

The stone in his soul was his ability to bear whatever his father needed of him, an unyielding nature, which made him both a master of defence in war, and an indomitable aggressor on the attack. This idealism drove Dorn and his Legion ever onwards, never compromising, never stinting in any aspect of duty. To Rogal 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. His zeal was the fire of a son who believed in his father's dream for the Imperium without reservation and without question. He had a stern and naturally unsmiling face, topped with an unruly shock of short, bone-white hair. 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.Ī being of thunderous zeal and stone made manifest is how many described the primarch of the VII th Legion. Rogal Dorn, primarch of the Imperial FistsĪn ancient Remembrancer's illustration of Rogal Dorn, primarch of the Imperial Fists Legion, during the Horus Heresy, taken from Carpinus' Speculum Historiale. When girded with the sacred armaments of the Adeptus Astartes, such a warrior becomes truly indomitable." Unarmed, a warrior with these qualities will still find victory, no matter how long or arduous the path. These are the measures by which every warrior is judged.
