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Sanguinius: The Great Angel

Author: Chris Wraight

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Year
2022
Series
Primarchs
Place in the reading order
7 of 7
Era
The Isstvan Massacre — The Siege of Terra
Events
2 events
Plot (spoilers: moderate)

A portrait of the Regent and of the sacrifice: prophecies, the shame of the Thirst, the burden of being “the good son”. It does not replace “Fear to Tread” and “Echoes of Eternity”, but it gathers the motive for why the Angel goes onto the Vengeful Spirit first at all.

Events in the book

  1. 006.M31 The Signus Campaign · Signus Prime Pyrrhic loyalist victory

    Horus lured the Blood Angels into the Signus Cluster in order to destroy them; there a trap of daemonic legions awaited them.

  2. 014.M31 Last Stand at the Eternity Gate Pyrrhic loyalist victory

    At the Eternity Gate, in an aerial duel, Sanguinius broke the spine of the Bloodthirster Ka’Bandha with the hilt of his sword.

Sources

  1. Black Library
  2. Sanguinius: The Great Angel (C. Wraight)
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