The Sanguinor - Origins: The role of Sanguinor began during the tumultuous days of the Horus Heresy, following the horrific events of the Battle of Calth and the Drop Site Massacre of Isstvan V.Primarch Roboute Guilliman of the Ultramarines Legion knew that the light of the great navigational beacon of the Astronomican was extinguished across half the galaxy through the efforts of the Word Bearers Legion's maleficent summoning of the massive Warp Storm known as the Ruinstorm.Cut off from the rest of the Imperium and unable to firmly establish whether or not the Emperor of Mankind still lived, or if Terra and the Imperium of Man had fallen to the Traitors, Guilliman instituted the ultimate contingency plan -- to create a second Imperium in order to ensure the survival of the Emperor's dream of a united Mankind.This second Imperium became known as Imperium Secundus. Due to the Ruinstorm, Warp-travel had proved erratic at best and deadly at worse. The Ruinstorm was not only dangerous because of the powerful Warp turbulences it unleashed, but because it occluded the light of the Astronomican, and thus rendered Navigators practically blind.Macragge was the only known exception to this as it had been -- for lack of a better word -- "lit up" by the xenos artefact known as the Pharos, located beneath the largest peak on the world of Sotha.With this new psychic beacon, the light of the Pharos drew many remnants of the Shattered Legions, those few pitiful Loyalist survivors of the Drop Site Massacre of Isstvan V, to the refuge and relative safety of Macragge. This beacon also brought forth the expeditionary fleet of the Ist Legion of Lion El'Jonson which had been crusading in the Thramas System.Roboute Guilliman proposed that The Lion take up the mantle of the new regent of the Imperium Secundus rather than himself.But in the end, with the arrival of their brother Sanguinius and his Blood Angels Legion from their disastrous campaign in the Signus Cluster, Guilliman convinced his reluctant brother-primarch to rule as the regent of Imperium Secundus, for he possessed more of the noble aspects of the Emperor within him than either Guilliman or the Lion.With Sanguinius as acting regent, there was always the prevalent fear of assassination, as agents of the Warmaster Horus had already attempted to assassinate Roboute Guilliman. Fearing for his safety, Sanguinius wasn't allowed to make public appearances.Azkaellon, leader of the primarch's Sanguinary Guard, convinced his sire to allow a herald to speak on their lord's behalf.Acquiescing to Azkaellon's request, ten Sanguinary Guard were gathered to draw lots, two of which were marked in blood. The eight who did not win were dismissed. The remaining two, Alatron and Haratial, had their lots placed within a grail, and one was picked at random. Alatron's name was selected.In order to maintain the identity of Sanguinius' newly appointed herald from any possible penetration by the enemy, Azkaellon summarily executed Haratial.Azkaellon then drew a white hot artificer-crafted helm, shaped in the visage of Sanguinius' face, from a fire and placed it upon Alatron's head, forever searing the helm to his flesh and ensuring forevermore that Alatron would remain anonymous as he assumed his new identity as the so-called Sanguinor.It is not known if Alatron survived the Heresy, and what role he played, if any, following the death of Sanguinius at the hands of Horus during the Siege of Terra and the subsequent division of the Blood Angels Legion into separate Chapters during the Second Founding.Furthermore, it is not known if the current Sanguinor is the same being as the original, or a new phenomenon wholly unrelated to the Sanguinor who served as the original Herald of Sanguinius during the Heresy.