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This has probably been answered somewhere but I cannot seem to find it. What is the deal with the wings? Are they organic or mechanical or what? I would think if they were organic then all of the blood angels would probably have some type of little wing nubs sprouting out of the backs due to the shared genetics. If anyone is able to satisfy my curiosity I would appreciate it.

They are organic. He is a mutant.

They are organic, they grew while he was lost in the warp. When he was found some people wanted to kill him for being a mutant.

does that mean that the sanguinars wings are also organic and hereditary or are they from warp exposure? I am just wondering if the BA's gene seed was affected.

There is nothing to indicate that BA have wings or wing nubs or anything like that.

Baldsmug wrote:does that mean that the sanguinars wings are also organic and hereditary or are they from warp exposure? I am just wondering if the BA's gene seed was affected.

The Sanquinor, for lack of a better term, is a daemon. So there is really nothing organic about it.

So he is like a Daemon prince of The God Emperor. Got it!That is pretty cool.

But why wings? Sure he was mutated but what's the reasoning behind it? Was it just random or was it something from the emperors genes?

Brother Thomas wrote:But why wings? Sure he was mutated but what's the reasoning behind it? Was it just random or was it something from the emperors genes?

Thats what i was thinking.

Baldsmug wrote:

Brother Thomas wrote:But why wings? Sure he was mutated but what's the reasoning behind it? Was it just random or was it something from the emperors genes?

Thats what i was thinking.

I really wouldn't look too much into it.


Ultimately, Rule of Cool probably wins out.

DarknessEternal wrote:The Sanquinor, for lack of a better term, is a daemon. So there is really nothing organic about it.

Baldsmug wrote:So he is like a Daemon prince of The God Emperor. Got it!That is pretty cool.

The terrorists win again.

Look just read pages 10,page 19 (for the sanguinior does not have wings in the final strike chapter)and page 25 of the blood angels codex.

Manchu wrote:

DarknessEternal wrote:The Sanquinor, for lack of a better term, is a daemon. So there is really nothing organic about it.

Baldsmug wrote:So he is like a Daemon prince of The God Emperor. Got it!That is pretty cool.

The terrorists win again.

I think I may have missed something here. But if the Sanguinor is "like" a daemon would he not be on the side of some good aligned warp entity that may or may not have some ties to the warp presence of the god emperor or something similar?

Also, I don't even play blood angles i was just curious as to why they had the only Primarch with wings.

DarknessEternal wrote:

Baldsmug wrote:does that mean that the sanguinars wings are also organic and hereditary or are they from warp exposure? I am just wondering if the BA's gene seed was affected.

The Sanquinor, for lack of a better term, is a daemon. So there is really nothing organic about it.

While I do like that theory, it is just that, a theory. There is no hard evidence to prove that the Sanguinor is a daemon of the emperor, or a living saint, or a ghost.

See, this is the kind of crap I hate about the new Horus Heresy series.

Back in the day, when I read about a 'winged primarch' I just imagined that Sanguinius liked to use a jump-pack a lot, and after ten thousand years and a lot of miscommunication, that led to people believing he actually had wings.

And Magnus, rather than being an actual cyclops, had lost an eye in battle and chosen not to have it replaced.

And so on.

Baldsmug wrote: I was just curious as to why they had the only Primarch with wings.

It's probably because GW writers have been brought up in a culture where Angels have wings... And they liked the idea that some Primarchs actually embodied the very essence of their Legion's name. So ofc the Primarch of the Blood Angels must have wings!

Kaldor wrote:See, this is the kind of crap I hate about the new Horus Heresy series.

Back in the day, when I read about a 'winged primarch' I just imagined that Sanguinius liked to use a jump-pack a lot, and after ten thousand years and a lot of miscommunication, that led to people believing he actually had wings.

And Magnus, rather than being an actual cyclops, had lost an eye in battle and chosen not to have it replaced.

And so on.

True, so much of it is better being left in the dark. Leaves many questions unanswered, meaning its open to interpretation.

If he had wings, how did he sleep? Prone? That makes the neck hurt...A LOT. And how could he wear armor?

Tadashi wrote:If he had wings, how did he sleep? Prone? That makes the neck hurt...A LOT. And how could he wear armor?

He probably had slits in the back of his armour for his wings to fit out of. What I'm curious about is whether he could win terminator armour, as you can't just cut a few slits in a plasma generator, and whether he could fly in it (although the answer is probably no).