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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
→Last Stand at the Eternity Gate
As a vast traitor horde of traitor Astartes, Imperial Army, [[Beastmen]], Mutants, Daemons, Titans, and other horrors massed on the horizon, only some 70,000 defenders mustered on the Delphic Battlement before the processional to the Eternity Gate. These were mainly Blood Angels and Imperial Army, but Imperial Fists, White Scars, [[Legio Ignatum]], and Mechanicum loyalists were also represented. [[Corswain]] offered to send his own forces defending the [[Astronomican]] to aid the defenders, but Sanguinius declined their offer, due to the vital nature of the Dark Angels Paladin's mission.{{Fn|22a}}
Faced with certain death before the vast traitor horde, Sanguinius nonetheless organized a defense to try and buy precious time. At dawn the traitors erected the mutilated but still-living loyalist prisoners they had nailed to banners, crosses, vehicles, or whatever else they could find to try and break the spirit of the defenders. Next marched forth the ''[[Daughter of Torment]]'', a [[Reaver Titan]] of the traitorous [[Legio Mordaxis]]. In its [[Power Claw]] was the tortured form of Blood Angels Captain [[Idamas]]. It issued forth Horus' conditions, that any who fled the coming battle would be granted a pardon by Horus, new Emperor of mankind. Sanguinius responded with a rousing speech to the defenders, stating that he would stand and fight but all others were free to go where they wished. Inspired or perhaps shamed by the Great Angel, it is believed that no loyalists took the opportunity to leave and instead all present pledged themselves to Sanguinius. The Blood Angels Primarch next took to the skies and behead beheaded the ''Daughter of Torment'' as battle erupted.{{Fn|22d}}
The battle that followed was immense. The traitor horde surged forward as the guns of the Delphic Battlements opened up. The initial waves were decimated, but through weight of numbers they began to reach the walls. A Khornate [[Warlord Titan]] docked with the Delphic wall, vomiting forward World Eaters from its mutated mouth. Chaos erupted in short order as the battle turned into a savage melee. Into this strode the [[Bloodthirster]] [[Ka'Bandha]], who had been bested by Sanguinius during the [[Signus Campaign]]. Vowing to reap 500 Blood Angels in the presence of their Primarch, the Daemon nearly succeeded before Sanguinius intervened. The two had a dramatic airborne battle that ended when Sanguinius broke the Daemons back with the hilt of his sword. Ka'Bandha plummeted to the earth, consumed by lesser Daemons taking advantage of his weakness.{{Fn|22e}}
