Editing Golgothos (section)

==Appearance==

Accounts of Golgothos' appearance before he was maimed and interred in a dreadnought are fragmentary. It is said that he rarely smiled, but he was thought handsome and surviving portraits depict a pale, lean face with soulful eyes framed by a black mane of hair. His lean, wiry frame towered over mortal men and space marines alike and he is said to have moved with tremendous grace. Most descriptions linger long on the voice of Golgothos and his ability to speak much with a short phrase.

The dreadnought that housed him after Ullanor is better-documented. Traditional depictions show the skull of the Primarch mounted atop it, though it is difficult to see how even one of the Emperor's superhuman sons could have survived such a transformation. Sages generally agree that this tradition goes back to the Reformation-era propaganda that describes the Primarch's walker ''"adorned with the skull of he who fell on Ullanor"'', but it is more likely that the trophy was an Orkish skull, perhaps that of Ullanor's ruler himself. It is certain that the war machine was of prodigious size, perhaps closer in scale to an Imperial Knight walker than the familiar Dreadnoughts of the Space Marines, and so powerfully armed that Golgothos' fury was undiminished by his wounding.