Vulkan was one of the twenty Primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind to lead his Great Crusade and reunite the scattered peoples of humanity. Her Space Marine Legion was re-named the Salamanders in her honour. As with all the Primarchs, Vulkan inherited an aspect of her father. However for him this was the unique ability of being a perpetual, making her essentially immortal. Vulkan was able to regenerate fully from any injury, including a death that would vaporize him completely. This ability was unknown to him until the Horus Heresy, and during the Great Crusade he gained a reputation for her empathy towards average humans as well as his craftsmanship abilities. When the Primarchs were scattered from the Emperor's laboratory, Vulkan arrived on the planet Nocturne during the Time of Trial as an infant and was soon taken in by the blacksmith, N'bel. N'bel raised Vulkan, naming her after the first king of the salamanders, and the young Primarch considered him her father. The people of her home town Hesiod were astounded by this child, for within the space of three years, she was stronger and bigger than any man in his town. In addition to her massive physical size, she was the quickest mind, and the greatest blacksmith anyone knew of. Indeed, it was not long before Vulkan herself was teaching forging techniques to the people that had not yet been discovered.The people of Nocturne were frequently raided by Dark Eldar. They were so used to this common occurrence, that each person in town had developed their own hiding place to avoid capture. When the Dark Eldar raided again in Vulkan's fourth year on Nocturne, the Primarch refused to hide and instead stood out in the centre of the settlement, her two smithing hammers crossed over her shoulders. The people of Vulkan's town were so inspired by his example that they joined her and prepared to defend their town. With a Primarch leading the defense, the people of the town decisively defeated the Dark Eldar. Vulkan alone killed a hundred Eldar that day. Within weeks the leaders of the seven largest towns on Nocturne had traveled to meet Vulkan, and they soon swore never again to hide from the raiders.In celebration of the Primarch's victory over the Eldar raiders, a tournament was decided to be held. Unexpectedly, a stranger arrived in the middle of the festivities. Of pale complexion and wearing outlandish clothing, the stranger asked only to be allowed to compete. When he announced that he could best anyone in the town, the people laughed at this outlander. Who could possibly beat Vulkan in any feat of intellect, strength, craftsmanship, or endurance? Nonetheless, Vulkan and the stranger wagered that whoever lost the tournament would forever serve the victor. Lasting 8 days, the contest included many tests of strength and endurance such as the anvil lift (in which the two held anvils above their heads for a half-day before the contest was called a tie). The number of contests is unimportant, however, for by the end of day 8, Vulkan and the stranger were tied.In the final event, both contestants were given 24 hours to construct a weapon, before using said weapon to hunt down and slay the largest salamander they could find. Climbing a high mountain, the two each went out to find a drake. Vulkan quickly found and killed a very large Fire Drake. However, on her way back, the mountain she was standing on - which coincidentally was a volcano - erupted, casting Vulkan over a cliff. Hanging for dear life over the precipice, Vulkan was determined to hang on to his massive Salamander. Thus, he found himself hanging by one hand from a cliff with his other hand clutching the tail of his drake.Hanging there for hours, Vulkan's strength eventually ebbed away until he knew he must decide between the drake and her life. At that moment, however, the stranger arrived, carrying his own drake. Even from the edge of the cliff, the Primarch could tell that the outlander's drake was indeed bigger. Seeing Vulkan in distress, the stranger acted quickly, tossing his drake into a lava flow that separated them and using it as a bridge to cross to the Primarch. After hoisting Vulkan out of his mortal predicament, the stranger walked with him back to town, leaving his own drake to burn in the river of molten rock. Though the Outlander's Drake had been superior in size, he had thrown it away to save Vulkan, and when he returned to town with the Primarch empty-handed, Vulkan was declared the victor. To the amazement of his people, however, Vulkan kneeled before the stranger and said that any man who would value life over pride was worthy of her service. At this moment, the Outlander cast off his illusionary disguise and revealed himself to be the Holy Emperor of humanity. Thus it was that the Primarch, Vulkan and his Emperor were reunited.It is believed that at first Vulkan did not become unified with her own Legion for some years after his rediscovery, instead staying alongside the Emperor under his tutelage and fighting by his side. When Vulkan was eventually reunited with his Legion, it was at the head of a fleet of 3,000 new recruits which saved his forces from a massive Ork horde.Eventually it was decided that Vulkan's legion of Space Marines would henceforth be known as the Salamanders, in honour of the beast that had united him with her father. The Primarch continued to serve loyally throughout the Great Crusade.[Needs Citation] At some point during the Great Crusade, Vulkan and her Legion participated in reconquest of a world designated One-Five-Four-Six (locally known as Kharaatan) together with the Night Lords led by their Primarch, Konrad Curze, and Mechanicum Titan Legion Legio Ignis and several Imperial Army regiments. During this campaign, Vulkan became enraged by how Curze and his Legion waged war after he found out that the Night Lords had killed the inhabitants of a whole city in order to seed fear amongst the population. This confrontation between Vulkan and Curze resulted in a brief but fierce argument between the two primarchs. After conclusion of this campaign, Vulkan reported Curze's behaviour and actions to Warmaster Horus and primarch Dorn of the Imperial Fists. However, during the battle against Kharaatan's ruling Eldar coven, Vulkan flew into a rage when the Remembrancer Seriph was killed, and killed a surrendering Eldar child. This incident would haunt the Primarch deeply.On the world of One-Five-Four Four Vulkan and her army came into contact with tribes of primitive humans living alongside Exodite Eldar. Surprisingly, the humans did not welcome the Imperial invaders. Vulkan was guided by a mysterious Remembrancer (later discovered to be a psychic projection of the Emperor) to a Webway Portal. After a vicious battle the Portal, Vulkan came across human tribals preparing to sacrifice a Dark Eldar woman. The Humans had learned to fear the Dark Eldar raiders, and sought to sacrifice her to ward off their return now that the Exodites had been defeated. Moreover, Vulkan realized that the Dark Eldar woman was from the raiding parties that terrorized Nocturne in his youth, and these humans were descendants of Nocturne captives liberated by the Eldar. Vulkan realized the Emperor had guided her here and understand that these humans would never accept the Imperium over their Eldar liberators, ordered the planet cleansed. He sought to erase any trace of Human-Xenos coexistence.Later when Vulkan gave his protest to Horus, he sensed a great darkness within him. This caused Vulkan to neglect giving Horus the hammer Dawnbringer. Vulkan was present alongside Ferrus Manus and Corax at the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre. During the battle the majority of the Salamanders Legion was killed by nuclear missiles fired from the Iron Warriors. Due to his Perpetual regeneration abilities, Vulkan survived the explosion but found herself surrounded by hundreds of warriors from the Iron Warriors and Night Lords. Fighting to what she thought was her death, Vulkan was stabbed, shot and bludgeoned in unconsciousness. Seeing a chance to torment his sister, Konrad Curze took Vulkan prisoner. The Primarch of the Night Lords spent the next several months trying to both break Vulkan's spirit and trying to kill him. Curze personally cut Vulkan's head off, ripped out his throat with a fork, stabbed him through the chest and tore him limb from limb. Separately he had Vulkan eviscerated, shot with hundreds of bolters at close range, left in the venting shaft of a starship's engine and even thrown in empty space completely naked. Each time Vulkan died her body would regenerate completely, leaving Curze furious. Eventually, frusterated and bored with his inability to kill Vulkan, Curze decided to get Vulkan to admit he was no less a monster than himself. Curze had several Davinite Priests ensnare Vulkan's mind and run him through trial after trial, ensuring he failed each time and innocents died. When Vulkan would not break, Curze decided to end things in a duel. He made Vulkan navigate a maze designed by Perturabo, at the center of which lay Dawnbringer, Vulkan's personal hammer, as well as the corpses of several of his comrades. When Vulkan retrieved her hammer she managed to overpower Curze and activated a teleporter built into the head of the hammer. Vulkan was transported across the Galaxy into the upper atmosphere of Macragge and burnt up during reentry, confident he would wake up in the care of the Ultramarines.His charred body was later recovered by the Ultramarines, who at first were unable to identify the corpse as anything more than a grotesque statue - all living matter having burned up on reentry. Over a series of days Vulkan's body began to regenerate, eventually returning to life and shocking the Ultramarines Apothecaries he had been entrusted to. Realizing who it was, the apothecaries summoned their Primarch, Roboute Guilliman, who was at first furious that no one could give him any answers as to how or why Vulkan had suddenly fallen from the skies. To Guilliman's horror he found that Vulkan was broken mentally; violent and incoherent, attacking anything and everything she could.Unknown to everyone, a bond of sorts had formed between Curze and Vulkan, the later being able to sense when the Night Haunter was nearby. Curze was indeed on Macragge, having been trapped aboard the Invincible Reason but eventually breaking out of the Dark Angels flagship and stealing a drop pod to the surface. Vulkan broke free of her bonds and pillaged Guilliman's private armory before setting off to hunt Curze. The two fought across an entire city, Vulkan finally realizing his regenerative abilities and using them to his advantage; by focusing his will, he could regenerate much quicker. At one point Curze shot Vulkan's head off, causing the primarch to fall from a cliff. Vulkan was back alive before he hit the ground.Their rolling duel was eventually stopped by the perpetual, John Grammaticus, who had been charge by the Cabal to permanently kill Vulkan with the Fulgurite, a petrified bolt of the Emperor's own psychic abilities. The Cabal had ordered Grammaticus to give the Fulgurite to Cruze, as only a Primarch could kill another Primarch. But before he could complete his mission, Eldrad Ulthran appeared to Grammaticus, convincing him that if he himself used the Fulgurite to kill Vulkan, he would give up his perpetrual nature forever, but in exchange completely restore Vulkan's mind. The presences and abilities of another Primarch in the Emperor's armies would tip the balance against Horus. Grammaticus stabbed Vulkan through the heart, killing both of them in a psychic explosion. Grammaticus regenerated, as he always did, but was aware this would be his last life. Vulkan never recovered. Later, Vulkan's corpse was reclaimed by the Primarchs Guilliman, Lion El'Jonson and Sanguinius. Vulkan was placed in a stasis-capsule, hand-crafted by Guilliman himself, with the words Unbound Flame carved into the side. The few remaining Salamanders who had made it to Macragge were allowed to stand guard over their fallen Primarch until such time as he could be returned to Nocturne. During their vigil, the Salamanders thought they heard a heartbeat coming from the casket, but dismissed it. Convinced he could be resurrected, an expedition back to Nocturne led by Artellus Numeon eventually was able to bring Vulkan's body back to Nocturne and with Numeon as the final sacrifice, Vulkan was restored from the Unbound Flame at Mount Deathfire.[Upon his resurrection, Vulkan was in a condition similar to a fugue state and remembered little. He found himself in the depths of Mt. Deathfire, conversing with an old man calling himself Deathfire personified. The man urged Vulkan to travel to Terra and led the Primarch to two items that she had no memory of forging: the Thunder Hammer Urdrakule and the Talisman of Seven Hammers. When Vulkan awoke, she was at the steps of Mt. Deathfire and discovered by three of his legionaries: Atok Abidemi, Barek Zytos, and Igen Gargo. Vulkan ordered the three to return in three days and forbade them to speak to any else that the Primarch had returned to Nocturne. When the three returned, now dubbed Vulkan's Draaksward, the Primarch used his talisman to open a Webway portal deep below Nocturne.What followed next was an arduous journey through multiple Webway tunnels and exists to reach Terra. Vulkan and her Draaksward found themselves in a satellite realm of Commorragh, battling Dark Eldar. They next found themselves with the fleet of Shadrak Meduson, still engaged in a guerrilla war against Horus. Vulkan found Meduson's fleet in the midst of upheaval, with the Cult of the Gorgon claiming that it had resurrected Ferrus Manus. Upon meeting the supposed reborn Ferrus, Vulkan discovered it to be little more than a mechanical puppet with one of Ferrus' metallic arms attached. Saddened that his brother would be shamed so, Vulkan shattered the puppet with his hammer. Vulkan refused to take part in Meduson's war and during the Battle of the Aragna Chain, left for Caldera. On Caldera, Vulkan was greeted by Eldar who guided him to a new Webway portal on the orders of Eldrad Ulthran.Inside the Webway once more, Vulkan and the Draakswaard ventured upon Calastar, long since abandoned since the War Within the Webway. In Calastar the companions were beset by Daemons and Vulkan became engaged in a battle with the Great Unclean One Aghalbor. Using the Talisman of Seven Hammers, Vulkan was able to not only slay the Daemon but give it a True Death. Still beset by Daemonic hordes, the companions were saved by Eldrad, revealing himself as the Old Man of Mt. Deathfire. Revealing that the way into the Imperial Dungeon had been sealed by the Emperor, Eldrad opened up a new portal that took Vulkan and her warriors to the front of the Imperial Palace. Vulkan was reunited with a visibly relieved Rogal Dorn, but promptly led by Custodes to the Golden Throne to meet with the Emperor himself.The Emperor, now trapped on the Throne, revealed that he had not only been expecting Vulkan but had been guiding her this entire journey and had been the force that compelled him to construct Urdrakule and the Talisman of Seven Hammers. The Emperor told Vulkan that the Primarch's purpose had always been intended for this moment, for she was designed to construct the Talisman and oversee its true purpose. The Emperor revealed that the Talisman was weapon of unprecedented power, a dead man's switch that would consume all of Terra should Horus succeed in the coming struggle. It would be Vulkan's duty to press the switch that would destroy Terra but deny the world to the powers of Chaos. Vulkan was horrified by the prospect, but the Emperor told him that he must be the one to oversee the device for the Primarch has always been the most hesitant to use the weapons she forges. With that, Vulkan installed the talisman into the Golden Throne and took up position by the Eternity Gate.Keeping his existence a secret save for a select few during the Siege of Terra, Vulkan next saw action when Magnus the Red and a group of his Thousand Sons infiltrated the Imperial Dungeon to kill the Emperor. Vulkan blocked a lethal blow by Magnus' staff that had been intended for the Emperor's form upon the Golden Throne but quickly backed down and alongside their father bid Magnus to return to the Imperial's fold. Vulkan became disheartened when Magnus refused the offer to return to the loyalists after the Emperor told him that he would have to purge his Legion due to its rampant mutations. Vulkan herself admitted he would have made the same choice as Magnus, but nonetheless again defended the Emperor against the Crimson King's assault. Vulkan and Magnus then engaged in a furious duel, but was saved from a piercing blow thanks to the sacrifice of Barek Zytos. Horrified by his sons death and taking up his Thunder Hammer, Vulkan wielded twin hammers to seemingly beat Magnus to submission. However before a visibly despairing Vulkan could deliver the final blow Magnus fully gave himself to the powers of Chaos and vanished from the Throneroom.With Magnus now inside the Imperial Webway and enacting a psychic ritual to sap the Emperor's remaining strength, Vulkan was dispatched by Malcador to put an end to his brother as the Eternity Gate itself was besieged. As she moved through the Webway she ignored Magnus' lies and goadings along the way After journeying to the Impossible City to the Webway, Vulkan finally came before Magnus. Again ignoring his sisters manipulations including a vision of the Burning of Prospero, the two came to blows.Initially in their battle, Vulkan seemed to hit nothing but smoke and it became apparent he was swinging his hammer at smoke. The real Magnus was behind a psychic barrier, steeped with his own ritual to weaken the Emperor. Vulkan took advantage of this by smashing through the already-stressed Magnus' barrier, forcing the Crimson King to try and kill Vulkan directly so that he may be allowed to complete her work. Magnus tried every method conceivable to kill his brother. He beheaded him with his khopesh, suffocated him by turning his lungs to amber, drained him of his blood, and immolated him with psychic fire. However nothing worked, and each time the Perpetual Vulkan would regenerate and continue to hammer away at Magnus. Attrition took hold, and Magnus grew increasingly desperate. He entered Vulkan's mind as the noble he had once been, attempting to explain his actions. Vulkan had none of it however, scolding Magnus for his arrogant and reckless use of sorcery that had turned him into a slave to Chaos. In the Webway, Vulkan stood above Magnus ready to deliver the killing blow. However she hesitated despite the Emperor's own voice ordering the Salamanders Primarch to kill his brother. Magnus used this moment to unleash the spell he had been working on, undoing Vulkan at a genetic level in a desperate bid to finally kill her. As Vulkan crumbled apart he nonetheless was able to swing his hammer, smashing off Magnus' head with Urdrakule and banishing him into the Warp. Later, Vulkan's regenerating form was seen slowly making it back to the Palace's Webway portal, Urdrakule in hand.Vulkan eventually made it back into the Throneroom through the Webway Gate, only to be greeted with the news that the Vengeful Spirit had lowered its Void Shields and the Emperor Himself was preparing to lead an assault on the vessel.However Vulkan was told by Her father that he would not take part in this last-ditch effort, instead he would look after the Golden Throne as Malcador took his place on it in the Emperor's stead. Should the traitors breach the palace, Vulkan was instructed to activate the Talisman of Seven Hammers.Mere hours later, Vulkan met with Ollanius Persson, John Grammaticus, and their group finally reached the Palace. There, he learned from Actae of the prophecy that foretold Horus as The Dark King and the potential fifth Chaos God.As the Emperor battled Horus board the Vengeful Spirit, the traitors advanced to within pounding on the door into the Throneroom. Thinking all hope was lost, Vulkan began to activate the Talisman of Seven Hammers as Malcador, dying upon the Golden Throne, could only watch helplessly as she knew that victory was not yet lost.However Vulkan is ultimately convinced to back down from activating the doomsday weapon after hearing the message being broadcast across Terra from Actae that the Emperor still lived and was fighting on against Horus.she is later present when Dorn, Valdor, and the others bring back the broken body of the Emperor and place Him upon the Golden Throne.It is claimed Vulkan was one of the Primarchs to oppose the Codex Astartes. This however, would not be for lack of courage or loyalty, however, but due to the crippling losses sustained at Isstvan V, where his Legion was cut down in size to but a few. During the Great Scouring he became furious at the tales of the horrors visited upon Terra's population by the Emperor's Children and attempted to find and kill Fabius Bile.Sometime later, Vulkan chose to leave the Salamanders, claiming that, like Space Wolves Primarch Leman Russ, he would return in the End Times. That is the last anyone saw of Vulkan for the next 1,500 years.Vulkan is the largest and physically at 11 foot tall strongest of all the primarchs with onyx black skin and firey red eys. She is said to be as tall in her power armor nine meters tall, or 30 feet tall or as Horus is in his own, much larger Terminator armor, and is capable of overturning Space Marine battle tanks with her bare hands. During sparring matches with her sisters Primarchs, Vulkan deliberately held back out of fear of hurting them.During her lifetime, Vulkan left prodigious philosophical writings, particularly those recorded in the Tome of Fire, a vast series of writings that, amongst other more mundane teachings, are said to hold glimpses of the future and prophecies yet to be fulfilled. Yet even the more mundane of her writings held profound lessons, many of which have gone on to become key tenets of the Promethean Creed.‘Ours is a violent calling, but as adherants of the Promethean Creed we believe in the Circle of Fire. None can come back as they once were, but in death we are returned to the ash from whence we came to be born anew, our blood and bone bonded with the earth. Through fire are our remains made protean, through fire and the reunion with earth do we experience rebirth. After death, after our duty is ended, we give ourselves to these elements and in so doing become a part of them. This is the nature of the Circle of Fire.Vulkan was equipped with many finely crafted weapons built by his own hands. Most notable of these was the massive Thunder Hammer Dawnbringer and the Plasma Pistol The Furnace's Heart. Before forging Dawnbringer (originally intended as a gift for Horus), Vulkan used the Hammer Thunderhead. For protection he wore the Baroque Power Armour known as The Draken Scale, which included the Gauntlet of the Forge and Kesare's Mantle.After his resurrection following the Battle of Nocturne, Vulkan wielded the Hammer Urdrakule.1,500 years later during the War of the Beast, Vulkan wielded the hammer Doomtremor.She forged thousands of unique and dangerous artefacts in his lifetime, but charged the first Forgefather, T'kell, with destroying them as he departed for Isstvan she conceded to allow T'kell to spare seven, which were to be locked away in the Wrought if Vulkan fell at Isstvan.These seven, along with the Gauntlet of the Forge and Kesare's Mantle worn by Vulkan at Isstvan, survived to become known as the nine Artefacts of Vulkan, and are still sought out today.

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