

The Emperor had long ago refined the techniques of genetic manipulation, and He set these skills to work once again, forging twenty extraordinary transhuman super-warriors, each an embodiment of an aspect of war as His generals in the coming campaign within His secret gene-laboratory hidden beneath the Himalazian (Himalayan) Mountains. To do this, He would need a mighty army, an army unlike any the galaxy had ever seen, an army whose warriors knew no other loyalty than to their Emperor, and whose bodies and minds were hardened to withstand unceasing war. His goal was nothing less than the reunification of scattered Mankind, to bring the sundered worlds and realms of humanity under a single beneficent rule. The risen Emperor had united the warring factions of Terra through the Unification Wars, yet His vision did not end with one mere planet, nor even with the solar system in which it lay. Like all the great Space Marine Legions, the Blood Angels were born from the dying flames of the Age of Strife. Amongst these Legions were the Blood Angels, who from their earliest days fought staunchly in the service of Emperor and Primarch both. That immortal, god-like being crafted incredible warriors to help Him conquer the galaxy and reunite Mankind's lost colony worlds in the wake of the Age of Strife. The Space Marine Legions were the creations of the Emperor of Mankind.

Sanguinius displays the head of the slain daemon Kyriss after the end of the Signus Campaign during the Horus Heresy.

Warmaster Horus praises his brother Primarch SanguiniusĪn ancient Remembrancer sketch from Carpinius' Speculum Historiale of the Primarch Sanguinius during the Great Crusade. Each of us carries part of our father within us, whether it is his hunger for battle, his psychic talent or his determination to succeed. For all his aloof coolness, he alone has the Emperor's soul in his blood. He has the vision and strength to carry us to victory, and the wisdom to rule once victory is won.
