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The origins of Constantin Valdor are mysterious. According to [[Amar Astarte]], his original parents were killed by the [[Emperor]], who moved entire armies across continents to locate and retrieve him. Valdor himself knows very little of his past before becoming the Emperor's servant.{{Fn|1313c}} While commonly accepted as the first Custodes Valdor does not recall if he was truly the first Custodian, or simply the first successfully produced one.{{Fn|10}} He served during the [[Unification Wars]] at the [[Battle of Maulland Sen]]. A handful of years later, he assassinated Koja Zu, the Minister of the Anuatan Steppes{{Fn|6a}}, and claimed her son, [[Ra Endymion]]{{Fn|6d}}, for the Legio Custodes.{{Fn|6b}} During the [[Battle of Maulland Sen]] Valdor witnessed the savagery of the [[Thunder Warriors]] and became worried over their future.{{Fn|13d13b}}

By the end of the [[Unification Wars]] Valdor had emerged as part of the ruling "triumvirate" of Terra alongside the Emperor and Malcador. He had become suspicious of [[Grand Provost Marshal]] [[Uwoma Kandawire]], dispatching [[Samonas]] to unravel her conspiracy before it could begin.{{Fn|13c13a}} However the conspirators still struck in the [[Palace Coup]], during which Valdor was confronted by Kandawire, as well as [[Ushotan]] and his surviving [[Thunder Warrior]]s. Valdor urged the conspirators to surrender, but when they refused he deployed the proto-[[Legiones Astartes]] in their first battle. During the battle the rebels were crushed and Valdor slew Ushotan, an act he took no gratification in as he had admired the General. Surprisingly, Valdor spared Kandawire and let her leave the Palace to retire in peace.{{Fn|13a13d}}{{Fn|13e}}

Later Valdor expressed his surprise when Malcador stated that the Primarchs were still alive and that the Emperor was attempting to find them. Valdor couldn't understand why the [[Chaos|Arch-Enemy]] had decided to spare them, and believed that if they were alive then they would be corrupted. Valdor instead wished to raise armies of mortals to be led by his Custodians.{{Fn|13b13f}}

Valdor fought in defence of Mankind's homeworld during the [[Siege of Terra]]. During the battle loyalist marines who witnessed the Captain-General in combat, saw him reave through traitor marines as easily as they would against ordinary humans and weaker xenos. He also deployed [[Amon Tauromachian]] to investigate apparent [[Daemonic]] activity in the [[Imperial Palace]]. When Amon asked what should be done to [[Euphrati Keeler]] and her proto-[[Imperial Cult]]ists, Valdor ordered that they remain unharmed as part of Malcador's plan to use them in the fight against Chaos.{{Fn|12a12b}} After the fall of the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]] he helped lead the defense of the [[Colossi Gate]] alongside Jaghatai Khan and Raldoron, fighting against swathes of [[Daemons]].{{Fn|14}} After the escape of [[Basilio Fo]] from [[Blackstone Prison]] Valdor saw the mad scientist a threat big enough to warrant his own personal attention, and he hunted the prisoner throughout the Palace.{{Fn|19a}} He eventually saved Fo from a roaming [[Night Lord]] and decided that the human's supposed anti-Astartes bio-weapon could be of service to the Emperor.{{Fn|19b}}

Beyond his absolute loyalty to the Emperor, Constantin Valdor was known for his stoic and observant personality.{{Fn|10}} Despite the claims by outside observers he did not experience emotions such as pride or arrogance, or really any feeling at all besides his sense of duty to the Emperor. The [[Thunder Warrior]] [[Ushotan]] expressed pity for Valdor, stating that he had all the humanity sucked from him and had become numb. Valdor did not disagree with the sentiment.{{Fn|13a13d}}{{Fn|13e}} Nonetheless he seems capable of taking fondness to certain individuals, such as [[Uwoma Kandawire]] and Ushotan.{{Fn|13b13f}}

Valdor's battle prowess was legendary. His reaction time was to the point where it seemed as if he could see time itself come to a halt.{{Fn|13a13d}}{{Fn|13e}} A warrior of superlative skill, it was said that Valdor could match even a [[Primarch]] in single combat. Indeed, such was his might, that there were those, even in the Imperial Court, who called him a "Primarch" in all but name.{{Fn|6e}}

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Nemesis (Novel)]] by [[James Swallow]], {{Cite This}}

*{{Endn|3}}: [[Blood Games (Short Story)]] by [[Dan Abnett]]*{{Endn|4}}: [[Prospero Burns (Novel)]] by '''Dan Abnett''',{{Cite this}}

*6: [[Master of Mankind (Novel)]] by [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]]:**{{Endn|6a}}: ''Dramatis Personae''

*{{Endn|7}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Seven- Inferno]], pgpgs. 256-257

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