Macragge - Notable Locations: Hera's Crown Mountains - Hera's Crown Mountains, sometimes referred to as the "Crown Mountains," is the mightiest range of mountains on Macragge, where the Ultramarines' formidable fortress-monastery, the Fortress of Hera, was constructed by the hand of Primarch Roboute Guilliman.Illyria - During the Horus Heresy era, this region of Macragge was known by the local inhabitants as 'bandit country'. It was also a known hotbed of anti-Konor, and later, anti-Imperial sentiment. During the Horus Heresy, when the Dark Angels arrived through the Ruinstorm after successfully breaking the Night Lords Traitor Legion during the Thramas Crusade, Konrad Curze, Primarch of the Night Lords, who had stowed away aboard the Dark Angels' flagship Invincible Reason, managed to make his way down to the surface of Macragge and spread chaos and mayhem. He managed to evade his Ultramarines and Dark Angels pursuers by hiding within the slums of Illyria and gaining a basis of support, which caused its eventual destruction at the hands of the Dark Angels' elite Dreadwing. Ten thousand years later, during the Plague Wars, it would once again become the site of mutiny amongst the ranks of the Ultramar Auxilia.Fortress of Hera - The Fortress of Hera is the formidable fortress-monastery of the Ultramarines Space Marine Chapter. This mighty edifice is situated in the Valley of Laponis alongside the Hera's Fall. The Ultramarines' citadel is considered a wonder of engineering constructed by the hand of the Chapter's own Primarch Roboute Guilliman during the bygone era of the Great Crusade. The Fortress of Hera contains graceful balconies, golden geodesic domes and slender glass walkways supported by silver-steel buttresses. The vast domed structures of the fortress are citadels in their own right.Gallan's Rock - Gallan's Rock is a rocky promontory overlooking a waterfall in the Crown Mountains on Macragge, and is accessible from the Fortress of Hera. According to Ultramarines legend, the Rock was where Roboute Guilliman beheaded the rebellious Consul Gallan, who had murdered his co-Consul Konor, Roboute's adoptive father. The Ultramarines themselves use the Rock as a place of execution, for members of the Chapter who have been condemned for serious crimes.Hall of Maxellus - The Hall of Maxellus was a vast hall within the Fortress of Hera that was crafted in honour of the fallen Maxellus, the twenty-first Chapter Master of the Ultramarines, who was renowned for his wisdom. The Ultramarines later placed a statue of the famed Chapter Master within the Hall, where his stern but benign face watches over all who enter.Library of Ptolemy - The Library of Ptolemy is the Librarium of the Ultramarines Chapter, located within the Fortress of Hera, occupying an entire spur of the range of the Crown Mountains. It is named for Ptolemy, the first and greatest Librarian of the ancient Ultramarines Legion. This Librarium is considered one of the greatest repositories of knowledge within the entirety of the Imperium of Man, and it has a reputation for completeness that even the Agrippan Conclaves or the Arcanium of Teleos cannot match. The Librarium is reputed to contain practically every word ever written across all of human history. Guarded by Ultramarines Astartes and auto-defences, at the heart of the Librarium is the Chapter's greatest relic -- Roboute Guilliman's original manuscript of the Codex Astartes. The Codex is transcribed into four massive volumes, each said to be one metre long and one-third of a metre thick. According to Chief Librarian Tigurius, the Arcanium is said to occupy the exact same remote spot where the Primarch, as a youth, would seek solace and solitude in order to reflect in silent contemplation and to study the great works of humanity. This fact was a carefully guarded secret, as the Chief Librarian did not want to attract millions of pilgrims to the Library of Ptolemy to spoil the peace of the refuge. Following the resurrection of Roboute Guilliman after the events of the 13th Black Crusade, the Library of Ptolemy was ordered sealed permanently and forbidden to enter upon penalty of death by the Primarch, for as the Imperium was entering the new millennium, it was an age of war, not wisdom. Guilliman did not seal the doors against the truth, but against the superstition that had taken truth's place. One version of the past was in that library, another was in the heads of men. The closing of the doors was symbolic, but powerful. It sealed both versions of the future away for now. But truth be told, there was one book within the library that told a history that the Primarch would rather no one read. Guilliman could not afford the shadow of his great mistake, the Imperium Secundus, to hang over his latest ventures, so he did not mention this fact. But one day, the library's doors would be unbarred, and if the men and women of the Imperium were lucky, when Guilliman reopened the doors to the Library of Ptolemy, those who entered might finally understand what they read there.Plaza of Attendance - The Plaza of Attendance was one of the original landmarks that had survived over ten millennia of invasions and war. This landmark was a vast space like an inverted ziggurat stamped into the Fortress of Hera's rampart plateau. The walls had advanced from the plaza, leaving it some way from the edge where before it had stood at the brink of man-made cliffs. The side nearest the city, once open, was now walled with a faceless armoury. The halls at the eastern end, where for a brief period the Blood Angels' Primarch Sanguinius had sat as Emperor of the Imperium Secundus, had been demolished long before. But the plaza remained, an important place where Macragge's dignitaries and a contingent of an Astartes Honour Guard could greet an important guest with all the pomp and circumstance that Macragge could muster.Temple of Correction and Shrine of the Primarch - The Shrine of the Primarch was built to contain the body of the mortally wounded Primarch Roboute Guilliman frozen in time. It was one of the most holy places in the entire Imperium, and one which welcomed millions of Imperial pilgrims every standard year. It lies within the Temple of Correction, a vaulted sepulchre forming a small part of the Ultramarines' vast northern polar fortress on Macragge. The temple is a miracle of construction and typical of the attention to detail to which the Ultramarines apply themselves. Its proportions defy the Human mind by the scope and grandeur of its design. The multi-coloured glass dome that forms the roof is the largest of its kind. Even the techno-magi of the Adeptus Mechanicus come to marvel at the structure said to have been designed by Roboute Guilliman himself. According to the Ultramarines there is enough marble within the temple to build a mountain, and sufficient adamantium and shining plasteel to construct a sizable Imperial warfleet. Within this edifice was the great marble throne of Roboute Guilliman, and upon that throne sat a regal corpse for ten thousand Terra years. Though the best part of those 10,000 years, the primarch's body was perfectly preserved. Even his death wounds from the Emperor's Children's Primarch Fulgrim's blade were visible upon his throat. His mortal remains were preserved from the ravages of time by means of a stasis field that isolated the primarch from the time-stream of normal four-dimensional space-time. Everything encompassed by the field was trapped in time and could neither change nor decay. There were some, however, who claimed the primarch's wounds did change. They said that Guilliman's body was slowly recovering and that his wounds showed mysterious signs of healing. Others denied the phenomena, and pointed out the sheer scientific impossibility of change within the stasis field. Yet enough believed the stories to come and witness for themselves the miracle of the primarch, generation after generation. Since Guilliman's resurrection during the Ultramar Campaign of the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41, the throne in the Shrine of the Primarch now sits empty. Through the will of the Emperor and the aid of the Aeldari god of the dead Ynnead, the Avenging Son has returned to Humanity in its time of greatest need.Sword Hall - The Sword Hall is located within the Fortress of Hera. It is a vast, expansive chamber that contains a precious Chapter relic that harkens back to the earliest days of the Ultramarines. Suspended within a golden shaft of light, in the centre of the chamber, trapped in an anti-gravitic suspension field above the marble floor, is the legendary power sword of Roboute Guilliman.