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Sanguinius displays the head of the slain Slaaneshi Daemon Kyriss after the end of the Signus Campaign during the Horus Heresy. Soon after the Emperor created the primarchs, the Ruinous Powers of Chaos made off with the infants and carried them through the Empyrean. Unable to destroy the primarchs outright because of the powerful arcane psychic protections laid upon their gestating forms by the Emperor, the Dark Gods nonetheless did their best to alter the Emperor's work to their own selfish ends. Thus it was that even the best of the Emperor's creations became corrupted at the outset. During the subsequent war on Teghar Pentarus, his first kill was a ferocious carnodon. The pelt of the beast was fashioned into a ceremonial war cloak for the Primarch. [6a] The noble angel was highly respected by all the legions, and by all his brother Primarchs. Even Horus highly valued his brother's advice. During the Emperor's Crusade, Sanguinius and Horus became close brothers and it was said that they were closer than any of the other Primarchs. He provided counsel that Horus listened to during the incident with the Interex [3] (during the War on Murder), [2a] shortly after Horus became Warmaster and was generally the one with the most sway on Horus, after the Emperor. [3] It was Sanguinius who convinced Horus to accept the name change of the Luna Wolves to the Sons of Horus. Horus even revealed that he believed Sanguinius should have been proclaimed Warmaster instead of him, and pointed to Sanguinius to be the new Warmaster when he thought he was dying on Davin. [3] Sanguinius didn`t meet his legion immediately. For 3 years he was under the tutelage of Horus to learn about the Imperium. During this time Sanguinius grew close to Horus and Abaddon. The Great Angel met his legion during the Pacification of Teghar Pentarus, a campaign where the Blood Angels and Luna Wolfs fought together.
While Sanguinius does not live in the current Warhammer 40k universe, his actions still reverberate throughout the setting. Firstly, he remains an inspiration: he is heralded as the highest and purest of the Primarchs, and it’s commonly believed that his sacrifice against Horus allowed the Emperor to finally slay Horus and defeat the forces of Chaos. The Blood Angels' finest hour would take place during the closing days of the Horus Heresy. Known in Imperial records as the Battle of Terra, this final campaign was the climax of the Heresy that raged on Terra itself between the Forces of Chaos led by the Warmaster Horus and the Loyalist armies of the Imperium of Man led by the Emperor of Mankind Himself. Many of the Loyalist Astartes Legions had been waylaid by the forces of the Traitor Legions loyal to Horus following his many machinations and they were unable to make their way towards Terra in time to help in its defence. For those who prefer your magic with a side serving of luminous arrogance, the Scinari Enlightener is joining the ranks of the Lumineth Realm-lords. Wielding immense magical power, she burns her enemies off the face of the Mortal Realms, and is available separately for the first time.*I Horus Rising • II False Gods • III Galaxy in Flames • IV The Flight of the Eisenstein • V Fulgrim • VI Descent of Angels • VII Legion • VIII Battle for the Abyss • IX Mechanicum • X Tales of Heresy • XI Fallen Angels • XII A Thousand Sons • XIII Nemesis • XIV The First Heretic • XV Prospero Burns • XVI Age of Darkness • XVII The Outcast Dead • XVIII Deliverance Lost • XIX Know No Fear • XX The Primarchs • XXI Fear to Tread • XXII Shadows of Treachery • XXIII Angel Exterminatus • XXIV Betrayer • XXV Mark of Calth • XXVI Vulkan Lives • XXVII The Unremembered Empire • XXVIII Scars • XXIX Vengeful Spirit • XXX The Damnation of Pythos • XXXI Legacies of Betrayal • XXXII Deathfire • XXXIII War Without End • XXXIV Pharos • XXXV Eye of Terra • XXXVI The Path of Heaven • XXXVII The Silent War • XXXVIII Angels of Caliban • XXXIX Praetorian of Dorn • XL Corax • XLI The Master of Mankind • XLII Garro • XLIII Shattered Legions • XLIV The Crimson King • XLV Tallarn • XLVI Ruinstorm • XLVII Old Earth • XLVIII The Burden of Loyalty • XLIX Wolfsbane • L Born of Flame • LI Slaves to Darkness • LII Heralds of the Siege • LIII Titandeath • LIV The Buried Dagger Today, nearly ten millennia later, Sanguinius is one of the most venerated of all the Loyalist Primarchs by the teeming masses of the Imperium. He is commonly held in the highest honour due to his noble sacrifice which allowed the beloved Emperor to defeat the Archtraitor Horus. The name Sanguinius is cherished throughout the Imperium by the common citizenry. Chapels devoted to Sanguinius have been erected alongside the temples dedicated to the Emperor. The Primarch is even commemorated on his own sacred day of celebration within the liturgy of the Imperial Cult called the Sanguinala, when Imperial Adepts across the galaxy wear the red badge of Sanguinius on their breasts to commemorate his sacrifice. The Imperium was forever changed in the wake of Horus' defeat. No longer would the beneficent Emperor take a martial role in Mankind's defence, for His shattered body was now sustained only by the life-giving machineries of the Golden Throne. The reconstruction of His empire and the final rout of the Traitor forces would now fall to the surviving Primarchs, men such as Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fists and Roboute Guilliman of the Ultramarines. Thus were born the primarchs of the Space Marine Legions, incredible, superhuman beings whose martial powers were to be second only to the Emperor Himself. Yet, as with all great labours, the genesis of the Space Marines did not go entirely according to design -- the Emperor's plan for His primarchs was to be undone even before it had properly begun. Without warning, the primarchs disappeared, stolen from the Emperor's laboratory while still within their gestation capsules, scattered throughout the galaxy through the Warp by an unknown force.
He starts getting various visions while his suspicions about Blood Angels grow. He tries to find a space marine that was open with him before, but he is missing. He finds some dark statues and art in a private part of his room which look like self-portraits of the marine with huge fangs. Later on he stumbles upon some shrine part in the depths of the ship with a corpse drained of blood and with bones around. He panics and tries to flee, but on of the chaplains finds him and brings him before Sanguinius. There is another scene where he talks with the primarch which is one the highlights of the novel and there Sanguinius tells him he is free to record it all and then publish it by the end of the wars when he thinks the Blood Angels thirst will be fixed. Though the loss of the primarchs was a bitter blow to His plans, the Emperor was not dismayed for long. The primarchs themselves could not be recreated, but their genetic records and samples of their genetic material remained, and from these the Emperor created the mighty Space Marine Legions -- the armies He had always intended His primarchs to lead. It was at the head of the Space Marine Legions that the Emperor began His Great Crusade in earnest. Setting out from Terra in ca. 798.M30, the Emperor led the Space Marines on a glorious campaign that sought to restore Mankind to its lost greatness. The best of Sanguinius' warriors were subsequently selected to become Astartes, implanted with the very core of Sanguinius' physical being; the pure and precious gene-seed that the Emperor had engineered from the Primarch's own genome. These warriors were raised up into the IX Legion of the Space Marines, better known as the Blood Angels, and then launched upon the Emperor's Great Crusade alongside those members of the Legion who had been raised from Terra. Of all the Primarchs, Sanguinius is commonly held in the highest honour. Because he is generally believed to have sacrificed himself to allow Horus, the "Great Betrayer", to be defeated, the Primarch's name is cherished by the common citizens of the Imperium. Temples devoted to Sanguinius rise aside those of the Emperor. Sanguinius is commemorated on a sacred day of celebration called the Sanguinala, when adepts across the galaxy wear on their breast the red badge of Sanguinius. [15]Beset by prescient visions of his own death, Sanguinius fought long and hard to defend Terra against the armies of Chaos and his fallen brother, Horus Lupercal. Finally, aboard Horus’ flagship, the Vengeful Spirit, Sanguinius faced Horus one last time. Attempts to reason with his brother failed, leading to a battle that saw Sanguinius finally killed, fulfilling his own psychic visions of the future, after only leaving a small dent in Horus’ armour. Unknowingly, the Blood Angels had traveled clear across the galaxy in the Warp, and ended up in the Realm of Ultramar. Soon they were approached by a skirmish line of unidentified starships. They were hailed by the bright cobalt-blue vessels, trimmed with white and shining gold. The Blood Angels were greeted by the master of the XIII th Legion himself, Roboute Guilliman, who welcomed his brother Primarch to the Five Hundred Worlds.
A character you've never heard of is killed by another character you never heard of to prevent a book you've never heard of from being published. An ancient Remembrancer sketch from Carpinius' Speculum Historiale of the Primarch Sanguinius during the Great Crusade. Battle raged throughout the daemon-infested warship, and Sanguinius became separated from the Emperor and his other comrades. Now isolated, legend tells that he was brought through artifice before the treacherous Horus. Warhammer Community: The End and the Death Volume III – The Final Cover Reveal (posted 9/8/2023) (last accessed 9/8/2023)The Space Marine Legions were the greatest creations of the Emperor of Mankind. That immortal, god-like being crafted incredible transhuman warriors to help Him conquer the galaxy and reunite Mankind's lost colony worlds in the wake of the Age of Strife. Amongst these Legions were the Blood Angels, the IX Legion, who from their earliest days fought staunchly in the service of Emperor and their primarch both. The rest of the story is our narrator, and apologies his name is insane to pronounce let alone spell, even by 40k standards, slowing learning the red thirst exists. Which in and of itself isn't a bad story, its just not a story about Sanguinius. Its a story about discovering the red thirst exists. And its clever in that regard. No mere warriors were the primarchs -- they were also shrewd and canny leaders of men, under whose command the righteous might of the Space Marine Legions increased a hundredfold. So it was that the Great Crusade surged onwards as never before. New battlefronts opened up under the Primarchs' direction and worlds were reclaimed by the thousand. During the Horus Heresy, Sanguinius was loyal to the Emperor from the start. However, he was once tempted by a daemonic Keeper of Secrets, who offered him a deadly choice: join Horus and Chaos by sacrificing himself to the psychic construct known as the Ragefire, causing the Red Thirst to leave the Blood Angels –or let his gene-progeny slip into destruction. The second interesting scene is the last scene with Sanguinius where he just tells the narrator the Red Thirst exists and that he wants the narrator to tell the entire galaxy it does, after Sanguinius cures it. The Angel tells him so long as he's alive, no one will censure the narrator or harm him in any way. Which leads exactly to where you think its going.
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