User blog comment:Supahbadmarine/By Tzeentch! Here We Go!/@comment-2253300-20130212233132

My idea for the 23rd Primarch is named Orion. Orion was grim, distant, brooding Primarch. However he had a true acumen for war. His skills as a strategist marked him as a first among his borhters, and more than any other he possessed the mindset of a conquerer. He was always looking for the next campaign, and he longed for nothing more than new lands fight upon and subjugate in the Emperor's name.

While he wanted the Emperor to be successful with his Great Crusade, deep down Orion hoped that a tragic turn of events would force his father to call on him. He dreamed of fighting and conquering in the Great Crusade, proving himself aqnd his Legion worthy in his father's eyes by forging his Imperium for him, and in doing so carving his legacy into the stars.

He waited more eagerly than others for the Emperor's call to arms, and when thousands of years past without it coming he was among the first to propose leaving the Forgotten Zone. He mourned his father, for why else would the Emperor not have summoned them after all this time if the worse hadn't happened. However he was secretly eager for the chance to fulfill his purpose where his elder brothers must have failed.

Orion was shocked at what he found. After the Primarchs leanred of what befell the Emperor and his Imperium Orion developed an extreme contempt for the original Primarchs and their Legions that bordered on irrational hatred. In his eyes all of them had failed the Emperor to some extent or another. Whether they had turned their backs on him, or failed to prevent what happened to the Emperor and his Imperium. In his eyes the sate of the Emperor and his domain was a direct result of the Original Primarchs and their Marines. He was thus among the first to propose the Second Great Crusade to wipe the Xenos and traitors from the galaxy and purify the Imperium.

The XXIII Legion was named the Dawn Bringers. This named reflected Orion's belief that his Legion would be primarily responsible for ending the long night that the galaxy had experienced by bring the Emperor's light to every corner of the cosmos. The Legion is well known for both its discipline and its zeal.

The Dawn Bringers believe in rapidly and thuroughly deastating their enemies. If initial deplomacy failed the Dawn Bringers begin to crush their foes in earnest, not brokering pleas of surrender. The Legion only stops once they have utterly eliminated the oppositions ability to fight back. Unconcerned with reconstruction the Dawn Bringers focus on crushing the foe, and then moving on. Rebuilding is someone else's business.