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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|11}} 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}}
Following the [[Horus Heresy]], Raldoron succeeded Sanguinius as the new Master of the Blood Angels (no longer . However he was shell-shocked and traumatized from both the death of his Primarch and the eruption of the Black Rage, and was non-committal to overtures by [[Corswain]] of the [[Dark Angels]] and [[Bjorn]] of the [[Space Wolves]] to join a planned crusade of vengeance against the fleeing Traitors being organized by [[Rogal Dorn]].{{Fn|16}} With the Legion, but now eventually reduced to a [[Chapter) ]], he and brought his Sanguinius' mortal remains back to the [[Fortress-Monastery]] of [[Baal]] after the [[Battle of Terra]].{{Fn|6}}
===Personality===
**{{Endn|14c}}: Fragments (Agonal) - iii
*{{Endn|15}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20241229082825/https://www.joytoy.com/products/blood-angels-raldoron-first-captain-of-the-blood-angels Joytoy webstore: Raldoron First Captain of the Blood Angels] (saved archive, dated 29 december 2024, last accessed 02 January 2025) Original link: https://www.joytoy.com/products/blood-angels-raldoron-first-captain-of-the-blood-angels
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Ashes of the Imperium (Novel)]] - Chapter 13
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