Talassar is an Imperial Ocean World located in the Ultramarines' Realm of Ultramar in the Ultima Segmentum. Talassar is a planet of stormy seas and islands of rock. It has a single, small continent named Glaudor, which was the site of a major battle between the Ultramarines and invading Orks immediately after the Horus Heresy.
Also considered a Feudal World, Talassar is ruled as a grand dukedom by a suzerain of Macragge who is often a captain of the Ultramarines and is the homeworld of the Void Tridents Space Marine Chapter raised during the Ultima Founding. The Void Tridents were tasked by their resurrected primarch Roboute Guilliman with helping to defend Ultramar in the age of the Great Rift.
The notable Astartes commander Captain Cato Sicarius of the Ultramarines 2nd Company was born in the Talassarian city of Perusia and raised in the ducal household of Talassar, one of the most prominent of Ultramar's noble dynasties. Here he was trained in the arts of war at a young age. In battle, Sicarius prefers to wield a potent relic Power Sword from Talassar known as the Talassarian Tempest Blade in close combat.
An ancestral relic, this fearsome weapon takes its name from the planet's frequent storms. This weapon's energy field is so potent, and the blade within possesses a legendary sharpness so keen, that it has slain many a mighty foe in but a single stroke. Among his many honourific titles, Captain Sicarius is also the current Grand Duke of Talassar.
Talassarian Military[]
Talassar provides its own self-defence through the Planetary Defence Force -- being part of the Realm of Ultramar, it is not tithed and is not obliged to provide Astra Militarum regiments.
However, it is so well-administered that it is nonetheless willing and able to provide regiments if the need arises. As the homeworld of the Void Tridents, it is now also protected by that Chapter of Primaris Space Marines' extensive fleet and fortifications.
Notable Locations[]
Castra Tanagra[]
An ancient fortress in the valley of the continent of Glaudor, the mighty fortress of Castra Tanagra had been raised when Roboute Guilliman was young; its walls had withstood the fury of a Greenskin invasion in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, and the primarch himself had stood upon its walls in defiance of the savage invaders.
Built in a circular fashion, with one of its four towers built into the cliff-face, Castra Tanagra was an elegant structure, its curving walls twenty metres high and built from blocks of black marble quarried from the canyons of Prandium. Every Ultramarine neophyte of the Chapter was expected to make the pilgrimage to Castra Tanagra before his elevation to the fighting ranks, but the demands of war meant that few ever returned to study its majestic form.
Its walls were carved with images from the first days of the Imperium, glorious, heroic frescoes depicting the Legiones Astartes in their thousands crusading across the heavens with the Emperor at their head.
Though Castra Tanagra was a sacred place to the Ultramarines, the damage done to it during its last battle had never been repaired, for Roboute Guilliman had decreed that it forever stand untouched as a memorial to those that had lost their lives here.
Notable Talassarians[]
- Captain Cato Sicarius - Sicarius was the former commander of the Ultramarines 2nd Company who was born into one of Ultramar's noble dynasties on Talassar. As a captain of the Ultramarines he serves as the Grand Duke of Talassar.
- Lord Commodore Theodro Vethrus - Vethrus is the Chapter Master of the Void Tridents Chapter. The lord commodore was originally a noble-born native of Talassar who now serves as the ducal regent of Talassar due to Cato Sicarius' frequent absences from the world in service to the Emperor and Roboute Guilliman. With the Void Tridents maintaining an indefinite military presence on this world, Theodro Vethrus spends much of his time on his homeworld dealing with matters of state as much as those of his Chapter.
Sources[]
- Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition), pg. 14
- The Chapter's Due (Novel) by Graham McNeill
- Warhammer 40,000: Rulebook (4th Edition), pg. 19
- White Dwarf (October 2017), "Eavy Metal - Create Your Own Chapter," pg. 118