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[[Image:GuillimanReborn3.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The reborn Roboute Guilliman]][[File:GuillimanReturns.jpg|right|thumb|Roboute Guilliman returns to lead the Imperial defenders on Ultramar.{{Fn|17}}]]
====Awakening====
Shortly after [[Abaddon the Despoiler]]'s [[Thirteenth Black Crusade]] and the destruction of [[Cadia]], the [[Tech-Priest]] [[Belisarius Cawl]] and [[Saint Celestine]] led a group of Imperial survivors into the [[Webway]] with the aid of their new [[Eldar]] allies. The group arrived at [[Macragge]], where Cawl revealed that he had in fact lived for the last ten thousand years and was ordered by Guilliman himself to complete two tasks in the event of his downfall. One of these was to revive Guilliman, a feat that Cawl could now accomplish thanks to Eldar aid. Using a suit of [[Power Armour]] that regenerated the wounds inflicted by Fulgrim, and with his soul restored to it's body by [[YvraineYnnead]], Guilliman was restored just as [[Black Legion]] forces invaded Macragge. Reborn, Guilliman swiftly drove off the Chaos invaders before taking in the truths of the Imperium after his ten thousand year absence. Guilliman displayed several "miracles" after his rebirth, his mere presence was able to cure any afflicted with a [[Nurgle]]-created blindness-inducing illness.{{Fn|17}}
Disgusted by the decay, superstition, and ignorance that surrounds the modern Imperium, Guilliman convened a war council of his Ultramarines as to what to do next. After several days he declared his intent to travel to [[Terra]] and see his father upon the [[Golden Throne]]. However Guilliman's revival had attracted the gaze of the [[Gods of Chaos]] and [[Daemon Primarch]]'s, throwing the [[Warp]] into an uproar. The journey to Terra, known as the [[Terran Crusade]], became an arduous affair that saw his fleet trapped in the [[Maelstrom]] after an ambush by [[Magnus]] and his [[Thousand Sons]]. Inside the Maelstrom the Imperial expedition was defeated by [[Kairos Fateweaver]] and the [[Red Corsairs]], with the Primarch himself trapped in crystal chains made from his own doubts. Held by Kairos inside a [[Blackstone Fortress]], the Imperial expedition seemed doomed. However thanks to the efforts of the [[Harlequin]] [[Sylandri Veilwalker]] and the [[Fallen Angel]] [[Cypher]] Guilliman and the rest of the surviving expedition were freed and escaped towards a [[Webway Portal]]. Guilliman held the portal long enough for his men to escape, defeating the [[Bloodthirster]] [[Skarbrand]] after witnessing the sacrifice of [[Marshal (Black Templars)|Marshal]] [[Amalrich]].{{Fn|17}}
