To many worlds within the Imperium's borders, the Adeptus Astartes are nothing more than a myth. From The Mourner's Prophecies, by Sargon Eregesh, Storm Oracle of the Black Legion Beware the golden mask that forever stares and never smiles, weeping tears of frozen gold." To you and I, he will be a mortal man bearing the immortal face of his fallen father. To the Neverborn, he will be the Death-that-Soars. At their vanguard flies the Last Archangel. " In the Time of Ending, we will see the final flight of the Dead Angel's Host. His armour and wargear were then modified as required to fit his increased stature, muscle mass and physical strength. This made Dante the effective ruler of the half of the Imperium cut off from Terra on the other side of the Great Rift.įollowing the Devastation of Baal in the Era Indomitus, Dante chose to undergo the agonising surgery required to cross the Rubicon Primaris and become a Primaris Space Marine. In the wake of the victory of the Blood Angels Chapter and their successors in the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan's assault upon their homeworld of Baal, the Primarch Roboute Guilliman, the lord commander of the Imperium and Imperial Regent, declared Dante to be the lord regent of the Imperium Nihilus. 999.M41, as records indicate he was born in 447.M40. Commander Dante is approximately 1,552 Terran years old as of ca. He is believed to be the oldest living Loyalist Space Marine as he is currently over 1,500 standard years old, with the exception of those Space Marines sustained by the cybernetic technology of Dreadnoughts, the use of temporal stasis or other technological means of extending Human life. Commander Dante addressing a new group of Blood Angels neophytesĬommander Dante of the Blood Angels Chapter.ĭante, born Luis Dante, sometimes called the " Lord of Angels" and " Bringer of Sanguinius' Light," is the current commander and Chapter Master of the Blood Angels Chapter of Space Marines as well as the lord regent of the Imperium Nihilus, and has served as Chapter Master for approximately 1,100 standard years.Ĭommander Dante's power armour incorporates a highly ornate golden death mask beneath his Iron Halo, called the Death Mask of Sanguinius, which is said to have been worn by and shaped to match the fear-inspiring features of Sanguinius, the Blood Angels' primarch, at the moment of his death at the hands of the Arch-traitor Horus. I have fought what you must fight, and I have slain what you must slay.so fear not and be proud, for we are the sons of Sanguinius, the protectors of Mankind. I have seen all the evil that the galaxy harbours, and I have slain all whose presence defiles the Emperor. I have seen the vileness of the alien and the heresy of the mutant. " For eleven hundred years, I have fought and I have seen the darkness in our galaxy.
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