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===Sanguinius: The Great Angel===
A disgraced remembrancer joins the IX Legion on campaign and learns more about the early days of the Blood Angels, possibly including some of their more unsavory secrets.

The book starts with a prologue lowly scribe bribing a clerk to enter a restricted archive.

During the Great Crusade, the narrator is being brought aboard the Red Tear. He's a disgraced remembrancer whose work always risks both his career and [[Blam|life]] due to his [[Heresy|scathing criticism of the Crusade and Astartes]] from the more brutal legions. He's been brought at the behest of the Blood Angels lead remembrancer, a woman more focused on maintaining the legion's (and crusade's) image. [[1984|To her propaganda is everything. The truth means nothing compared to what people think the truth is]]. Her plan is to get a glowing review about the legion and Great Crusade from this guy, because of the immense propaganda value that comes from a critical man like him giving praise. [[Derp|She thinks a private investigator-type of remembrancer who's an expert at uncovering ugly truths about the Astartes will suddenly abandon his journalistic integrity at her behest when the rest of the Imperium's ire couldn't rattle him]].

The disgraced remembrancer arrives on the Red Tear as it's en-route for Baal so the legion can group after the Ullanor Triumph. He notices other unmarked ships going in the same direction too. After a while he talks to Sanguinius. Sangy wants the remembrancer to record everything, even the inconvenient truths about the legion. He promises his full support in the endeavor, ensuring the remembrancer has full access and protection for as long as the Angel lives.

There's a segment where the legion attacks some non-compliant humans called the Elekim. Despite Sangy's efforts to solve the war diplomatically, his captains correctly point out that it's impossible. The remembrancer notices that there's lots of Blood Angels chaplains watching the legionnaires, which makes him suspicious. Then they go to the planet Murder, where the legion is fighting the massive fuckoff battle. Horus and Sangy chat. The narrator talks with Iacton Qruze, revealing information on the Revenant Legion.

The narrator starts getting visions about the Blood Angels while his suspicions grow. He fails to find a space marine who was previously open with him, and finds some creepy art in his room. When he stumbles into a shrine deep on the ship he finds an exsanguinated corpse surrounded by bones, freaking him out. He tries to run but a chaplain finds him and brings him to Sangy. Hawk Boi reaffirms his vow to let the remembrancer document the truth, but asks him to hold off until the war is over when Sangy believes he would've cured the legion of The Flaw.

100 years after the Siege of Terra, the low level scribe brings the lead remembrancer of the Blood Angels the book written by the protagonist remembrancer. She's now an Inquisitor. It's currently Sanguinala, where her propaganda image on the Cathedral of the Emperor Deified is under construction. She kills the protagonist remembrancer and destroys what is revealed to be the final copy of the book documenting the full story of the Blood Angels. She will preserve the image of the Blood Angels, truth be damned.

The book is a mixed bag for readers. Some will be pissed off the book subverted their expectations by keeping Sangy's presence to a minimum and amounting to nothing in terms of the plot. Others will like how Chris Wraight shook things up and chose to show the Blood Angels from the perspective of a disillusioned remembrancer, while showing their uglier side.