House Manticos - Endgame: While Alicia Kar Manticos led the ambush on the boy-king, her husband -- Gerraint Tan Chimaeros -- achieved a new breakthrough: High Sacristan Xedediah had managed to locate the remainder of the Loyalist Adrastapolian forces who were hiding in a vast complex of underground warehouses. Sharing this information with Varakh'Lorr led to a large host of Chaos Cultists, Renegade Planetary Defence Force-troops and Daemon Engines affiliated with the Word Bearers Legion to be sent to crush the Imperial Knights once and for all. With the majority of the Loyalist Knights slain or marked for destruction, it was time for Gerraint Tan Chimaeros to enact the second part of Alicia's plan: to seize power over all the other Chaos forces on Donatos Primus.This required eliminating the Word Bearers and their frightful leader, Varakh'Lorr, who was even now finishing the preparations for his grand ritual, a dark ritual during which thousands of Donatos' citizens were to be sacrificed, ensuring his rebirth as a Daemon Prince of Chaos. Varakh'Lorr had been so focussed on these matters that he did not suspect Gerraint's treachery, but as the ritual began, House Chimaeros and House Wyvorn betrayed the Word Bearers.In those warzones furthest from the Valle Electrum, where few Chaos Space Marines had been deployed, the coup of the Renegade Knights was successful; but closer to Varakh'Lorr, within the confines of the Valle Electrum and especially in the vast plaza before the Imperial cathedral where the Dark Apostle had locked himself in, a vicious fight erupted. The Word Bearers defended their lord with fanatical devotion. Even as Alicia Kar Manticos was reunited with her love, terrible news reached them -- the Imperial forces were attacking the Valle Electrum and breaking through!Unknown to them, Danial Tan Draconis had survived Alicia's ambush and after destroying the army sent against him, he led the last Loyalist Knights in a desperate attack to thwart the Heretics' plans. With Gerraint's Knight and tactical acumen needed on the battlefield, Alicia confronted Varakh'Lorr. In most circumstances an unaugmented human, even one who was a powerful psyker, had little chance to slay a Space Marine, but Alicia knew that the stress put on Varakh'Lorr's mind so close to his ascension to daemonhood would leave him weakened. Pleased with her actions, Tzeentch had restored her strength and further enhanced her psychic powers, which gave Alicia Kar Manticos a very real advantage over her foe. With a final goodbye to her husband and lover, the witch entered the cathedral while her escort and the remaining House Manticos Knights followed Gerraint into battle.As predicted, Alicia Kar Manticos found Varakh'Lorr chanting proscribed verses in the Dark Tongue whilst countless human sacrifices were led into a sacrificial pyre of psychic flames. Even weakened, Varakh'Lorr's own powers were still a match for Alicia's, but what the Manticos consort had not planned upon was the presence of another squad of Word Bearers Heretic Astartes. A deadly firefight erupted within the cathedral's nave.In response to the Bolter-fire of the Word Bearers, Alicia Kar Manticos launched orbs of sorcerous fire while deflecting the bolts striking her with a powerful shield of telekinetic energy. Both camps were surprised when Imperial Knights broke through the thick walls of the cathedral: two Knight Errants, one in the colours of House Draconis and the other bearing the livery of an unknown Freeblade. The Knights' armour identified them as Oath of Flame and Sword of Heroes -- Danial Tan Draconis and Alicia's own son, Luk Kar Chimaeros. Immediately reassessing the situation, the Word Bearers opened fire on the Oath of Flame, leaving the vengeful son to face his mother.Although Alicia tried to reason with him, to convince her son to let her go, he would have none of it: activating his Knight's Thermal Cannon, Luk Kar Chimaeros fired at his mother, the woman that had lied to him all his life and tried to kill him. Even as the wave of superheated air closed upon her, Alicia crossed her arms in front of her, summoning all her power to project a powerful shield that kept her from death but the kinetic force of the blast was strong enough that she was flung against the cathedral's far wall, shattering the stone and vanishing from sight.