Editing Sanguinary Guard (section)

== Notable Members ==

===Azkaellon===
Big daddy of the Sanguinary Guard and one of the most revered heroes of old. He's actually portrayed in the novels as being a more morally complex character than one would expect of a space marine. Duty driven to a fault and downright grumpy he makes a nice foil to the gregarious and [[Captain Titus|fatherly]] Chapter Master Raldoron. He and Raldoron willingly commit themselves and captain [[Flesh Tearers|Amit]] to secrecy after Amit murdered a buncha space wolves in his blood rage, all to keep Sanguinius single-minded on his goal to stop Horus. Also he and Raldoron were some of the only ones able to hold off the initial bloodrage on Signus Prime, the others cheated and stood next to a Pariah. [[Get shit done|He gets shit done]].

He also may or may not be turned into a [[Sanguinor|literal angel]]. Or may [[Pretend|just be acting like one]]. Or it may actually be Sanguinius' soul using Azkaellon's corpse as a medium... or it's just Sanguinius reborn! Fuck it's confusing at this point.

''Devastation of Baal'' implies that the first of these is canon: when Dante goes through his near-death experience at the very end of the book, the Sanguinor specifically acts deferential to Sanguinius when interacting with Dante's consciousness, stepping back and throwing out an arm to "indicate a presence greater than it," as Sanguinius' soul appears to speak with Dante (befitting [https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sanguinor#Origins the original Sanguinor's role] as a herald for the Primarch himself, and seemingly confirming they are related but separate entities). It's still ambiguous as to exactly how alive he is under the armour, though.

===Sepharan===
The former herald of the SG (<s>oh more angel puns how original</s> [[Space Wolves|bitch please]]); not much is said about him save that he "went into [[/d/|hell itself]] to save his chapter's soul". Probably just went out for some brewskies with the boys from Fenris and wound up gridlocked in [[Black Crusade|Cadia]] and had to make up a good excuse as to why he was late to the Sanguinala and why he had [[Failbaddon|so many Traitor Legion heads with him.]] Like most of the Sanguinary Guard, he died during the [[Devastation of Baal]], ripped in half by a [[Trygon]] during the Blood Angels' last charge.

===Erephon===
Blind, and liked playing life on hard mode so badly that when his eyes were gouged, slashed, shot, popped, needled, or sneezed out or however the hell he lost them he decided "Ya know what? Fuck Eyes!" [[Awesome|He promptly began kicking more ass without his vision, closing seven hellgates in the space of a single battle.]] Never let it be said the Blood Angels aren't an equal opportunity employer.

===Saranoth===
[[FATAL|His coming was so terrible it set Ork Waaaaagh! Rokchewa to flight.]] Jokes aside, he was probably the only SG who knows the rule that [[Dakka|there is never enough Dakka]]. He eventually bit it at the hands of some unknown (possibly [[Tyranid]]) xenos that drained his body to a husk and wrecked his armour (oh yeah, it's the 'Nids), so you can get his artificer Jump-Pack in [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]].

===Andrastor===
Stood alone on Cripple-Ridge against a Tyranid swarm. Either he [[Plot armor|defied all the odds]] and somehow won, or maybe he just bit it right there on that ridge and the tales of his victory are just propaganda. Both are viable options considering the source material.

===Dontoriel===
[[Ciaphas Cain|THE HERO OF CRYPTUS.]] The only member of the Sanguinary Guard to be named during the Shield of Baal campaign--rose to prominence during the assault on the manufactorum and the defence of Phodia City on Asphodex. Ate shit and died during the final hours of the [[Devastation of Baal]]; a fuckhuge number of Tyranid [[Tyranid_Warrior#Shrikes|Shrikes]] ganged up on him and knocked him out of the sky, then tore him to shreds when he hit the ground.

===Caraeus===
The only member of the Sanguinary Guard to have survived the Devastation of Baal, making him the ''de facto'' Exalted Herald of Sanguinius and fairly hardcore for living through that final charge... What [[Karlaen]] did with the members of the Guard who went with him to the Diamor Campaign is unknown--as last we know they were ok. Weirdly, [[Derp|the codex lists "Brother Daeanatos" as the last survivor of the SG at Baal...]] it could be his full name (his given and angel name like Caraeus Daeanatos) or some such, but it's most likely a derp on GeeDubs' part.