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The following details discuss and entertain the notion of, as well as any source conflicts that would arise, in associating the death of Rogal Dorn with one of [[Black Crusade#The Black Crusades of Abaddon the Despoiler|Abaddon's Black Crusades]], based upon given information, and any conflicts therein. Some points to consider when discussing the Black Crusades of Abaddon:
*In [[Index Astartes II]] Rogal Dorn is stated to have died during a [[Black Crusade]] in which [[Cadia]] ''wasn't'' attacked{{fn|49}}. This would eliminate Black Crusades 1-4 which did involve attacks on Cadia. It would also eliminate Black Crusades 12 which did not go through the Cadian Gate, and Black Crusade 13 which did attack Cadia.
**Furthermore the [[Despoiler Class Battleship]] is described in [[Battlefleet Gothic]] as having been built in [[M36]]{{Fn|8}} This ''If accurate'', this too would also naturally eliminate Black Crusades 1-4.
**The Second Black Crusade did involve an attack through the Cadian Gate, however it also resulted in an actual attack and besieging of Cadia itself, something the account of Dorn's Death in Index Astartes states did not happen at that time.
**In the [[Index Astartes II]], Dorn's death is said to have taken place "soon after the disappearance of his brother", [[Corvus Corax]] into the [[Eye of Terror]], which further guarantees it could not have been the 12th, as Corax had been long gone by that point; more generally, it implies an earlier crusade, as Corax's absence from galactic events before his disappearance is less plausible the longer it is.
