

The Saint manages his part. The damage to Guilliman's soul is repaired at the cost of Seamus Lin's life. The rest... doesn't go so well. Ridcully and the others do manage to purge the poison, but it does more damage than expected by then. Until other means become available, the Primarch will need a Dreadnought Suit.

You build a small basilica for the Saint. It's located in the main Psyker school, giving the kids some respite from Chaos and helping them train.