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===Fear to Tread===
*In the novel [[Fear to Tread (Novel)|Fear to Tread]], [[Horus]] witnessed [[Sanguinius]] struggling then killing one of his Blood Angel legionnary, [[Alotros]]. When Horus asked Sanguinius the reason he murdered one of his sons, The Angel first refused to answer his brother. Insisting, Horus finally had his answer: Sanguinius transmitted a genetic flaw to his Blood Angels, known as the [[Red Thirst]], which turns a legionnary into a mindless killer, leaving him no other choice than killing Alotros. When Horus asked Sanguinius why he never talked about that with his Primarch brothers and, above all, why he never asked for help from their creator, the [[Emperor]], Sanguinius replied he feared the most radical solution his father could propose: "You know the reason! [...] I will not be responsible for the erasure of the Blood Angels from Imperial history. I will not have a third empty plinth beneath the roof of the Hegemon as my Legion’s only memorial!’{{Fn|23}}
===The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal===
*In the Forge World book [[The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal]] the Primarchs and their Legions are listed in a table with the names of the II and XI Legions and Primarchs blacked out only as far as the text concealed. The length of these black lines indicates that the name of the II Legion is quite long, only just shorter than "Emperor's Children" and the name of the XI Legion is about the same length as "Thousand Sons". The name of the II Primarch is approximately as long as "Alpharius" (also suggesting just a single name) and the name of the XI Primarch is about the same length as "Magnus the Red" (suggesting either two names or one with a title). The book also states that "Of these twenty Legions, steadily expanding in numbers over time, eighteen would survive to grow into vast forces by the end of the Great Crusade - as to those that did not, nothing can be said in this record."{{Fn|24}}
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