Sanguinius - Coming of the Emperor: Though the loss of the primarchs was a bitter blow to His plans, the Emperor was not dismayed for long. The primarchs themselves could not be recreated, but their genetic records and samples of their genetic material remained, and from these the Emperor created the mighty Space Marine Legions -- the armies He had always intended His primarchs to lead. It was at the head of the Space Marine Legions that the Emperor began His Great Crusade in earnest. Setting out from Terra in ca. 798.M30, the Emperor led the Space Marines on a glorious campaign that sought to restore Mankind to its lost greatness.No foe could withstand the onslaught of this Great Crusade. Despots, aliens and Daemons all fell to the relentless advance of the Space Marine Legions, Human-settled worlds previously enslaved and terrorised flocking willingly to the banner of the nascent Imperium of Man. It was in the course of the Great Crusade that the lost primarchs were at last reunited with their gene-father and Emperor, taking up their rightful places as the masters of the Space Marine Legions.The Emperor, in the midst of His Great Crusade to reunite all the scattered worlds of Mankind, had been searching across the galaxy for His lost children and His incredible psychic powers eventually led Him to Baal in 843.M30. His ship landed at the Conclave of the Blood, and the Emperor entered the massive natural amphitheatre that had been carved from Mount Seraph by the Baalite tribes to serve as a central meeting place. Those of the pure blood attended Sanguinius' address by the tens of thousands. The Emperor stood within their ranks, a shining golden figure amongst the tattered warriors of the Blood. But the Emperor knew humility as well as divinity, and He listened as intently as any warrior there. Sanguinius gave a speech which lifted the very souls of his people, giving them more than hope, at its conclusion soaring into the air above them with a shout that every man there echoed.Thus the Emperor was convinced without a doubt that the Angel was indeed one of his lost sons. Others among the Primarchs are said to have fought against the Emperor when they first met, but this was not the case with Sanguinius. When approached, Sanguinius recognised the Emperor immediately. Many believe that Sanguinius' reputed ability to foresee future events informed him of the Emperor's visit, explaining his reaction. He fell to his knees, crystal tears falling from his cheeks into the crimson dust. Where they fell, alabaster flowers thrived upon the barren and toxic soils of Baal Secundus. The Emperor bade him stand, and looked upon the myriad faces raised unto him, proud and resolute. He saw that the men and women of the Blood were both fair in mind and deed, possessed of a small part of the nobility and strength of their leader.The best of Sanguinius' warriors were subsequently selected to become Astartes, implanted with the very core of Sanguinius' physical being; the pure and precious gene-seed that the Emperor had engineered from the Primarch's own genome. These warriors were raised up into the IX Legion of the Space Marines, better known as the Blood Angels, and then launched upon the Emperor's Great Crusade alongside those members of the Legion who had been raised from Terra.Those who remained upon Baal Secundus were entrusted with the duty of defending Mankind's birthright upon the planet, and ensuring that future generations of warriors were taught the Imperial Truth and learned of the Primarch who had once walked amongst them and restored their hope. So it is that even now, with millennia passed since those fateful days, the Blood Angels take all their Aspirants from the moons of Baal.Resplendent in glittering armour, shrouded in white wings, Sanguinius was the noblest of the Primarchs in physical aspect. Proud and resolute, the Angel radiated a confidence so vital that any shadows of doubt were banished beneath his light. The detail of the Primarch's intricately-worked Artificer Armour was rendered perfectly, the sculpted edges of the golden battle-plate visible along with the fine etching across the brassarts, shoulder guards and breastplate.On his chest was a heavy ornamental roundel carved from huge Megladari rubies. The central jewel was cut into the shape of a heart and set on a mount of gold flames, and it signified the burning spirit of the Blood Angels as expressed through their primarch. Atop it were four more ruby discs, each dedicated to one of the worlds from which the IXth Legion had drawn its numbers -- Terra, in the first instance, then Baal and her two moons. Across one shoulder he wore a ceremonial war cloak, the black-dappled pelt of a Carnodon; similar in form to the extinct snow leopards of Old Earth but much, much larger. The ice stalker had been Sanguinius' first kill during the pacification of Teghar Pentarus, the first battle he had fought beside his Legion after reuniting with his father the Emperor.