Raldoron

Raldoron is an audiobook in the Horus Heresy Character Series, written by Guy Haley and narrated by Nathaniel Priestley, with a running time of about 5 hours and 42 minutes. It centres on the First Captain of the Blood Angels Legion.

Raldoron is known across the Imperium as one of the finest swordsmen in all the Space Marine Legions. He seems calm, calculating and decisive, but the iron self-control that earns him the title Archien of Wisdom conceals a bloody past. When the primarch Sanguinius leads the Imperial Reprisal Fleet to the Garmon Cluster to slow the traitor Horus's advance on Terra, Raldoron has to depend on unblooded inductii, recruited as fast as possible from the cluster's war zones.

These new warriors could be the future of the Blood Angels if they follow the Archien's example and master the Red Thirst. Their violent nature, though, threatens a return to the customs that Sanguinius left behind when he transformed the IX Legion into something noble. It could expose the half-forgotten horrors of the Revenant Legion to the whole galaxy. The story looks closely at what the Red Thirst means to the Blood Angels and shows the Legion's efforts to help defend Terra before the Warmaster could reach it.