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I'm just reading the last in the Ultramarines novels, The Chapter's Due, and got to wondering about how they got Guilliman into the stasis field. According to lexicanum, he was stabbed through the neck by Fulgrim with a poisoned sword during a fight, then the apothecaries interred him in a stasis field.

In The Chapter's Due, it says 'Droplets of blood from the fatal wound inflicted by a fallen brother hang suspended like the brightest rubies....' (emphasis mine) making it seem like the stasis field was activated immediately the wound was inflicted, with blood still spraying, so wouldn't the field have trapped Fulgrim as well?

Do any other novels describe these events?

Or, as he was a primarch, was he strong enough to survive the injury long enough to sit/lie down and for the apothecaries to reach him while Fulgrim slithered off?

(On Ultramar, as he's on display, is he seated or prone?) Just read further in the book, he is seated on a throne....so was he sitting down when Fulgrim slit his throat?

Iirc in dead sky black sun Guilliman is said to be standing in his stasisfield, something I always took as him lying in a field that's tilted standing. No idea how they got him in there but I assume it's like you said, he survived long enough to be put into it by some apochathery.

6th ed SM codex, pg 22 in the "Shrine of the Primarch" it says "Within this edifice is the marble throne of Roboute Gilliman, upon which sits a regal corpse."

How he got there from wound to throne is open to debate.