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It'll depend on how well Blood Angels sell in 8th I imagine.

If everybody but Kurze comes back (pretty sure he's deader than Ferrus) I'd not be surprisd.

 Nerak wrote:
Sanguinius is very very dead. There has been a bunch of stuff about a BA prothecy. A hero that'll defend the Emperor in humanities darkest hour, wearing golden armour. Of course people are going to think of Sanguinius for this because come on, when you think "blood angels" and "gold" Sanguinius will be the first thing you think of. No other character could possibly fit the description.

Gabriel Angelos will steal Sanguinius' armor and be that hero. If needbe, he'll steal Primarch powers from Guilliman.



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 Arbitrator wrote:
It'll depend on how well Blood Angels sell in 8th I imagine.

If everybody but Kurze comes back (pretty sure he's deader than Ferrus) I'd not be surprisd.

Curze could return as a daemon prince of Malal.

On one hand, I agree. Having Sanguinius return would be a major cheapening of the drama of the Heresy and the tragedy of the Blood Angels in general.

But then, with Guilliman back, the Rubicon of cheapening the drama of the Heresy has already been crossed.

I could also see this being a really cool idea: Sanguinius literally fighting his way back out of death, using the blood of his sons as a method of progressive reincarnation: little pieces of his soul coalescing over ten thousand years and ten million different lives. Omega Sanction Batman-style.

Probably won't be that cool, though.

 Formerly Wu wrote:
On one hand, I agree. Having Sanguinius return would be a major cheapening of the drama of the Heresy and the tragedy of the Blood Angels in general.

But then, with Guilliman back, the Rubicon of cheapening the drama of the Heresy has already been crossed.

Yeah. I mean, when you see a fire, why build a brick wall around it when you could just throw kerosene on it instead?

There's a big difference between Guilliman and Sanguinius coming back. The significance of sanguinius' death has already been mentioned. Guilliman survived the horus heresy and dealt with the aftermath. He split the space marines into chapters learning from the heresy. He wrote a book on how he thought the marines should conduct themselves, and he lead the Imperium as Lord Commander. Then some prick stabbed him with a magic sword and he fell asleep for ten thousand years. Maybe I'm missing some that gets developed in the hh series but I've never seen any pathos in that 'death'. It's just a loose end to tie up. Probably because way back then when the first version of the story was written it was felt that having a superpowered demi-god running around on the tabletop was a bad idea

Point_blank wrote:
Probably because way back then when the first version of the story was written it was felt that having a superpowered demi-god running around on the tabletop was a bad idea

Here's the thing, though, I don't think that that's changed. There's even less reason to do it with the 30K game to explore those characters/that time setting. 40K should be truly grimdark where bright and beautiful beings like the Primarchs are merely the subject of myth and legend.