Editing Rogal Dorn (section)

==Horus Heresy==
{{Topquote|My order to you all is simple, yet heed it well, and exert yourselves to see it done. They are coming. Kill them all.|Rogal Dorn, a man of few words, at the beginning of the Siege of Terra}}

After Horus was made Warmaster, Dorn and his Legion were ordered to head back to Terra and fortify the shit out of the place while the Emprah went about his Big Project. Before taking off, Dorn made some efforts to keep the other Primarchs on side and helped engineer Garviel Loken's appointment to the Mournival. He reasoned that Horus needed a "naysmith" or two to stop the position going to his head. Sadly this wasn't quite enough.
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After being warned of the Heresy by Garro, Dorn and the majority of his legion began to fortify the Sol System. He did however send a huge part of his fleet in order to help at Istvaan, but due to [[Battle of Phall|unforeseen]] [[Imperium Secundus|circumstances]] the fleet never reached Istvaan.

Despite being isolated from most the great battles of the Heresy, things were hardly peaceful for Dorn and the VII. Mars erupted into civil war, resulting in a regular stream of attacks from the surface in the form of interplanetary missiles, raiding fleets, and mountain sized shells shot into orbit. As the Heresy dragged on, raiding fleets from the outside probed the edges of the Sol System's defenses. Covert infiltrators gained access onto Terra, testing the security of the planet as well as preparing the way for Horus's inevitable attack. Even Alpharius himself led an attack on the system, whereupon Dorn (''definitely'') ultra-killed him with Storm's Teeth. After tanking a spear blow from Alpharius, Rogal cut off Alpharius's hands with Storm's Teeth, slashed open his chest, stabbed Alpharius with his own spear, then finished off the 20th Primarch with an overhead chainsword swing to his unfortified head. Alpharius is actually DEAD. Omegon, half the galaxy away, sensed it and decided to adopt Alpharius's identity permanently, the rest is history. Or isn't, because Dorn had the whole affair covered up.

Matters were not helped by his disagreements with [[Malcador the Sigillite]] over the latter's methods of protecting Terra, which on more than one occasion led to direct conflicts between the forces they commanded. (To give you an idea, Big.E in person had to come in and make everyone fall in line when Dorn and Malcador got in [[skub|a bit of a pickle]] about the existence and use of the [[Officio Assassinorum]].)

It's also important to realize that Praetorian wasn't just a pretty title. During the Heresy, Dorn was in overall command of the Primarchs and the loyal Legions, at least in theory. In practice Russ, Corax, Sanguinius (when he finally arrived) and Jaghatai Khan (only grudgingly) were the only ones who did what he said. The others were too busy [[Vulkan|being missing]] or [[Ferrus Manus|dead]], [[Roboute Guilliman|building their own empires]], or [[Lion El'Jonson|pursuing vendettas]]. Dorn got the Fists of the Retribution Fleet and the White Scars back to Terra while directing the Space Wolves and Raven Guard to harass the Traitors on their way to the Throneworld and had tactical authority during the Siege of Terra. His decision making about the flow of resources, when to hold fast, and when to counterattack allowed the Palace to hold for as long as it did.

Though all of the stress did catch up to him. When Vulkan finally made it to Terra, Dorn confided in him that the pressure of fortifying Terra and preparing for the inevitable invasion was grinding him down and that he was having difficulties keeping it together. Vulkan, being the great bro that he is, gave him a hug!

During the Siege of Terra, Dorn was under a lot of stress, like several metric fucktonnes. During the Solar War, he had to fight the daemon Samus while the ''Phalanx'' was crippled and being boarded by more daemons as he fought mostly alone, protecting a human admiral and unlocking his Librarians. He also had to try and keep Jaghatai in the Palace. But when the Khan sallied out, he got real pissed off, but was thankful for the information which the Khan had brought them. He also bought time for forces to flee the Lion's Gate whilst trolling Perturabo. His relationship with [[Sigismund]] got better over time. During the battle at the Saturnine Wall, they both beat up Fulgrim and a bunch of Fulgrim's champions, including Eidolon. Dorn also had to save Sigismund before that, though it gave him an excuse to make an epic entrance. At that point, both Sigismund and Dorn realized the nightmare that was to come had just begun, and Dorn quietly ordered Sigismund to unleash himself, for the line of desperation as opposed to pragmatism was just crossed, which he did with gusto.

When Horus dropped the ''Vengeful Spirit'''s shields, Rogal went with the Emprah and [[Sanguinius]] to Horus's battle barge to face the traitor, only for all of them to be scattered by Warp fuckery. Dorn found himself lost and alone in a desert for what felt like centuries, tempted by whispers from Khorne while his identity slowly eroded away. He managed to break out somehow, and when the Emprah totally fucked up Horus, Rogal [[Creed|"seemingly" came out of nowhere]] and saved his ass, then got all pissy about it because he was only a few seconds short, and found Sanguinius dead and the Emprah dying. Surprisingly, he did not turn into an [[Angry Marine]] (that came a bit later), but still couldn't let go of his emotions, which Corax purportedly found painfully ironic. Once Guilliman arrived, Dorn transferred power to him in order to go all Black Templar on the collective asses of the Traitor Legions. And when we say Black Templar, we mean it. Dorn and the Fists pursued the Traitors with a fury that even the Angry Marines could only stare at in awe, until nothing remained of the Traitor forces outside the [[Eye of Terror]].