Avenging Son (Volume 1) (Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of Fire) [Paperback] Haley, Guy

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Aquaria Nautica Neptunia, AKA Namora, is the adult cousin of Namor and, in a reversal of Namor's heritage, she is the daughter of a human mother and Atlantean father. She fights alongside Namor until her apparent death at the hands of an evil Lemurian named Llyra Morris, AKA Llyra. Years later, Namora reappears as part of the Agents of Atlas, a group of globe-hopping, old-school heroes.

Thanks to the Ruinstorm and the Traitors' delaying actions at the Battle of Calth, during the Shadow Crusade at the Second Battle of Davin and in the months afterwards, there was little that Roboute Guilliman could do in support of his Emperor during the crucial Siege of Terra. Witness the Ultramarines, Space Wolves, Iron Snakes, and Dark Angels defend the Imperium against all manner of foes in six of these ebooks. This tier includes Chris Wraight’s acclaimed Battle of the Fang , a historical tale that pits the sons of Fenris against the Thousand Sons for the first time since the Horus Heresy. Sub-Mariner, Lord of the Seven Seas, the Avenging Son, Namor the First, The Old Man, Rex, Sealord, Joe Pierre More than one of the capsules was breached whilst it drifted through Warpspace -- the forces of the Immaterium leaked in, wreaking havoc on the gestating being inside the capsule. Undoubtedly damage was done and Chaotic corruption affected several of the primarchs, although the nature of that corruption would not become apparent until the Horus Heresy.Following the Trial of Konrad Curze, Sanguinius, Lion El'Jonson, and Guilliman all agreed that the Imperium Secundus had been a mistake and should be disbanded. Instead, they agreed to try and breach the Ruinstorm to reach Terra and aid the Emperor, who they had learned still lived, in the defence of Terra from Horus. With Magneto’s part of the bargain fulfilled, Namor allowed the Master of Magnetism to keep the island. Namor later attended the Mutant Hellfire Gala on Krakoa and rebuked another offer to join them on their council, and instead chatted with the Illuminati members. In orbit of Terra, Horus' allies delivered the fateful news to the Warmaster while he sat directing the battle for the Imperial Palace. The Ultramarines, Dark Angels and Space Wolves Legions were only solar hours away from reinforcing the Emperor and His Loyalist defenders. Horus knew that his gamble had failed. The basis of this network would be the worlds Macragge had long maintained links with, but they would merely be its first components, not its fullest extent. This would be the start of Robout Guilliman's "Ultramar" and it would be a project of decades, and continue to expand right up to the first treacherous blow of the Horus Heresy.

The moment Guilliman's boot broke the skull, he felt the Warp boil behind the veil. The Bearer of the Word started chanting in a language never before spoken by any living being, his words in faultless harmony with Angron's cry of torment. Whatever the case, Roboute Guilliman was not tainted in such a fashion. The being that would become the primarch of the Ultramarines Legion came to rest upon the world of Macragge. There he was discovered, and adopted, by a local warlord named Konor. Growing and developing at a superhuman rate, Konor's adoptive son soon surpassed all those around him, and came to be the greatest warrior, strategist and statesman upon Macragge. Guilliman and El'Jonson again disagreed over the rebellion that had broke out in the Illyrium region of Macragge, with the Dark Angels primarch wishing to unleash weapons of mass destruction in an attempt to flush the rebels out as he suspected Curze was hiding in the region.

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These were hardened veterans of the Calth Atrocity. They burned with a cold intensity to carry out the vengeance in their hearts, and were intent on getting to grips with the Word Bearers. Eventually, Sanguinius was able to escape from the Warp and the Space Marine forces evacuated the world to orbit. Davin was destroyed by Cyclonic Torpedoes, and with its anchor in realspace gone, the daemonic fleet which had protected the world vanished.

Roboute Guilliman (pronounced Ruh-BOOT-ay GIL-li-man), sometimes referred to as the " Avenging Son," " The Victorious," " The Master of Ultramar" and " The Blade of Unity," is the primarch of the Ultramarines Space Marine Legion and its myriad subsequent Successor Chapters. He is the current lord commander of the Imperium and the ruling Imperial Regent. In His place to command the vast forces of the Great Crusade He left Horus. In the aftermath of the Ullanor Crusade, Horus was granted the newly-created title of "Warmaster," the commander-in-chief of all the Emperor's armies who possessed command authority over all of the other primarchs and every Expeditionary Fleet of the Great Crusade. While organising the creation of Imperium Secundus, Guilliman survived an assassination attempt by an Alpha Legion squad disguised as Aeonid Thiel and other Ultramarines. Later, when the Night Lords Primarch Konrad Curze, who had secretly taken refuge on the Dark Angels' flagship was let loose upon Macragge, Guilliman and the Lion battled the Night Lords primarch together but were led into a trap by the Night Haunter. Roboute fought a brilliant campaign and won both the submission and the respect of the fierce Illyrium warrior bands, but when he returned to his home from the northern frontier, Roboute found the capital city of Macragge Civitas in turmoil. The child was brought before Konor Guilliman, one of a pair of nobles who bore the title "consul", whose authority governed the most civilised and powerful region of Macragge, and Konor adopted the infant as his own son in a manner not uncommon to his culture, naming him Roboute.

Taking a Wider View

Namor continued to gather additional allies to his cause and sought out the Vodani, a race of people from the Vodan. His entreaties with them led to the deaths of their king Okun and his daughter Princess Kataw, who sacrificed herself. Namor’s plan to force an alliance with them helped him realize that he didn’t understand the Vodani culture.