Doomfist Has His Throne Back. Keeping Talon Together Is the Next Fight

Defeating Vendetta has brought Talon back to the same table, but it hasn’t settled what happened while Doomfist was gone. All That Follows, Overwatch’s new short story, follows the organisation’s first gathering since her defeat, with Doctrine watching his allies size one another up inside Watchpoint: Grímsvötn. Blizzard has released a reading by Tashinga Bepete, Doctrine’s voice actor, giving the meeting a narrator who owes Doomfist his freedom—and has his own reasons to believe in what comes next.

The six-minute video, published on 5 November 2026, credits Joshi Zhang as writer and Leslie Oh as artist. It moves the story beyond the confrontation in Rome and into the harder business of rebuilding an organisation whose members didn’t all choose the same side. The premise is straightforward: Doomfist is back in charge. Whether the people around him can work together again is the question hanging over the room.

Doctrine watches a reunion with little trust to spare

The gathering brings Doomfist, Doctrine, Mauga, Moira, Maximilien, Widowmaker, Sombra and Reaper into Talon’s new base. Doctrine notices the divide between those who remained loyal to Doomfist and those who served under Vendetta. The meeting quickly becomes an opportunity for old grievances to surface, with Reaper and Widowmaker’s distrust of Moira among the tensions on display.

Putting Doctrine in the narrator’s position gives the reunion an interesting angle. He’s tied closely to Doomfist, but he’s also observing relationships that changed during his years in prison. For the audience, that makes the story a chance to reassess familiar Talon members through someone who is returning to the world himself. The political problem is clear before anyone leaves the table: bringing former allies under one leader again doesn’t automatically restore their loyalty to one another.

Why Doomfist’s return matters so much to Doctrine

Doctrine’s connection to Doomfist goes back much further than the current struggle over Talon. Born Tamuka Yeukai, he became an engineer at Ogundimu Synergies and designed a replacement limb for Akande Ogundimu, the future Doomfist, after Akande was injured during the Omnic Crisis. His work and his obsession with saving his younger brother eventually took him down a far darker path.

When medicine could no longer help Tatenda, Tamuka developed technology that could transfer life from one person to another. He used it on a refugee camp to save his brother, killing its inhabitants in the process. Tatenda rejected what he had done and turned him in to Overwatch. Decades later, Akande returned as Doomfist to break him out of Grímsvötn and reunite him with his drones. That history gives Doctrine a personal stake in Doomfist’s leadership, beyond an agreement with Talon’s goals.

Grímsvötn is more than a convenient new headquarters

The setting carries its own history. Watchpoint: Grímsvötn was once an Overwatch facility and later came under Helix control, holding dangerous prisoners and their weapons inside an Icelandic volcanic fissure. Doctrine spent decades there, and Doomfist was once imprisoned there too. Turning it into Talon’s base changes the meaning of a place built to contain them.

Players can explore that same location in Season 5’s Escort map. Blizzard introduced Grímsvötn alongside Doctrine on 6 October, positioning the prison break as the start of the final chapter of Reign of Talon. The new story picks up after the takeover is complete, giving the battlefield a role in the aftermath as well as the escape.

A quieter follow-up to the battle in Rome

The Season 5 midcycle update brought Doomfist and Overwatch to Rialto to stop Vendetta, drawing together the year’s shifting allegiances. All That Follows looks at what that confrontation leaves behind on Talon’s side. Its interest lies in who is willing to follow Doomfist now, and what unresolved tensions he will have to manage to make the organisation act as one.

There’s a companion perspective in Terms of Justice, read by Cherise Boothe as Sojourn. That story turns towards Overwatch and the consequences of its actions in Rome, including the organisation’s relationship with the International Justice Commission. Together, the two readings move attention from defeating Vendetta to the decisions facing both sides afterwards. All That Follows is available to watch now, with Bepete delivering Doctrine’s account of Talon’s first uneasy step forward.