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Raldoron later participated in the joint Blood Angels/[[Alpha Legion]] compliance of the [[Kayvas 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 his belief 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, but Sanguinius ordered all doubt set aside and demanded the assembled Blood Angels swear an [[oath of moment]] in blood to destroy Kyriss. Raldaron and Azkaellon were the first to remove their gauntlets and draw blood.{{Fn|1f}}
With preparations for the assault completed, Raldaron reported to Sanguinius on the state of their intelligence, showing that all six settlements reported by the colonial census agency vanished without even ruins remaining, and only a single structure, the [[Cathedral of the Mark]], present. With Sanguinius admitted that Horus had been distant lately and that it was possible he might have sent Sanguinius to Signus Prime to prevent him from stopping a potential rebellion, Raldaron was left shaken, wondering who would join the Warmaster if it came to schism.{{fn|1g}} 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 [[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 revealed 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}}
Raldoron accompanied Sanguinius to [[Macragge]], taking part in the [[Imperium Secundus]] administration and acting as his Primarch's confidant. During the journey through the [[Ruinstorm]] to [[Terra]], Raldoron fought alongside Sanguinius at [[Battle of Pyrrhan|Pyrrhan]] and [[Second Battle of Davin|Davin]].{{Fn|9}} During the [[Battle of Beta-Garmon]] Raldoron helped Sanguinius reorganize the failing war effort, though ultimately the loyalists were defeated.{{Fn|9}}
