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Roboute Guilliman
Primarch of the XIII Legion, Lord Commander, Imperial Regent
Also known as The Avenging Son, Lord Commander of the Imperium
Homeworld: Macragge
Roboute Guilliman is primarch of the Ultramarines and author of the Codex Astartes, a statesman who built Ultramar as a working civilisation rather than a trophy. He treated conquest as the start of government, not the end of it.
The Word Bearers wrecked him at Calth. He raised Imperium Secundus when the Ruinstorm cut him from Terra, then arrived hours too late for the Siege. Fulgrim put him in stasis for ten millennia. Cawl and Ynnead woke him after Cadia fell.
He walks again as Lord Commander and Imperial Regent, trying to hold a worse Imperium than the one he remembers. The Indomitus Crusade is his answer. He does not like what his father has become.
From Macragge’s Fortress of Hera his footprint runs through Ultramar’s Five Hundred Worlds to Luna and Terra, then out again to Baal, Vigilus, Iax, Espandor, Sotha, and Nuceria — contemporaries and theatres the space–time graph still ties to the Avenging Son.
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Key engagements
- Great Crusade (commanded the Ultramarines and organised the Five Hundred Worlds after each conquest)
- Illyrian Campaign (ended the Illyrian war by holding their shrines and returning a stolen relic, then put down Gallan’s coup)
- Battle of Calth (commanded the Ultramarines when the Word Bearers ambushed them and wounded Kor Phaeron)
- Battle of Thessala (was stabbed in the neck by the daemon Fulgrim and placed in stasis)
- Destruction of Davin during the Ruinstorm (fought at the temple on Davin with Sanguinius and the Lion before the world was destroyed by cyclonic torpedoes)
- Great Scouring (reached Terra as Horus died, broke the fleeing fleet, and argued for securing Luna and Mars before a war of revenge)
- Imperium Secundus (proclaimed Imperium Secundus at Macragge and named Sanguinius Regent)
- Shadow Crusade (defended Ultramar against the Shadow Crusade and pursued the Word Bearers and World Eaters after Calth)
- Shadow Crusade on Nuceria (duelled Lorgar, was defeated by Angron, and was carried off the field)
- The Reproving of Monarchia (accompanied the Emperor to Khur when the Ultramarines razed Monarchia)
- Battle of Lion's Gate (led the counter-attack that stopped Khorne’s daemons short of the Eternity Gate)
- Battle of Luna (duelled Magnus on Luna and, with the Sisters of Silence, drove him back into the webway)
- Devastation of Baal (broke the Tyranid attack on Baal with his fleet and named Dante Regent of Imperium Nihilus)
- Indomitus Crusade (declared and commanded the Indomitus Crusade, including Fleet Primus)
- Return of Guilliman (was revived on Macragge by Cawl and Ynnead during the Black Legion attack and drove off the invaders)
- Return of Guilliman to Terra (reached the throne room, then took the title Lord Commander again)
- Terran Crusade (led the journey from Macragge toward Terra and was freed from Kairos Fateweaver in the Maelstrom)
- Duel on Iax (was felled by Mortarion’s Godblight, revived by the Emperor’s power, and burned part of Nurgle’s garden with a sword-blow as Mortarion fled)
- Plague Wars (returned to Ultramar to fight Mortarion’s invasion)
- Reclamation of Parmenio (survived the assassination attempt, then killed Septicus during the counter-invasion)
- Spear of Espandor (launched the counter-attack, killed Qaramar, and cut the Death Guard off from the Scourge Stars)