r/respectthreads • u/British_Tea_Company • Nov 04 '23
literature Respect: Sanguinius (Warhammer 40k)
"Such an honour. I deserved it. He chose me because of our special affinity, those thirty perfect years, and my accomplishments speak for themselves. More than that, my lady, I think he chose me because I have… How can I put it? I have a common touch. I am all things to all men. Sanguinius is a far more noble being. But his ethereal quality, the very essence of what he is and why he is so adored… it makes him unapproachable. His perfection was why he was not chosen. My imperfection made me a better candidate." - Horus on his brother.
Sanguinius
Character Summary
Sanguinius was created by the God Emperor of Mankind as one of his 20 Primarchs who would serve as his generals in his Great Crusade across the galaxy. Scattered by the Chaos Gods during their infancy, the Primarchs all crash landed into various different worlds, with Sanguinius arriving on the irradiated world of Baal where human tribes had to survive in hazmat suits and lived in constant fear of mutants and monsters that stalked the surface.
Sanguinius would eventually find his way into the service of his creator, the God Emperor and would become good friends with Horus whom he would later share a bitter hatred toward over his betrayal. Such a deed was discovered on Signus where Sanguinius confronted literal demons of hell and was forced to battle the great Bloodthirster Ka'bandha, one of the most powerful servants of the Chaos god Khorne.
Sanguinius would go around the galaxy throughout the period of the Horus Heresy, finally returning to Terra. In the final battle against Horus, he would be slain by the warmaster of chaos but his contribution would be one of the many pieces in which ultimately allowed for Horus' downfall.
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Strength
Lands with the force of a vindicator shell. (Fear to Tread, Page 18)
- Vindicators are siege tanks.
Breaks a Space Marine's neck (Fear to Tread, Page 26)
Despite having a hurt hand, Sangunius is capable of pulling Ka'banda's whip and tripping him. (Fear to Tread, Page 218)
The blows between him and Ka'bandha crack the ground beneath him. Also impressive considering both combatants were flying for most of their battle. (Fear to Tread, Page 231)
Catches Ka'bandha's axe with his hands. (Fear to Tread, Page 270)
And then breaks it just by twisting his arms around. (Fear to Tread, Page 270)
Rips off one of Ka'bandha's wings. (Fear to Tread, Page 271)
Picks up Ka'bandha and throws him down a pit. (Fear to Tread, Page 271)
Crushes a Daemon with his feet. (Ruinstorm, Page 44)
Frees himself out of some gigantic dogpile of Daemons. (Ruinstorm, Page 224)
His wings easily support his bodily weight. (The Lost and the Damned, Page 31)
Crushes three Chaos Space Marines to death with his impact. (The Lost and the Damned, Page 137)
Flies off the Imperial wall, DECAPITATES A REAVER TITAN (Echoes of Eternity, Page 329)
Throw's Ka'bandha (Echoes of Eternity, Page 418). As shown earlier in this RT, Ka'bandha is HUGE.
Manages to match Daemon Angron in a blade clash.(Echoes of Eternity, Page 442)
- Daemon Angron is casually a several hundred tonner.
- (Other Note: Interactions further would suggest they are of comparable strength, but Angron's is still greater.)
A spear throw from him knocks Daemon Angron to the ground and pins him to the earth for several seconds (Echoes of Eternity, Page 448)
Despite being impaled and being strangled, Sanginius manages to tear at the the butcher's nails which he then later manages to free him from Angron, and then proceeds to tear the nails entirely from Angron's head, causing his head to explode. (Echoes of Eternity, Page 452)
Maybe May have Kool-Aid Man'd his way through several buildings (Sangunius, the Great Angel, Page 62)
Steals a Terminator's warhammer and ends up deforming it from use. After that, he cracks a wall just by hurling it aside. (The End and the Death Part I)
Plows into 300+ Space Marines with their bodies being crushed apart and mangled by him just flying through them (The End and the Death Part II)
A heavily injured Sanguinius is one-shotting Space Marines with kicks while mobbed (The End and the Death Part II)
Throws off several Astartes which were pinning him down (The End and the Death Part II)
Jams his spear into large Adamantine doors and then wedges them open after melting a hole. These doors are 30 cm thick. (The End and the Death Part II)
Throws his spear 90 meters through a Space Marine Dreadnought (The End and the Death Part II)
Swings a blow that would have killed probably every other Primarch (The End and the Death Part II)
Durability
By the time he was a year old, Sanguinius didn't need a radiation suit to walk in his toxic homeworld's surface.. (Blood Angels Codex 8e, Page 10)
Sonic pulses capable of destroying bone and rock don't do anything. (Fear to Tread, Page 18)
No-sells a berserking Space Marine's attacks. (Fear to Tread, Page 26)
Has a fist fight with Ka'bandha and has his armor gradually break but largely remains fine (Fear to Tread, Page 218)
Ka'bandha's whip does manage to break his legs. (Fear to Tread, Page 219)
Ka'bandha's whip however, doesn't do that much against Sangunius wings. (Fear to Tread, Page 270)
No-sells Bloodletter swords. (Fear to Tread, Page 270)
Gets caught in an explosion that ragdolls him but just gets up and flies. (Pharos, Page 176)
Gets caught into some fire that turns matter into energy but still manages to fly away. (Ruinstorm, Page 235)
No-sells more bolters. (The Lost and the Damned, Page 134)
Stares at a light that would have blinded an ordinary person. (Titandeath, Page 179)
Get's grabbed, thrown by Ka'bandha and then proceeds to have a fist fight with him (Echoes of Eternity, Page 416)
Get's pummeled several times by Daemon Angron and is only 'bloodied' momentarily. (Echoes of Eternity, Page 444)
Rips apart a man in power armor (Sangunius, The Great Angel, Page 63)
By the events of the End and the Death Part I, Sangunius is suffering from grievous wounds but still keeps going](https://i.imgur.com/8KQeoE4.png) (The End and the Death Part I)
It is possible these wounds were fatal in some fashion (The End and the Death Part I)
Tanks a bolt round and a warhammer blow (The End and the Death Part I)
Ordinarily the bolt round wouldn't have hurt him, but it had reopened an old wound which may have been poisoned (The End and the Death Part I)
No sells a fireball from an explosion as well as any shrapnel (The End and the Death Part II)
Flies into gunfire from at least 300 people (The End and the Death Part II)
Does not feel pain from 1000+ wounds (The End and the Death Part II)
Gets mobbed by an awful lot of enemies (The End and the Death Part II)
- He doesn't die here.
Wakes up from the previous injuries and proceeds to kill again (The End and the Death Part II)
Tanks a glancing blow from Horus (The End and the Death Part II)
Gets severely injured when Horus grabs him and smashes him into the floor of the Vengeful Spirit (The End and the Death Part II)
Limit Hit by worldbreaker, Sangunius can't get back up (The End and the Death Part II)
He literally dies Gets hit by Horus six times, with the sixth blow twisting his head around and still isn't actually dead until his neck/spine are broken (The End and the Death Part II)
Speed
A Space Marine watching him barely registers him move (Fear to Tread, Page 202)
Moves FTE. (Fear to Tread, Page 271)
Moves at speeds the human eye would struggle to follow. (Pharos, Page 170)
Vision of a potential future Is able to win against Horus by stabbing him in a fraction of a second (Ruinstorm, Page 145)
No Blood Angel would be able to match his speed (Ruinstorm, Page 165)
Quickly travels hundreds of kilometers (Lost and the Damned, Page 32)
Flies fast enough to trigger void shield reactions. (Titandeath, Page 184)
Avoids laserfire from a Titan (Saturnine)
Catches a supersonic spear in an FTE motion (Echoes of Eternity, Page 447)
Fights in a blur with Angron, the impact of their weapons sounding like one continuous sound (Echoes of Eternity, Page 448)
Fights fast enough that a viewer can't tell what's going on (Sangunius, the Great Angel, Page 62)
Does it again (Sangunius, the Great Angel, Page 100)
Dodges gunfire from 3 separate sources (The End and the Death Part II)
Takes off in less time than a blink, strikes Horus 3 times and dodges Horus, strikes him 3 more times (The End and the Death Part II)
Kites the fuck out of Horus (The End and the Death Part II)
1 millisecond is enough time for him to perform a sword swing that hits his opponent (The End and the Death Part II)
Horus is not slow despite this sequence would indicate him as such. In fact, his attacks are occurring at bullet speeds and Sangunius is appreciably faster. (The End and the Death Part II) This is also confirmation that as of this moment, Horus is the 2nd fastest Primarch and Sangunius is the 1st.
- Author's Note: Horus is holding back in this sequence however.
Keeps dodging Horus for an awful long while (The End and the Death Part II)
Did we mention he was doing all of this while injured? (The End and the Death Part II)
Limit As the duel with Horus continues, Sanguinius begins to slip up (The End and the Death Part II)
Is very graceful despite his massive size and bulk (The End and the Death Part II)
Cuts Horus 24 times (this does not count the amount of times his sword just bounced due to the shielding) while all Horus did so far was get a single feather (The End and the Death Part II)
Swings one sword blow that even Horus didn't see it coming (The End and the Death Part II)
Limit The fun times end when Horus actually starts trying after being literally gutted (The End and the Death Part II)
Limit As it turns out, Sangunius was only the 2nd fastest Primarch after all (The End and the Death Part II)
Probably not literal Dodges Horus' attacks and moves away from him at the 'speed of light' but still gets caught by Horus who is the 'speed of darkness' (The End and the Death Part II)
Skill
- Is possibly the most skilled entity in the 40k setting? (The End and the Death Part II)
Intelligence
- Was conscious of himself at the moment of his 'birth' Sangunius, the Great Angel, Page 79)
Willpower
Resists a psychic scream meant to paralyze him. (Ruinstorm, Page 130)
Breaks out of another psychic attack. (Ruinstorm, Page 131)
Potential Manifestation of Psyker Powers Sanguinius' willpower is creating a manifest projection of the Emperor's light that is so intense it blinds people with light control settings in their helmets and even sets them on fire and kills them as he approaches them (The End and the Death Part II)
A dying Sangunius decides he's still gonna defy the Chaos Gods despite them pointing and laughing at him (The End and the Death Part II)
Equipment
The Blade Encarmine
- It's monomolecular edge easily pierces a crystal-alien. (Fear to Tread, Page 18)
- Easily impales Kyriss whose pretty huge. (Fear to Tread, Page 270)
- Slices through a Daemon's sword. (Ruinstorm, Page 131)
- Slices through chaos energies (Ruinstorm, Page 146)
- Is capable of slicing through a Rhino transport. (Ruinstorm, Page 237)
- Cuts a cyborg in half (Titandeath, Page 187)
- Stabs through an Iron Warrior Terminator that weighed over a ton Saturnine
- Chops through multiple space marines Saturnine
- The only reason the Emperor killed Horus was because Sanguinius' sword had chinked Horus' armor (Blood Angels Codex 8e, Page 9)
- Kills two space marines with one swing (The End and the Death Part I)
- Cuts through chainswords, shields and terminator armor (The End and the Death Part I)
- It takes a lot of tries, but the sword finally goes through Horus' shields (The End and the Death Part II)
- After said many tries, Sanguinius is getting blood out of Horus (The End and the Death Part II)
- Guts Horus like a fish (The End and the Death Part II)
The Spear of Telesto
- Shoots an incinerating blast from it. (Ruinstorm, Page 44)
- Ditto
- More blasts (Ruinstorm, Page 45)
- More (Ruinstorm, Page 61)
- Generates a ton of light, also incinerates more daemons. (Ruinstorm, Page 133)
- Melts Plague Space Marines. (Lost and the Damned, Page 91)
- Stabs through a Warlord Titan (Saturnine)
- Stabs through the same Titan again, fires, and destroys it from the inside out (Saturnine)
- Vaporizes a cyborg (Titandeath, Page 185)
- Blasts a hole in a giant mech big enough for his own body. (Titandeath, Page 186)
- Nearly takes off Daemon Angron's head with a throw (Echoes of Eternity, Page 447)
- Skewers two space marines at the same time at then throws it through another person (End and the Death Part I)
- Melts through Adamantine doors (End and the Death Part II)
- Blows up a Space Marine Dreadnought (End and the Death Part II)
Infernus
- Vaporizes Daemon Angron's entire arm (Echoes of Eternity, 444)
Foresight
Describes his foresight (Sangunius, The Great Angel, Page 81)
Possesses Foresight to some extent (Pharos, Page 169)
- Worth pointing out that Sangunius' saw potential possibilities and had the ability to see ones that won't happen as he is looking at futures where he wins against Horus despite having canonically died against him (Ruinstorm, Page 196)
- Ditto (Blood Angels Codex 8e, Page 13)
His foresight began to hone into on a specific vision and occur more commonly by the time of the Siege (Saturnine)
Misc
Sanguinius was arguably the greatest Primarch. Note the key word 'arguably' here as Sanguinius canonically dies fighting Horus (Blood Angels Codex 8e, Page 6)
Through some means, killed a gigantic fire scorpion despite having the physical body of a 3 year old. (Blood Angels Codex 8e, Page 10)
His wings are viable weapons. (Fear to Tread, Page 211)
His inherent weight is too heavy for a Space Marine to move. (Lost and the Damned, Page 137)
- [This likely means Sangunius is in excess of 5400 KG or 12,000 pounds](https://pastebin.com/acbSeyLA
Has acid spit that burns out a fairly large Daemon's eyes. (Ruinstorm, 221)
His voice can be heard over a loud wind due to the inherent connection between him and his gene-sons. (Titandeath, Page 180)
Has good enough eyesight to where he can see a video with perfect clarity even if its the size of a baby's finger nail. (Titandeath, Page 186)
Fought for perhaps hours if not days (Sangunius, the Great Angel, Page 62)
Is a perfect boy (Sangunius, the Great Angel, Page 63`)
Horus had at one point confided in an interview that he thought Sanguinius was always the better man (The End and the Death Part I)
The initial plan was NOT to have Sanguinius board the Vengeful spirit but to name him the TRUE warmaster of the Imperium and have him stay back to command the ground defenses of Terra (The End and the Death Part I)
Killed a thousand Daemons in dilated time (The End and the Death Part II)
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u/Hellion1234 Feb 01 '24
Nice. Doesn't he also hold a ship from falling apart with just his will? I've read about it in several places but I don't know where it's supposed to be from.