Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-25890179-20160423031035/@comment-4960835-20160423084758

The reason I needed five was due to the Coalition Wars and the Olympian corruption needed to put in somewhere. The plan was four years, but those things forced me to change that.

Year four in the Berserker Onslaught, although they barely do anything in the first quarter since they're still solidifying their hold on the ex-Tyranny territories by then. Instead, they strike a deal with the Blood Brothers, giving them the newly Darkling-Corrupted Olympians (yes, these guys) in exchange for weakening the Alliance.

Now they seem loyal to Abbadon's Darklings, and in a way, they truly are (they willingly suicide themselves as a test of loyalty) - but they are loyal only until Caligustus gives the signal for them to reveal their trule allegiance to the Darkling Brotherhood. It's like a mental one-use switch that is buried deep within their minds, if you will. Of course, since the corrupted Olympians seemed truly loyal to the Blood Brothers, they didn't expect the betrayal and get hit hard from the inside. QUe the Blood Brothers are forced to retreat behind the Red Veil, and that's one less potential threat for Caligustus to deal with.

Of course the Blood Brothers did their work, and when the Imperium of War finally arrives at the UAE's borders, they easily curbstomp it's nearly all of it's nations (only the Mendel, Persan and Multus manage to hold out).

Year Five is the tides turning due to foreign aid arriving and the Imperium getting crushed in the end - so nothing mayor happens to the other factions as they're too busy dealing revenge to the Imperium.

Caligustus is abe to convert people to join his side (in a Curse of Khaine-esque manner) because he possesses the Elemental Ring of Control, which grants him full use over the forbidden element of Control. He basically brainwashes people into violent warmongers.