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===Post-Heresy===
====The Scouring====
After the enthronment of the Emperor Vulkan personally led a vicious counterattack from the Palace Throneroom all the way into outside the outer districts of the the Imperial Palace, striking down all traitors he came across and relishing in their annihilation. He then encountered [[Ultramarines]] [[Chief Librarian]] [[Titus Prayto]], who had been dispatched by the newly arrived [[Roboute Guilliman]] to gather him for the coming [[Grand Council of Reconstruction]]. Caught up in the desire for vengeance against the Traitors, he initially refused Prayto requests before relenting.{{Fn|26a}} In the subsequent Grand Council, Vulkan spiritually supported Dorn, [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Russ]], and [[The Lion]] in launching a Punitive Crusade against the fleeing Traitors rather than adopting Guilliman's more cautious strategy of consolidation. However in the end he issued his support based on rationality over satisfaction, and came to reluctantly support Guilliman.{{Fn|26b}} To support Guilliman, he deployed [[Atok Abidemi]] alongside a small force of Salamanders to help in the [[Retaking of Luna]].{{Fn|26c}}
It is claimed Vulkan was one of the Primarchs to oppose the [[Codex Astartes]]. This, however, would not be for lack of courage or loyalty, but rather due to the crippling losses sustained at Isstvan V, where his Legion was cut down in size to but a few. During the [[Great Scouring]] he became furious at the tales of the horrors visited upon Terra's population by the [[Emperor's Children]] and attempted to [[Hunt For Bile|find and kill Fabius Bile]].{{Fn|17}} Sometime later, Vulkan chose to leave the Salamanders, claiming that, like [[Space Wolves]] Primarch [[Leman Russ (primarch)|Leman Russ]], he would return in the End Times. That is the last anyone saw of Vulkan for the next 1,500 years.{{Fn|1}}