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At no point in [[M32]] during the [[War of the Beast]] is Rogal Dorn spoken of by the Imperial Fists as though he were alive and in command of the Imperial Fists. However, during that war, Vulkan commended [[Koorland]] that his actions honoured Rogal Dorn and that he "will tell him so." It is therefore possible that Rogal Dorn did indeed vanish from the Imperial public light shortly after Corax and the [[Great Scouring]], but that like Vulkan, he remained alive and in hiding and only surfacing to lead the attack on the unspecified Black Crusade.{{Fn|8}} With the War of the Beast ending 546.[[M32]], the next closest Black Crusade to occur after it would be the [[2nd Black Crusade]] in 597.[[M32]], approximately 50 years later.
In a 2014 thread on [[Bolter & Chainsword]] by the (supposed)<sup>[[Rogal Dorn/Sources| [See Additional Sources]]]</sup> account of [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]] (ADB) regarding the planning of of his [[Black Library (BL Publishing)|Black Library]] novels, he affirms the death of Rogal Dorn aboard the [[Sword of Sacrilege]] as per [[Index Astartes II]] (in so far as it was part of his planning). In the post he recounts some of his (at the time) scrapped plans for writing the climax of the 1st Black Crusade. The planned date for this climax would have been between the First and Second Black Crusade, "early [[M2]] ... a couple hundred years after the first Black Crusade", as part of a joint author collaboration meeting to organize when '''all''' the primarchs had died. He had proposed having [[Abaddon]] kill Rogal Dorn, merging Dorn's Death on the Sword of Sacrilege with the climax of the 1st Black Crusade. Ultimately this story concept was not chosen during the meeting, and thus it was not written.{{Fn|44}}
Per ADB in regards to who was slain by Abaddon during the climax of the First Black Crusade:
