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Cold Vigil

Space Marines

Stories of Space Marines from different Chapters. Cold Roads and No Worse Sin depict separate Brazen Claws episodes, whose relative order is unknown. Gessart’s story continues Gav Thorpe’s mini-arc about the Avenging Sons warband. In Iron Watch, the Iron Lords continue guarding the Grendl Stars after the Great Rift.

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Cross-era Archive · Codices and RulesSeveral eras · 17
Cross-era Archive · Campaigns and LoreSeveral eras · 5
Kotov’s expedition departsThe expedition begins · before Lords of Mars; exact year unestablished. · 1
Airborne recovery in the Sotharan LeagueApothecary stranded → squad deployment → recovery attempt · 1
Preparing an ambush during the Feralis IV revoltFeralis IV revolt · preparing the ambush · 1
Free fall after the Storm Eagle’s destructionTransport destroyed → free fall → final attack · 1
Dall and the surviving Scythes’ retreatAfter Sotha’s fall · before The Skull Harvest · 1
Callan: the Space Marines’ landing and surrenderThe remembered surrender · before detention and execution · 1
The virus trial on CarnageAccident → discovery → the trial · 1
The Tesra IV governor’s capitulationThe Storm Warriors’ return · the Tesra IV mission · 1
Jomi, the supposed friend and the Inquisition’s intervention near GroxgeltDelta Khomeini V · from the voice to leaving with the Inquisition · 1
Inquisitorial inspection of the Doom LegionAfter the brothers’ defection · inspection of the Chapter · 1
Engentre’s council in the Eye of TerrorAfter twenty years of war in the Eye of Terror · 1
The Mentor and the survivor cadreAfter losing his brothers · training survivors · 1
Caleb’s rescue from the battlefieldWounding → rescue → treatment and suspicion · 1
Boarding Accursed EternityBoarding the daemon-ship · divergent temporal streams · 1
The Doom Eagles accept IcaGathis II · the Doom Eagles’ selection · 1
Loss of the Cold RoadsThe Brazen Claws’ penitent crusade into the Eye of Terror · 1
Kargon fights Tydaeus in the Mimesis EngineInside the simulation · before the outpost breach · 1
Kargon breaches the Iron Hearts’ outpostIron Hearts’ outpost · after the battle in the simulation · 1
The brothers discover the rift in Manos CityManos City · before the Space Marine emerges · 1
A Space Marine emerges from the riftManos City · after the brothers’ discovery · 1
Mutants and beastmen attack PasternachPasternach · the attack on the village · 1
Four Space Marines kill the attackersPasternach · the arrival of the Space Marines · 1
Erices prepares to destroy the reliquaryThe basilica · the defence against the Orks · 2
Centurius reclaims the Animus MalorumThe basilica · the Legion of the Damned appears · 1
Erices accepts the Legion’s priceAfter the basilica defence · Erices’ decision · 1
Korpus recovers gene-seed on Antillis IVAntillis IV · the 2nd Company is overrun · 1
Korpus rescues the trapped ScoutsAntillis IV · retreat and evacuation · 1
Garrido shows footage of the captured TitanTophet VI · between the two assaults · 1
Korpus covers the Thunderhawk’s departureAntillis IV · the fight to get the gunship away · 2
Fabrikus takes Korpus prisonerAntillis IV · after the evacuation · 1
Mattias hopes to profit from pilgrimsIxo Primaris · discovery of the bolt pistol · 1
The Warbringers seize the spaceportIxo Primaris · the spaceport is seized · 1
The Warbringers assault the cityM41 · Ixo Primaris, the assault on the city · 1
Horus’s pistol is destroyedIxo Primaris · the relic’s fate · 1
The Word Bearers threaten FenrisFenris · during the Great Companies’ absence · 1
Sergeant Cerrano’s last stand on ArboriaArboria · the daemonic invasion · 1
Belael and the Grey Knights destroy House GaudiPraxis · after Kravi’s confession · 1
Drax tries to escape prison as battle rages on the moonAirless moon · the jailbreak and battle on the surface · 1
Artegall rebuilds the Crimson ConsulsCarcharias · after the war with the Black Legion · 1
The First Company is lost aboard the Revenant RexRevenant Rex · during the First Company’s operation · 1
The recruits turn their weapons on the ConsulsCarcharias · betrayal from within the Chapter · 1
Carthach reveals his plan to ArtegallCarcharias · the long sabotage is revealed · 5
Baldwin kills Artegall in the armouryCarcharias · after Carthach reveals the scheme · 1
Sarrien and the Guard hold the line on LystraLystra · the Imperial Talons and Guard defend the hive · 2
Plague zombies overwhelm SarrienLystra · Sarrien’s defence falls · 1
Dragan intercepts a Guard transportIn space · Dragan’s approach to Lystra · 1
Dragan encounters the Iron Warriors on LystraLystra · Dragan arrives after Sarrien’s defence · 2
The Praetors of Orpheus landShertore · defence of the crossing · 1
The uprising and the fall of VyskhoddOblazt · uprising and escape from Vyskhodd · 1
The Era IndomitusAfter the Rift · 2
The rift at the top of the towerThe start of the incursion on Minea · 1
The Iron Knights come to the Guard’s aidAfter the daemonettes break through · 2
The ascent to the warp riftDuring the assault on the tower · 1
The rift on Minea is sealedThe climax of the assault · 2
Morningstar speaks of penanceAfter the rift closes · 1
The Black Consuls arrive on SuractoThe start of the mission on Suracto · 1
Prisoners challenge the administration’s accountThe investigation into the uprising · 1
Niall cuts the interrogations shortDuring the interrogations on Suracto · 1
Estrus comes to suspect NiallAfter the interrogations on Suracto · 1
Zacherys warns of a warp riftLate in the fighting on Helmabad · 1
Gessart turns on the dissentersAfter Zacherys’s warning · 1
The company hands the governor over to the rebelsWhile arranging the withdrawal · 1
Rykhel leaves the cruiser in an escape podThe departure from Helmabad · 1
Gessart sets course for the Eye of TerrorAfter leaving Helmabad · 1
The Vengeful fleesAfter leaving Helmabad · 1
The Vengeful makes a jumpEn route to the Eye of Terror · 1
Seizure of the merchant convoyIn the Geddan system in the short story · 1
Corsair boardingDuring the convoy raid · 2
Gessart and Aradryan parleyAfter the fight aboard · 1
Gessart fires on Aradryan’s shipAfter loading · 1
Gessart is mortally wounded in a space battleAfter The Rewards of Tolerance in Gav Thorpe’s mini-arc · 1
A bargain for Gessart’s lifeAfter Gessart is wounded · 1
Constantinus serves with the Sons of GuillimanNova Terra · before Constantinus’s rebellion · 1
Ork invasion of AgraInvasion: 793.M41; later stages have no separate dates · 1
The Avatar of Khaine wipes out Seoc’s squadIdharae · the 852.M41 assault · 2
The Legion of the Damned emerges from the flamesIdharae · the 852.M41 assault · 1
Flaming bolts fail to stop the AvatarIdharae · the 852.M41 assault · 1
The Legion breaches the domeIdharae · the 852.M41 assault · 1
The Lamenters land to counterattackMalvolion · Kraken campaign, c. 992.M41 · 1
The Iron Lords’ watch over the Grendl StarsAfter the Great Rift opened; exact date undetermined · 1
The Rorphax campaignRorphax campaign after Narath crosses the Rubicon Primaris; exact year unknown · 1
The Recriminant insurgency: assault on the asteroid minePrimaris era: the Recriminant insurgency; exact year unknown · 1
Defence of DiamantusEra Indomitus; exact year not published · 1
Attempt on TyberosCarcharodons story; timing relative to Void Exile unknown · 1
The Executioners storm the Binyaamem manufactorumEra Indomitus · the hunt for Kalag · 1
The invasion of RaphaelaAfter the chapter's Primaris reinforcement following the Penitential Crusade; exact year unknown · 1
Kurrinon’s fall and the return of the Dragons ArdentAfter the Great Rift: vengeance → the Nails → the later duel · 1
Cadet Augustin is ambushed near his childhood homeBefore Augustin’s recruitment · 1
Captain Iustus sends Augustin for recruitmentAfter the death of his cadet commander · 1
Augustin undergoes transformation on MarsAfter being sent for recruitment · 1
Three-sided battle aboard Summons of FaithIndomitus Era; year unknown · 1
Augustin passes the Martian storm trialAfter his transformation on Mars · 1
Augustin wakes from the Long SleepTen thousand years later in the story · 1
Augustin meets the guide on ChevreuseAfter the Long Sleep, at the start of Lords of the Storm · 2
The last stand of PersecutisM42; year unknown · 1
Raqib loses Sawaq during the advanceRecollection · the advance on the factorum world · 1
Raqib’s squad rescues SulamarRecollection · the campaign’s final assault · 1
The Cao Quo uprising and the Elemental CouncilAfter Cao Quo’s annexation · Fifth Sphere · M42, exact year unknown · 1
Raqib begins his vigil in the reliquaryAfter the campaign · the night vigil · 1
Raqib faces the vigil’s five questionsDuring the night vigil · 1
Raqib swears his oath and takes Kiah’s shieldThe end of the night vigil · 1
Cartographic ReserveDate not established · 5
The Triarchy’s council after the Great RiftAfter the Great Rift; exact date undetermined · 1
Boarding of Rann’s BladeAfter the Badab War; Primaris fight in the present action, exact year unknown · 1
Huron’s trap for the MinotaursAfter the Great Rift opened; exact year unknown · 1
Karakopis: the Raptors’ ambush and counter-attackDuring the Indomitus Crusade; calendar year unknown · 1
Lazarus’s mission on CineroAfter the Rubicon Primaris · before Lazarus: Enmity’s Edge · year unknown · 1
Defence of Elara’s VeilDefence of Elara’s Veil after the Great Rift; exact year unknown · 2
The Chevreuse pilgrimage missionChevreuse mission after the Great Rift; exact year unknown · 1
Akurra offers the Deathwatch a bargainZamarius · after Karhaz’s team returns · 1
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Cold Vigil

Jon Flindall

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