Horus Heresy · atlas

009.M31 · Shadow of War · date approximate

Rebirth of Vulkan · Deathfire

Place: Nocturne · Segmentum Ultima

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Loyalist victory Numeon sacrifices himself on Mount Deathfire; Vulkan rises.

The surviving Salamanders carried Vulkan’s body through the Ruinstorm to Nocturne. First Captain Artellus Numeon sacrificed himself in the fiery chasm of Mount Deathfire in an act of pure faith, and the undying primarch Vulkan rose from the “Unbound Flame”, awakening in the mountain’s cavern.

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Significance

Returns Vulkan to the war; the culmination of the Salamanders’ odyssey “Deathfire”.

Disputed in the canon

  • The exact year is not fixed; c. 009.M31 (the era of the Imperium Secundus).

Sources

  1. WH40k Fandom: Horus Heresy Chronology
  2. Deathfire (N. Kyme)

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