Gramarye is an Imperial Industrial World and Fortress World that once served as the original Legion homeworld of the Ist Legion before it was reunited with its Primarch Lion El'Jonson on Caliban in the early years of the Great Crusade, sometime after 846.M30. After that date the Legion, now called the Dark Angels, moved to its primarch's home.
Gramarye became the seat of power and the site of the massive fortress or "chantry" of the Legion's Council of Masters, comprised of the six voted-lieutenants who each led and served as the master of one wing of the Ist Legion's Hexagrammaton, and which took over day-to-day administrative and strategic governance of the Legion after the death of Grandmaster Urian Vendraig. The chamber where the Council of Masters met in the chantry was known as the "Hall of Council."
Once the Ist Legion was reunited with the Lion and it was reborn as the Dark Angels, the great stronghold or chantry of the Legion on Gramarye was demolished in place of a more mobile seat of power following the primarch himself aboard the Legion's flagship, the Gloriana-class Battleship Invincible Reason, though the Dark Angels also constructed an elaborate citadel on their new homeworld of Caliban whose foundation was Aldurukh, the original fortress of the techno-barbarian knights of The Order.
In the place of the Ist Legion's old fortress the Lion ordered that a new, far more modest one be constructed that would be used simply to secure the world and its massive industrial sprawl for the Imperium as part of the feudal demesne of the Legion.
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- The Horus Heresy Book Nine: Crusade (Forge World Series), pp. 89, 96-97