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===Horus Heresy===

[[Image:VulkanArt.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Vulkan on [[Isstvan V]] ]]

Vulkan was present alongside [[Ferrus Manus]] and [[Corax]] at the [[Isstvan V]] Dropsite Massacre. During the battle the majority of the Salamanders Legion was killed by nuclear missiles fired from the [[Iron Warriors]]. Due to his [[Perpetual]] regeneration abilities, Vulkan survived the explosion but found himself surrounded by hundreds of warriors from the Iron Warriors and [[Night Lords]]. Fighting to what he thought was his death, Vulkan was stabbed, shot and bludgeoned in unconsciousness. Seeing a chance to torment his brother, [[Konrad Curze]] took Vulkan prisoner. The Primarch of the Night Lords spent the next several months trying to both break Vulkan's spirit and trying to kill him. Curze personally cut Vulkan's head off, ripped out his throat with a fork, stabbed him through the chest and tore him limb from limb. Separately he had Vulkan eviscerated, shot with hundreds of bolters at close range, left in the venting shaft of a starship's engine and even thrown in empty space completely naked. Each time Vulkan died his body would regenerate completely, leaving Curze furious. Eventually, frusterated and bored with his inability to kill Vulkan, Curze decided to get Vulkan to admit he was no less a monster than himself. Curze had several [[Davinite]] Priests ensnare Vulkan's mind and run him through trial after trial, ensuring he failed each time and innocents died. When Vulkan would not break, Curze decided to end things in a duel. He made Vulkan navigate a maze designed by [[Perturabo]], at the center of which lay [[Dawnbringer]], Vulkan's personal hammer, as well as the corpses of several of his comrades. When Vulkan retrieved his hammer he managed to overpower Curze and activated a teleporter built into the head of the hammer. Vulkan was transported across the Galaxy into the upper atmosphere of [[Macragge]] and burnt up during reentry, confident he would wake up in the care of the [[Ultramarines]]{{Fn|4}}

His charred body was later recovered by the Ultramarines, who at first were unable to identify the corpse as anything more than a grotesque statue - all living matter having burned up on reentry. Over a series of days Vulkan's body began to regenerate, eventually returning to life and shocking the Ultramarines [[Apothecaries]] he had been entrusted to. Realizing who it was, the apothecaries summoned their Primarch, [[Roboute Guilliman]], who was at first furious that no one could give him any answers as to how or why Vulkan had suddenly fallen from the skies. To Guilliman's horror he found that Vulkan was broken mentally; violent and incoherent, attacking anything and everything he could. {{Fn|6}}

Later, Vulkan's corpse was reclaimed by the Primarchs [[Guilliman]], [[Lion El'Jonson ]] and [[Sanguinius]]. Vulkan was placed in a stasis-capsule, hand-crafted by Guilliman himself, with the words '''[[Unbound Flame]]''' carved into the side. The few remaining Salamanders who had made it to Macragge were allowed to stand guard over their fallen Primarch until such time as he could be returned to Nocturne. During their vigil, the Salamanders thought they heard a heartbeat coming from the casket, but dismissed it.{{Fn|6c}} Convinced he could be resurrected, an expedition back to Nocturne led by [[Artellus Numeon]] eventually was able to bring Vulkan's body back to Nocturne and with Numeon as the final sacrifice, Vulkan was restored from the Unbound Flame at [[Mount Deathfire]].{{Fn|10}}

Upon his resurrection, Vulkan was in a condition similar to a [[Wikipedia: Fugue State|fugue state]] and remembered little. He found himself in the depths of Mt. Deathfire, conversing with an old man calling himself Deathfire personified. The man urged Vulkan to travel to Terra and led the Primarch to two items that he had no memory of forging: the [[Thunder Hammer]] [[Urdrakule]] and the [[Talisman of Seven Hammers]]. When Vulkan awoke, he was at the steps of Mt. Deathfire and discovered by three of his legionaries: [[Atok Abidemi]], [[Barek Zytos]], and [[Igen Gargo]]. Vulkan ordered the three to return in three days and forbade them to speak to any else that the Primarch had returned to Nocturne. When the three returned, now dubbed Vulkan's ''Draaksward'', the Primarch used his talisman to open a [[Webway]] portal deep below Nocturne.{{Fn|16}}