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Warhammer 40K - Heroes of the Heresy - Remus Ventan

Remus Ventanus was the Captain of the Ultramarines Legion's 4th Company during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. His actions during the Battle of Calth helped save the planet from complete destruction, cementing his status as an Ultramarines hero even into M41.

Ventanus and the remaining Imperials were eventually rescued by the Ultramarines, and Ventanus was hailed as "the Saviour of Calth" and became a senior adviser to Primarch Guilliman. He helped to play out the strategies and plans of Guilliman's new treatise on Space Marine warfare, dubbed the Codex Astartes, eventually finding a flaw in one of Guilliman's plans. Guilliman explained to Ventanus that in the end, the Codex was to be a guideline for Space Marines, not dogma that was to replace basic strategic thinking. Guilliman also told Ventanus that he had a plan to save the Imperium, but it would be questionable. Other loyalists would declare the Ultramarines traitors, but Guilliman said that they were in fact among the loyal of the Legiones Astartes.

Following the Horus Heresy, Ventanus would oversee the Exterminatus of Colchis, homeworld of the Word Bearers, as a form of justice for the fallen of Calth. Before the final assault, Ventanus planted the standard he had picked up so many years ago in the rock of Colchis, declaring that today, the Ultramarines marched for Calth.

Eventually, Remus Ventanus would die. He was buried in an elaborate tomb (suspected to have been designed by Guilliman) in the Cavernas Draconi in Calth, buried with the Shard of Erebus. In the following ten thousand years, the Tomb's location was lost. Uriel Ventris, the future Captain of the Ultramarines 4th Company, would eventually rediscover the tomb as a child, but told no one of his discovery, for to boast of it would have been to lessen the accomplishment. This knowledge would eventually be passed to the Newborn, a Warpspawned clone of Ventris in the service of Warsmith Honsou of the Iron Warriors.