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Last lore reference had him diving into some sort of ill-defined ork contraption, but the dude has survived worse than that before, right? So where's he at?

Probably doing the same as he was before he was found on Caldera during the War of the Beast, staying out of the way.

The only accurate answer to your question, OP, is "we don't know."

There've been arguments made that the ork device could've burned out his Perpetualness, others that he is in fact just chilling somewhere waiting for the Salamanders to track down this relics they're hunting for but, truly, no-one outside GW knows for sure - and I don't even know if they know.

He might be in the same "If profit looks like dropping, break glass" case alongside Leman Russ, the 30k-scale plastic Thunderhawk, and the first 30k-scale plastic Titan...

 Dysartes wrote:
The only accurate answer to your question, OP, is "we don't know."

There've been arguments made that the ork device could've burned out his Perpetualness, others that he is in fact just chilling somewhere waiting for the Salamanders to track down this relics they're hunting for but, truly, no-one outside GW knows for sure - and I don't even know if they know.

He might be in the same "If profit looks like dropping, break glass" case alongside Leman Russ, the 30k-scale plastic Thunderhawk, and the first 30k-scale plastic Titan...

Sounds plausible So there haven't been any references in lore post-War Of The Beast then?

Oddly enough, the Salamanders Supplementary Rulebook (8.5, i think. it may have been the 9th though) had this to say

The ultimate fate of the Primarch Vulkan is a matter of much conjecture. Some sources state that he led his chapter for as long as three millennia before disappearing on an undocumented mission. Though he has been thought lost on many occasions, he always returned.

He's not dead, and neither is any Primarch with even the slightest chance of being alive. Dorn is alive, Omegon is alive, etc. Games Workshop is going to bring back as many as they possibly can, because the Primarch Pro Wrestling era has been incredibly successful for them and there's an entire generation of fans who only relate to the lore in terms of 30k Primarch drama.

They probably have a guy working 60 hour weeks to figure out how to bring Sanguinius back without riots.

A wizard did it!

He’s in a tf2 respawn camera waiting out the respawn timer, and the artifacts let him skip the timer

 Altruizine wrote:
They probably have a guy working 60 hour weeks to figure out how to bring Sanguinius back without riots.

Saint Celestine and Sanguinor fanfiction activate!!!

epronovost wrote:

 Altruizine wrote:
They probably have a guy working 60 hour weeks to figure out how to bring Sanguinius back without riots.

Saint Celestine and Sanguinor fanfiction activate!!!

Totally. It's going to be like in Excalibur when Merlin comes back.

Arthur: where are you, Merlin? If only you could see me wield Excalibur once more.

Merlin: Arthur

Arthur: Where have you been these many years? Is it true that Morgana...

Merlin: Stories. You brought me back. Your love brought me back. Back to where you are now...in the land of dreams.

Arthur: Are you just a dream?

Merlin: A dream to some. A nightmare to others.


Modernize/warpify to taste. Sanguinius is a warp entity sustained by the devotion of his sons etc. Alternatively he is like Sauron slowly building his power back to where he can retake physical form in real space..

40K is like comic books.

You’re only ever as dead as Next Week’s Issue requires you to be.