The Miracle at Lumisterra

Military action

As the forces of the heretics under the Dread Commander Percival surround the Iron Empire's capital of Lumisterra, driven ever onwards by the insidious whispers of The Broodqueen at their backs, The Dread Commander engages his father atop the highest spires of Lumisterra, empowered by the Dark Powers and made into a being beyond comprehension, and is ultimately slain by his father in a duel so cataclysmic that the Iron Emperor himself is fatally wounded and falls into the Diesel Vats that power the city's Iron Sun after slaying his own corrupted child and once closest ally. With his death, the Iron Empire is saved and destroyed in equal measure - left leaderless even as the forces of the heretics scatter with the death of their leader.