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Raldoron was present for the joint Blood Angels/[[Luna Wolves]] campaign against the [[Nephilim]] on [[Melchior]]. Following the battle, Raldoron discovered Brother [[Alotros]] had fallen to the [[Red Thirst]] and become "lost", he immediately informed his Primarch. Sanguinius went to deal with Alotros himself, but when he emerged, [[Horus|Horus Lupercal]] was with him, meaning that the Primarch of the Luna Wolves had discovered the secret of the lost. After exchanging harsh words with Azkaellon, Raldoron ordered [[Apothecary]] [[Meros]] to oversee the extraction of Alotros's [[progenoid]] glands, then ordered him to never speak a word of what had happened here.{{Fn|1a}}
Raldoron later accompanied Sanguinius with Captain [[Thoros]] to [[Nikaea]], for the great [[Council of Nikaea|council]] the [[Emperor of Mankind]] called for following the [[Ullanor]] Triumph.{{Fn|2}} While present, he participated in the questioning of [[Kasper Hawser]], along with fellow First Captain [[Typhus|Calas Typhon]] of the [[Death Guard]], [[Captain-General]] [[Constantin Valdor]] of the [[Adeptus Custodes]], and Primarchs [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]] of the [[Space Wolves]] and [[Fulgrim]] of the [[Emperor's Children]].{{Fn|3}} In the aftermath of the Emperor issuing the Edict of Nikaea, Raldorn shared words with Captain [[Amit]] of the Fifth Company, who disagreed with the Edict, and warned Amit that his words bordered on courting censure.{{Fn|1a}} Raldoron would later accompany Sanguinius when the Blood Angels, Luna Wolves, and [[Emperor's Children]] brought about the compliance of One-Forty-Twenty, also known as [[Murder]].{{Fn|4a}} He later participated in the diplomatic mission to the [[Interex]], and later presented [[Warmaster]] Horus with cause as to why the Imperium should make war on the Interex.{{Fn|4a}} Raldoron later participated in the joint Blood Angels/[[Alpha Legion]] compliance of the [[Kaavas Belt]], exterminating [[Ork]]s left over from the [[Ullanor Crusade]].{{Fn|1c}} Following the successful action, [[Chaplain]] [[Tanus Kreed]] and Captain [[Uan Harox]] of the [[Word Bearers]] brought the Blood Angels a command by Warmaster Horus to re-cleanse the [[Signus Cluster]] of the Nephilim, who had been presumed extinct.{{Fn|1d}} Horus claimed that the Blood Angels were heading to the Cluster because the Nephilim had technology that could help with those suffering from the Red Thirst,{{Fn|1e}} stopping only long enough to pick up a [[Space Wolves]] kill-team under the command of [[Helik Redknife]].{{Fn|1e}} In reality, the Blood Angels were lead into a trap of Horus and [[Erebus]]'s devising to be corrupted into the service of [[Chaos]], facing daemons lead by the [[Keeper of Secrets]] [[Kyriss]] and the [[Bloodthirster]] [[Ka'Bandha]]. After the ''[[Red Tear]]'' crashed on [[Signus Prime]], Sanguinius called a meeting of the [[Council of Angels]]. When Captain Amit voiced that Horus had betrayed them, Redknife revealed his team's purpose had been to execute Sanguinius if he strayed from the Emperor's will, revealing that [[Magnus]] and the [[Thousand Sons]] had already broken the Edict of Nikaea. Raldoron was left speechless by the revelation.{{Fn|1f}} After Sanguinius was injured by Ka'Bandha, Raldoron ordered the Blood Angels to fall back to the ''Red Tear''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s landing site. However, the Blood Angels were being driven to a killing rage by the Chaotic influence. [[Mkani Kano]], Raldoron's adjutant in the First Company and a former [[Librarian]], revealed that he had gathered some of his brothers in secret, as they had been having visions of a [[Red Angel]]. He also revealed that one of the survivors found by Captain [[Dar Nakir]] and Meros, [[Tyllian Niobe]], was a [[Pariah]], able to remove psychic influence.{{Fn|1g}} Taking Meros and [[Veteran Sergeant]] [[Orexis]]' squad, Raldoron lead a kill-team to remove Kyriss and Ka'Bandha and stop the Blood Angels from falling to the Red Thirst, picking Meros' brothers in Squad [[Cassiel]] and [[Warden]] [[Yason Annellus]].{{Fn|1h}} While on the way, they found Helik Redknife's squad, killed by Blood Angels.{{Fn|1i}} Raldoron and the others made their way to Ka'Bandha and Kyriss' sanctum, where they discovered what was fueling the ragefire: the tortured soul of [[Tagas]], Captain of the 111th Company and one of Raldoron's closest brothers, believed killed on Murder.{{Fn|1j}} Raldoron managed to kill Harox, but was nearly killed by Ka'Bandha, when Sanguinius returned, having been revived by the Librarians.{{Fn|1k}} When Kyriss proposed that Sangiunius take the Ragefire into himself, Raldoron urged his Primarch not to do so, but Meros allowed himself to be taken instead, temporarily freeing the Blood Angels of the Red Thirst.{{Fn|1l}} Following the battle, Captain Amit reveale to Raldoron that he had been the one who killed the Space Wolves, but Azkaellon, who had already lied to the Primarch saying that they were killed by the daemons, swore them both to secrecy, as Sanguinius' nobility would compel him to take full blame from [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]], and with the Imperium facing civil war, the Adeptus Astartes needed unity.{{Fn|1m}} Following the [[Horus Heresy]], Raldoron succeeded Sanguinius as the new Master of the Blood Angels (no longer a Legion, but now a Chapter) and brought his mortal remains back to the [[Fortress-Monastery]] of [[Baal]].{{Fn|6}}
==Sources==
** {{Endn|1a}}: Melchior
** {{Endn|2a}}: Nikaea
** {{Endn|1c}}: Chapter 1
** {{Endn|1d}}: Chapter 3
** {{Endn|1e}}: Chapter 4
** {{Endn|1f}}: Chapter 13
** {{Endn|1g}}: Chapter 14
** {{Endn|1h}}: Chapter 15
** {{Endn|1i}}: Chapter 16
** {{Endn|1j}}: Chapter 17
** {{Endn|1k}}: Chapter 18
** {{Endn|1l}}: Chapter 19
** {{Endn|1m}}: Chapter 20
* {{Endn|2}}: [[A Thousand Sons (Novel)]], by [[Graham McNeill]], Chapter 18, pg. 308-311
* {{Endn|3}}: [[Prospero Burns (Novel)]], by [[Dan Abnett]], Part Two, Chapter Ten
* {{Endn|4}}: [[Horus Rising (Novel)]], by '''Dan Abnett'''
** {{Endn|4a}}: Part 2, Chapter 7
** {{Endn|4b}}: Part 3, Chapter 1
* {{Endn|5}}: [[The First Heretic (Novel)]], by [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]], Chapter 24, pg. 412
* {{Endn|6}}: [[Black Tide]]: [[Blood Angels (Novel Series)|Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus]], by James Swallow, Chapter 13, pg. 250-252
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