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[[File:Horus Heresy Raldoron.jpg|thumb|200px|Chapter Master Raldoron.{{Fn|7}}]]
'''Raldoron''' was the [[First Captain]]{{Fn|11a}} of the [[Blood Angels]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]], [[Chapter Master]] of the Protectors{{Fn|2}}, and [[Equerry]] to the [[Primarch]] [[Sanguinius]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and the [[Horus Heresy]]. He was chosen as First Captain because of his adaptable command style, something in sharp contrast with [[Azkaellon]], Commander of the [[Sanguinary Guard]]{{Fn|1a}}, and because he knew the hearts and minds of the battle-brothers of the IX Legion.{{Fn|1b}} He was also regarded as one of the most formidable warriors of the Legiones Astartes, compared with the likes of fellow First Captains [[Ezekyle Abaddon]] of the [[Black Legion|Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus]], [[Sigismund]] of the [[Imperial Fists]], and [[Jago Sevatarion]] of the [[Night Lords]].{{fn|5}} Following the Heresy, Raldoron became the first Chapter Master of the Blood Angels.{{Fn|6}}
Raldoron accompanied Sanguinius to [[Macragge]], taking part in the [[Imperium Secundus]] administration and acting as his Primarch's confidant. During the journey through the [[Ruinstorm]] to [[Terra]], Raldoron fought alongside Sanguinius at [[Battle of Pyrrhan|Pyrrhan]] and [[Second Battle of Davin|Davin]].{{Fn|9}} During the [[Battle of Beta-Garmon]] Raldoron helped Sanguinius reorganize the failing war effort, though ultimately the loyalists were defeated.{{Fn|9}}
During the [[Siege of Terra]], Raldoron was placed in command of the loyalist defenses at the Helios Gate of the [[Imperial Palace]]. Serving alongside [[Imperial Fists]] Captain [[Maximus Thane]], during the traitor assault on the Helios Gate he personally bested acting [[Night Lords]] commander [[Gendor Skraivok]] in battle.{{Fn|10}} Later during the defense of [[Colossi Gate]], Raldoron fought alongside [[Jaghatai Khan]], [[Constantin Valdor]], and [[Marshal]] [[Aldana Agathe]] against the [[Death Guard]] and hordes of [[Daemons]].{{Fn|111}} During the final teleportation assault aboard the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]'', Raldoron and his 1st Company veterans accompanied Sanguinius alongside the [[Sanguinary Guard]].{{Fn|12}} However Raldoron and the other Blood Angels became separated from Sanguinius as his father went to face [[Horus]]. Instead, the warriors found themselves assailed by madness within the manifesting [[Inevitable City]].{{Fn|13}}
Sensing the death of Sanguinius, Raldoron fell into the madness of the [[Black Rage]] which erupted amongst the ranks of the Blood Angels. He and his fellow berserk warriors attacked both traitors under [[Abaddon]] and loyalists led by Valdor and Dorn.{{Fn|14a}} The madness eventually passed, and an ashamed and confused Raldoron and the scant dozen surviving Blood Angels accompanied Dorn, Valdor, and the other survivors back to the Imperial Palace with the bodies of the Emperor and Sanguinius.{{Fn|14b}} Raldoron later led a funeral service for Sanguinius alongside [[Azkaellon]], [[Satel Aimery]], and perhaps 500 surviving Blood Angels.{{Fn|14c}}
==Sources==
** {{Endn|1a}}: ''Melchior''
** {{Endn|1b}}: ''Nikaea''
* {{Endn|7}}: [[Horus Heresy: Collected Visions]], pg. 171
* {{Endn|8}}: [[Redeemed (Short Story)]] — '''Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus''', pg. 24
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Ruinstorm (Novel)]],{{Cite thisCME}}
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Titandeath (Novel)]], Chapter 19
*{{Endn|10}}: [[The Lost and the Damned (Novel)]], Chapters 29-30
