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During This belief would come to be understood finally during the [[Devastation of Baal]], when Dante led the Blood Angels and their successor chapter's in a final stand against [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]]. During the battle Dante managed to slay the [[Swarmlord]] but was badly wounded in the process. As he lay dying, he saw a vision of the [[Sanguinor]] and [[Sanguinius]] himself. Relieved that his duty was finally over, Dante was about to pass into death when Sanguinius told him to live and that his time was not yet done. Distressed, Dante begged Sanguinius to let him die and take his soul with him, but was suddenly revived on the battlefield.{{Fn|88b}} Fortunately for the Chapter Master, Baal was saved by [[Roboute Guilliman]] and the [[Indomitus Crusade]]., {{Fn|7}} who commended him for saving half the galaxy from the terror of the Hive Fleet {{Fn|8b}}
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Perhaps his most famous victories were in the [[Second War for Armageddon]], where his leadership allowed the beleaguered defenders to triumph over the fury of [[Waaagh! Ghazghkull]]. There he led the valiant strike against the Orks attacking [[Hive Acheron]], where the horde was ripped asunder by cannon and bomb as Dante spearheaded the reinforcements. And it was in the closing stages of the war that Dante's tactical genius finally broke the back of the Ork army, leading a massed [[Drop Pod]] assault against the Orks assaulting [[Hive Tartarus]], his Blood Angels slaying fully half of the Orks and driving them back to the ash wastes and jungles.{{Fn|3}}
In the closing days of the 41st Millennium, heroes like Dante are were points of light in the growing darkness. He standsstood, as he has had done for a millennium or more, between the enemies of Mankind and the Imperium.{{Fn|3}}
As a leader, Dante is utterly fearless, and full of drive and initiative. If his opponents ever make a mistake, Dante is on it in a flash, and he always exploits their error to the fullest. He has a reputation for leading from the front and can usually be found where the battle is fiercest. Plummeting from the skies at the head of his [[Sanguinary Guard|personal bodyguard]], a halo of power playing around his head.{{Fn|1}}
Yet for all of his success, or perhaps because of it, Dante has had grown weary of his burdens. He has had lived far longer than he should, and the burden of centuries grows grew even weightier. Only one thing prevents prevented Dante from succumbing to ennui. Recorded - recorded in the Scrolls of [[Sanguinius]] are were the [[Primarch]]s visions of a great battle to overshadow all others, where one golden warrior will would stand between his [[Emperor]] and the darkness. For many generations of the Blood Angels, these prophecies have had been read as Sanguinius's foreknowledge of his own fate, yet . Yet through some instinct, - perhaps a lingering trace of his Primarch's fabled far-seeing eye, or his own prophetic dreams of the golden warrior {{Fn|8a}}, Dante believes believed otherwise. One day, perhaps He frequently believed that one day soon, the defence of the Emperor will would possibly rest in Dante's his hands, and he aims aimed to fulfill this that final duty.{{Fn|4}}
Following the salvation of Baal, Guilliman named Dante the Lord Regent of [[Imperium Nihilus]].{{Fn|9}} He used his new authority to organize an offensive to retake the [[Red Scar]] region from the tendrils of Leviathan known as the [[Angel's Halo]].{{Fn|10}}
**{{Endn|6b}}: Chapter Twenty
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Codex: Tyranids (8th Edition)]], pg. 63
*{{Endn|8}}: [[The Devastation of Baal (Novel)]]*{{Endn|8a}}: Chapter Fifteen*{{Cite thisEndn|8b}}: Chapter Twenty-Nine
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition)]], pg. 22
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Psychic Awakening: Blood of Baal]], pgs. 8-9
