Even in the grim darkness of the 35th Millenium, there are still moments that make you go "Awwww".
- An overarching for the story as a whole: all Taylor ever wanted was to be a hero, but in her original time, she was never truly given the chance. Now, however, she has made friends, earned respect, fallen in love, and has enough power, wealth, admiration, and influence to really make a difference. She finally got her wish.
- Taylor's relationship with Wei. While it began as teasing on Wei's part, eventually the two girls are able to enjoy being together. Taylor being able to relax around her is proof of it.
- The reaction of the Blood Angels and their Successor Chapters in the aftermath of Taylor freeing them from the Black Rage.
- The Brothers of the Red offering shelter to Jeremiah Isley's warband and testifying in their favour in front of the Black Templars' tribunal, just because the Alpha Legionaries fought at their side on the Death Star and stayed to help with the clean-up instead of running for their lives afterwards.
- Taylor as the Basileia of Nyx is full of this. Her efforts to ensure better living standards for all those people she rules, her idea of a Basilica to honor Sanguinius (which causes two members of her Honor Guard to start crying almost immediately when she announces the project), the Sanguinalia... without a doubt, Lady Weaver proves to be the best thing to happen to the Nyx Sector and its people in centuries.
- The orphans' visit to Theodora Gaius' church. The elder templar is glad to see how well the children are growing up thanks to the chain of orphanages Weaver has set up.
- The interlude of Hasdrubal Macquaire, a simple farmer in the Matapan system. Through his eyes we witness the changes when Matapan's secession fails: The civilian conscripts returned home rather than dying in battle, the arrest of the corrupt local priest to make way for an honest one, the arrival of a Techpriest with tractors to improve the harvest, and the great reduction in tithes. The interlude ends with Hasdrubal and his fellow villagers genuinely happy and giving praise to the Emperor for sending the Saint to them.
- The Salamanders' reaction when Taylor tells them about the two Artifacts of Vulkan her men have found.
- A slave in Commorragh has a point of view describing how the dreaded masters fell when the Emperor sent His Angel to rescue them all. Many of these poor souls are weeping and awed when they lay eyes on Taylor in all her golden, radiant benevolence.
- For that matter, Taylor making it a policy to use her insects to free the slaves from their jails and explosive collars. She knows many will die... but at least they will die free.
- Rogal Dorn muses that his brother Sanguinius would have been very happy to have Taylor in his Legion.
- Rogal does not return to the Imperium because he knows his brother, Jaghatai Khan, is lost somewhere in the Webway. Even after his millennia-long imprisonment Rogal hasn't given up on bringing him back, just like Jaghatai never gave up on helping free him.
- The scene at the Faith in His Divine Art, a Pilgrim ship of painters who are commissioned with painting the scenes of the Battle of Commorragh. The ship's captain accepts many former Commorragh slaves into his ship, both to give them refuge in a safe place and to make sure that all the paintings are up to describing the truth.
- Many of the surviving slaves, who either never had names or had forgotten theirs after years of torture, decide to name themselves after insects to honor Taylor.
- Taylor never goes to the planet of Pradesh, but in the future she has thousands of churches and monasteries dedicated to her, because she indirectly saved the planet from the Biel-Tan Eldar thanks to their general recall of troops.
- Aurelia meeting Eldrad. There may yet be hope for the Eldar to change their fate.
- They are introduced at a party. Now that Slaanesh finally, permanently bit it, the Eldar are free to celebrate as gleefully as they want, as loudly as they want, as long as they want, and they won't be punished for it. There's no debauchery, but they're so gosh-darn happy it will make you smile.
- Even the Astropaths and Navigators, usually reviled by normal humans, join the celebrations for the victory without opposition.
- There's also a mention of several Rashans being "adopted" as regimental mascots.
- Dennis and Gabriela hooking up, and making it clear that they might be interested in going steady.
- Taylor naming the capitol of Pavia Constantinople to honor Constantin Valdor.
- Taylor tells Galatea she does not want to establish an Order of the Frateris Templar... because she intends to create a new Order, the Templar Sororitas, with Galatea at the helm of the Order of the Silver Rose, the first of them.
- Some of the more lenient fates Taylor gives those of the Pavia Rogue Traders who deserve them. Also, healing the scar Sliscus gave to the one Trader who rejected him.
- The reaction of a veteran of Pavia to Taylor allowing veterans of the battle to own land on the planet. As one soldier of humble birth hears this, and touches his battle decorations.''These decorations had cost him one of his hands and given him plenty of scars due to the monsters' poisons. Suddenly though, their weight in metal was much more precious. He, son and grandson of lowly workers on Colorado, could own land.
- The respect Sophia/Elena come to feel for the Emperor.
- Taylor being welcomed back to Nyx.
- Taylor is tracking down Wei's cousin who was taken on a Black Ship.
- Ovation 9-4, Taylor and Wei are finally Happily Married, to the joy of everyone on Nyx.
- A Rogue Trader with great debts and clearly low self-esteem meets Taylor and shows her something she found: a piece of Noctilith, of which she has found at least six planets with significant stores of it, and she has brought a ton with her. Taylor transforms the piece of Noctilith into Aethergold, gifts it to the Rogue Trader - and then proceeds to confirm that she will support the Rogue Trader's plans for the planet she claimed, agrees to repair her ship and offers to buy her entire stock of Noctilith for enough money to pay all her debts and then some. The poor Rogue Trader faints from the shock.
- The defeated Chaos legionnaire Drecarth the Sightless gets some surprisingly humanizing final moments as he prepares to meet the approaching defenders of Cadia. He tells his surviving men to flee and save themselves and to turn their backs on Lorgar.
- Imotekh's surrender was partially because he was at a disadvantage, but also because Taylor saved his life and was suffering from the deaths of 3 of her Dawnbreaker Guard, the Sanguinor, and the Second Primarch. Internally he admits it would be dishonorable to attack her in this situation.
- Leman Russ admitting to himself that he was happy to see Magnus not being a monster anymore.
- After all she did to her, Taylor forgiving Sophia is this. Sophia, remember, caused her Trigger event. She made her life hell and stole her best friend. And yet, when Elena Kerrigan kneels and begs Taylor for forgiveness, Taylor muses that, had it been Lisa or anyone else, there would be nothing to forgive. And so, remembering the Second Primarch's words, she forgives her former bully.
- During the fight with the Tyranids, Rogue Trader Guts tells his lover Casca that she's more beautiful than Aenaria Eldanesh. When the latter shows up, Guts reaffirms himself in his appreciation. Casca kisses him soundly for that.
- Taylor is so devoted to Wei that she turns down the literal Goddess of Seduction when the offer is made.
- When Roboute Guilliman is revived through the efforts of Cawl, Taylor and Cato Valens, all present Ultramarines and successor Chapters are in awe at their father's return, some of them to the point of crying.
- The same later happens when Taylor trades Lorgar's corpse with Trazyn, in return for Great Crusade-era Ultramarines. When reunited with their gene-sire in full demigod regalia, their fabled discipline barely holds.
- Since Roboute Guilliman isn't comatose anymore, he offers his former Shrine for Hanzo's remains to be entombed there. After millenia of being an Unperson, the Second Primarch will finally be remembered and honoured as the loyal son of the Emperor he was.
- On the matter of remembering Hanzo, Weaver gives Magnus a book retelling the fate of the Second Legion. The Cyclops almost tears up.
- Magnus also tells Weaver about Hanzo's friendships with the various Primarchs - including Perturabo, who he once spent several months with making an architectural contest out of the rebuilding of an entire Sector during the Great Crusade.
- As long as the matter of psyker powers and their attacks on the other's homeworld isn't broached, Magnus and Leman Russ actually get along, having a friendly conversation on the way to Terra and joking about their father's overwhelming strength.
- Ax'senaea pledges to assist Malicia following her ascension as a Daemon Princess, in spite of having tried to kill her moments before. Why? Because, at the end of the day, Malicia granted her control and a partner, two things she had long desired. And, on top of it, she based her pre-ascension appearance on Malicia herself, to the point of looking like her twin. Even in the grim darkness of the future, Villainous Friendship remains.
