Editing Quest:The Long Night:Sparks at Midnight (section)

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With the Civil War in the Black Imperium, Ahriman decides this is the perfect time to ascend into Tzeentch. In the Eye of Terror, on a Crone World besieged by Nurgle's most powerful servants, he conducts a nine step ritual. However, while the daemons are grinding desperately through the defences he set, another force slips in.

Riding a Border Lion named Dances-In-Shadows, these are Eldrad, Areatha... and Jane.

Ahzek manages to start the battle with a lucky hit on Jane, but it's not enough. As the rest of the team are struggling to hold off his reinforcements, he and the Witch Killer are dueling while he attempts to ascend the steps. Everyone knows how screwed the galaxy will be if he ascends to the ninth.

Finally, on the Seventh, Jane cut into his remaining heart and through his throat.

<del>A major effort by Tzeentch thwarted.</del> Just as planned.

Meanwhile, in the galaxy, things are more mixed.

It seems that Abaddon had also received a Transcendent now, this one for all the centuries of holding the Dragon back. That means he is extremely unlikely to lose in the civil war, although there is a good chance he will come out too weak to be a threat. So far, Huron Blackheart is dead, and the Avatar of Khorne is banished.

On the Deceiver front, the war is over with both the Tau and Ultramar in a position where they can still hope to recover. However, Pech is heavily damaged, and the bastard himself has slipped away.

On the Dragon front, with the Krork being redeployed, matters are now better. To your surprise, the fighters include a number of heavily blessed Custodes. It seems the Emperor is coming back now.

Finally, the Ophelian Theocracy is all but gone. However, Callamus isn't as happy about it as it should be. Apparently, a good portion of the territory fell not to them, but to uprisings of Triumvirate worshippers. Now, there is a fifty-odd sector polity on their border which is not exactly an enemy, but not quite a friend either.

Ridcully tries to divine the Deceiver, but so far without success. However, he does manage to divine ''Lorgar''. Apparently, the bastard’s trying to dig to the Primordial Sea by himself. Not the diluted stuff in the Well of Eternity, but the actual INK that blotted the Slann dead.

Idiot.

A very scary idiot.

The regular divinations to fight the Dragon, as well as ones to prolong Abaddon’s Civil War, are more successful. In addition, he finds out that the Slaugth are preparing another massive attack. Should that one fail to do enough damage, they will most likely fold and retreat back into the intergalactic void.

You, meanwhile, are finishing the final stages of the supply chain to their territory.