The Angel
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
- – Albert Camus
"If we did not feel the bitterness of His anger, we would not so sweetly relish His love."
- – Timothy Rogers
"To the darkness of time I send thee. Against the radiance of your being I consign thee. Blood cools, fire dies and light rises. The time of the Angel has ended. Sleep, my favoured son and dream of purity."
- – The Emperor's incantation of sealing, & goodbye to his first son.
The Angel (also known as The Sleeper, Angel of Destruction and Evil Jesus), not to be confused with one fabulous hawk-boy, is a living weapon created during the Unification Wars and could be said to be the Emperor's first son, colloquially called the Proto-Primarch, Primarch Zero, or the Zeroth. In this way, he can be thought of as a precursor to the Primarchs the same way the Thunder Warriors were precursors to the Space Marines.
The Angel was created for the express purpose of purging anything Chaotic in nature, making him the Emperor's personal Doomslayer and while at first he was controllable, it quickly became a Broly and Paragus type of situation where the Emperor couldn't hold the leash on his personal attack dog any longer. This happened after their first fishing trip together in which they slew caught and sealed away a Daemon Prince known as Pharaa'gueotla. After this, the Proto-Primarch went on a genocide run on a nameless backwater planet because he just had all this pent up energy and nothing left to do with it. This transition from fishing to burning ants with a magnifying glass could possibly be motivated by the fact they didn't just slay Pharaa'gueotla when they had the chance and instead opted for the blue balls option of banishing it to the Shadow Realm for no reason, this story having been written before the concept of a true death entered the lore, and far before Big-E's Chaos-obliterating power being fleshed out.
Whatever his true motive, the Emperor had to take action and seal the Angel away in a sarcophagus by using the carved-up flesh of the daemon prince they caught together as bait on a lure. Apparently, the Angel has such bad tunnel vision that this crap plan actually worked. The Emperor then elected to push this failed batch through the paper shredder back on Terra, only for the sarcophagus to be intercepted and smuggled out to an unknown location for unknown purposes to be revealed at a later date never.
Then after the Horus Heresy wrapped up, the Inquisition found the Angel's sarcophagus & let him out to fight the same daemon prince he fought back in the pre-Crusade days, only this time he'd kill it and then decide to exterminate all humanity before anyone else could turn to Chaos. The Inquisitors, being human, came to the unanimous conclusion that they personally quite enjoy living, and decided to bait the Angel back into the coffin using the dead flesh of Pharaa'gueotla again, and it worked, again. See what government bureaucracy can accomplish when everyone is about to die? Afterwards, his coffin was taken into custody by the senior members of the Inquisition to be kept out of malicious hands.
The Angel is also proof positive that Sanguinius' angel wings are no accident of mutation from fucking nuclear radiation or the Warp. It also explains why his Legion were so batshit before he came along and taught them to wield their insanity properly.
Description[edit | edit source]
The Angel is described as being twelve feet tall, having angel wings like Sanguinius, and basically looks like an adolescent version of the Emperor, complete with a blue flaming sword to match Emp's regular flaming sword. Since the Angel is speculated to embody all the qualities of the other twenty Primarchs, it's implied that this guy was supposed to be the one gene-son of the Emperor to embark on the Great Crusade with him, but there's not much of a point in ruling over ashes when your prodigy purges anything with the slightest chaotic taint. Such taint happens to include all humanity, since, with the exception of blanks, all baseline humans have an innate connection to the Warp due to having souls.
Capabilities[edit | edit source]
He burns away Chaotic corruption with the literal force of the sun, he holds the Guinness World Record for demolishing cities and armies in the shortest possible time, he wielded a flaming sword just like Emprah and he left a trail of blue fire behind him, which was tremendously inconvenient for everyone involved who wasn't dead, which was nobody. Having a pair of angel wings, he could also fly just like Sanguinius. Clearly the Emperor is both an incredibly good scientist and a complete fucking moron. He is the epitome of the scientist who can do basically anything and make reality suck its own dick but literally murders anyone who asks if he should.
Wild Speculation[edit | edit source]
The Angel is the "Primarch" to end all Primarchs and could probably slay any of them so long as it's a 1:1 fight, except for Vulkan because he has the infinite lives cheatcode. Whether he could take on post-Molech Horus is the real debate. Considering the Angel slew a daemon prince & came out completely unharmed himself, and the Emperor didn't feel like duelling him way back when, and Leman Russ was able to deal a fatal blow to Horus (which he only survived because his Chaos stores made up the difference) in one on one combat, it's probably safe to say that if this guy were to end up on the bridge of the Vengeful Spirit during the Heresy that it'd be a different Primarch laying broken and dead on the floor.
It begs the question of what he'd think of his younger brothers. Naturally, the traitor Primarchs, especially Magnus and Lorgar, gotta go.
He'd probably be chill with the Tau if he hasn't already been given a healthy dose of Xenophobia already, given they practically have no souls to speak of and thus have little to no connection to the Warp.
But more than anything, rest assured he would absolutely hate the Eldar, especially after learning that they single-handedly created their own Chaos God. Not only are they the most prolific psykers in the galaxy, they also have the largest souls of any sentient race, meaning their connection to the Warp is the greatest of all.
Then there's the question of how he'd respond to seeing his own father interned on the Golden Throne, which would probably send him into an earth-shattering mental breakdown on the spot. Causing him to sobbingly vow revenge against whoever did it, only to fly into a rage at finding out that this "FUCKING HORUS" person is already long dead and gone, only to instead settle on slaughtering the daemon Primarchs and their legions.
Clearly, the only true course of action is to just drop him into the Eye of Terror and watch as it shrivels away in mere days as he slaughters every Chaos worshipper in that region of realspace. Then drop him off at Commorragh for good measure. But, really, if he did get out of control the Imperium wouldn't have much difficulty killing him... the Imperium has a lot of stupidly OP technology for special targets, even ignoring that the guy's so dumb he fell for the same coffin trick twice. Now dropping an Empyrean Bomb into Commorragh. That's an idea! One full of irony and lulz.
It is implied in the Gamemaster's Notes section of Inquisitor Conspiracies 1 - Cirian Legacy that the winged marine clones created by Sorgan Vorg were made using the Angel's blood.