The Angel
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
- – Albert Camus
"If we did not feel the bitterness of His anger, we would not so sweetly relish His love."
- – Timothy Rogers
"To the darkness of time I send thee, against the radiance of your being I consign thee, blood cools, fire dies and light rises, the time of the Angel has ended, sleep, my favoured son and dream of purity"
- – The Emperor's incantation of sealing, & goodbye to his first son.
The Angel
The Angel is a prototype of the Primarchs and could be said to be the Emperor's first son, colloquially called the Proto-Primarch, Primarch Zero, or the Zeroth. In this way, it can be thought of as a precursor to the Primarchs the same way the Thunder Warriors were precursors to the Custodians; psychotic, violent, single-minded and incorruptibly loyal to the Emperor and His cause to a fault.
The Angel was created for the express purpose of purging anything Chaotic in nature, making him the Emperor's personal Doomslayer, and while at first he was controllable, it quickly became a Broly and Paragus type of situation where the Emperor couldn't hold the leash on his personal attack dog any longer. This happened after their first fishing trip together in which they slayed caught and sealed away a Demon Prince known as Pharaa'gueotla. After which, the Proto-Primarch went on a genocide run on a wayward planet because he just had all this pent up energy and nothing left to do with it. This transition from fishing to burning ants with a magnifying glass could possibly be motivated by the fact they didn't just slay Pharaa'gueotla when they had the chance and instead opted for the blue balls option of banishing it to the Shadow Realm for no reason.
Whatever his true motive, the Emperor had to take action and seal the Angel away in a sarcophagus by using the carved-up flesh of the daemon prince they caught together as bait. Apparently, the Angel has such bad tunnel vision that this crap plan actually worked. Then after the Horus Heresy wrapped up, the Inquisition found the Angel's sarcophagus & let him out to fight the same fucking
The Angel is proof positive that Sanguinius' angel wings are no accident of mutation from fucking nuclear radiation or the Warp.
Description
The Angel is what a Primarch would look like if the Emperor didn't bother to nerf any of their capabilities or bother to balance their personalities whatsoever, so not only is the Angel fiercely loyal, it's also unstoppable and can't be reasoned with by the average person, let alone the Emperor himself. The Proto-Primarch is described as being twelve feet tall, having angel wings like Sanguinius, and basically looks like an adolescent version of the Emperor, complete with a blue flaming sword to match Emp's regular flaming sword. Since the Angel embodies all the qualities of the other twenty Primarchs, it's implied that this guy was supposed to be the one gene-son of the Emperor to embark on the Great Crusade with him, but there's not much of a point in ruling over ashes when your prodigy purges anything with the slightest chaotic taint. Such taint happens to include all humanity, since all baseline humans have an innate connection to the Warp due to having souls. Fucking oops.
Capabilities
Imagine if you took out all the Chaotic corruption from every Primarch and then made them fusion dance together until there was only one left and the Zeroth here is what you'd get. He burns away Chaotic corruption with the literal force of the sun, he holds the Guinness World Record for demolishing cities and armies in the shortest possible time, he wielded a flaming sword just like Emprah and he left a trail of blue fire behind him, which was tremendously inconvenient for everyone involved who wasn't dead, which was nobody. Having a pair of angel wings, he could also fly just like Sanguinius.
So despite being a clear psyker, he's a psyker in the sense that the Emperor is, completely absent of Chaotic taint. Makes you wonder if the Emperor's brand of psyker happens to be something different from the typical psyker the same way Orks generate their own psychic fields.
History
The Angel was created to destroy The Emperor's enemies on Terra during it's pacification. Chief among those was the Pharaa'gueotla; an ancient daemon that had terrorized Terra since the dawn of Mankind. Pharra'gueotla was finally cast out by the arrival of The Emperor himself, and fled Terra soon after. The Emperor eventually cornered the daemon, on the planet that would be known as Karis Cephelon. The Emperor, with the help of the mighty Angel, imprisoned the daemon in the very bedrock of the planet.
Though a useful weapon, as shown with the defeat of Pharaa'gueotla, the Angel was flawed and would often cause more harm than good. One incident written in ancient tomes, described a city named Coranis, reduced to ashes by the Angel. Judging the population unworthy of the Emperor's love, it wiped out the entire population of Caranis in a single night of bloodshed. From there it moved out and destroyed the rest of the planet Coranis resided on, until it was emptied of all life. In order to quell the Angel's thirst for vengeance and cause it to fall into a slumber, the Emperor placed a piece of the corrupted flesh of the Daemon Prince Pharaa'gueotla into it's coffin, the Angel returned to it's coffin, in order to destroy the flesh and this allowed the Emperor to activate the locks and wards on it's coffin, sealing it once again.
Though believed to be one of the Emperor's greatest weapons against Chaos, this flaw this thirst for vengeance, caused the Emperor to send the Angel back to Terra. Slated to be destroyed, the Angel was somehow smuggled out of the Sol system before the Emperor could dispose of it. It's location was unknown for milliena, though recently it was thought to be somewhere on the planet Karis Cephalon.
Millennia later, the Daemon Prince Pharaa'gueotla was freed through the actions of the misguided Radical Inquisitor Lichtenstein. The Inquisitor freed a fragment of the daemon's consciousnesses from it's prison, in the hope that it would help him located the thrice damned Librarium Hereticus. Instead the daemon tricked the Inquisitor into almost opening a gate to the warp that would have freed the daemon. It's plan would have succeed had it not been for the intervention of Inquisitor Kessel. Thought destroyed after it attempted to free itself again, by possessing a psyker, the daemon began to roam the planet of Karis Cephalon, looking for another host body. Eventually, it located a suitable host, Cardinal Kodazcka. Using the followers, it had gathered to it's side, it had the Cardinal kidnapped. Following a daemonic ritual, the daemon possessed the body of the Cardinal and began laying waste to the city of Cephalon.
Deciding the only way to stop Daemon Prince, was to use the very weapon that had defeated it millennia earlier, Inquisition agents were sent to find the Angel. Learning the information they sought was located in ancient tomes, the agents searched the Cephalon Institute of Ecclesiastical Antiquities. Finding the tomes, that were secreted to the Institute thousands of years ago, they learned how to awaken the Angel as well as how to imprison it again. Armed with this knowledge the agents searched for the location of the Angel. With luck they found that it has been hidden in Cephalon itself, deep in the ruins of the Amethyst Palace, in a glowing stasis-coffin
After locating the coffin, a battle erupted between Radical and Puritan factions of Inquisitorial agents on who should possess the Angel. During the battle Pharaa'gueotla arrived to destroy it's ancient enemy, and the one thing capable of defeating it. Working quickly the agents, freed the Angel from it's coffin, so that it could battle the Daemon Prince. The two ancient enemies clashed in a mighty battle that left massive craters wherever one of the combatants fell. Eventually, the Angel was triumphant, after driving it's sword through the body of the daemon. Rising into the air the Angel hurled the defeated Daemon Prince to the ground.
Soon after though, the Angel turned on the Inquisition agents. Millennia of imprisonment and a fatal flaw in its creation had led the Angel into becoming more than was ever conceived. Far from being the champion of Mankind as the Emperor intended, it had come to the conclusion that all humans would eventually turn to Chaos; and that it would be better that they were all exterminated before that happened. Using the knowledge gained from reading the ancient tomes, the agents quickly seized the remains of the daemon and placed them into the Angel's coffin. The Angel immediately flew to the coffin in order to destroy the daemon's remains. While doing so, the agents sealed the coffin and once more the Angel slept. Soon after Inquisitorial troopers led by senior Inquisitor Lords, among them Lord Vertian, arrived to secure the Angel and take it into Inquisition hands.