Editing Roboute Guilliman (section)

===Early Life===
[[File:Tumblr_p8wow2RRoU1s422e6o1_640.png|300px|right|thumb|[[Dawww]]...[[Tarasha Euten]] AKA [[Konrad Curze|Konrad Curze's]] torment made manifest. Credits to [https://www.deviantart.com/dinahisrael/art/Warhammer-40k-Tarasha-Euten-and-Roboute-Guilliman-745179851 DinahIsrael.] ]]
Much has been made of how "easy" Guilliman's early life was compared to many of his brothers, and how [[Macragge]] was a supposedly great place to live. The reality is that while Macragge was no [[Barbarus]] or [[Nostramo]], life there was far from easy. The primary culture of the planet was very similar to that of ancient Sparta, and weakness was tolerated about as poorly as it was on a planet like [[Medusa (Planet)|Medusa]]. For instance, when children were born, they would be examined to determine if they were weak or strong. If they were weak, they would simply be left out in the wilderness to die. All children who weren't just left to die would be placed in military training academies when they were six, and again, those who were weak would die. So not exactly a paradise world. Guilliman was found by the planet's ruler and some of his retinue while they were on a hunting trip. Konor Guilliman, the man who took him in, was a pretty cool dude who advocated helping the common man and pushed for meritocratic reforms. These were a major influence on Roboute and stayed with him throughout his life. Guilliman loved his father dearly, and was known to have considered Konor to have been his "real" father, while the Emperor had merely been his creator. It also says something that Konor's seneschal, [[Tarasha Euten]] (hereafter referred to as GuilliMom), was effectively Guilliman's surrogate mother, making him the only Primarch to have a conventional family, [[Butthurt|a fact that twisted Konrad Curze's nipples to no end (which goes double when she tells him to go fuck himself)]].

When Roboute was 12, he was sent to war against the Illyrians, Macragge's version of the Gauls (or of the actual Illyrians, whom the Romans conquered long before they took Gaul, probably the latter since at this time Ultramar and later Ultramarines were basically Romanized Gauls in space). During the campaign, Roboute realised that instead of having to [[rip and tear|rip and tear]] through the Illyrians, many of them were willing to negotiate and drop their guns for a place in Konor's dream. When he met with the Illyrian chieftain, Guilliman presented a sacred artifact that the consuls of Macragge had stolen generations ago as a peace offering. This was the second major impact in his life - to try diplomacy first before war.

When he returned, Roboute found his home in disarray. Konor had just become the victim of some political treachery, Ancient Roman-style. His co-ruler, Gallan, was pissed off at all these reforms Konor pushed through, so he sent his army to rape, pillage and burn while lying to the Senate that Konor was behind it. Seeing his once peaceful home burning, with soldiers looting and killing the people they swore to protect, left the third major impact on Roboute and the most likely source of why he was always so [[Butthurt|anal]] about protocol - the alternative in his eyes was total anarchy.

After helplessly watching his father die from a poisoned wound, then finding out that Gallan, who had been pretending to be on his side, was the one behind Konor's assassination, Roboute was about to murder Gallan in front of the Senate before realizing that doing so would set a precedence for infighting while Macragge continued to burn (Gallan was later ceremonial beheaded on a rock, which would later be used by the Ultramarines to execute their traitor brothers in the future. Also, the rock was a reference to [[wikipedia:Tarpeian Rock|Tarpeian Rock]], yet another Roman reference for Guilliman's backstory). This was the fourth major impact on his life: by controlling his emotions and deferring to the Senate's laws, Guilliman ironically won the Senate and enabled his father's dream. By the time the [[Emperor]] reached Macragge, Roboute had ruled for five years and turned the world into a place where you had to earn your place, not just be born into it, exactly how his (adoptive) father would have wanted it. When the Emperor arrived Guilliman had acquired several systems in the sector through diplomacy and was getting ready to annex the others in what would become the start of [[Ultramar]]. He willingly knelt to the Emperor and joined the [[Imperium of Man]], acquiring special status for Ultramar as autonomous from the central government (directly, rather than due to practical reasons), leaving Euten in charge while he went off crusading. Think of Ultramar administratively being to the Imperium what a single world normally would be.