Lucian Calrona

Lucian Calrona is a Primarch, a child of the Emperor of Mankind. His current condition is unknown after the Betrayal and Taracanis.

Lucian Calrona, Primarch of the Third Legion and son of the Emperor was started his life just like every on of his siblings. Whisked away from their fathers labs on terra by the great beings of the Warp, Lucian found himself deposited upon the backwards feudal world of Grevona. This world was a world at constant war, fighting between the hundreds of lesser and greater domains had forged its people into a martial one which they used to great effect, killing and conquering one another.

Lucian was found by one of the Larger domains, the Domain of Gaius Calrona. Upon seeing and watching great growth and powerful mind the sonless Gaius adopted him as his own son and heir to the Domain and its Legions. Lucian would be taught the ways of war on Grevona, the emotionless and brutal slaughter of each other. He would excell in every area of his training, from stratagem to mathematics Lucian was the best, so it came as no surprise to the Domain that upon his adopted fathers death in battle he was confirmed as leader of the Domain.

Lucian quickly and efficiently conquered the lesser Domains that bordered him, subjugating their people and conscripting their capitulated armies into his own. These first moves did not cause any immediate worry from his rival Great Domains, this was the cycle of the world after all. The Great domains would conquer and subjugate those around them to show their strength and then would subside into a peaceful status quo with their neighbors, wars between the greater realms were rare, what was to be gained from them after all?

It was upon Lucians swift and brutal war with the largest of his neighbors that the remaining Great Domains began to worry, this upstart adopted son of a Domain Marshall was upsetting the balance of the world and needed to be stopped. The Great Domains rallied against Lucian, it was the Greatest Host ever gathered on Grevona which marched off to end Lucians threat and bring balance back to the warring world. What came next shocked the world, The Great Host was crushed, the Marhsalls slain. Whispers about Lucian began, what exactly was he? He was a genius, invincible, immortal, untouchable, they said. No one could best him, they knew this now and the world submitted to him, cities flinging open their gates upon his approach, Marshalls bending the knee. Grevona was united under one banner for the first time in recorded history, it was unthinkable.

That is until the truly unthinkable occurred. The Imperium arrived. The Emperor had come for his son. The people of Grevona are a stubborn bunch, Lucian himself inherited this from them, so when the Imperium first made contact they readied themselves for war. Hundreds of thousands, millions, gathered under Lucians banner. Old enemies united not just by the conqueres blade, but a seeming threat to their very way of life. There was no way they could lose, not with the invincible one leading them, not with Lucian Calrona as their marshall.

In hindsight Grevonas idea to stand against not just the Imperium but the Emperor himself, for it was he who personally lead the force which found Lucian. However the Grevonans and Lucian did not know who they truly faced at the time, they thought themselves facing conquers and did not know it was truly their long lost brothers who wished nothing more than to embrace them and lead them into the Imperiums light. Some scholars and remembrancers of the Imperium have asked why the Emperor was so generous in dealing the upstart Grevonans, we know that the Emperor and his legions could have swept the planet clear of opposition without effort but he did not, for the Emperor realized that one of his lost sons stood before him.

It was this reason and this reason alone that when the Legions of Grevona in their millions arrived on what is now called the Field of Unity, they faced not a hundred thousand invaders or even a million, instead they faced one hundred and one. The Emperor and one hundred of his custodes had landed, ordering the rest of the crusading fleet to stay in orbit and await his triumphant return. In his many years of warfare Lucian very rarely hesitated to press his advantage, this time he did however. His advisors seethed as the Marshall halted his forces and refused to attack, "Barely a hundred of them" "You could take them alone", they said. Something made Lucian doubt that.

So a truce was called and a meeting set up, the leader of this invasion force and Lucian were to meet unarmed between the great armies. None of the words said between father and son could be heard by either of the forces, but when both stood from their seats the Grevonan force was astounded to see the Great Marshall himself sink to a knee. Some say it was the Marshalls own example that lead to what happened next, others say it was the Emperors presence, many believe it was both, however all agree that upon seeing their Marshall show fealty to this man, the greatest host ever seen on the fields of Grevona did the same.

Lucian was then taken from Grevona and spent several years with his father, learning the ways of the galaxy from him and coming to understand his purpose. He was soon united with the Third Legion Astartes which he renamed to the Unifying Sons.

In the final moments of the Great Crusade, Lucian along with his brother Primarch Neshutan bloodlessly took their rogue brethren Kortaez into custody on the Warmasters orders. Kortaez had been accused of murdering his homeworld, an act that he confessed to when Lucian and Neshutan arrested him. However while in transit to the Warmasters position Lucian recieved a call for aid from Atlas, Primarch of the Steel Men. Atlas declared that the threat he faced was on the same level of the Xenocides Lucians legion had been apart of years before and he soon departed from Neshutans company, taking his Legion with him and Leaving Neshutan to carry Kortaez to Vasilisa the Warmaster.

The call for aid was a trap however, for upon the Planet of Taracanis the Unifying Sons, Vipers Astra, and other loyalist elements were slaughtered at by their once allies the Steel Men and other Traitor Legions. To top it off a Son of the Emperor Raziel, died at the hands of another Primarch, Lancarius. So began the Atlas Apostasy, a civil war which would tear the Imperium to shreds in the coming years, if the Imperium would survive such a strife is another matter all together however, and one that has yet to unfold.