Is the Emperor going to die in 40k 6th Edition?

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**BaronIveagh**

Foolworm wrote:
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That's all very nice, but England signed Berne and GW would get extra double screwed if they came to legal blows with Moorcock, since they can't even claim that he's ignored it before now as a defense, since Berne tosses that right out the Window.

**English Assassin**

BaronIveagh wrote:That's all very nice, but England signed Berne and GW would get extra double screwed if they came to legal blows with Moorcock, since they can't even claim that he's ignored it before now as a defense, since Berne tosses that right out the Window.

Michael Moorcock is well-known for being sanguine about other authors borrowing from his work, which is fortuitous for GW, given that some of us have been playing for sufficient years to remember when there were 'Gods of Law' in the Warhammer world.

**BaronIveagh**

English Assassin wrote:
Michael Moorcock is well-known for being sanguine about other authors borrowing from his work, which is fortuitous for GW, given that some of us have been playing for sufficient years to remember when there were 'Gods of Law' in the Warhammer world.

Here's to Malal!

**Henners91**

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**English Assassin**

BaronIveagh wrote:
English Assassin wrote:
Michael Moorcock is well-known for being sanguine about other authors borrowing from his work, which is fortuitous for GW, given that some of us have been playing for sufficient years to remember when there were 'Gods of Law' in the Warhammer world.

Here's to Malal!

Malal (like his replacements Zuvassin and Nechoco) was always a God of Chaos, though his champion, Kaleb Daark, very strongly resembled Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone, albeit with a soul-sucking axe and silly new-wave hair. The Gods of Law (as described in Warhammer 3rd ed. and Warhammer Roleplay 1st) were Alluminas, God of Eternity(?), Arianka, Godess of Compassion(?) and Solkan, God of Justice (I don't have the books to hand, so these may be slightly off.). Citadel even made "Daemon of Law" miniatures which looked much like angels (and to which it's possible to infer the Sanguinor might be a sly reference).

I seem to recall that Solkan has been mentioned (albeit only in passing) in later editions as the patron of witch-hunters; the others, however, though never officially retconned, have vanished, like Zoats, Fimir and points cost-balancing, into obscurity.

**Vasarto**

The emperor is already dead dude. The whole thing about keeping him alive on the golden throne is B/S. Its just the left over psychic residue he had because of how silly powerful he was and sacrificing all the psykers to him is just adding their power to his which has already gone away by now. So its the residue of the psychic energy of the thousand psykers that get killed every day that lingers there making people "think" he is alive.

With the fact he is a skeleton in a shell with no flesh left, the fact that Yarrik has been brought back from the dead already....TWICE! and had his spine regrown and all the super medicine.
They could had easily brought the emperor back to life if it was just a death wound that made him near or at death.

Some say its also the primarch under him from the Blood Angels who is regenerating himself very slowly over all this time.

**BaronIveagh**

English Assassin wrote:
Malal (like his replacements Zuvassin and Nechoco) was always a God of Chaos, though his champion, Kaleb Daark, very strongly resembled Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone, albeit with a soul-sucking axe and silly new-wave hair. The Gods of Law (as described in Warhammer 3rd ed. and Warhammer Roleplay 1st) were Alluminas, God of Eternity(?), Arianka, Godess of Compassion(?) and Solkan, God of Justice (I don't have the books to hand, so these may be slightly off.). Citadel even made "Daemon of Law" miniatures which looked much like angels (and to which it's possible to infer the Sanguinor might be a sly reference).

I seem to recall that Solkan has been mentioned (albeit only in passing) in later editions as the patron of witch-hunters; the others, however, though never officially retconned, have vanished, like Zoats, Fimir and points cost-balancing, into obscurity.

I'm aware of that, I was making an 'old school gamer' reference that those among us who are noobs with only ten or so years of background under their belts might understand.