Roboute Guilliman

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Primarch Roboute Guilliman.

Roboute Guilliman is a male literary character who features in Warhammer 40,000.

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Biography

Origin

Roboute Guilliman was one of the genetically engineered Primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind. He and his brothers through the machinations of the Chaos Gods were flung to far off worlds in the galaxy as part of their efforts in thwarting the plans of the Emperor. The infant's capsule came to land on the planet Macragge where it was discovered by a group of noblemen who were hunting in the forest. Inside, they came to find a child who was surrounded by a glowing aura where they took him to Konor who was one of the two Consuls that governed the planet. The man came to adopt the child as his own son where he was given the name of Roboute Guilliman.

Roboute was a prodigy, growing fast in both body and intellect. By age ten, he had mastered every subject the wisest men of Macragge could teach him, and his insights into matters of history, philosophy, and science often stunned his elders. However, his greatest talents were as a military leader. These talents led his father to give him command of an expeditionary force to Illyrium, a mountainous region in the far north of Macragge, whose wild inhabitants had terrorized the civilized regions for years and successfully resisted every previous military campaign. Not only did Roboute fight a brilliant campaign but he also earned the respect of the wildmen who never again threatened the more civilised parts of Macragge. While the history books state Guilliman militarily subdued the Illyrians, the reality was more complicated. Rather than engage in a protracted mountain guerrilla war, he simply occupied the Illyrians sacred shrines. This caused the Illyrians to surge forth to meet his armies, but rather than crush them then and there he challenged their Chieftain to battle. During the duel, Guilliman only defended himself from his foes blows but never launched his own attacks. The Chieftain eventually exhausted himself, but rather than slay his enemy Guilliman instead presented him with the Illyrians most sacred religious artifact, which centuries before the Consuls of Macragge had stolen. Guilliman's act of diplomacy and humanity convinced the Illyrian Chieftain to halt his campaign, seeking to become a just lord like Guilliman instead. It was at this moment that Tarasha Euten realized Guilliman had proven himself a true King.

On his return to the capital Roboute found the city in chaos, as his father's co-Consul, Gallan, had attempted a coup. Gallan led a faction of Macragge's nobility who were used to enjoying their wealth and position at the expense of armies of slaves, and resented Konor's legislation favoring the common people, among whom he was immensely popular. Approaching the city, Roboute and his soldiers saw the city in chaos, being sacked by mobs of Gallan's men, while the Consul House was under siege. Roboute left his men to restore order to the city, while he rushed to the Consul House and lifted the siege, only to find his father close to death, surrounded by his loyal bodyguards. He had been mortally wounded by an assassin in Gallan's employ, and with his dying breath, told Roboute who was responsible. Roboute swiftly crushed the rebellion and, amid a wave of popular relief, assumed the title of sole Consul of Macragge. He set about punishing the treachery and carrying out his father's vision. Gallan and his co-conspirators were executed, and their lands and wealth were redistributed to the people. With superhuman energy, Roboute reorganized Macragge's entire social structure, creating a meritocracy where office and honours were given to the hard-working, rather than the wealthy and influential. Under his leadership, Macragge prospered as it never had before.

Gallan and his fellow conspirators were seized, the ring leaders publicly executed and the rest sentenced to hard labour rebuilding the city they had ruined, stone by stone, by hand. It was not a sentence they would long survive. In the new order, loyal soldiers and hardworking settlers were granted rights where the oppressive aristocracy had once held sway. With superhuman energy and the singularity of vision only a primarch was capable of executing, the new consul reorganised the social order of Macragge, creating a ruthlessly enforced meritocracy where the hardworking prospered and the honourable received positions of high office, and those who shirked the law or worked against the good of the whole faced draconian, but faultlessly even-handed punishment. The stagnated and uneven economy was re-ordered, technology disseminated rather than horded by the elite, and the armed forces were transformed into a powerful and well-equipped force. Macragge flourished as never before -- one people and one order, united under the people and one order, united under the unchallengeable rule of Roboute Guilliman.

Around the time that the young Roboute Guilliman waged war in Illyria, the Emperor's fleet had reached the planet of Espandor at the outer edge of the network of worlds with which Macragge had maintained tenebrous contact. From the Espandorians the Emperor learned of the existence of Macragge and the extraordinary son of the Consul Konor Guilliman, and from what He learned He knew that this child could be none other than a missing primarch. There have been some who have suggested that the Emperor's arrival at Espandor and the isolated region so far from the frontline of the Great Crusade's main spur of progress was no accident, and that by some arts He had perceived or had foreknowledge of what He would find. Regardless, what followed was certainly not foreseen. As the Emperor's fleet quickly moved on to Macragge, it was almost immediately deflected by violent Warp squalls which had risen up to separate Macragge and a handful of nearby systems from approach. Thwarted by a power even the Emperor could not readily ignore, it would be something in the region of five standard years before contact could be successfully attempted. n the years that intervened, Macragge had undergone a striking transformation. It was now a world of uniformity and order, prosperous and productive. Its cities had been rebuilt in glittering marble and shining steel, and the serried ranks of its armies were well armed and well equipped, and outfitting themselves now for operations beyond their own world. For even before the Emperor's arrival, Roboute Guilliman, it is said, had dwelt much on the ancient histories contained from his world's deposed aristocracy, and the fragments he found there telling of the ancient domains of Mankind, and he had begun to dream of new horizons and new worlds to conquer, of a domain "beyond the seas of night" or to use the ancient scholarly form found in the text -- 'Ultramar'.

Horus Heresy

Awakening

During the 13th Black Crusade, the planet of Cadia came to be destroyed by the forces of Chaos where during this time the Tech-Priest Belisarius Cawl had completed his two main objectives. One of these was reviving Guilliman using the aid of the Eldar where a suit of Power Armour came to regenerate the wounds sustained on him by Fulgrim. With the Primarch fully restored, Roboute awoke to lead Imperial forces as the Black Legion attacked Macragge where he drove off the invaders from his home. He was then briefed on the events of the last ten thousand years with his presence bringing about miracles such as curing those afflicted by Nurgle's blindness-inducing illness.

Overview

Personality and attributes

He was also known by the title of the Avenging Son.

Powers and abilities

Primarch of the Ultramarines.

Guilliman was one of the twenty genetically engineered Primarchs that were created by the Emperor where they were beings far superior to ordinary humans and made to serve as his generals in the expansion of the Imperium of Man.

Among his weapons was the Hand of Dominion that was a Power Fist with a built-in Bolter.

Upon re-uniting with the Emperor, he was introduced to his own Adeptus Astartes Legion that were based on him with these being the Ultramarines.

He came to make his adoptive planet of Macragge his base of operations for his Space Marines.

During the Horus Heresy, he was appointed as the Lord Commander of the Imperium that was the second-highest rank within the Imperium of Man. He returned to the position after his awakening in the 41st Millennium where he had also taken the mantle of Imperial Regent.

Notes

  • Roboute Guilliman was created by Games Workshop where he featured in the setting of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

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