Editing Rogal Dorn (section)

==The Coming of the Emperor==
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{{topquote|Do not look to us for kindness. Do not look to us for hope. We are not the kind children of this new age. We are the rocks of its foundation. If you wish hope then look to what we make. If you wish kindness then look to those who will come after us.|Rogal Dorn, address to the Three Hundred Magistrates of Terra}}

Forty standard years after his grandfather's death, the outlying Imperial starships of the Great Crusade finally reached the Ice Hives of Inwit. When the true Emperor was reunited with Rogal Dorn, He regained not only a lost son, but the strength of a star spanning society already forged into a tool of war. Dorn greeted the Emperor at the helm of the enormous starship constructed during the Dark Age of Technology called the Phalanx, which the Emperor had discovered within Inwit's region of space. Dorn is the seventh of the twenty Primarchs who had been found by their father. The Emperor welcomed Dorn as his long-lost son, and returned the Phalanx to his care, transforming it into the mobile fortress-monastery of the VII Space Marine Legion which was also turned over by the Emperor to be led by Dorn, since all of its Astartes had been created using Dorn's own genetic template. Dorn himself was fiercely loyal to the Emperor from the first moment that they met on the bridge of the Phalanx, [[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device|where they celebrated and ate turkey tacos]], and he never once sought any favour from his father.

Dorn embodied the human quest for truth and could never tell a lie, even if it would have aided his cause. He was inflexible and brutally honest in all things, an exemplar of what humanity could aspire to under the guidance of the Emperor. Dorn's statue stands as one of only four ever erected on Macragge, next to that of Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines. Dorn commanded the VII Legion and Expeditionary Fleets with peerless devotion and military genius. It was said that he possessed one of the finest military minds amongst the Primarchs, [[Roboute Guilliman|ordered and disciplined]] but still inclined to flashes of [[Sigismund|zeal]] and [[Lion El'Jonson|inspiration]].

While Dorn was as overspecialised as most of the other Primarchs (whether by [[Inwit|upbringing]] or [[God-Emperor of Mankind|design]]), like his brothers ([[Angron|most of them, at least]]), he generally knew how to apply his strengths to a situation and assess and deconstruct his foes with that superhuman intelligence the Primarchs supposedly possess. There's even a moment in 'Praetorian of Dorn' where, in a disagreement with [[Alpharius]] ([[Omegon|or was it?]]) over whipping out his JUST AS PLANNED dick, after the usual "This is not what the Emperor would have wanted" speech, Dorn then went on to poke holes in Alpharius' methods by his own standards, basically saying that Alpharius would have been more effective if he'd carefully selected the right times and places to subvert enemy forces instead of going for the [[Konrad Curze|shock value]] of assassinating every member of the planet's nobility. [[TTS|So yes; he knows about other forms of war, and he doesn't care.]] Which [[Skub|may or may not]] make him better at his job as Praetorian; he may choose to have fewer weapons in his toolbox, but he probably knows more about his enemies than they expect from The Literal Living Brick Wall.

But since he was so loyal, he simply couldn't countenance anything even whiffing of disloyalty to Big.E and said inflexibility came back to bite him in the ass more than once. His relation with [[Malcador the Sigillite|Malcador]] was rocky and needlessly conflictual because Malcador was willing to go lengths Dorn refused to countenance in order to protect the Emperor and Dorn just couldn't leave it alone. [[Perturabo]]'s all-consuming hatred of him could have been lessened if Dorn's (otherwise correct!) assessments of him had been delivered with more subtlety than a punch to the face. His fight with [[Konrad Curze]] could have been avoided if he'd tried to reason with him rather than outright accusing him. When Captain Nathaniel Garro of the Death Guard told the Primarch about Horus' betrayal, the thought of such a monumental betrayal to the Emperor broke Dorn's stoic facade, driving him to the brink of slaughtering the captain, despite the truth of his words.