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Thane of Dol Guldur




Other.

The Emperor never existed in the first place.
   
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If I am not mistaken, the Emperor Souls is bound with the C'tan shard on Mars. As long as one is alive, the other will live live also. So, the Emperor still lives.
   
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Cymru

Maybe a chaos crusade will finally break through to terra and kill the emperor causing him to be come the chaos god of "..." who will then fight the chaos gods and repulse the crusade? hence entering the area of 41K?
   
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 TheAngrySquig wrote:
He's dying. He's not going to come back, just die and maybe maybe become a minor chaos god. Either way the Emperor is just a microcosm of the Imperium, barely alive and failing.


With all of his worshipers, he'd be a major chaos god.

 
   
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 jasper76 wrote:
Other.

The Emperor never existed in the first place.
We've always been at war with that spiky faction. They can hear your thoughts, so only think happy Emprar-loving thoughts.

Oh, you stole something? Just take a quick trip to the Officio Arbites, they'll have a quick word with you and get this whole mess sorted out.

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The Apothecary wrote:I think Cypher will take his place. Unless that traitor actually ask for forgiveness.


Cypher is Lion El' Johnson, and is attempting to get to the throne to save the Emperor.


Roboute Guilleman comes out of stasis with his wound healed (see Miracle of the Primarch) and is put as the acting head of the Imperium. Which turns out to be his plan the entire time. We find out that the Ultramarines had turned to Chaos as well, but had not taken part in the invasion of Terra as a back up plan in case Horus' assault failed. Ever an opportunist, Guilleman instead followed the confusion by taking charge of the Imperium. His Codex Astartes was put into place to prevent any Legions from being able to withstand his once he called for the Primogenitors to reunite with his Ultramarines. And it would have worked out perfectly, had Fulgrim not assassinated Guilleman for betraying the Warmaster. After returning from the grave, Guilleman is placed in charge of the Imperium as the voice of the Emperor. It is at this point he has the ruling body executed, strides into the Throneroom and unplugs the Emperor.



Which does not have the effect he was hoping for. The Emperor fades, but the catastrophic psychic death scream never happens, as the Emperor is born anew. The remaining loyalist chapters are rallied by Cypher, who reveals himself as Johnson before the assembled Marines. Now massively outnumbered by the Chaos forces, as the Primogenitors have all turned to Chaos following their Primarch's example, the battered Imperium of Man find themselves at the End Times.


Then a hero rises from the common ranks, baleful power behind young eyes now heavy with the wisdom of centuries. Recognized easily as the Emperor reborn, the Imperials rally around their new Emperor, Sister Mary Sue of the Order of the Ebon Chalice.

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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
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I had an interesting thought regarding this...

I;ve heard some theories that the Emperor's passing would cause him to manifest as the fifth Chaos god. At this moment, there are of course the four major Chaos gods that everyone knows about, but there is also a fifth that is rather neglected: Malal, god of Anarchy. I think the Emperor dying and manifesting as Malal could be perfect. Emperor dies, Imperium collapses into anarchy, Malal can now reach his full potential.

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I'm of the opinion that the Imperium's worship of him as the God Emperor of Mankind is a self-fulfilling prophecy; before the heresy, despite being powerful, he was still mortal after a fashion, and the whole reason he wanted to stamp out religion (human and alien) was to destroy the chaos gods, but as worship of him spread he has gained some of the same power, elevating him in part towards godhood (the very thing Horus accused him of, but which the Emperor never actually wanted).

As a result, I think he is very much alive, and that it may be that worship that actually sustains him, rather than the Golden Throne, as well as fuelling minor miracles such as the faith powers of the sororitas, allowing suicide missions to succeed against all odds and so-on.

As to whether he can be brought back I'm not sure; Guillman is supposedly healing despite being in stasis, which could be down either to his Primarch physiology or the Emperor's influence, if the latter then it's possible he could eventually heal himself.

   
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If it doesn't turn out that the Emperor is a pile of rabbits that they heaped onto the golden throne, then sure!

realism is a lie
 
   
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Italy

Other: the emperor never existed.

 
   
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The Golden Throne is sustaining and torturing him. The worship of the faithful and the sacrifice of psykers is imbuing him with God powers. The irony is that in order for the Emperor to fully become a God is that he needs to die. Once the Golden Throne fails, the Imperium will be plunged into a period of dark years and the enemies of the Imperium will make great headway. After some time and when needed, the Emperor will reappear as the God he has always been worshipped as.

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He shall cost 1,250 points, he will be the bulwark, and the fist.

He shall be MATTICUS WARDICUS' wet dream in battle, such that no foe can withstand him him.

He shall wear the finest 1+++++ saves, such that no weapon can harm him.

He is owah Emprah, and we shall know no savings accounts!

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Hope not, sincerely, but we’ve already got Guilliman back so it’s only a matter of time

Saw this on the poll thing and didn’t think to check the date

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 Tactical_Spam wrote:
The racial make up of the Imperium is 100% Australians. Its the reason the Imperium has survived for so long.
 
   
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I've only started this game but after a couple of trips to Lexicanum(not Wikia or 4Chan. Don't do drugs, kids!) I'ma just say this:

The Emperor has already died, and Robute will take his place. He then starts to work with Tau and Eldar to bring peace and unity toward the universe. Unfortunately some men(particularly Inquisitors, BT, DW) believed him to be unfit to rule after his cowardice and slumber, starting a second Heresy. At this point it's between Robute's new force ot SM's/Tau/Eldar, the 'rear' servents of the Emperor and every other xenos now trying to stay out of their sight.

This would be a worse time as the chaos gods have learned about forgiveness and working together. The Warbands are now learning about those as well as how to bide their time...
   
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He will be reborn.
yet it will happen when Golden Throne fails. and yes a new struggle to restore mankind



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In Dark Imperium we see the emperor in his true form, a manipulator who used his primarch's as tools, allowing them to call him "father" but never referring to them as "sons"... I see two outcomes.

The Primarchs return in one manner or another, and a second civil war starts over whether on not to unplug the Big E...

The Emperor becomes a threat to mankind. because that's Grimdark AF....

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So much heresy in this thread :O

 
   
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Other.

I want the storyline to advance... but do I trust the current writers enough to advance it?

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Trazyn will get him, carbonite comes to mind

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Star child and then the universe will implode and we will get a new universe made up of bubbles of realty and the gods will be real!
   
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he will die first, i currently have a working theory so here me out :

with the return of the primarchs its clear GW are setting up for the end of days here and so all of them must return slowly but surely. so i propose a theory, the emperor will die and then return at the end of it all. we will see in wave 1 the following return: sanguinus, leman russ, mort, fulgrim, magnus, roboute, jagahti khan, then 1 other chaos traitor i suspect it will be alpharius/omegon but it could very well be preturabo or angron.

so heres how i suspect gak will go down, roboute his hands tied in a million different engagements and far away from the galatic core fulgrim launches an invasion of terra itself, the defenders fight a seemingly lost battle but far away hope is kindled. from deep within he palace a psychic wail is unleashed and on baal deep in the blood angels chapter monastery the tomb of sanguinus explodes and a shiny golden light takes off into the night. dante witnesses this himself and dispatches the blood angels in force to follow it. the follow its trail even through the warp and arrive in time to join the battle for terra. as the demons and emperors children threaten to storm the inner palace itself they are confronted by the golden warrior of dantes vision. fulgrim steps forward to fight his brother and gets tossed out of the palace for his traitorous ways. what follows is a savage thrashing to the emperors children dante dies in this engagement but is allowed the glory of meeting his primarch in person before he finally falls in battle.

far from terra the wolves drive the thousand sons to ground at the ruins of prospero. magnus still recovering from his wounds at the hands of logan leaves his sons to fend off the wolves but ultimately they are dug out and as logan storms magnus's inner sanctum magnus opens a rift into the warp itself and tries to flee for his life only to be tackled by a giant hairy abhuman the size of a rhino. this is leman russ now driven half feral from the curse of the wulfen. they struggle but ultimately magnus is knocked out cold. russ shocked by his surroundings and by the appearance of his wolves is lashes out at his sons before he comes to realize his error. they bind magnus and haul his ass back to terra.

at this point roboute gullieman returns to terra and is greeted by sanguinius, the great khan arrives shortly afterword followed by russ himself with brother magnus in tow. these sons of the emperor go before their father and finally with mournful eyes disconnect their father from the golden throne so he can finally die the heroes death owed to him. magnus is taken and bound in his place to the throne. his jailors the custodes and the adeptus mechanicus set to work drugging magnus, binding him to the task of keeping the warp rift shut and keeping the astronomican lit a task only magnus himself has any hope of doing.

this sets the stage for a pretty significant lore shift and lets them basically setup a stage where chaos has an agent on terra in magnus who can later free himself, or be freed some other way. and this lets them finally take the emperor off the shelf and let him die so that he can be the perpetual he is and revive himself. it lets them bring back sanguinius and leman russ in ways that are both satisfying to the respective factions as it paints them in a very positive light and it allows for them to finally make that art on the inside of the core rules mean something. for those who dont know what i am referring too. inside of the core rules hardback printed on the back most pages is a scene of a battle in the emperors palace. chaos marines and primaris battle tooth and nail while thunderhawks and chaos titans trade blows. at the center of this is the door to the emperors throne room and in front of the door is what appears to be a giant snake demon fighting what is VERY clearly a ressurected sanguinius.


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I think the Chaos Space Marine will destroy Terra and with the destruction of the golden throne a big warpstorm will suck up the solar system or even more, something like a second eye of terror.
At that Point the Imperium is fethed up and will kill it self in a huge Civil war.
And the Xenos will conquer the Galaxy or Tyranids will eat up the left overs.


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So yeah, the big E is a corpse with a still living psyker might.


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He will die, and the chaos gods will suck him/his warp presence up in their warpstorm.

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Isn't the emperor an officially approved Perpetual? So he dies and revives... like the Highlander. So in a way Abaddon is actually a loyalist. Because the emperor is in a state of stasis that prevents him from being ressurrected. The emperor is alive. And Roboute DID talk to him. But I think that Big Daddy begged Roboute to kill him, that he can arise and be a god again. But Junior just thought: No can do that! Now it's my time! And Daddy, you're sitting on the biggest daemon fart gas bubble that you can imagine, stay your time is over!

I think that Abaddon will kill the emperor. Cypher will try to intervene and guard him, but will lose against Abby. And then in the greatest moment of his life. Abaddon has finally reached his final goal Drachnyen sticks in the emperor's chest. Finally!
But the emperor opens his eyes regains flesh and skin and his youth. A golden light shines and Abaddon is shattered into bits but the gods are pleased and finally raise him into the noble ranks of a daemon prince. But the emperor didn't have to move.

In the aftermath the Imperium is devided into two parts. Imperialists with Terra as capital and Roboute's Fellowship with Macragge as capital. But the gate under Big E's butt forcing him to act as cosmic warp plug. In the game the emperor won't be seen proparbly, it would simply take away any heroism if you see him die in enemy fire. But that could end in a not too uninteresting scenario where Space Marines have a new faction that doesn't need to be Imperium or Chaos. While Grey Knights, Custodes, Inquisition and so on will stay with the emperor, there will be some space marine chapters that will follow the Macraggean Republic that stands for progress and not an AdMech induced dictated stagnation (wildly speculated).
I'd like to see the Imperium shatters into smaller pieces. So a game Humans vs Humans doesn't feel like it would need a clear explanation to happen.
   
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I personally think that he will resurrect as Nico Yazawa from Love Live to bring death and destruction to the entire universe as a small annoying idol girl
   
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Germany

I also think he will stay in the state he currently is in forever. People will keep on feeding him tasty psykers and keep him in his nearly dead state thus preventing him from being resurrected / reborn.
   
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It's controversial!!

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He transferred his Mind into Guilliman and secretly walks amongst us.
   
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Other vote:

Nope. Even GW wouldn't do that, it would be too much of a change.

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