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Battle Brother Ambrosius wrote:

Durza wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:

Durza wrote:

The Crusader wrote:No for all the chaos gods to die we would have to be extinct as they live off of our emotions. I remember reading somewhere that the big E is using the multitude of wars to fuel him so when he starts pushing up the daisies, he can able up to the gods and say "haha, No" and smite em good

That's a pretty stupid idea if true. Every war fuels the gods as well, and the last god to emerge from a race devoured the entire races' souls, and that was still only enough power to get into the four.

Except its an official theory called the "Star Child"

And every member of the cult following that theory was murdered by the Inquisition.

Yes, but the Sensei still remain to be found, IIRC. They can always gather new supporters like they have done for ten millenia and being the sons of the Emperor, they cannot "die".

The Emperor eventually builds enough power to become a chaos power and is able to stomp the chaos gods out of existance and ensure the continued existance of humanity. after his physical body dies of course.

Except that's not going to happen. Slaanesh ate the entire Eldar empire after being fed by them for millenia. And they're far more psychically powerful than humans. The only way the Emperor would get enough power to defeat one, let alone all of them, would be to devour the human race, kind of defeating the purpose.

But still, the human race was able to create three of the most powerful gods, and they are more numerous than Eldar ever were. Who says they need to be incredibly powerful? Their collective power should be enough.

No they didn't. The three elder Chaos gods were created by the emotions of a galaxy. Slaanesh was the only one created (almost entirely- other races probably gave some contribution) by a single race. All that power, including that gotten from absorbing other gods, was enough to force itself into the Great Game. The Emperor would be in a totally different position. The four gods would probably just pause the game and destroy him before he became fully conscious in the Warp, regardless of how strong he may or may not be.

The Emperor scares the out of the Chaos Gods. There is a reason they call him the Anathema. He is able to openly oppose them from the physical universe, the last thing they want is him to enter the warp.

They called him the Anatheme because he tasted bad and was trying to stamp out religion. And the Chaos gods are able to openly oppose him from the psychic universe, so I don't really se your point there. The gods never manifest physically.

Well, he cannot be touched by the powers of Chaos, and he cannot truly die. He is the greatest psyker since Tzeench, and the dark gods see him as a giant Culexus Assassin with an agenda to eradicate them. Since they are ethereal, they can't really physically harm the Emperor, and the possibility that he will one day climb up their ivory throne in the warp and kick their asses is what scares them

iirc somewhere near the end of the eisenhorn books they go onto a planet that was once an ancient daemon stronghold created after a lesser daemon escaped after a billion year war, and there is something mentioned about the "three great powers" and someone mentions that isnt right because there are 4 yadda yadda yadda etc etc etc o.o i know its off topic for the ot but im setting a point that they existed sentient far longer than the human race has otherwise, how could there of been a war between the 3 great powers and a daemonic prince?

Just back to this topic of Cadia. We don't know if its all part of his plan. But I will say one thing. Psycologically, if you have the biggest, strongest chaos legion currently within the eye of terror, you will be tempted to go and wack Cadia simply because it is such a massive fortified world and it is right at your doorstep.

Call it arrogance if you want. But its like, if you have a bazooka, you don't just want to use it to blow up a bottle, you want to use it to blow up a tank!