Editing Arelex Orannis (section)

==Personality==

The Primarch of the Second Legion was known to outsiders as stern, aloof and secretive.  His men and few friends outside the Legion knew a warmer figure, patient, generous, and highly-protective of his loved ones.  Whether due to his innate temperament, or the brutal conditions of life aboard the Space Hulk '' Palaestram Matyas'', Arelex Orannis was slow to trust, even slower to form friendships, but extraordinarily loyal to those whom he named "friend".  Those few who he called "brother" knew that there was almost anything they could ask of the Primarch - though Hektor Cincinnatus would discover to his cost that Arelex held his father in even higher esteem.

Indeed, none of the other Primarchs felt such a close attachment to the Emperor of Mankind.  Arelex's speeches to his Legion are replete with heartfelt appeals to the War Scribes to make every sacrifice possible for their master.  The loss of his gene-sons for the Emperor's Great Crusade chafed, no doubt, at the Primarch's conscience, and he ordered the construction of many monuments to the fallen on the legendary planets of the Atalantos Worlds.  First among these, of course, is the spectacular ''Gift of the Emperor'' on Keilos.  This magnificent Hive City stands as a tribute to the Emperor's sacrifice at the Siege of Terra.  For a hundred centuries its teeming millions have dedicated themselves to the praise of humanity's fallen lord.

Those outside the Primarch's close circles of loyalty received little regard.  A few fragmentary records from the Great Crusade point to Arelex Orannis ordering his men to preempt the actions of other Legions for the sake of acquiring a piece of ancient technology or lost data.  Such finds were only released to the Mechanicum when absolutely necessary, and Arelex was not above using his position as the "son of the Omnissiah" to get his way with Fabricator-General [[Kalkas Tygian]].  Such high-handedness, and the War Scribes' bitter break with the Mechanicum after the battle of Dieseleum, would not be without its cost.