![]() He’s a literal monster (check his keywords list). Dark Imperium: Plague War, by Guy Haley, covers Guilliman’s battles against Mortarion in the 41st millenniumĪs a primarch, Guilliman is huge.It also details his first death at the hands of Fulgrim Dark Imperium, by Guy Haley, covers the early days of the Indomitus Crusade, following Guilliman’s resurrection and his activation of the Primaris marines.Roboute Guilliman, by David Annandale, covers Guilliman’s early days.The Unremembered Empire, by Dan Abnett, is pretty forgettable, but if you really want to read about the Imperium Secondus, this is the book to do it.Betrayer, by Aaron Dembski Bowden, isn’t so much a Guilliman book, but it is a really good book about the battles leading up to the creation of the Ruinstorm, and has Angron’s incredibly sick speech to Guilliman about growing up alone in the grip of a tyrant.It covers the early days of the Heresy, and the Word Bearers’ Betrayal at Calth. Know No Fear, by Dan Abnett, is really Guilliman’s time to shine.There’s no shortage of books about Guilliman and his exploits, especially now that he’s a major character in the 40k narrative again. He’s also been running the Imperium, something he always wanted to do, although now he spends most of his time frustrated and upset over how backwoods and superstitious the Imperium has become since his death. At the head of the Primaris armies, he fought his way through the half of the Imperium on this side of the Cicatrix Maledictum, freeing worlds that had been seized by the forces of Chaos. His first order of business was to fight his way back to Terra, where he had a heart-to-corpse with the Emperor, and his second order was to activate the Primaris marines, whom Cawl had been keeping on ice for a long time. He was eventually revived by Yvraine following the destruction of Cadia, and kept alive using the armor Cawl had designed for him. Guilliman eventually ate it fighting the mutated Daemon Primarch Fulgrim aboard his cruiser, but his body was recovered and kept in stasis for 9,000 years. During this period, he tasked Belisarius Cawl with creating the next generation of Space Marines and finding a way to revive him if he ever died, two bets that would pay off huge in time. Guilliman led the Ultramarines across the galaxy following the Heresy, rooting out the remaining traitor forces and killing a few Alphariuses along the way. This was notably easier for the Ultramarines to do, as they’d been largely cut off from the worst fighting of the Heresy, and so had the largest numbers left over when everything was done. It was his idea to split the space marine legions into chapters after the Heresy, something that almost caused a second civil war when some of the legions initially refused to break up. Guilliman is the architect behind much of the modern Imperium’s military structure, including the Codex Astartes, the doctrine of the space marine chapters, that governs their basic organization and tactics. Basically, building empires is a big hobby for Guilliman, so it’s no surprise he was the one who took over after the Emperor ate it. In fact, records show he might have been planning his own Empire well before the Heresy, suggesting he might have had designs of his own for some time. It was during this point that Guilliman and his brothers lost contact with the Imperium and, fearing it lost, Guilliman began to lay the groundwork for a second Imperium to replace it, the imaginatively named Imperium Secondus. Guilliman did more than any of his brothers to preserve the Imperium following the Emperor’s death and sees space marines as warrior-statesmen, as responsible for the day-to-day running of the Imperium as they are for putting down rebellions and enemy actions.ĭuring the Horus Heresy, much of the Eastern Fringe was cut off from the main Imperium by the Ruinstorm, a massive warp storm engineered by Lorgar and Erebus. Roboute Guilliman is unique among the Primarchs in that he tends to see his role and the role of space marines as being less about conquest and violent murder and more about building empires. Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines ![]() Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines.
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