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A summary of what we "know":
*Rogal Dorn died during a [[Black Crusade]] in which [[Cadia]] ''wasn't'' attacked, meaning it had to be 5 through 12if it was one of [[Abbadon]]'s, as 1-4 and 13 involved attacks on the planet.
**He died on [[Sword of Sacrilege|a ship]] built in [[M36]], further corroborating that he couldn't have died in any of the first 4 Black Crusades.
***Said ship was at least eventually crewed by [[Tzeentch|Tzeeentchian]]s; the [[8th Black Crusade]] was the one in which [[Abbadon]] specifically sought (and acquired) Tzeentch's favor, and it involved the murder of highly specific targets in highly specific ways.
**The 7th was specifically about recovering gene-seed, culminating in Abbadon and [[Fabius Bile|Bile]] making new marines from [[Blood Angels]] gene-seed; presumably, they would have used [[Iron Hands]] gene-seed as well if they had a primarch's corpse on hand.
Speculatively, then, the most plausible crusade Black Crusade in which Dorn died was the [[8th Black Crusade]], circa 999.[[M37]], ''if it was one of Abbadon's''. If he instead died in a heretofore undisclosed Black Crusade, it was presumably in either late [[M36]] or sometime in [[M37]].
Rogal Dorn can be presumed to have survived to at least 100 years after the [[Second Founding]] in 021.M31{{Fn|43}}{{Fn|42}}. While conversing with [[Chaplain]] [[Segas]] on [[Sotha]], [[Oberdeii]] refers to the Second Founding as having occurred at least a hundred years ago (and that [[Roboute Guilliman]] was already wounded by [[Fulgrim]] by that point). Segas in turn refers to Dorn as alive and in command in the present tense, having already petitioned the High Lords to approve the upcoming [[Third Founding]] forty years prior their conversation. Thus (presuming Segas was not misinformed due to delayed information) this puts one of the last dates he is presumed to be alive as of at least 121.M31, approximately 600 years prior to the [[1st Black Crusade]] in 781.M31{{Fn|41}}{{Fn|42}}.
