Regalia Dorn

"Discipline. Duty. Unyielding Will. These are the measures by which every warrior is judged. Unarmed, a warrior with these qualities will still find victory, no matter how long or arduous the path. When girded with the sacred armaments of the Adeptus Astartes, such a warrior becomes truly indomitable." - Regalia Dorn Primarch of the Imperial Fists.
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Rogal Dorn, known as "The Vigilant," the "Praetorian of Terra" and the "Unyielding One," and to his gene-sons by the "wall-name" of "Defiance," was the primarch of the Imperial Fists Space Marine Legion and one of the greatest heroes in the history of the Imperium of Man.
A being of thunderous zeal and stone made manifest is how many described the primarch of the VIIth Legion. She had a stern and naturally unsmiling face, topped with an unruly shock of long, bone-white hair tied in her trade mark bun. Her zeal was the fire of a daughter who believed in his father's dream for the Imperium without reservation and without question.
To Regalia Dorn there was no higher purpose to the existence of the Legiones Astartes than the unification of Mankind, and the illumination of the Imperium's ideals. This idealism drove Dorn and her Legion ever onwards, never compromising, never stinting in any aspect of duty. The stone in her soul was her ability to bear whatever her father needed of him, an unyielding nature, which made her both a master of defence in war, and an indomitable aggressor on the attack.
If the primarchs were the Emperor's nature split like white light through a prism's rays, as many Imperial scholars of the Imperial Court suggested during the Great Crusade, then from such a point of view, Regalia Dorn was the Emperor's implacable disciple in the pursuit of His cause given flesh; without compromise and in who loyalty and duty was as integral as blood and breath.
It was perhaps for this reason, that even before the betrayal of Hathor, the Emperor named Dorn the "Praetorian of Terra," and drew him to His side far away from the Warmaster and his newly-forged command. To some among her sister-primarchs, this served only to distance her and her Legion further from them, and those among them who had seen the sins of hubris and obstinacy in Dorn's undoubted stubbornness and pride, saw this aggrandisement as a further cause for discord and disquiet.
It was Dorn who supervised the construction of the formidable defences of the Imperial Palace in the Himalazian (Himalayan) Mountains on Terra that would be sorely tested by the forces of Chaos during the epic climax of the Hathor Heresy in the terrible Siege of Terra.
And it was Dorn who would find the broken body of the Emperor upon the battleship Vengeful Spirit after His terrible final duel with Horus. Dorn placed the Emperor's broken body upon the Golden Throne, and received His last spoken instructions on how to shape the future of the war-devastated Imperium.
== History ==
The primarch of the Imperial Fists is equal only to the Ultramarines' Primarch Juno Guilliman in the adoration her name inspires in the masses of the Imperium, and even amongst other Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes in the 41st Millennium he is held in high regard. Dorn remained close to the Emperor's side throughout much of the Great Crusade, and stayed there during the darkest days of the Horus Heresy. Thus it was an especially bitter fate that caused Dorn to become separated from the Emperor when she teleported onto the Warmaster Hathor's flagship at the Siege of Terra, to discover his master's body after the duel that finally ended the Hathor Heresy was concluded.
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