
Space Marines – Captain Diomedes contacts Inquisitor Adrastia to halt the Exterminatus. Following that, he claims the Judgment of Carrion as his new Krooza, and uses it to leave the subsector. Unfortunately, Kaptin Bluddflagg catches her off guard and takes her hat, which he wanted in their deal. Orks – Inquisitor Adrastia attempts to renege the deal between her and Kaptin Bluddflagg with assassination. Imperial Guard – Inquisitor Adrastia returns to the Inquisition to suspend the Exterminatus on sub-sector Aurelia, by presenting Kyras' psychic hood as proof that the threat has ended, while Lord General Castor and Sergeant Major Merrick commend each other for their exemplary actions rather backhandedly. This ending is confirmed as canon (as a sort of composite with the Space Marines ending) in Dawn of War III, where Taldeer and Ronahn both return, the former as a Wraithknight. Eldar – Ronahn defeats his enemies and recovers the Spirit Stone containing the spirit of his twin sister, the Farseer Taldeer (taken captive by Kyras after being slain), and decides to return to Craftworld Ulthwé with her. He is thus granted daemonhood by the Blood God, usurping Kyras' place. Chaos – Eliphas allows the Exterminatus to continue, thus sacrificing the sector to Khorne. The player quickly attempts to secure a means of transport off Typhon, escaping a local cult along the way.Īfter Kyras' death, the ending of the game will depend on which race the players character chose: Regardless, it is deemed by the player faction that Kyras must die. The motivation varies depending on the player's faction, for example the Space Marines, Imperial Guard and Eldar wish to oppose Chaos, their ancient evil enemy the warlike Orks simply want a good fight and to thump the strongest foes they can find the Tyranid splinter wishes to overrun the sector and summon a new hive fleet to consume all the biomass the Chaos faction are Kyras' rivals and wish to surpass him.
Later, the faction leader is given the objective to eliminate Azariah Kyras who intends to use the impending Exterminatus as a sacrifice to Khorne and ascend to daemonhood. It is learned that the Imperial Inquisition has deemed the sector beyond redemption, and will be arriving soon to perform Exterminatus on all the inhabitable worlds in the area.
The player's character arrives on Typhon Primaris engaging and battling an opposing faction and defeating their leader. These events may have been caused by Gabriel Angelos' actions (from the original Dawn of War game) when he destroyed the Maledictum, a Chaos stone containing the bound essence of a daemon of Khorne, with the hammer 'God-Splitter'.
Sub-sector Aurelia is now suffering from conflict between Ork pirates called the Freebootaz led by Kaptin Bluddflagg to pillage the sub-sector, the arrival of the Eldar of the Craftworld Alaitoc led by Autarch Kayleth to seek about a prophecy and recovering an ancient artifact, a Tyranid Hive Lord restoring the remnants of the Hive Fleet Leviathan and to the link of the Hive Mind, the Blood Ravens defending the sub-sector led by Captain Apollo Diomedes to hunt down Chaos as well as investigating their Chapter Master, Azariah Kyras, for being corrupted by Chaos, the return of Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion led by Eliphas the Inheritor to fulfill his promise to Abaddon the Despoiler to annihilate the Blood Ravens, and the newly arriving Imperial Guard of the 8th Cadian Regiment led by Lord General Castor, performing an Exterminatus under Inquisitor Adrastia to investigate for corruption within Sub-sector Aurelia as well as the Blood Ravens' Chapter Master Azariah Kyras. Dawn of War II: Retribution takes place ten years after events of Chaos Rising.