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== History ==
===Youth===
[[Image:RogalDornArt.jpg|thumb|right|250x|Rogal Dorn]]
Very little is known about Rogal Dorn's youth. It is believed that that he was raised on the planet of [[Inwit]] in the [[system]] of the same name by an ice-caste native to the Ice Hives of the world. The patriarch of the clan, the House of Dorn, soon became as a grandfather to him, and taught him much of tactics and survival. Even after he discovered he was not blood-related to his 'grandfather' Dorn held his memory in high value; he kept a fur-edged robe that had belonged to the man and slept with it on his bed every night. Eventually Rogal Dorn became the leader not only of his caste but of the whole world and then the surrounding region of space, ruling the Inwit Cluster as Emperor of the House of Dorn. But as the history goes, 40 years after his grandfather's death, the [[Great Crusade]] reached the Ice Hives of Inwit. Dorn greeted the Emperor at the helm of his enormous starship, the [[Phalanx]], the seventh Primarch to be found.{{Fn|1}} The Emperor welcomed Dorn, and returned the Phalanx to his care, making it the [[Fortress Monastery]] of the [[Imperial Fists]].{{Cite This}}
===Horus Heresy===
Before the Imperial Fists could arrive at Terra in full complement, the events of the [[Horus Heresy]] overtook them. Stranded for some considerable time by severe [[Warp storms]], the Imperial Fist fleet eventually discovered the badly damaged [[Death Guard]] frigate ''[[Eisenstein]]'', and so learned of [[Horus]]' betrayal. At first unwilling to believe it, Rogal Dorn was eventually convinced by several members of the [[Eisenstein]] survivors, notably [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Nathaniel Garro]] and [[remembrancer]] [[Mersadie Oliton]], that his brother Horus was staging a full-scale rebellion. Dorn therefore despatched the bulk of his Legion to the [[Isstvan III]] system on a war-footing. He himself returned to Terra with his veteran companies to bring word of the events personally.{{Fn|4}}
[[Image:SamusVsDorn.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Rogal Dorn battles [[Samus]] aboard the ''[[Phalanx]]'']]
Dorn was subsequently charged with bolstering the defences of the Imperial Palace even further, and oversaw the construction himself. He felt he was marring the perfection and beauty of the existing structure in doing this, and regretted it, even though it was necessary.{{Fn|1}} As the Emperor was held up with the [[War Within the Webway]], Dorn effectively managed the loyalist war effort while [[Malcador the Sigillite]] handled the political spectrum.{{Fn|12}} Dorn divided the [[Sol System]] into several spheres of defense, attempting to contain the traitor advance in the subsequent [[Solar War]]. During the [[Battle of Pluto]], Dorn seemingly killed [[Alpharius]], Primarch of the Alpha Legion, but lost his trusted [[Huscarls]] commander [[Archamus]] in the process.{{Fn|15}} Later, Dorn appeared to greet [[Vulkan]] when the [[Salamanders]] [[Primarch]] emerged from the [[Webway]]. Vulkan sensed that Dorn was mentally and physically exhausted from his duties and the constant bad news, and embraced his brother.{{Fn|16}} Dorn next held a war council with [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]], [[Jaghatai Khan]], [[Sanguinius]], and [[Malcador the Sigillite]] during which he revealed that the [[Ruinstorm]] was weakening, and intended to exploit this by mustering his forces at the [[Beta-Garmon]] [[System]] until [[Guilliman]] and [[Lion El'Jonson]] could arrive to crush Horus from the rear. The Khan and Russ both disagreed with Dorn's actions, and as Russ left Terra with his Legion to confront Horus directly Rogal pleaded with him to stay.{{Fn|17}}
In 014.[[M31]], Horus finally struck at the [[Sol System]] and brought about the final phase of the [[Solar War]]. Dorn by this point had conceived a five-tiered defensive layer based around buying as much time as possible in order to stall for Guilliman's arrival. Commanding from the [[Bhab Bastion]] with his primarily [[Human]] staff during the initial phase of the battle, as [[Luna]] and [[Mars]] came under direct attack Dorn finally decided to unleash the ''[[Phalanx]]'' into the battle and moved aboard the Battlestation. However as they were departing Terra's orbit for the battle [[Garviel Loken]] brought [[Remembrancer]] [[Mersadie Oliton]] aboard the station with urgent news. Dorn, having been given the initial news of Horus' treachery from Oliton years prior, trusted her judgement when Loken informed him that Oliton had to speak with the Primarch. However this was a trap by Chaos, and Oliton was revealed to have been unknowingly corrupted by [[Maloghurst]] years prior. The [[Daemon]] [[Samus]] manifested directly aboard the ''Phalanx'', bringing with him hordes of Daemonic creatures. Dorn and the Imperial Fists aboard the ''Phalanx'' fought a desperate battle, with the Primarch even engaging Samus in direct combat and slaying the creature. However Samus was continually reborn by possessing the bodies of the fallen, and Dorn was ready to order the self-destruction of the ''Phalanx'' until Oliton committed suicide, closing the portal from which the Daemons manifested. With the Sol System falling around him due to Horus' attacks, Dorn ordered that [[Admiral]] [[Niora Su-Kassen]] take the ''Phalanx'' to the outer reaches of the System while he returned to Terra to command the defenses of the world for Horus' coming attack.{{Fn|19}}
