Sanguinius, Relieved

After Sanguinius saved his First Captain of the Blood, Raldoron, his pure-white wings beat once, lifting him into the air.

He stared at the rising golden light. Nimrod had activated the Power Fist on his left arm.

Sanguinius's mind suddenly flashed back to a private chamber aboard the Vengeful Spirit, where he had sat with his close friend and brother Horus on a padded couch, talking.

Horus Lupercal picked up a wine cup and poured from a silver flask.

"Nimrod's martial might stands above all the primarchs. Only you and I can match him."

Horus then spoke of the two times he had fought alongside Nimrod.

Not long after the Great Crusade began, he had welcomed back the first of his primarch brothers, Nimrod.

Their father had required him to take on the duty of teaching his brother, through friendly competition.

He led Nimrod to the newly discovered Ape-Man System to instruct him.

On the battlefield, Nimrod threw a punch with the force of Thunder, impossible to evade and impossible to resist.

In the days that followed, he often tried it in the dueling cage, but he never managed to imitate it.

The next time Horus fought alongside Nimrod was in the liberation of Drun, that beacon of civilization in the Great Crusade.

A tentacled monster had controlled the minds of humans and enslaved the entire world.

When they reached the central psychic node, they encountered a many-tentacled monster as vast as a Hive City.

He and the tenacious Mortarion both fell into the illusion created by the many-tentacled xenos. Only Nimrod remained unaffected.

In the end, Nimrod shattered the many-tentacled xenos's illusion with his steadfast will, then killed the enemy with psychic power, liberating Drun.

Nimrod's iron will left him astonished.

Clad in a plain white robe with a