These warriors were the next step in the evolution of the Emperor's Angels of Death, and were timely reinforcements for the Imperium's armies as their enemies closed in for the kill in the wake of Abaddon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade and the birth of the Great Rift dividing the Imperium in two. from his anarchic domain with the intent of overrunning the Ultramarines' eastern defences. Its proportions defied the human mind by the scope and grandeur of its design. Obsessed with hunting for Konrad Curze on Macragge, the Lion insisted that the Night Haunter was behind rebellions plaguing the world and demanded martial law be instituted. The weight of the Lex' massive plasma engines dragged the stern down first, colliding with the Nucerian ocean's surface far from shore. Within this edifice was the great marble throne of Roboute Guilliman, and upon that throne sat a regal corpse. The Adeptus Astartes are elite troops who strike with the fury of a thunderbolt. Later returns to help the Ultramarines fight the Bloodborn. In the new order, loyal soldiers and hardworking settlers were granted rights where the oppressive aristocracy had once held sway. However thanks to the efforts of the Harlequin Sylandri Veilwalker and the Fallen Angel Cypher Guilliman and the rest of the surviving expedition were freed and escaped towards a Webway Portal. And above all, more deadly than any other foe, the forces of Chaos chose this moment to begin their most concerted invasion of the Imperium. After decades of intense fighting, stability was restored. It was now a world of uniformity and order, prosperous and productive. As someone who has lost both their parents, it is a very lonely and frightening feeling, even as an adult. Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus' ambition than live to see this.". They said that Guilliman's body was slowly recovering and that his wounds showed mysterious signs of healing. Information is victory. The Codex Astartes leaves no doubt that the killing blow in most engagements must be delivered with a decisive close-quarters strike. The Ascended One, mentioned in the chapter about the Ultramarines, was actually an Alpha Legionary in disguise. Thanks to the widely distributed efforts of numerous Imperial Iterators, the story of the Primarch Roboute Guilliman, his early life and his finding is widely known and well accounted for, in stark contrast to certain others of the primarchs. With the Second Founding, the size of the Ultramarines force was much reduced. In the wake of the battle in the Temple of Correction, Guilliman was crowned as the restored primarch of the Ultramarines Chapter and all of its Successor Chapters, and as the Lord Macragge and rightful ruler of Ultramar. While assisting the Mournival in their rescue of Horus' soul in the Warp, Ahzek Ahriman inflicts a blow on, Drach'nyen, the End of Empires, the daemonic embodiment of Humankind's murderous and malicious impulses born from the very first murder by Humanity's ape-like ancestors (implied to be the one inspiring. He codifies everything. Due to the vanity of Alpharius, Guilliman utilised a surprise attack which struck at the heart of the Alpha Legion forces and managed to kill Alpharius in a duel. When the Emperor reached Macragge, he found a world that was self sufficient, prosperous, with a strong and well-equipped military, and engaging in trade with nearby systems. 10,99 Lies mit kostenfreien App. All was a bullet-ridden and blasted ruin, and even the rebels it seemed had fled the scene to join the looting. The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. Mkar dies a true death from Uriel saying its true name and Marneus Calgar stabbing it with the shard of Erebus. Though the World Eaters' flagship transformed a number of the smaller vessels into flaming wreckage, the Ultramarines eventually punched through her tenacious defence and managed to land troops on the surface of Nuceria. The campaign was waged for the next century, as Guilliman acted as supreme commander and chief administrator of the Imperium. 1 appearances; . When resolving an attack made with this weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts D3 mortal wounds on the target in addition to any other damage. Before that plan could come to pass, the Dark Gods of Chaos intervened. Yet, even as the Loyalists fought to give Cawl just one more solar second to complete his work, more Chaos forces poured into the shrine from above using Dreadclaw assault boats, and the defenders quickly found themselves overwhelmed. Eventually has his Chapter's symbol reappear on his body as a tattoo, reflecting his unwilling return to the Emperor's service. As a result, its arsenals and weapon shops were partially dismantled and taken by the new Chapters to found their own bases. Those few Imperial defenders that were left alive were forced to flee before the flood of the forces of Chaos that assailed the doomed world. Despite attempts by the Inquisition to keep peace between both sides, some fanatical Imperial Cultists try to have the Word Bearers killed for their "heresy" but these attempts are quickly squashed by the Inquisition. At that time, Yvarine, the Visarch, and the remaining small force of Ynnari took their leave to pursue their own agenda, with the primarch's wary blessing -- and thanks. Sanguinius is one of the few Traitor Primarchs who retains some sympathy. By the time the Emperor found Macragge, Roboute had ruled for five years and established an alliance of mutual aide with eight other star systems, forming the future realm of Ultramar. Along with elements of the Adeptus Custodes, a small contingent of the Silent Sisterhood, and a vast war host of Primaris Space Marines from many newly founded Chapters and the 9 Legions of the Unnumbered Sons, the primarch set a winding course. The Death Guard withdrew from Iax under the cover of a Virus Bomb attack on the Imperial forces and Nurgle's remaining servants ultimately retreated from Ultramar, but the threat of a renewed attack from the Scourge Stars was now a persistent threat. Never again would one person, no matter how noble and unblemished their motives, wield the power of an entire Space Marine Legion. She uses the last of her strength to spit at Cato Sicariuss feet before he decapitates her. Both primarchs faced each other beneath the grey sky, one bleeding internally, the other with half of his face lost to blood sheeting from a fractured skull. Both primarchs fought without heeding their warriors, their godlike movements an inconceivable blur to the Space Marines fighting around them. [22a], The Plague Wars came to their dramatic conclusion on Iax. Some Children of the Raven are this. The origin of Guilliman's name is unclear. Guilliman held the portal long enough for his men to escape, defeating the Bloodthirster Skarbrand after witnessing the sacrifice of Marshal Amalrich. Both Traitor Legion flagships fought alone, starved of support and suffering the endless attacks of the XIII Legion's ragged armada. The Warhammer Preview Online: Black Library, Interview with Guy Haley December 5, 2020. It later tears off its face before fighting Uriel. Roboute Guilliman's cold rage at his foster father's death was unstoppable. Led by Roboute Guilliman, the Primaris Space Marines, Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence fought side by side. Some believe Horus disabled his flagship's shields because he experienced one last moment of regret for his great betrayal, while some believe it was a personal challenge to the Emperor so that Horus could face him even without battering down the gates of the Imperial Palace. And let's not forget about Spawn Marines and Purebloodes from the Nineteenth Legion. But instead of freeing him, it. When Horus was appointed Warmaster by the Emperor, the reaction among the other Primarchs was mixed. 27. When the flaws of the Blood Angels start to afflict his Legion, he was even more obsessed in finding a cure for it out of fear of his Legion degenerating and that the Emperor would have him and his Legion purged for his deviancy. His grand vision, the Imperium of Man, endures -- yet it does not prosper, for it lingers under a pall of misery and persecution, suspicion and mistrust. Exiled for an unspecified crime and sentenced to death. The confusion and disorder following the Horus Heresy had left the Imperium weak and vulnerable. Then Horus is killed during the Siege of Terra and the Interex were wiped out by an unknown race of Chaos-corrupted xenos during the Heresy, Unusually given the nature of the setting, Garviel Loken is at least implied to have become a. Roboute Guilliman after his awakening in Chapter 31. and later joined by the forbidden Psi-Titans of the Ordo Sinister, Luther, to Zahariel after the latter was possessed by the, The Cabal, the secret Xenos organization that fought Chaos in canon, are villains in this fanfic as the Alpha Legion and some former members of the Cabal learned the organization was unknowingly serving Chaos and had Chaos corrupted members in their ranks. Roboute Guilliman (pronounced Ruh-BOOT-ay GIL-li-man), sometimes referred to as the "Avenging Son," "The Victorious," "The Master of Ultramar" and "The Blade of Unity," is the primarch of the Ultramarines Space Marine Legion and its myriad subsequent Successor Chapters. The vision makes it clear that not even Guilliman truly knows what transpired in the Throneroom that day save that the Emperor awoke for the first time in millennia. If the Blood Angels did not make it to the Throneworld, the Traitors would claim final victory. On his return to the capital Roboute found the city in chaos, as his father's co-Consul, Gallan, had attempted a coup. On Davin, Sanguinius was trapped within a Warp portal and did battle with the daemon Madail while Guilliman and El'Jonson desperately tried to reach him. After being forced to kneel before Guilliman, the sheer rage inside Titus allows him to overcome the holds enforced by Guillimans genetic code and Khornate blessings. Named Illyrium, it was a barbarous land of outcasts and petty, warring micro-states that had long harboured brigands and mercenaries who raided more civilised lands as often as they hired themselves as foot soldiers to fight their neighbours' wars. One of the twenty Primarch created by the Emperor of Mankind, he and his brothers were scattered to the stars by the Chaos Gods to preventing the coming of the Imperium. The XIII Legion continued to fire even in retreat, leaving the world of Nuceria battered and bloody. Although physically impossible within the null-time of a stasis field, it was believed by many pilgrims to his shrine that his wounds were healing, and that one day he would awaken again when the Imperium needed him most. Travelling at maximum speed, his Legion was only hours away along with several other Legions[Needs Citation]. News had reached the Imperium that Roboute Guilliman had turned his back on the Imperium. Everywhere the enemies of Humanity prepared to attack. Not wanting to appear vain and power-hungry like his brother Horus, Guilliman refused to declare himself Emperor of Imperium Secundus, instead initially trying to convince Lion El'Jonson to take the position despite being distrustful of the Dark Angels Primarch's motives. Roboute Guilliman escaped from Nuceria, unable to face or even fully comprehend what both of his brothers had become through their corruption by the Ruinous Powers. He wanted his deceased brothers and sisters to taste blood once more. The Chief Librarian of the Ultramarines. [10] After Calth, Guilliman pursued Lorgar, who had since allied with Angron, to the world of Nuceria. The Ultramarines armada looked wounded, cobbled together from separate fleets. The resurrected Primarch Roboute Guilliman. This became the Legion's doctrine and creed. Instead of being cornered, Curze detonated charges and brought the entire structure down upon their heads. The Arch-Arsonist of Charadon, one of the greatest Ork Warlords in the galaxy, led a monstrous WAAAGH! Lord Admiral and Master of the Fleet of Ultramar, a title which traditionally goes to the Captain of the Fourth Company, but which Uriel gave to Tiberius. Kasimir realises too late the Nightbringer is as far removed from him as he is from an insect, and the creature doesn't even acknowledge his existenceat first. When resolving an attack made with this weapon, an unmodified, Captain with Master-crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle, Interrogator-Chaplain in Terminator Armour, Wolf Guard Battle Leader in Terminator Armour, Librarian in Terminator Armour (Legendary), Ephrael Stern and Kyganil of the Bloody Tears, Ordo Malleus Inquisitor in Terminator Armour, Death Guard Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour, Death Guard Sorcerer in Terminator Armour, Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour (Legendary), Sorcerer in Terminator Armour (Legendary). a vicious battle erupted both on Davin and above it, in which Guilliman's acting flagship Samothrace was destroyed in orbit by the Daemonship Veritas Ferrum. Some amongst the Asuryani embraced Yvraine's belief that the cycle of death and rebirth would be their salvation, and became her followers, known as the Ynnari -- the Reborn. [11], As a result of being cut off by the Ruinstorm created by the traitorous Word Bearers, Guilliman feared the Imperium lost and created a second empire, Imperium Secundus, as a contingency. This eventually gets him killed, when an Eversor kicks him in the head then poisons him. There he encountered Sanguinius of the Blood Angels who has just recently finished his war in the Signus cluster. Guilliman decisively ended the battle by slaying the Great Unclean One Qaramas with the Emperor's Sword and destroying the last Plague Engine in the system. Subverted by Magnus: after he confronted and rejected Tzeentch in the Warp, he rushed to see the Emperor at once, distraught at what he had learned. Not helping matters was that Ferrus Manus already had a crack in his spiritual armor due to having been defeated by the Silver Wyrm, Asirnoth, in their first round when his arrival on Medusa unleashed it, and by the time he defeated it in the rematch a whole Medusan tribe was slaughtered, something which he blamed himself for and planting a seed of doubt about his own fallibility which, on top of making him double-down on his, Ahzek Ahriman not only repeats but magnifies this feat a hundredfold, The Death Guard is not called in to carry out Exterminatus. Undoubtedly damage was done and Chaotic corruption affected several of the primarchs, although the nature of that corruption would not become apparent until the Horus Heresy. Fabius Bile still turns traitor, even though the Emperor's Children remained loyal to the Imperium. The entirety of Macragge was swiftly unified beneath the banner of Roboute Guilliman, becoming a world of peace, civilisation, wisdom and strength. As his Legion suffered few losses during the Horus Heresy, Guilliman emerged as the most powerful Primarch in the aftermath of the Emperor's ascension to the Golden Throne. This scale of military force and the near-autonomous "empire within an empire" that maintained it, Ultramar having reached a dominion popularly ascribed as the "Five Hundred Worlds" before the outbreak of war, would have dire and unforeseen consequences for the Ultramarines and their primarch. Guilliman decided to name the reluctant Sanguinius the Regent of Imperium Secundus. The original Fabius Bile is dead, but he preserved his consciousness through clones of himself that share thoughts when close together. The Emperor seems to be much more openly caring of his sons, with the fic detailing several heartwarming moments between him and characters such as Lorgar, Perturabo, Angron, etc., when they first meet. Inspired by The Dornian Heresy by Aurelius Rex, The Roboutian Heresy describes an alternate universe for Warhammer 40,000, where Roboute Guilliman was the one to lead nine Space Marine Legions in rebellion against the Emperor. The Dark Angels (lead by Azrael) and the Space Wolves (led by Logan Grimnar) are working together for the Siege of Terathalion. The Ultramarines fleet swept over and against the Traitors like an insect horde. In the time after the Terran Crusade, though the Imperium was poised on the brink of annihilation at the hands of Chaos, his task was at last completed. The infant Guilliman's capsule fell to earth on Macragge, where it was discovered by a group of noblemen hunting in the forest. Guilliman eventually was forced to pull his warriors back into orbit and bombard Eskrador from above, but the Alpha Legion would remain a stubborn and insidious threat to the Imperium for millennia to come. Thiel's ultimate fate is to die peacefully knowing he completed his final duty to the Imperium despite how deeply he dove into, but Thiel has no psychic potential at all and became something that could pose a fair fight to, Operatives of the Hydra who infiltrated the two forces did have a hand in it though, as did Thiel in his guise as "Gage". It was not a dedicated interdiction warfleet, but clearly a ragtag strike force, a lance thrust to the enemy's heart. Instead, they agreed to try and breach the Ruinstorm to reach Terra and aid the Emperor, who they had learned still lived, in the defence of Terra from Horus. With this in mind, Mortarion decided to throw all his remaining forces at a single target in the hopes of reversing the tide. However as Angron was about to land the final blow, Ultramarines were able to arrive and safely retrieve their Primarch. Upon awakening, Konor assembled his bodyguard and rode to Hera's Falls, where they found the child. Also has a TV Tropes page now ! Must end closer to the closest enemy model. Biography. The head of the de Valtos cartel on Pavonis. Fulgrim was now a serpentine creature of immense stature, and multi-limbed. Within solar months of the Legion's establishment on Macragge, the first influx of new recruits had arrived at the Fortress of Hera, the Legion's fortress-monastery and new headquarters, and the process of renewal and increase in the XIII Legion's fighting strength had begun and never since had ceased. Corvus Corax and Apothecaries from his legion. Yet few could then guess what such talents harnessed to the Great Crusade would go on to achieve. With that, Guilliman declared himself Lord Commander of the Imperium once more. A vast horde of Traitors, Renegades, mutants and madmen fell upon Ultramar under the leadership of the foul Daemon Prince M'kar the Reborn. The shooting models target is within half the weapons range. During the Great Crusade, the Ultramarines and the Luna Wolves were the largest and most efficient of the Space Marine legions. Soon after, Guilliman launched the Terran Crusade from Macragge through the growing Warp instability of the galaxy as the power of Chaos waxed mighty once more with the birth of the Great Rift. On his chest hung a bandolier of skulls taken from the mass grave at Desh'elika Ridge. After arriving in orbit of Davin, Sanguinius shocked El'Jonson by boarding the Dark Angels flagship Invincible Reason and taking the captive Konrad Curze with him. Declare targets of the charge (must be within 12"). By the end of "The Cadian Apocalypse Part II". Afterwards, Guilliman would turn his attention to helping his Realm of Ultramar defeat the forces of the Death Guard Traitor Legion and the servants of Nurgle in the Plague Wars, driving his traitorous brother Mortarion and the Death Guard Traitor Legion from the region in ca. Macragge was able to supply new recruits at such a rate that before long the Ultramarines alone accounted for more than half the total number of Space Marines, and few were the star systems where their heroism went unnoticed. Magnus was in a coma-like state to preserve his life while his soul was trapped in the warp, making him an analogue to canon!Roboute and therefore, Marius Gage seems to often regret what he has become and tries to invoke redemption a lot with other Ultramarines, which is pretty strange for a, When Magnus was purging Prospero of the Psychneunn, he encountered a "Psychneunn Prime", which could nullify his psychic powers and nearly killed him. One of the C'Tan, the star gods of the Nercons. A surviving Ultramarines Tactical Squad during the Calth Atrocity. As the fighting raged, the burning shell of the Fidelitas Lex cut through the clouds into the planet's atmosphere, shuddering on its way east, rolling ever downwards, achingly slow for something of such scale. The lead Ethereal of the Tau invasion of Pavonis. Former Captain of the Raven Guard's 4th Company. Sure enough, he's still alive by the end of the series. "What does not kill me is not trying hard enough. Nearly completed, the gene-forged Primaris Space Marines lie in stasis, waiting to be awakened from their long slumber. [6], Shortly after Abaddon the Despoiler's Thirteenth Black Crusade and the destruction of Cadia, the Tech-Priest Belisarius Cawl and Saint Celestine led a group of Imperial survivors into the Webway with the aid of their new Eldar allies. With the exception of the Luna Wolves, no Legion conquered as many worlds, or conquered worlds as fast, or left conquered worlds in such good state during the Great Crusade, as the Ultramarines. These were superlative transhuman warriors, strategists and leaders, the finest qualities of Humanity refined in the crucible of science and magnified through the lens of divinity. The basis of this network would be the worlds Macragge had long maintained links with, but they would merely be its first components, not its fullest extent. Many Chapter Masters welcomed their Primaris brethren into their ranks, accepting the new reinforcements gladly. We endure. After a suicide bombing struck an Astartes convoy on Macragge, the Dark Angels were deployed by the Lion to establish martial law without Guilliman's express permission. Angron saw it, and threw himself at his brother, his howl of wrath defying mortal origins, impossibly ripe in its anguish. Sanguinius hoped to use Curze's known psychic precognitive abilities to determine what he was meant to do upon Davin. The Primarch "Roboute Guilliman" is the bravest son and determined warrior who swore to protect humanity in memory of his father the Emperor, "Guilliman" like his 20 brothers was separated at birth by a grieving "Erda" (mother) who sent him on a warp journey inside a gestation pod with an unknown address; By luck or premature anticipation, the . Cypher spent ten thousand years being inhabited by the Ouroboros, to the point where the light of the Blade that was Promised hurt him as much as any daemon. When the Imperial Fists fell to the worship of Khorne, he out of all Imperial Fists and even his Primarch became the Champion of Khorne. Captain Saul Invictus commanded the Ultramarines 1st Company when it was destroyed in the defense of the polar fortresses in the Battle for Macragge, during the First Tyrannic War. He can now not reroll the stand up on a 4+, if you fail it, he is gone. When the Emperor's crusading forces finally reached Macragge in the late 30th Millennium, the son was reunited with his true father. Leaving his own troops to deal with the drunken rioters without quarter, Roboute personally fought his way towards the centre of the city, passing the bloody work of rebel firing squads everywhere in the government district, but at the senate house, found himself too late. Sanguinius is gone, completely and absolutely gone, its soul was obliterated by Lorgar and Epharel Stern, signaling, as of now, the greatest victory against the Force of Chaos and specially Slaneesh, The Emperor of Mankind himself also dies at Lorgar's hands to be freed of the, And ten thousand years later, he and the spirits of the original Mournival would do it. This spread of cohesive civilisation in the Legion's path served both to solidify and expand supply lines for its advance, facilitating in no small part the great speed and range of the Ultramarines' conquests. 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