I used royalty-free music (called "Angels Fly," btw, and it's by Serge Pavkin Music - check his channels out) toward the end, but composed violins harmonics drones toward the beginning AND at the very tail-end. I wanted to showcase voice acting in this. I've got plenty of other tracks (original and covers) which showcase my musical abilities. 😁 Regardless: STAY EPIK!
One of the reasons I feel like, to some extent, the black rage is a bit of a gift as well as a curse. What Blood Angel wouldn’t want to spend their last moments fighting either beside or as their Primarch?
"Our fantasies are a pool of clear water. We see ourselves in the reflections. And that is why when we return to the warmth of the fire, we tell stories of what we saw. Of great things. Of evil wrought. Of passion felt. For that is what we drink from when all wells run dry. Our pool of clear water."
@nicholasjohnson6279 There is something deeply human in these stories that very very few other franchises capture. Halo is the only other franchise that really captures humanity this well. Not just the good sides but the bad as well. Truly who we are as a species.
Emperor was less human then the chaos gods. He was the one who planned the heresy. He was the one who seeded the roots of the heresy. He was the one who set his sons against one another. He was the one who doomed mankind to eternal darkness, just so he could become a false god himself. Even the gods do not betray their most devout followers. Sanguinius was more human then humanity itself. Despite being born of the same uncaring and cruel genes as his father and some of his other brothers as well as his natural inclination for blood-need and violence… he rose above them all. His heart burned the brightest and because of it, his blade also burned brighter then any other. Bright enough to become an eternal light for the defenders of the throne world and bright enough to become the white hot doom to all the traitors that saw him.
Funny thing is, he's a Primarch. Every. Single. Face. He saw that day he'd remember for the rest of his life if he made it past the Siege, your wish would more than likely have been granted
He follows this speech up by slam dunking on Ka'Bandha and Angron AFTER soloing a Reaver Titan. This makes me want to cry and workout out all at the same time.
@stevepalpatine2828 Horus was basically all four chaos gods rolled into one man, he never had a chance. Him being a martyr is too important to the story of 40k.
@UrbanArmada the lore may have changed since the last time I was really into it, but I recall it used to be that while the thing that inhabited Horus was beating the emperor senseless what was left of the actual Horus resurfaced for a second and realized he had murdered his most beloved brother. And the emperor, mostly dead, took the chance to alt+f4 his mistake before crashing himself.
Sangi' is the ultimate 'Superman character'. Everywhere around he is the most perfect, always right mary-sue-esq character. But within him, he is full of doubts, his own insecurities, struggling to keep everything together. And even though he knows it is his final hour, he does it because it is what is right.
@@benjamintim3542 Genuinely curious; why does anyone like the 30k Lion? He's not only a Mary Sue in that he's just good at literally everything with zero effort (seriously he puts both Sang and Gorillaman to shame in the zero effort regard), but he's also... well, evil. The guy doesn't value human life even slightly, and has killed more innocent people than anyone except maybe the Silent King during the War in Heaven itself. When someone like Konrad Curze can legitimately point out that you're a bad person, that's not a good sign. Yet 30k Lion has a ton of fans. Is it just the aesthetic, because the DA do have an amazing look. As a character however, he's genuinely more evil than most of the pre-daemon Traitor Primarchs.
@DeusExMachina10001 that is the dumbest take of all time. 1. He had arguably the worst upbringing (top 5 at the least) on a planet as a Primarch, fighting Chaos beasts and being forced to become an apex predator. This made him value his own company more than anything. 2. He understood and accepted his role in the Imperium, and went on to crush threats to Humanity, whatever the cost. This allowed him to defeat the Khrave and the Rang'da, where the other Legions would have failed. 3. He's a beast in personal combat, but not to the extent of something cheap like Sanguinius. He can't 1v1 a Titan or anything. He also has some of the best tactical acumen ever. 4. Yes, he bombed civilians, to catch a Primarch that was almost as good at stealth as Corvus. Ends justified the means. 5. Mary Sue applies to Primarchs that get boosts for no reason. Sanguinius taking on Titans with no effort, for example. The Lion learned to fight and fight things bigger than him as a child to survive. The only "Mary Sue" thing about the Dark Angels would be the toys the Emperor gave them, and even that has a solid and understandable lore explanation. Your take is just... wrong. I mean it's your opinion but it's absurd at best.
@DeusExMachina10001 did UA-cam delete my reply or is it glitching? Anyway. Your point is flat out wrong. The Lion is the ultimate soldier out of all the Primarchs. He understands his role for the Emperor and the Imperium, and views all lives: his own, that of his sons, and Humanity itself, as a resource to accomplish the Emperor's goals. He does value life, but accepts the costs and knows the mission comes first. In 30k, where the Dark Angels were sent to deal with the most horrific threats, this was a required mindset. Also you clearly don't know what a Mary Sue is if you'd say that the Lion is one but Sanguinius isn't. The Lion actually had to fight on his world against Chaos beasts; Sanguinius was worshipped from day one
@DeusExMachina10001 but if you want, get the audio book Lord of the First (so you save money. Couldn't find the hard copy for less than 400 bucks). It explains a lot.
“Sanguinius, What transpires on the surface of the Throneworld, I cannot say. What horrors you have endured, I cannot imagine. All I know for certain is this: I am mere days from the system's edge, and within a solar week, I will be in the skies above Terra. With me I bring the entire might of the Thirteenth Legion, and I am not alone; word has reached me from Russ and the Lion, at the vanguard of the Sixth and the First. Our numbers are enough to cleanse the heavens and tear the world from the Arch-traitor's grip. Hold on to hope, brother. That is all I ask. Can you give me that? Can you stand your ground for these last, ultimate hours?Those elusive twins, Victory and Vengeance, are coming. This war ends the moment I reach Terra. Hold, in the name of the Emperor and the Imperium we have built together. I will be with you soon.” -Robute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines
I can only imagine what G man felt when he saved Sanguinius sons during the devastation of Baal. He failed to save his brother once, and he would not fail to save his brother's sons. He would not fail Sanguinius again
"This war ends the moment I reach Terra" If this is like a voice message, I for sure see GMan clutching that mic so tight and saying those words with gritted teeth and full of godly determination.
The idea that the most powerful loyalist primarch attributes his bravery to his human side is beautiful. It’s not his wings, his giant stature, his perfectly sculpted intellect, unmatched psyker potential or his master crafted weapons. The part of sanguinius that makes him powerful and gives him courage is his humanity.
@@velenvskaelhas he doesn't have any Psychic powers if my memory serves me right but that doesn't mean he's weak...far from it. He does have some level of future sight tho.
@chatongarou7665 he and Konrad specifically share the emperor's foresight, premonitions. (They can see the futute) that is his psyker powers, like divination. Is he as strong as magnus overall with his psyker abilities and potential? No....but has an incredibly powerful gift.
"Sanguinius. It should have been him. He has the vision and strength to carry us to victory, and the wisdom to rule once victory is won. For all his aloof coolness, he alone has the Emperor's soul in his blood. Each of us carries part of our father within us, whether it is his hunger for battle, his psychic talent or his determination to succeed. Sanguinius holds it all. It should have been his..." - Horus lupercal
@@Toombs71 Not quite. I'd argue the very last we see from the real Horus is when Russ pierces him with his spear. For a moment he comes to his senses and you see a broken man full of regret. Quite a sad scene really.
@@littleman2226in the end and the death, when Horus is delusional and reality is slipping his mind, he recalls the same. He chooses to live a moment where he speaks of the emperor and Sanguinius.
It's one of the best speeches, up there with Fulgrim's speech to his blighted legion that earned them the title of "Emperor's Children" only difference there is Fulgrim _actually loved_ these men. Some survivors still bear scars.
@EpikusMusic Women: Oh my god, how couldn't he cry at the end of Titanic? It's like he has no feelings!! He doesn't even care. Chad when Sanguinius speaks at the Eternity Gate:
"When the Warmaster's hoard descends upon this wall, they will find me waiting for them, with a blade in hand! Not because I can win, but because it is RIGHT!" This is why I'm a proud blood angel main.
Only if he'd listened to my configurations in the end and the death and remained a symbol for my imperium instead he chose his permutations . my noble son
Imagine being a simple guardsman. Run down, tired, bloodied, knowing that your death is coming and seeing a demigod son of the emperor giving the honest truth of the situation at hand whilst Terra burns around you, probably everything you owned destroyed and everyone you loved killed. The pure adrenaline and heart coming from the primarch would make anyone stand and fight one last time with nothing but pure rage and honour for what remains of your brothers and sisters surrounding you
If memory serves the person hearing this speech in the book is legit a guardswoman who legit deserted her first unit and killed a ministorum member and took their place, then she was redrafted to fight on terra and she wants to desert the wall, but after hearing this speech she can't bring herself to do it, she was willing to lie, cheat, steal, and murder her way outta the fighting, but ultimately sanguiniuses speech drives her to fight, even knowing she will most certainly die, and if I remember correctly, she comments that basically nobody turns and leaves
How could you abandon someone him? He speaks of his fears, shame and insecurities. How they want him to run and be safe, but how he can't run because he is more scared of being a coward than dying. Sangiunius speaks to that part of us that can't be defeated and reminds us that we can not be defeated only killed. And we have already died a hundred times to get to today.
@@kickingwing007 Ollanius Pius can be one of two dudes: The random nobody who had the guts to face Angron by himself, or the Emperor's oldest friend who stood alone against Horus. It can be either of them, but the tale remains the same: "The Guard Holds the Line."
The lone single guardsman. With his armour broken and half scorched. His ammunition low. Tired, starved broken and shellshocked. Yet before the army of demons, traitor Astartes and demon Primarch. He stands alone. Not flinching as Angron charges. He raises his rifle. Magazine half empty. He pulls the trigger and screams into the face of The red demon even as his axe falls to cleave him in two.
“None of us ran that day. Our primarch’s words, while warm and compassionate, reinforced our spines with something far stronger than steel: the will to fight to the last breath. For the emperor…for our children…we fight.”
"If you wish to fall back into the Sanctum Imperialis and spend the last hours of your life with your children then do so. Know that you not only go with my blessing but my envy." This line hits so hard because Sanguinius does not want this. He wishes anything more then to be standing there back against the wall fighting his once brothers. He wants nothing more than the beautiful vision his father had for the Imperium. He knows the warriors under his command have given more then he could possibly ask of them and they earned that final respite. He however believes he hasn't. He has failed the Imperium and it is his time to repent and repay.
There’s also I have to guess rather cynically an element of reverse psychology to this speech. By now you’re probably tired of fighting. I get it so am I, and I’m a Primarch. I can’t even imagine how much harder this is on you mere humans. Horus promised to let you live if you surrender. Hopefully you all realize he has no intention of honoring that promise. Maybe you could run through the wastes. If you’re really lucky you might avoid being killed by Horus’s minions just to die of thirst and exhaustion. Maybe you’d like to fall back into the sanctum. Some of you have family in there. You can tell them “Well we tried our best, but there’s just too many and we’re all about to die.” Or you can do what I’m going to do which is keep fighting to the last. This is basically humanity’s last stand. What else can we do?
And yet he follows up this speech by wrecking and banishing kahbandaa, soloing demon Angron and a fucking titan single handedly, bloodied and broken he still proceeds to go to fight ascended Horus. I don’t believe the imperium fell with the wounding of the emperor. I believe it fell because of the loss of the great angel. The best of all his brothers and the best of his father’s gifts, and most of all, all of it was tied to his… humanity.
@@doradogom5460 Literally everything Sanguinius said was true. Running would buy you at best, a couple moments respite before being murdered by the traitors. They would show no mercy. Defying evil to your dying breath is better than being torn apart while cowering in a hovel.
@@imtired9395And the best thing is that he wasn't even considering the part of dying cowering, he was understanding of people who knew they will die either way that spending your final moments with your family is not only completely understandable but most of all honorable For him you're not running away like a coward but saying rightfully goodbye to those you will never see again if you were to die with your back against the eternal gates
@@doradogom5460lol this is a fight between good and evil and we want to be on the side of good and you think that is us being manipulated, you are a silly person lol.
"Not because I can win, but because it is right!" Is on of the most heroic lines I've ever read, and you brought it to life incredibly! I can't wait to see what you do next!
A man can only be brave when he is afraid. Though every atom of Sanguinius may scream for him to run, to save himself from this terrible fate, he is a man with a good heart, and that mortal man inside of him, the human compassion for his fellow man, will allow him to be nowhere except right where he is. He has a duty to do what is right, even if it kills him.
@@Challanger463 I rather to take my chances and maybe fail upon the uncertainty rather than facing the consequences of never try at all. Freedom is coming from Courage. I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I awake and saw that Life was Duty. I acted and behold. Duty was Joy.
I love the fact that he says the demigod wants too flee but the Human want to fight. Many time in stories one would hear that the heros are beyond humanity that their courage outstrips that of a mortal man but here it is made clear that humanity is the ones that are brave and the superhumans only seek glory and care for themselves it is not sanguiniusis Power that keeps him fighting it is his human soul that wants to do the right thing
@lavellelee5734 The lore is soooo good! It's on a similar level, in my opinion, as The Silmarillion, in terms of depth of detail - and I'm primarily a huge Tolkien nerd!
The warhammer 40k lore is one one level with all of humanitys myths and religions. It made me believe in God as I picture the God emperor as how God should be explained. The Bible is not doing it for me but 40k lore can explain it all. The emperor as manifestation of all human potential and his aspects manifested in his sons. It's great. The mythical stories about honor loyalty and betrayal. It ha it all. Again and again it shows what's important to not transcend humanity but to embrace it. Humans are not the problem they are the solution. As greedy and selfish as they are they can be loving and selfless. True heros. The imperium was never built for the Trans humans.
'Land would wonder, years later, if anyone truly did try to run. Surely some did. Were they restrained by companions or shot in the back by their officers? Were they allowed to quit the wall unopposed, as the Ninth had promised? 'It seemed likely (statistically certain, in fact) that this was the case, but each time he turned his goggles back towards the Royal Ascension, leading up to the Eternity Gate… the Gate stood open, disgorging a stream of soldiers and materiel. No one seemed to be going against the flow to venture inside. Nor did he see anyone making their way down from the wall to take their chances in the wasteland. 'Perhaps if Land and the men and women like him - precious few though they are, in any era - had a firmer understanding of the human condition, it wouldn’t have been such a surprise that so many stayed when there was a choice to flee.'
Sanguinius really was the best of them. He wasn't the perfect angel but he was certainly an angel nonetheless. If only he knew that Guilliman actually was days or weeks away at this point.
Kind of sounds like he did know. He knew they were coming and also that they wouldn’t arrive in time to save him or the few remaining forces he had left.
He did know I think. You can hear the frustration at the end of “I will buy another day or hour or even a single second of grace for those who can’t be here fighting with me!”
Not just Guilliman. The Lion was on his way as well with the 1st Legion, and Russ as well with his Wolves, having regathered his strength. Some theorize that it was the approach of these three that forced Horus to make his final gambit, lowering the shields of the Vengeful Spirit and bringing her into teleportation range.
“Sanguinius, What transpires on the surface of the Throneworld, I cannot say. What horrors you have endured, I cannot imagine. All I know for certain is this: I am mere days from the system's edge, and within a solar week, I will be in the skies above Terra. With me I bring the entire might of the Thirteenth Legion, and I am not alone; word has reached me from Russ and the Lion, at the vanguard of the Sixth and the First. Our numbers are enough to cleanse the heavens and tear the world from the Arch-traitor's grip. Hold on to hope, brother. That is all I ask. Can you give me that? Can you stand your ground for these last, ultimate hours?Those elusive twins, Victory and Vengeance, are coming. This war ends the moment I reach Terra. Hold, in the name of the Emperor and the Imperium we have built together. I will be with you soon.” -Robute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines
Horus knew how to manipulate the hearts of humanity to get them to follow him, with sanguinis everything came naturally because he meant every word he said that struck deep in the hearts those who fought for him
For Sanguinius to speak to mere mortals with such regard for their strength of will and virtue speaks magnitudes of volume of his own character. A true man he was, to see the precious soul within each individual soldier and speak to it directly. Quintilians of humans lived and died long before this moment, and quintilians more after. But to have been blessed by fate to be standing before eternity gate, braving the storm of annihilation and pandemonium with Sanguinius himself speaking praise of you. There is no word in mortal tongues that can ascribe how one would feel, no better honor, no better fulfillment.
Yeah Ferrus Manus definitely didn’t seem to regard mortal humans as much more than weaklings that get in the way. Sanginius, Gulliman, and Vulkan are the primarchs who had the kindest regards for humanity. That and maybe Magnus. But…well you know.
Because it is what it is. Legions and horrific hordes of CSM, demons, xenos. But you, you are just a Guardsman with a lasgun. And you just stand and fight. The popular meme is 'comissar will shoot you if you turn and run'. But thats the blown up meme from commissars meme's. But your average guardsman believes in the holy emperor and terra. Of what they are doing. To be a guard, is to be a chad.
"To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods."
@@lazycat-cw2we I thought the titan was when he and Angron were flying and Angron tackled him out of the sky so fast they both railgun'd right through the titan's chassis like it was made of drywall. In which case, that'd still be Sanguinius cuz he took the brunt of that kind of impact.
First, thank you very much! Second, go ahead and check out the one by voice over artist/actor Christopher Tester (along with his tons of other WH40K voiceover demos) as well! His works, skills, and raw talent are all an inspiration to me in terms of voiceovers/voice acting!
His own sons, the sons of Dorn, the sons of the Khan, and thousands of mere mortal men and women all stood, fought and died beside him. But they did not run.
The single greatest Primarch to have ever lived, an actual beacon of hope and courage, and an almost unstoppable force of power…It took a corrupted brother Primarch juiced by 4 Chaos Gods to take him down. Sanguinius is just simply just HIM, he is the heart of mankind.
Visited my dad in the ER today. He’s on the way out. It was really hard seeing him like that. We don’t have demons in our lives, but something about having the courage to face the horrors and devastations of our world resonates with me. Made me cry. Nicely done.
This speech is an example of why Sanguinius is the greatest primarch of them all. Greater then Dorn, Greater then the lion, greater then my beloved Vulkan. And YES even greater then rowboat.
He is the archetype saviour, son of a Godlike creature, infused with amazing powers but he devoted his life to mankind, to the species. He lived for others and when the end came he was able to sacrifice his life to save us all. The perfect example, a figure worthy of worship.
The way his voice falters, how tired he sounds, the greatest of the demigods on the verge of breaking, his body from the strain of endless battle and his heart from the crushing fear of not doing all that he can not just for the Imperium, but for its people. For each and every man, woman, and child, every immortal soldier, every mortal citizen... every fellow human.
My guy, this was brilliant all around. I think people underestimate how difficult it is to catch Sanguinius’s essence from an actor’s perspective. Some 40K speeches run into this trope of “shouting = inspirational”, but at least in this instance, I feel the Angel understood that his audience didn’t need a chest-pounding monologue given at the top of his lungs. Courage can be loud, yes, but it can also be measured and reassuring without needing to be over the top. I REALLY like how you would build up at particular points, and then rein it back in; it really reaffirms that Sanguinius is still a Primarch, one that the Blood Angels can look up to and aspire to be like, but one who remembers he is still (half) human, which is what the average Guard needed to see and hear (considering what they were going up against). Definitely have my like and my sub, and I’m looking forward to hearing more!
Yeah, I was really going for "humanizing" Sanguinius, but as well: he WAS the face of the Imperium! Had to retain some of that "elegance," even if he may have felt otherwise. I read a novelization about him, not long ago...the overall sort of depiction the Blood Angels were given were as "darkness veiled in epic, elegant glory." Sanguinius himself, in that story, expressed this sentiment generally, in so many words in a few occasions throughout. I forget the name of the book...but some guy was on a mission of sorts to gather info about the Blood Angels, and in the end, some scheming lady who wanted to be aggrandized in her position, made it so that even though this fellow knew and recorded the truth about the Angels, she burned his records after his passing, and maintained the imagery on the world she was on that Sanguinius was this saintly paragon of righteousness - the face of the Imperium, even after he passed - which imagery obviously prevailed throughout the Imperium after the Horus Heresy. It was nifty, and in the audio book version the narrator voice acted Sanguinius a bit, and the overall tone in that actor's voice was a similar place where I leaned, sound-wise, for this depiction. 😁
Check out the voice actor’s thoughts about auditioning for Optimus Prime. His brother told him to be a hero. I’m paraphrasing her but basically don’t be over the tops, but be strong enough to be gentle. The way the VA says it, shivers.
Hearing Sanguinius's speech about his own death and telling the others with him that they already had done enough in service of the Imperium and the Emperor brought tears to my eyes. For Sanguinius, for the Emperor.
One of the few shreds of actual nobility in such a terrible galaxy, and you managed to bring it out masterfully. I don't think i've seen life breathed into a Primarch so perfectly in all the years i've followed the lore. You've done well.
There's a lot of nobility everywhere in 40k. If there wasn't, then it wouldn't be a tragic setting. Somehow, some people have come under the impression that the stupid memes about everything being evil and terrible are true. That _only_ applies to the Dark Eldar faction, because they're the only properly evil faction in the whole setting.
This one video. THIS ONE VIDEO. Has made Sanguinius my favorite Primarch. One trope i love is people who know theyre going to die walk towards that death with open arms. Sanguinius at the Eternity Gate is the hypest moment in all of 40K.
I'm no Blood Angel fan, but this is one of the few times they have my respect and admiration. This warcry seems oddly fitting... For those we cherish, we die in glory!
This… this is why I love warhammer. The fact that they can write lines that would seem cheesy and over done in other media, yet in warhammer with characters that are noble but human. The delivery is inspiring, and make men want to roar.
So many writers, particularly of the marvel movies, are terrified of sincerity. Scared that if they write something like this, some smarmy ponce in the internet will make fun of them for being "cheesy" or cringe (see Honest Trailers or CinemaSins). What I love about this book, and a lot of the WH40K books is that the writers fully commit. Because when you really examine it, the setting is absurd. Fungus orks, BDSM elves, Egyptian robots, all of it is silly. But the writers treat it 100% seriously. And while sometimes, I think they could be a bit looser (The Infinite and The Divine is one of my favourites), I love that the writers aren't afraid to be sincere. They are fully aware of how dumb a lot of the lore is, but they still write it as if it were completely sensible, and I love them for it.
"It is not the descent toward the shadow nor the rise toward the light that makes us stronger. It is in the endless struggle between the two that greatness of character lies. We are tested, and we do not break."
Dude, the guy who voiced Alucard (James Callis, I believe) would fit SO WELL! And it was his sort of tone that I was shooting for, but my voice is...not James Callis! 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you very much, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've heard other voice actors read this, and their readings are wonderful! (See: Christopher Tester on TikTok, for example. He read this line, as well as Grimaldus' speech from Helsreach, which I also want to take a crack at some time). This was great fun, though. I always imagined Sanguinius sounding like how I portrayed, a bit higher-pitched baritone, and a narrower and perhaps somewhat more nasal tone.
@@EPÏKUS.MUSÏC The narrow approach and nasal tone is what i felt was missing from others. In the books Sanguinius has been fighting his ass off and i always imagined his noble speech have more exhaustion and grit in it which you captured perfectly.
Sanguinius went to his death knowing his efforts would give the Emperor the chance he needed to survive his coming battle with Horus. Not a certain victory, but a slim chance. He gave his life for a roll of the dice knowing if he did not his father would fall and his empire would fall with him. It is easy to sacrifice for an ideal or for a certainty but to give it willingly for scant hope was courage beyond measure
I am in tears. This is fiction, yet the mental image of our earth being shattered and broken by monsters and Sanguinius and the Emperor standing in their way is something beautiful and painful.
Sanguinius always understood something that very few of his brothers did. That all of them, from Lion to Omegon, were not elevated over the mankind, but in fact they were beneath it. They were created to serve while the common guardsmen were created to live.
When I'm at my lowest, I often find myself coming back to this video for hope. It sounds ridiculous but this character and this story gives me so much strength and courage to keep going no matter what. I hope all of you are doing well.
The delivery of the ending, the second "Will you run" almost sounds like he's pleading for those to run, to save themselves, to live, not for their sake but for his. At the same time it almost sounds like he's asking himself, the demigod side of himself if he'll run, abandoning all those here, mere mortals who believed in him, fought with him, survived hell that even an angel cannot come out of unscathed or clean.
This has similar vibes to Commander Erwin's final speech. Just honestly telling his soldiers that their situation is hopeless and theyre going to die. But inspires them to have faith in those who come after them the same way the previous scouts who passed the torch to them. Beautiful.
This combines the best parts of the last few paragraphs of Shakespeare's "St Crispin's Day Speech" from Henry V and makes the odds all that more desperate and daunting.
Not a Blood Angels player. Not a Sanguinius fanboy but after that, damnit he is the best Primarch. Well read. Really put some power behind an already epic character.
Holy shit, it’s genuinely scary how powerful these words are. I’d heard about the superhuman presence and charisma of the Primarchs - and of Sanguinius in particular - and thought of it with a measure of disparaging skepticism. What could possibly persuade me to act against my own interests, or to kneel before a supposed demigod, or follow someone into a war that would surely kill me when I might otherwise live to see another day? Now I have my answer, and all at once it frightens, shames, and inspires me to know that I was very, very wrong. Would I run? I can’t rightly say. But unlike before, when to do anything otherwise would have seemed a ludicrous idea to my rational mind, I am now seriously conflicted. I think I might have stayed, and that both frightens and comforts me. That Primarch charisma really is some scary potent stuff.
Another scary thought is that Horus was just as charismatic as our boy Sangy and I could picture him giving this exact speech as clearly as I can picture my breakfast this morning. If Sanguinius could make you walk to your death and essentially kill yourself, Horus could've probably persuaded you to turn traitor. In the books Horus giving you his full attention was described like a god clearing the sky of all other stars so that you are the only one shining in the night sky. It's intense beyond measure and that is scary, the Primarchs really were a double edged sword
I don’t think Sanguinius was nearly the most inhuman looking, aside from the wings he looked as human as Guilleman or The Kahn, that title may have to go to someone like Magnus or even Mortarion.
@@skillganon606 But did they? Magnus at least, in most of his 30k images bared his ‘mutations’ and psychic powers openly. I get the idea but I really can’t see Sanguinius looking inhuman, the wings giant as they are aren’t that big a deal compared to the red giant literally glowing with psychic power.
You nailed exactly how I pictured this in my head when I first read it. Phenomenal work. Really makes me wanna pick up a Lasgun, hold the wall and give the traitors a death they'll surely regret.
Where Lupercal grew small and resentful as chaos neared the Sanctum Imperialis, the greater, nobler, more beautiful Sanguinius grew. More human, more worthy of the mantle that the emperor and humanity itself placed on the cusp of his angelic wings. He will not be forgotten.
We, the Sons of Dorn stand ready. We have choosen this place. This fortification shall be our legacy, and our tomb. We the Sons of Dorn stand ready, not because you ask, or demand, but because you have choosen this place with us. We stand as a bulwark against the tide a shield against the horror. This is our honor and duty to die here on these ramparts and battlements. The horror is ours to face at your side. We few, we happy few stand ready to make this place our tomb, and etch into their memories our last moments. Let them see and feel our wrath today here we write our legends our stories our dooms our final glories. Brothers we stand at the side of the Angel, NONE SHALL PASS WHILE WE LIVE!
“It shames me to admit but I would abandon this wall if I could. The primarch in me- the supposed Demigod half of my heart craves life with a ferocity that shames me. If I bow to that instinct I would take to the sky and never look back. But I cannot. I am half human- and the human in me demands that I stay.”
Bro when he credits his bravery and ferocity to stay and fight to not his Demi god half, but his human side it literally gave me chills. Imagine the reassurance those guardsmen got from hearing that.
That's the best 40k voice acted speech I've ever heard, you have a gift, I hope you enjoy doing those that would be a blessing for all mankind if you did more
Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium [Heaven], and you’re already dead! Brothers, what we do in life… echoes in eternity.”
The kindness in Sanguinius voice shines through here, I can feel the hope in him, yet not for him, for he has always known his doom, but for the good left in mankind.
I am an active military medical officer and I always get back to this video when I feel my will fade. I saw death the first time 14 years ago when I was 17, when l started medical services and never stopped since then. This is my secret refuge to get back on the mission and it inspires me to inspire my staff in return. Sometimes I miss my kids, but this helps remind me that I am doing this thing for something greater than me. That this sacrifice is worth it and I must continue because it is the right thing to do.
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I used royalty-free music (called "Angels Fly," btw, and it's by Serge Pavkin Music - check his channels out) toward the end, but composed violins harmonics drones toward the beginning AND at the very tail-end.
I wanted to showcase voice acting in this. I've got plenty of other tracks (original and covers) which showcase my musical abilities. 😁
Regardless:
STAY EPIK!
... What? Reassure us, it's not an Imperiality-free music at least?
@@tokoyonokuni4656It's chaos-free.
What page in the book is this?
How in the emperor's name someone will run away from this battle when you're hearing this speech from a literal demi-god angel.
who is the voice actor?
The masculine urge to die beside Sanguinius at the foot of the Eternity Gate during the Siege of Terra.
The equally masculine urge to fight side by side with my brethren, against overwhelming odds...because it is RIGHT to oppose them!
One of the reasons I feel like, to some extent, the black rage is a bit of a gift as well as a curse. What Blood Angel wouldn’t want to spend their last moments fighting either beside or as their Primarch?
Arent there alot of women in the Imperial army aswell?
@@chocolatesquirrel2002 The *Human urge to die beside Sanguinius at the foot of the Eternity Gate during the Siege of Terra
@@chocolatesquirrel2002hahahahahahahah
We're a weird bunch, we 40k fans. We share a history that didn't happen anywhere else but in our hearts and minds.
"Our fantasies are a pool of clear water. We see ourselves in the reflections. And that is why when we return to the warmth of the fire, we tell stories of what we saw. Of great things. Of evil wrought. Of passion felt. For that is what we drink from when all wells run dry. Our pool of clear water."
@nicholasjohnson6279 There is something deeply human in these stories that very very few other franchises capture. Halo is the only other franchise that really captures humanity this well. Not just the good sides but the bad as well. Truly who we are as a species.
I am new to this fandom and wow, there is some energy here. I barely know half the lore and I know your comment is right. :D
"Its all in our heads, but why should that mean that it is not real"
Who knows, maybe this world is just another among many that has yet to be reclaimed by the emperor and his sons.
"...not because I can win, but because it is right!"
Holy shit 😢😢😢
🥹
Hehe
Reminds me of something
"FOR THOSE WE CHERISH WE DIE IN GLORY!!!!!!!"
@@odettefahy4568FOR THOSE WE CHERISH, WE DIE IN GLORY ! FOR THE BLOOD OF THE GREAT ANGEL !
Would that I have a fraction of this courage.
Hardest fucking line ever told
Sanguinius held something so much greater than the Emperor’s blood, he held the Emperor’s humanity.
Emperor was less human then the chaos gods. He was the one who planned the heresy. He was the one who seeded the roots of the heresy. He was the one who set his sons against one another. He was the one who doomed mankind to eternal darkness, just so he could become a false god himself. Even the gods do not betray their most devout followers.
Sanguinius was more human then humanity itself. Despite being born of the same uncaring and cruel genes as his father and some of his other brothers as well as his natural inclination for blood-need and violence… he rose above them all. His heart burned the brightest and because of it, his blade also burned brighter then any other. Bright enough to become an eternal light for the defenders of the throne world and bright enough to become the white hot doom to all the traitors that saw him.
Wow
That, and the greatest concentration of *HIS* Badassery
I think he represents that even though humanity is inherently "flawed" we can always aspire to be better despite is easier to give in to said flaws.
Long live Chaos Undivided! The Empire shall be consumed. As with the rest of this universe, and all others. Give in and join the winning side!
The urge to die fighting by sanguinius just so he remembers my name, fuck my name dude can call me a mongrel as long as he remembers me.
Funny thing is, he's a Primarch. Every. Single. Face. He saw that day he'd remember for the rest of his life if he made it past the Siege, your wish would more than likely have been granted
@@ironduke5058he knew almost all his sons not just by their names and faces but also by mark numbers…
Doctor: I'm sorry, but you only have 10 minutes before you die
Me: *Listens to this masterpiece
Ready to charge headlong to that vast, undiscovered country?
Blood angels fans rn: 😢
Chaos fans rn: 😢
Me rn: 😢
No cap if i was chaos and heard this.... shit would have me thinkin
Salamander fan: 😭😭😭
As someone who is branded to chaos, I can not take away what the Angel was. No one can. He was better then all us, all of you, everyone.
@@cjgray8825
Rylanor deserves better than you,
Oh Primarch!
Rylanor deserves better than
all of us!
Son of the lion here. 😢
He follows this speech up by slam dunking on Ka'Bandha and Angron AFTER soloing a Reaver Titan. This makes me want to cry and workout out all at the same time.
Surprised he fit on the bridge of the Vengeful Spirit with those giant balls.
If he was at 100% whennhe faced Horus and hadn't just fought a Titan, a Greater Daemon of Khorne, and Angron back to back I daresay he would have won.
@stevepalpatine2828 imagine if the emperor was still with us
@stevepalpatine2828 Horus was basically all four chaos gods rolled into one man, he never had a chance. Him being a martyr is too important to the story of 40k.
@UrbanArmada the lore may have changed since the last time I was really into it, but I recall it used to be that while the thing that inhabited Horus was beating the emperor senseless what was left of the actual Horus resurfaced for a second and realized he had murdered his most beloved brother. And the emperor, mostly dead, took the chance to alt+f4 his mistake before crashing himself.
Sangi' is the ultimate 'Superman character'. Everywhere around he is the most perfect, always right mary-sue-esq character. But within him, he is full of doubts, his own insecurities, struggling to keep everything together. And even though he knows it is his final hour, he does it because it is what is right.
Im not a huge superman or Sanguinius fan, so this tracks. Not like they arent good characters though. I prefer the Lion
@@benjamintim3542 Genuinely curious; why does anyone like the 30k Lion? He's not only a Mary Sue in that he's just good at literally everything with zero effort (seriously he puts both Sang and Gorillaman to shame in the zero effort regard), but he's also... well, evil. The guy doesn't value human life even slightly, and has killed more innocent people than anyone except maybe the Silent King during the War in Heaven itself. When someone like Konrad Curze can legitimately point out that you're a bad person, that's not a good sign. Yet 30k Lion has a ton of fans. Is it just the aesthetic, because the DA do have an amazing look. As a character however, he's genuinely more evil than most of the pre-daemon Traitor Primarchs.
@DeusExMachina10001 that is the dumbest take of all time.
1. He had arguably the worst upbringing (top 5 at the least) on a planet as a Primarch, fighting Chaos beasts and being forced to become an apex predator. This made him value his own company more than anything.
2. He understood and accepted his role in the Imperium, and went on to crush threats to Humanity, whatever the cost. This allowed him to defeat the Khrave and the Rang'da, where the other Legions would have failed.
3. He's a beast in personal combat, but not to the extent of something cheap like Sanguinius. He can't 1v1 a Titan or anything. He also has some of the best tactical acumen ever.
4. Yes, he bombed civilians, to catch a Primarch that was almost as good at stealth as Corvus. Ends justified the means.
5. Mary Sue applies to Primarchs that get boosts for no reason. Sanguinius taking on Titans with no effort, for example. The Lion learned to fight and fight things bigger than him as a child to survive. The only "Mary Sue" thing about the Dark Angels would be the toys the Emperor gave them, and even that has a solid and understandable lore explanation.
Your take is just... wrong. I mean it's your opinion but it's absurd at best.
@DeusExMachina10001 did UA-cam delete my reply or is it glitching?
Anyway. Your point is flat out wrong. The Lion is the ultimate soldier out of all the Primarchs. He understands his role for the Emperor and the Imperium, and views all lives: his own, that of his sons, and Humanity itself, as a resource to accomplish the Emperor's goals. He does value life, but accepts the costs and knows the mission comes first. In 30k, where the Dark Angels were sent to deal with the most horrific threats, this was a required mindset.
Also you clearly don't know what a Mary Sue is if you'd say that the Lion is one but Sanguinius isn't. The Lion actually had to fight on his world against Chaos beasts; Sanguinius was worshipped from day one
@DeusExMachina10001 but if you want, get the audio book Lord of the First (so you save money. Couldn't find the hard copy for less than 400 bucks). It explains a lot.
“Sanguinius,
What transpires on the surface of the Throneworld, I cannot say. What horrors you have endured, I cannot imagine.
All I know for certain is this: I am mere days from the system's edge, and within a solar week, I will be in the skies above Terra.
With me I bring the entire might of the Thirteenth Legion, and I am not alone; word has reached me from Russ and the Lion, at the vanguard of the Sixth and the First. Our numbers are enough to cleanse the heavens and tear the world from the Arch-traitor's grip.
Hold on to hope, brother. That is all I ask. Can you give me that? Can you stand your ground for these last, ultimate hours?Those elusive twins, Victory and Vengeance, are coming. This war ends the moment I reach Terra.
Hold, in the name of the Emperor and the Imperium we have built together.
I will be with you soon.”
-Robute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines
Ever get the feeling Guilliman would prefer Sanguinius as Emperor over The Emperor?
I can only imagine what G man felt when he saved Sanguinius sons during the devastation of Baal.
He failed to save his brother once, and he would not fail to save his brother's sons.
He would not fail Sanguinius again
"This war ends the moment I reach Terra"
If this is like a voice message, I for sure see GMan clutching that mic so tight and saying those words with gritted teeth and full of godly determination.
Fuck
@@SheepyPanda95"Hold on to hope brother...."
Gets a grown man to tears.
The idea that the most powerful loyalist primarch attributes his bravery to his human side is beautiful. It’s not his wings, his giant stature, his perfectly sculpted intellect, unmatched psyker potential or his master crafted weapons. The part of sanguinius that makes him powerful and gives him courage is his humanity.
It's poetically beautiful!
not just loyalist, Horus gets power from his sugar daddies...doesn't count...
Does he have more psyker potential than Magnus?
@@velenvskaelhas he doesn't have any Psychic powers if my memory serves me right but that doesn't mean he's weak...far from it. He does have some level of future sight tho.
@chatongarou7665 he and Konrad specifically share the emperor's foresight, premonitions. (They can see the futute) that is his psyker powers, like divination. Is he as strong as magnus overall with his psyker abilities and potential? No....but has an incredibly powerful gift.
"Sanguinius. It should have been him. He has the vision and strength to carry us to victory, and the wisdom to rule once victory is won. For all his aloof coolness, he alone has the Emperor's soul in his blood. Each of us carries part of our father within us, whether it is his hunger for battle, his psychic talent or his determination to succeed. Sanguinius holds it all. It should have been his..."
- Horus lupercal
I have read this quote before, and love it.
Probably the last time Horus spoke while still being himself.
Lupercal!
@@Toombs71 Not quite. I'd argue the very last we see from the real Horus is when Russ pierces him with his spear. For a moment he comes to his senses and you see a broken man full of regret. Quite a sad scene really.
@@littleman2226in the end and the death, when Horus is delusional and reality is slipping his mind, he recalls the same. He chooses to live a moment where he speaks of the emperor and Sanguinius.
Lol I'm surprised anybody would refer to Sanguinius as aloof.
Sanguinius’s voice actor managed to make it sound like he genuinely loved these men.
He did 🥺
@@lazycat-cw2we Would that we all had this pure love of our fellow men.
He was the purest soul
It's one of the best speeches, up there with Fulgrim's speech to his blighted legion that earned them the title of "Emperor's Children" only difference there is Fulgrim _actually loved_ these men. Some survivors still bear scars.
@@attemptedunkindness3632 I think Sangunius meant every word.
If you didn't want to start a Blood Angels army before, you do now.
And some people have referred to our beloved Hawkboi as "overrated." Pah! If it ain't broken, don't fix it! 🤣
@@apokalypsiscomposer🤣🤣🤣
@@apokalypsiscomposer YES.
@EpikusMusic
Women: Oh my god, how couldn't he cry at the end of Titanic? It's like he has no feelings!! He doesn't even care.
Chad when Sanguinius speaks at the Eternity Gate:
If you didn't want to stand and die at the Eternity Gate, now you do.
"When the Warmaster's hoard descends upon this wall, they will find me waiting for them, with a blade in hand! Not because I can win, but because it is RIGHT!"
This is why I'm a proud blood angel main.
horde
As a Tyranid Main even I have mad respect for the blood angels
Sounds gay
@@illuminati7767 you must be gay to understand gay
@@lilPavs13 i have you as an example.
I can truly understand how Sanguinius inspired mortal men to stand against the horrors faced during the siege of the imperial palace.
He had the body of a god, but the soul of a mortal human. That is how.
He was and always will be the greatest son the emperor made.
@@Bradeze dont forget The Lion
Throw your soldiers into position once there is no escape, and they will prefer death, to flight.
Only if he'd listened to my configurations in the end and the death and remained a symbol for my imperium instead he chose his permutations . my noble son
Imagine being a simple guardsman. Run down, tired, bloodied, knowing that your death is coming and seeing a demigod son of the emperor giving the honest truth of the situation at hand whilst Terra burns around you, probably everything you owned destroyed and everyone you loved killed. The pure adrenaline and heart coming from the primarch would make anyone stand and fight one last time with nothing but pure rage and honour for what remains of your brothers and sisters surrounding you
That’s Katsuhiro’s story
If I had been there. I would of told him. It would be the greatest honor to die beside him.
If memory serves the person hearing this speech in the book is legit a guardswoman who legit deserted her first unit and killed a ministorum member and took their place, then she was redrafted to fight on terra and she wants to desert the wall, but after hearing this speech she can't bring herself to do it, she was willing to lie, cheat, steal, and murder her way outta the fighting, but ultimately sanguiniuses speech drives her to fight, even knowing she will most certainly die, and if I remember correctly, she comments that basically nobody turns and leaves
@@ThrobinHood34 watch?v=AFVi8EO4s_o
How could you abandon someone him? He speaks of his fears, shame and insecurities. How they want him to run and be safe, but how he can't run because he is more scared of being a coward than dying. Sangiunius speaks to that part of us that can't be defeated and reminds us that we can not be defeated only killed. And we have already died a hundred times to get to today.
_"The simple act of caring is heroic"._
- Edward Albert.
Somewhere in that crowd, Ollanius Pius listens intently and takes the Primarch's words to heart.
Was he? Am I misremembering the books he was still outside the entire palace, no?
I've never heard of Ollanius Pius until I read your comment...thank you!
@@kickingwing007 Ollanius Pius can be one of two dudes:
The random nobody who had the guts to face Angron by himself,
or the Emperor's oldest friend who stood alone against Horus.
It can be either of them, but the tale remains the same: "The Guard Holds the Line."
The lone single guardsman. With his armour broken and half scorched. His ammunition low. Tired, starved broken and shellshocked. Yet before the army of demons, traitor Astartes and demon Primarch. He stands alone. Not flinching as Angron charges. He raises his rifle. Magazine half empty. He pulls the trigger and screams into the face of The red demon even as his axe falls to cleave him in two.
“None of us ran that day. Our primarch’s words, while warm and compassionate, reinforced our spines with something far stronger than steel: the will to fight to the last breath. For the emperor…for our children…we fight.”
This brings a tear to my eye. Knowing he was ready to die giving Guilliman every second possible to come and save or avenge him.
And Guillimun failed him. And his father. And the Imperium. So sad
@@jackmyers8687 Not Necessarily. I strongly disagree with you.
@UnRuleD_ And I strongly disagree with Donald Trump, Russia and Ultra Smurfs who think Prime Anus Marines were a good idea. Can't win them all.
Disagree with Trump? So you like virtue signaling, identity politics, crybabies, and media lies?
@@jackmyers8687 what are you chatting about?
"If you ever wondered, now you know."
As a Marine, I find that very comforting. This whole speech moves me.
"If you wish to fall back into the Sanctum Imperialis and spend the last hours of your life with your children then do so. Know that you not only go with my blessing but my envy."
This line hits so hard because Sanguinius does not want this. He wishes anything more then to be standing there back against the wall fighting his once brothers. He wants nothing more than the beautiful vision his father had for the Imperium. He knows the warriors under his command have given more then he could possibly ask of them and they earned that final respite. He however believes he hasn't. He has failed the Imperium and it is his time to repent and repay.
There’s also I have to guess rather cynically an element of reverse psychology to this speech.
By now you’re probably tired of fighting. I get it so am I, and I’m a Primarch. I can’t even imagine how much harder this is on you mere humans. Horus promised to let you live if you surrender. Hopefully you all realize he has no intention of honoring that promise. Maybe you could run through the wastes. If you’re really lucky you might avoid being killed by Horus’s minions just to die of thirst and exhaustion. Maybe you’d like to fall back into the sanctum. Some of you have family in there. You can tell them “Well we tried our best, but there’s just too many and we’re all about to die.”
Or you can do what I’m going to do which is keep fighting to the last. This is basically humanity’s last stand. What else can we do?
And yet he follows up this speech by wrecking and banishing kahbandaa, soloing demon Angron and a fucking titan single handedly, bloodied and broken he still proceeds to go to fight ascended Horus. I don’t believe the imperium fell with the wounding of the emperor. I believe it fell because of the loss of the great angel. The best of all his brothers and the best of his father’s gifts, and most of all, all of it was tied to his… humanity.
So it's universal agreed that SANGUNIUS is the undisputed GOAT 🐐
After a speech like that... I could not run. To die alongside the Angel for the fate of Mankind would be a privilege.
It is better to die on your feet, than live on your knees.
So you’re gullible enough to be essily manipulated
@@doradogom5460 Literally everything Sanguinius said was true. Running would buy you at best, a couple moments respite before being murdered by the traitors. They would show no mercy. Defying evil to your dying breath is better than being torn apart while cowering in a hovel.
@@imtired9395And the best thing is that he wasn't even considering the part of dying cowering, he was understanding of people who knew they will die either way that spending your final moments with your family is not only completely understandable but most of all honorable
For him you're not running away like a coward but saying rightfully goodbye to those you will never see again if you were to die with your back against the eternal gates
@@doradogom5460lol this is a fight between good and evil and we want to be on the side of good and you think that is us being manipulated, you are a silly person lol.
If his voice is not canon, you can forget casting anyone for sanguinius
No one loved their sons more than Sanguinius.
Sanguinius was prime definition of Humanity, Honor, Courage, Faith, and overall sheer fucking Will.
Sheer Fucking Will... what a beautiful thing to have
He once killed 2 World eaters in a fortress with a remembrancer wand.
With a fucking... remembrancer wand!
Enough to make a grown man spawn some weird water in his eyes✨
"Not because I can win, but because it is right!" Is on of the most heroic lines I've ever read, and you brought it to life incredibly! I can't wait to see what you do next!
A man can only be brave when he is afraid. Though every atom of Sanguinius may scream for him to run, to save himself from this terrible fate, he is a man with a good heart, and that mortal man inside of him, the human compassion for his fellow man, will allow him to be nowhere except right where he is. He has a duty to do what is right, even if it kills him.
We all should do what is right. Not what is easy. Because doing what is right would sustain us in these difficult times.
Indeed, unfortunatly if someone would do this in real life then he would be called a fool or madman
@@Challanger463 I rather to take my chances and maybe fail upon the uncertainty rather than facing the consequences of never try at all. Freedom is coming from Courage. I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I awake and saw that Life was Duty. I acted and behold. Duty was Joy.
@@TheWargod66 Well said, brother!
I love the fact that he says the demigod wants too flee but the Human want to fight. Many time in stories one would hear that the heros are beyond humanity that their courage outstrips that of a mortal man but here it is made clear that humanity is the ones that are brave and the superhumans only seek glory and care for themselves it is not sanguiniusis Power that keeps him fighting it is his human soul that wants to do the right thing
Fuckin amazing 😢. I really need to get into Warhammer for real
@lavellelee5734 The lore is soooo good! It's on a similar level, in my opinion, as The Silmarillion, in terms of depth of detail - and I'm primarily a huge Tolkien nerd!
@@EPÏKUS.MUSÏC two more things I gotta get into😂😅. Have you watched any content of bricky or adeptus ridiculous?
The warhammer 40k lore is one one level with all of humanitys myths and religions.
It made me believe in God as I picture the God emperor as how God should be explained.
The Bible is not doing it for me but 40k lore can explain it all.
The emperor as manifestation of all human potential and his aspects manifested in his sons.
It's great.
The mythical stories about honor loyalty and betrayal.
It ha it all.
Again and again it shows what's important to not transcend humanity but to embrace it.
Humans are not the problem they are the solution.
As greedy and selfish as they are they can be loving and selfless.
True heros.
The imperium was never built for the Trans humans.
The human spirit 🔥
No one ran.
This comment should have more likes
If standing in the presence of a great angel cannot save you, running would be a shameful waste of time.
They ran towards the the traitors, for the emperor!!!!
I wouldn't have ran either
'Land would wonder, years later, if anyone truly did try to run. Surely some did. Were they restrained by companions or shot in the back by their officers? Were they allowed to quit the wall unopposed, as the Ninth had promised?
'It seemed likely (statistically certain, in fact) that this was the case, but each time he turned his goggles back towards the Royal Ascension, leading up to the Eternity Gate… the Gate stood open, disgorging a stream of soldiers and materiel.
No one seemed to be going against the flow to venture inside. Nor did he see anyone making their way down from the wall to take their chances in the wasteland.
'Perhaps if Land and the men and women like him - precious few though they are, in any era - had a firmer understanding of the human condition, it wouldn’t have been such a surprise that so many stayed when there was a choice to flee.'
"But because it is right" hits harder than anything
It's like the rarest dew drop of pure gold in the world of Warhammer 40K. Doing something, because it's morally right.
Hearing those words got me wanting to be a martyr!
Sanguinius really was the best of them. He wasn't the perfect angel but he was certainly an angel nonetheless. If only he knew that Guilliman actually was days or weeks away at this point.
Kind of sounds like he did know.
He knew they were coming and also that they wouldn’t arrive in time to save him or the few remaining forces he had left.
He did know I think. You can hear the frustration at the end of “I will buy another day or hour or even a single second of grace for those who can’t be here fighting with me!”
Not just Guilliman. The Lion was on his way as well with the 1st Legion, and Russ as well with his Wolves, having regathered his strength. Some theorize that it was the approach of these three that forced Horus to make his final gambit, lowering the shields of the Vengeful Spirit and bringing her into teleportation range.
@@Isildun9 Makes sense. He would have been stuck between two forces at that stage.
“Sanguinius,
What transpires on the surface of the Throneworld, I cannot say. What horrors you have endured, I cannot imagine.
All I know for certain is this: I am mere days from the system's edge, and within a solar week, I will be in the skies above Terra.
With me I bring the entire might of the Thirteenth Legion, and I am not alone; word has reached me from Russ and the Lion, at the vanguard of the Sixth and the First. Our numbers are enough to cleanse the heavens and tear the world from the Arch-traitor's grip.
Hold on to hope, brother. That is all I ask. Can you give me that? Can you stand your ground for these last, ultimate hours?Those elusive twins, Victory and Vengeance, are coming. This war ends the moment I reach Terra.
Hold, in the name of the Emperor and the Imperium we have built together.
I will be with you soon.”
-Robute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines
Horus knew how to manipulate the hearts of humanity to get them to follow him, with sanguinis everything came naturally because he meant every word he said that struck deep in the hearts those who fought for him
Imagine if sanguinius was turned signus prime
@jimcarter7035 if he had, he wouldn't be sanguinis frankly.
'Not because I can win, but because it is right' is probably one of the best phrases I've heard
Just rewatching this every other day ever since I’ve found this. I wish I could personally like this video 100 thousand times
@@jankoo285 Oops, meant to click the heart, not the dislike! 😅
For Sanguinius to speak to mere mortals with such regard for their strength of will and virtue speaks magnitudes of volume of his own character. A true man he was, to see the precious soul within each individual soldier and speak to it directly.
Quintilians of humans lived and died long before this moment, and quintilians more after. But to have been blessed by fate to be standing before eternity gate, braving the storm of annihilation and pandemonium with Sanguinius himself speaking praise of you. There is no word in mortal tongues that can ascribe how one would feel, no better honor, no better fulfillment.
Yeah Ferrus Manus definitely didn’t seem to regard mortal humans as much more than weaklings that get in the way.
Sanginius, Gulliman, and Vulkan are the primarchs who had the kindest regards for humanity.
That and maybe Magnus. But…well you know.
@@infidelheretic923Magnus' case is just tragic.
Because it is what it is. Legions and horrific hordes of CSM, demons, xenos. But you, you are just a Guardsman with a lasgun. And you just stand and fight.
The popular meme is 'comissar will shoot you if you turn and run'. But thats the blown up meme from commissars meme's. But your average guardsman believes in the holy emperor and terra. Of what they are doing. To be a guard, is to be a chad.
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
Horatius held the bridge.
Sanguinius represented hope. Not for yourself. But for humanity. For the Imperium.
Sanguinius is the real hero of 40k.
Which is why he died.
He’s the Jesus character of the universe.
@@ryanhampson673Don't forget Angel Michael as well.
This was a badass speech especially following this speech he solo’d Both Kabandah and Angron back to back.
there is a reason khorne wouldve preferred sanguinius to angron
And a titan, as I recall.
He detroyed the titan before that 😎
@@lazycat-cw2we I thought the titan was when he and Angron were flying and Angron tackled him out of the sky so fast they both railgun'd right through the titan's chassis like it was made of drywall. In which case, that'd still be Sanguinius cuz he took the brunt of that kind of impact.
@@MrEvan312 sang is just build different
if ere there was a better rendition of this speech, i have yet to hear it. this is EXACTLY how i heard sanguinius' voice and this speech in my head
First, thank you very much! Second, go ahead and check out the one by voice over artist/actor Christopher Tester (along with his tons of other WH40K voiceover demos) as well! His works, skills, and raw talent are all an inspiration to me in terms of voiceovers/voice acting!
I am glad that the sons of Dorn stood by him in the end.
Me too!
His own sons, the sons of Dorn, the sons of the Khan, and thousands of mere mortal men and women all stood, fought and died beside him. But they did not run.
As Dark Angel I will say this: Uncle Sanguinius gave the best speech ever. For the humanity! For the imperium! For the emperor!
I *JUST* did a voice act of the Lion!
I have found myself listening to this atleast twice a week lately.
Same
The single greatest Primarch to have ever lived, an actual beacon of hope and courage, and an almost unstoppable force of power…It took a corrupted brother Primarch juiced by 4 Chaos Gods to take him down.
Sanguinius is just simply just HIM, he is the heart of mankind.
Visited my dad in the ER today. He’s on the way out. It was really hard seeing him like that.
We don’t have demons in our lives, but something about having the courage to face the horrors and devastations of our world resonates with me.
Made me cry. Nicely done.
My condolences, brother. 😢 Take good care.
_"The true soldier fights not because he hates what's in front of him, but hecause he _*_loves_*_ what's behind him."_
- G.K. Chesterton.
Ive been falling down the warhammer rabbit hole for a year now, listening to this has officially locked me in.
they did sanguinius. They did find retribution. Failing to arrive at your side is the XIII's greatest failure.
This speech is an example of why Sanguinius is the greatest primarch of them all. Greater then Dorn, Greater then the lion, greater then my beloved Vulkan. And YES even greater then rowboat.
He is the archetype saviour, son of a Godlike creature, infused with amazing powers but he devoted his life to mankind, to the species. He lived for others and when the end came he was able to sacrifice his life to save us all. The perfect example, a figure worthy of worship.
this discription remind me of Jesus Christ🥸
Indeed, the archetype saviour @@EG-kx4vp
I love that he basically told everyone they can go hide or run with his blessing
The way his voice falters, how tired he sounds, the greatest of the demigods on the verge of breaking, his body from the strain of endless battle and his heart from the crushing fear of not doing all that he can not just for the Imperium, but for its people. For each and every man, woman, and child, every immortal soldier, every mortal citizen... every fellow human.
I know NOTHING of warhammer but this was so fucking EPIC, that now i must seek this game lore, jesus holy cow, dude, i'm out of words
My guy, this was brilliant all around. I think people underestimate how difficult it is to catch Sanguinius’s essence from an actor’s perspective. Some 40K speeches run into this trope of “shouting = inspirational”, but at least in this instance, I feel the Angel understood that his audience didn’t need a chest-pounding monologue given at the top of his lungs. Courage can be loud, yes, but it can also be measured and reassuring without needing to be over the top. I REALLY like how you would build up at particular points, and then rein it back in; it really reaffirms that Sanguinius is still a Primarch, one that the Blood Angels can look up to and aspire to be like, but one who remembers he is still (half) human, which is what the average Guard needed to see and hear (considering what they were going up against). Definitely have my like and my sub, and I’m looking forward to hearing more!
Yeah, I was really going for "humanizing" Sanguinius, but as well: he WAS the face of the Imperium! Had to retain some of that "elegance," even if he may have felt otherwise.
I read a novelization about him, not long ago...the overall sort of depiction the Blood Angels were given were as "darkness veiled in epic, elegant glory."
Sanguinius himself, in that story, expressed this sentiment generally, in so many words in a few occasions throughout.
I forget the name of the book...but some guy was on a mission of sorts to gather info about the Blood Angels, and in the end, some scheming lady who wanted to be aggrandized in her position, made it so that even though this fellow knew and recorded the truth about the Angels, she burned his records after his passing, and maintained the imagery on the world she was on that Sanguinius was this saintly paragon of righteousness - the face of the Imperium, even after he passed - which imagery obviously prevailed throughout the Imperium after the Horus Heresy.
It was nifty, and in the audio book version the narrator voice acted Sanguinius a bit, and the overall tone in that actor's voice was a similar place where I leaned, sound-wise, for this depiction. 😁
Exactly i wonder who will play him in a live action tv series.
Check out the voice actor’s thoughts about auditioning for Optimus Prime. His brother told him to be a hero. I’m paraphrasing her but basically don’t be over the tops, but be strong enough to be gentle. The way the VA says it, shivers.
@@LoneSilverW0lf my thought exactly, i immedietely thought of Peter Cullen as well.
Don't you think when you address a crowd they all need to hear it?
Hearing Sanguinius's speech about his own death and telling the others with him that they already had done enough in service of the Imperium and the Emperor brought tears to my eyes. For Sanguinius, for the Emperor.
Referenced later by Sanguinius saying he hasn't done enough. Yes. yes you have. 😥
@@sadhappy8860 it’s a manipulation technique he used to convince the low IQ mob. Kinda cruel and cold.
"I fight, not because of the enemy before me, but for the men who bled and died alongside me. COURAGE AND HONOR! FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR HUMANITY!"
One of the few shreds of actual nobility in such a terrible galaxy, and you managed to bring it out masterfully. I don't think i've seen life breathed into a Primarch so perfectly in all the years i've followed the lore. You've done well.
There's a lot of nobility everywhere in 40k. If there wasn't, then it wouldn't be a tragic setting. Somehow, some people have come under the impression that the stupid memes about everything being evil and terrible are true. That _only_ applies to the Dark Eldar faction, because they're the only properly evil faction in the whole setting.
Sanginus is the best Primarch, hands down, and IU say that as someone whose marine army ISN'T blood angels
This one video. THIS ONE VIDEO. Has made Sanguinius my favorite Primarch. One trope i love is people who know theyre going to die walk towards that death with open arms. Sanguinius at the Eternity Gate is the hypest moment in all of 40K.
The rawness of the voice and the delivery of message is nothing less than Sanguinius himself. Perfection.
Absolutely phenomenal. This is the perfect Sanguinius.
the man himself!
I'm no Blood Angel fan, but this is one of the few times they have my respect and admiration. This warcry seems oddly fitting...
For those we cherish, we die in glory!
This… this is why I love warhammer. The fact that they can write lines that would seem cheesy and over done in other media, yet in warhammer with characters that are noble but human. The delivery is inspiring, and make men want to roar.
So many writers, particularly of the marvel movies, are terrified of sincerity. Scared that if they write something like this, some smarmy ponce in the internet will make fun of them for being "cheesy" or cringe (see Honest Trailers or CinemaSins).
What I love about this book, and a lot of the WH40K books is that the writers fully commit. Because when you really examine it, the setting is absurd. Fungus orks, BDSM elves, Egyptian robots, all of it is silly. But the writers treat it 100% seriously. And while sometimes, I think they could be a bit looser (The Infinite and The Divine is one of my favourites), I love that the writers aren't afraid to be sincere. They are fully aware of how dumb a lot of the lore is, but they still write it as if it were completely sensible, and I love them for it.
“We cannot defeat the armies of Mordor.”
“No, we cannot.”
“But we will meet them in battle nonetheless.”
Equally profound. RIP Bernard Hill. 😢😢😢
@@EPÏKUS.MUSÏCLong live the King
"Chances of survival, zero... probability of death, certain... what are we waiting for?"
"It is not the descent toward the shadow nor the rise toward the light that makes us stronger. It is in the endless struggle between the two that greatness of character lies. We are tested, and we do not break."
I've always thought that the perfect voice (and look) for Sanguinius is the same as Alucard in Castlevania. Great rendition btw!
Dude, the guy who voiced Alucard (James Callis, I believe) would fit SO WELL! And it was his sort of tone that I was shooting for, but my voice is...not James Callis! 🤣🤣🤣
You've already got me thinking about the eventual abridged series with the same Alucard voice from TFS with Sanguinius being mean.
@@alastor8091🤣🤣🤣 Oh man, TFS! Good stuff!
He would be perfect
" Your stories written in the light of your eyes..."
Such an awesome and profound line...
This rendition literally brought myself to tears. Wow, just wow. Amazing job I hope this blows up you deserve it.
Thank you very much, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've heard other voice actors read this, and their readings are wonderful! (See: Christopher Tester on TikTok, for example. He read this line, as well as Grimaldus' speech from Helsreach, which I also want to take a crack at some time).
This was great fun, though. I always imagined Sanguinius sounding like how I portrayed, a bit higher-pitched baritone, and a narrower and perhaps somewhat more nasal tone.
@@EPÏKUS.MUSÏC The narrow approach and nasal tone is what i felt was missing from others. In the books Sanguinius has been fighting his ass off and i always imagined his noble speech have more exhaustion and grit in it which you captured perfectly.
Same here brother
SAME
i would die lasgun in hand to hold the gate after that narration... damn man perfectly executed ✊️
Sanguinius went to his death knowing his efforts would give the Emperor the chance he needed to survive his coming battle with Horus. Not a certain victory, but a slim chance. He gave his life for a roll of the dice knowing if he did not his father would fall and his empire would fall with him. It is easy to sacrifice for an ideal or for a certainty but to give it willingly for scant hope was courage beyond measure
What makes this speech even more epic is what Sanguinius did afterwards...
I am in tears. This is fiction, yet the mental image of our earth being shattered and broken by monsters and Sanguinius and the Emperor standing in their way is something beautiful and painful.
He loved his people and they loved him, The Great Angel's sacrifice will never be forgotten.
Sanguinius always understood something that very few of his brothers did. That all of them, from Lion to Omegon, were not elevated over the mankind, but in fact they were beneath it. They were created to serve while the common guardsmen were created to live.
Isnt vulkan like that also
@@gabeluke4643 In a way, but he was just a swell guy. He didn't consciously understand it.
@@BIGESTblade ?????
I cannot express enough the choice in your inflection and the patience of pacing truly make this something special. Well done.
When I'm at my lowest, I often find myself coming back to this video for hope. It sounds ridiculous but this character and this story gives me so much strength and courage to keep going no matter what. I hope all of you are doing well.
The delivery of the ending, the second "Will you run" almost sounds like he's pleading for those to run, to save themselves, to live, not for their sake but for his. At the same time it almost sounds like he's asking himself, the demigod side of himself if he'll run, abandoning all those here, mere mortals who believed in him, fought with him, survived hell that even an angel cannot come out of unscathed or clean.
This has similar vibes to Commander Erwin's final speech.
Just honestly telling his soldiers that their situation is hopeless and theyre going to die. But inspires them to have faith in those who come after them the same way the previous scouts who passed the torch to them.
Beautiful.
This combines the best parts of the last few paragraphs of Shakespeare's "St Crispin's Day Speech" from Henry V and makes the odds all that more desperate and daunting.
Not a Blood Angels player. Not a Sanguinius fanboy but after that, damnit he is the best Primarch. Well read. Really put some power behind an already epic character.
Holy shit, it’s genuinely scary how powerful these words are. I’d heard about the superhuman presence and charisma of the Primarchs - and of Sanguinius in particular - and thought of it with a measure of disparaging skepticism. What could possibly persuade me to act against my own interests, or to kneel before a supposed demigod, or follow someone into a war that would surely kill me when I might otherwise live to see another day? Now I have my answer, and all at once it frightens, shames, and inspires me to know that I was very, very wrong. Would I run? I can’t rightly say. But unlike before, when to do anything otherwise would have seemed a ludicrous idea to my rational mind, I am now seriously conflicted. I think I might have stayed, and that both frightens and comforts me. That Primarch charisma really is some scary potent stuff.
Another scary thought is that Horus was just as charismatic as our boy Sangy and I could picture him giving this exact speech as clearly as I can picture my breakfast this morning. If Sanguinius could make you walk to your death and essentially kill yourself, Horus could've probably persuaded you to turn traitor. In the books Horus giving you his full attention was described like a god clearing the sky of all other stars so that you are the only one shining in the night sky. It's intense beyond measure and that is scary, the Primarchs really were a double edged sword
Sanguinius for President 2024. Also that was amazing!
I know very little about Warhammer 40k, but this guy. This got even my jaded heart pumping.
"The purest light we've ever seen, our hearts bleed to this day"
*tears up*
FOR SANGUINIUS AND FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!!!!!!!
The masculine urge to die in battle after receiving a glorious speech like this.
He was truly the best among them , the most inhuman looking of the primarchs ended up being the most human
I don’t think Sanguinius was nearly the most inhuman looking, aside from the wings he looked as human as Guilleman or The Kahn, that title may have to go to someone like Magnus or even Mortarion.
@@The.Orange.Wizard the thing is Magnus and Mortarion can hide their mutations under armor if they wish. Giant wings don't fit inside power armor.
@@skillganon606 But did they? Magnus at least, in most of his 30k images bared his ‘mutations’ and psychic powers openly.
I get the idea but I really can’t see Sanguinius looking inhuman, the wings giant as they are aren’t that big a deal compared to the red giant literally glowing with psychic power.
I mean...I'd say he and Vulkan are tied on both counts.
I literally cry while watching this
You nailed exactly how I pictured this in my head when I first read it. Phenomenal work. Really makes me wanna pick up a Lasgun, hold the wall and give the traitors a death they'll surely regret.
And your/our sacrifice would be remembered for ages to come!
Also, though later in the lore:
CADIA STANDS!
@@EPÏKUS.MUSÏC CADIA LIVES!
Where Lupercal grew small and resentful as chaos neared the Sanctum Imperialis, the greater, nobler, more beautiful Sanguinius grew. More human, more worthy of the mantle that the emperor and humanity itself placed on the cusp of his angelic wings. He will not be forgotten.
We, the Sons of Dorn stand ready. We have choosen this place. This fortification shall be our legacy, and our tomb. We the Sons of Dorn stand ready, not because you ask, or demand, but because you have choosen this place with us.
We stand as a bulwark against the tide a shield against the horror. This is our honor and duty to die here on these ramparts and battlements. The horror is ours to face at your side.
We few, we happy few stand ready to make this place our tomb, and etch into their memories our last moments. Let them see and feel our wrath today here we write our legends our stories our dooms our final glories.
Brothers we stand at the side of the Angel, NONE SHALL PASS WHILE WE LIVE!
Bless the Imperial Fists! For the Emperor!
FOR THE IMPERIUM
FOR DORN
“It shames me to admit but I would abandon this wall if I could. The primarch in me- the supposed Demigod half of my heart craves life with a ferocity that shames me. If I bow to that instinct I would take to the sky and never look back. But I cannot. I am half human- and the human in me demands that I stay.”
Bro when he credits his bravery and ferocity to stay and fight to not his Demi god half, but his human side it literally gave me chills. Imagine the reassurance those guardsmen got from hearing that.
Born too late to discover the world, born too early to travel the stars, but i was born at the right time to witness this.
That's the best 40k voice acted speech I've ever heard, you have a gift, I hope you enjoy doing those that would be a blessing for all mankind if you did more
Such is the plan! 😁
I would fight with sanguinius on the last gate between he'll and humanity and you mate this moment alive.
You have a scary gift.
Use it wisely.
Amazing work brother !
" What we do in life echoes in eternity "
Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium [Heaven], and you’re already dead! Brothers, what we do in life… echoes in eternity.”
This genuinely broke me, I can’t begin to comprehend how well you made Sanguinius feel like the lore. it’s phenomenal
The kindness in Sanguinius voice shines through here, I can feel the hope in him, yet not for him, for he has always known his doom, but for the good left in mankind.
I am an active military medical officer and I always get back to this video when I feel my will fade. I saw death the first time 14 years ago when I was 17, when l started medical services and never stopped since then. This is my secret refuge to get back on the mission and it inspires me to inspire my staff in return. Sometimes I miss my kids, but this helps remind me that I am doing this thing for something greater than me. That this sacrifice is worth it and I must continue because it is the right thing to do.
My uncle was a military medic. God bless, sir.
The primarch in him wants to run away but his human self wants to stay and fight.. that is so cool!