The being that would become the primarch of the Ultramarines Legion came to rest upon the world of Macragge. Whatever the case, Roboute Guilliman was not tainted in such a fashion. Some say that it was at this time that the Ruinous Powers left their mark upon the Emperor's gene-sons, and that this is why fully half of the primarchs betrayed their father and the Imperium during the Horus Heresy. They snatched up the nascent primarchs and scattered them through the Warp, so that each came to rest upon a different one of Humanity's far-flung worlds. The Emperor intended the primarchs to stand at His side during the Great Crusade, each leading one of the twenty Space Marine Legions to glory beyond imagination.īefore that plan could come to pass, the Dark Gods of Chaos intervened. 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. Utilising incredible skills at genetic engineering, and the phenomenal psychic power bound into His own form, He forged twenty demigod sons.

Held by some as a paragon among the Emperor's sons, Roboute Guilliman was as much a patrician statesman and empire-builder as he was an indefatigable warrior.Ī being of preternatural intelligence, cold reason and indomitable will, Guilliman forged his XIII th Legion into a vast force of conquest and control, a weapon by which he made himself the master of a stellar domain in the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy, the Realm of Ultramar, which during his lifetime spanned five hundred worlds.īefore He began His conquest of the galaxy, the Emperor of Mankind created the primarchs. He is the current lord commander of the Imperium and the ruling Imperial Regent. 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. Roboute Guilliman, primarch of the Ultramarines Legion and lord of Ultramar at the time of the Great Crusade. Roboute Guilliman, primarch of the Ultramarines, reflecting upon the state of the Imperium of the 41st Millennium and his devotion to the Emperor of Mankind Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus' ambition than live to see this.' This bloated, rotting carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope but by fear, hate and ignorance.

' Why do I still live? What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them.

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