GrimVault / Reading timelines
Connected moments
Follow each campaign or story in its own narrative order. Separate eras and anthology stories remain separate.
Sequence 01 / 24 moments
Thoas to Calth
Read the events in their source narrative order.
- 01
Thoas / 01
Arrival above Thoas
The fleet reaches the twilight belt of a tidally locked world.
Open signal - 02
Thoas / 02
A decision to preserve
Guilliman rejects an annihilating solution that would destroy the ruins and permanently damage the recovered world.
Open signal - 03
Thoas / 03
Iasus takes the Twenty-Second
Iasus is elevated over Hierax to lead the Twenty-Second.
Open signal - 04
Thoas / 04
The ruins become a strongpoint
Iasus maintains the chosen position against pressure for a different attack.
Open signal - 05
Thoas / 05
Sirras breaks the order
Sirras continues destructive fire after Iasus orders it stopped.
Open signal - 06
Thoas / 06
The concealed network is exposed
Collapses and the changing battle expose the extent of the subterranean military installation.
Open signal - 07
Thoas / 07
The Second Destroyers are authorised
Hierax’s inference about a weapons cache gives the specialist formation a specific role.
Open signal - 08
Thoas / 08
Ancient weapons change the final descent
The underground concentration of dangerous human ordnance changes the rules of combat.
Open signal - 09
Thoas / 09
Erasure and the uneasy verdict
The cleared mural and the installation’s military character support a reading of internal war and human self-destruction.
Open signal - 10
Calth / 10
A conjunction on Calth
The Legions prepare for a joint operation, and the world’s ordinary routines continue around the muster.
Open signal - 11
Calth / 11
The Campanile is seized before the count
The tender is captured and its crew murdered well before most participants recognise an attack.
Open signal - 12
Calth / 12
Thiel waits for censure
The sergeant has considered combat between Space Marines and is marked for discipline.
Open signal - 13
Calth / 13
Tchure murders Luciel
A meeting grounded in shared service becomes deliberate murder.
Open signal - 14
Calth / 14
The orbital catastrophe begins
The Campanile accelerates through the orbital environment as part of a coordinated attack.
Open signal - 15
Calth / 15
Defence systems become enemy weapons
The attackers use the planetary weapons grid against the system it was meant to defend.
Open signal - 16
Calth / 16
Thiel builds a surviving chain of command
With effective command absent where he stands, Thiel gathers survivors and organises the defence.
Open signal - 17
Calth / 17
Ventanus reconnects the ground resistance
Local secure communications and underground routes connect a fighting group with technical allies.
Open signal - 18
Calth / 18
The guildhall becomes a decisive ground objective
Enemy pressure concentrates around the defenders and the technical effort.
Open signal - 19
Calth / 19
Guilliman confronts Kor Phaeron
Warp power wounds the primarch, but Kor Phaeron’s wish to turn him creates an opening.
Open signal - 20
- 21
Calth / 21
The Ruinstorm rises
Erebus regards the storm as the completion of the attack’s larger design.
Open signal - 22
Calth / 22
The surviving fleet must leave
Guilliman watches the storm from the Samothrace and accepts the need to depart.
Open signal - 23
Calth / 23
The survivors withdraw into the arcologies
Ventanus makes the movement below a necessity.
Open signal - 24
Calth / 24
Resistance enters the Underworld War
The closing commitment and later epilogue frame the years of underground resistance.
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