I was Wrong About Horus vs Sanguinius

"Horus, you defeated me... you truly are... the Warhammer... 40,000..." Gave me absolute chills when I read it.

Malcador also implies that the star child is still actually on the table which is fucking sick to see. The interesting thing though is with how sanguinius dies, it doesnt make sense how the black rage happens. My guess is its actually the emperor that will create some kind of psychic feedback into the blood angels when he sees him all stringed up dead that will cause it, making the black rage the emperors rage and not sanguinius. All this is of course my opinion.

As a son of Sanguinius myself, I would’ve been fine with either of these endings. No matter what happened, no matter how brutal and cold a death given to him Sanguinius still fought as a hero and died a martyr to be remembered and cherished.

Originally Sangy was so dead that the Big E could never hope to bring him back. Now, with his death being purely physical, his soul remains intact and GW can think of up a way of stuffing it back into his old body. At least that's my cynical reading of it.

A compilation of each time the chaos gods directly spoke would be pretty interesting I think

Imagine the emperor reaction when he enters Horus’ chamber and sees Sanguinius, his beautiful angel, strung up with half of his face falling off and his body broken like a ragdoll.

We knew our Hawk boy had to die. We didn't want him to, but we knew that he had to. Even he knew. But the fact that he literally had Horus on his knees with his guts hanging out, only being denied the killing blow by Horus activating his Chaos Hacks just goes to show how powerful Sanguinius was among the Primarchs. He just spent weeks fighting non-stop, killing Angron, being wounded without taking time to rest/heal, taking out Ka'Bandha, soloing enemy Titans, being mentally assaulted, and he shows up to a rested and fresh Horus and claps his cheeks until Horus gets mad and goes "Alright, Go Go Gadget Warp Powers." So that being said, Sanguinius was absolutely a menace through the end of his life.

I thought a big part of Horus killing Sanguinius was the psychic damage he did, not just straight up beating him to death

With the way this series is going I’m really interested to see Guilliman’s reaction when he arrives as the Siege of Terra makes it very clear that Guilliman was only hours away when the final strike on Horus’s flagship was launched. Could be interesting to see Guilliman process the fact that if he had only showed up hours before he could have saved one of his favorite brothers from a grisly death.

Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs and how they would rule their own imperium in Guillimans position would be pretty cool ngl

It was pretty damn perfect imo. Sanguinius shows he is the greatest of the Primarchs, he killed anything thrown at him that wasn't literal God-Tier. Sons of Horus marines were shielding their eyes and combusting before he even touched them. He trashed regular Horus even though (it wasn't mentioned in the video) Horus was nearly warhound size but ws still moving faster than any of the Primarchs, Sang was still better. Horus had to resort to using his warp powers to win. Sanguinius and the Sigilitte the Imperiums Greatest Heroes.

Horus: You fight like a young Primarch, Sanguinius, with nothing held back. Admirable, but mistaken.

Our favorite angel boy, although beaten without honor, is still the best of them all!

I got done with Part 2. I'm both okay and heartbroken with how it turned out. January can't come soon enough.

Sanguinius rolled too many ones, and horus'es armor save was too great due too his gifts from chaos.

We all have our headcanon when (not if) GW browns the sheets with stupidity. This theory about the Angel has a solid grim dark essence to it. The Emperor knew that Horus had ego issues and it never made sense that he was holding back out of compassion after all the years of the heresy. I actually do like that he wanted the loyalists and his father to join him, rather than just hating them, for reasons.

I like that the book hints that Big E is a chaos god but fighting his ascension. Its makes alot of things in lore work as his splintered mind could be that the corpse on the throne is not the last of his humanity but rather the last hold out before he ascends whether or not he likes it. This new lore piece gives GW the ability to say "Yes the emperor's corpse is dead and that would normally cripple the imperium but.... hes a chaos god now and everything is ok. Barely. Again."

Don't forget that Sanguinius couldn't get out any last words, because his lungs were full of blood. Which I absolutely love because it's so much darker than some cool last words.

I think it actually fits thematically. Sanguinius is the Big E's Angel. The pinnacle of beauty and controlled power. Seeing one of his greatest works beaten and then desecrated will make the big E go over the edge, and decide that Horus needs to be put down.

It says that the compassion the emperor yeeted off into the warp would over time gain a similar power level to the dark king if he couldn't claim it back so the emperor being heavily injured is probably because he went into the fight weaker than the fully chaos empowered Horus and the whole becoming a god thing is because he couldn't claim the part of his soul back and had to use it as a back up plan to protect humanity