Cruor Praetoria

The Cruor Praetoria was a force of twelve highly-esteemed Bloodthirsters who acted as Angron's bodyguard during the First War for Armageddon.

History
The Bloodthirsters of the Cruor Praetoria were the twelve strongest; the twelve daemons whose lives and deeds most pleased their wretched Blood God over forty thousand years of warfare. Every one of them had thousands of heresies etched under its name in the great libraries of the Grey Knights fortress-monastery. Each was devilry incarnate, rivalling a gunship in height, drawn from the pages of human myth and given these most hateful, bloody forms. Wings of black smoke and bleeding leather beat the gore-stench of split bodies across the battlefields they fought on. Whips lashed with the feral intelligence of beast-tails, while tongues cracked from bullish, malformed visages with the same curling intent.

During the First War of Armageddon, Khorne placed the Cruor Praetoria in the service of the Daemon Primarch Angron. These Greater Daemons spearheaded the main host at their foul sire’s side, a mighty being who dwarfed even them in size.

Source

 * The Emperor's Gift (Novel) - Chapter Sixteen

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