A small party of Aeldari return to the ruins of their ancestral craftworld to seek the spirit stones of the dead, so that those lost in battle might be returned to a semblance of life, and their memories preserved. The Warlock Iocarus has a more specific agenda, one which can only be fulfilled by reliving the agonising events of the day the craftworld fell.
On a war-torn battlefront, Astra Militarum forces fight for survival against endless waves of Tyranids. Eoin, a messenger, must deliver a crucial communique from the Cadian commander to the central command staff, and Sergeant Harlan is given the task of keeping him alive. Together the two make their way through embattled trench lines and face the horrors of grinding warfare to deliver Eoin's vital message.
When the Death Guard champion Morior Dermatis finds his warband's ambitions thwarted, the sorcerer Ephisis takes matters into his own hands and decides on a new approach. Realising that Grandfather Nurgle's gifts are not bound by mortal conceits of space and time, Ephisis plans to unleash a plague unlike any the Imperium has suffered before.
As the Tyranids attack an Imperial colony, can a family get their newborn child off-world and save its life? This episode of Hammer and Bolter offers a terrifying insight into what an invasion looks like through the eyes of lowly hab-workers as they contend with riots, Astra Militarum defence lines, and the oncoming xenos swarm.
People are going missing on the streets of Hammerhal Aqsha. Can Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll and his reluctant colleague, the former Freeguild Captain, Armand Callis, work out what’s been going on? And just what will they discover in the sewers beneath the city’s grubby streets?
As a Chaplain and Judicar from the Exorcists Chapter interrogate a warrior from the Emperor’s Children about Lucius the Eternal, they don't realise they are about to learn more about the chosen son of the Dark Prince than they ever thought possible.