Horus Heresy · atlas

009.M31 · Shadow of War · date approximate

Vulkan Escapes the Nightfall

Place: Macragge · Segmentum Ultima

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Loyalist victory The immortal Vulkan teleports away from Curze’s torments to Macragge.

For months Konrad Curze tried to break and kill the captive Vulkan, an undying primarch, subjecting him to a series of deaths. Vulkan revealed a hidden teleporter in his hammer “Dawnbringer” and vanished from the “Nightfall”, appearing in low orbit above Macragge.

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Significance

Frees Vulkan and ties the fate of the Salamanders to the era of the Imperium Secundus.

Disputed in the canon

  • The exact year is not fixed by the sources; c. 009.M31.

Sources

  1. WH40k Fandom: Vulkan
  2. Vulkan Lives (N. Kyme)

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