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Only Khaine has Avatars as he was shattered, the fragments creating the Avatars. The reason why the others don't is that Daemons and Greater Daemons are separate entities ruled by their respective god and not an incarnation of it.

SSsilverskullSS wrote:

iproxtaco wrote:

SSsilverskullSS wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

Saintspirit wrote:Aren't the Stompas "supposed" to be their avatars?

By that same logic - Titans are Emperor's Avatar's.

The emperor isn't a god though

Define 'God'.

A god is an immortal being, the last time I checked the emperor is not immortal, in fact the only reason why he is alive is because the golden throne is keeping him alive

There are plenty of situations where gods die. The Eldar Pantheon was devoured by Slaanesh, many C'tan were killed by each other, the Chaos Gods can starve if not fed. It's safe to say all Gods in 40K can die.

Anything can be a god, it just needs beings to worship it as such. To those worshiping the god it would be a god, to others it wouldn't.

SSsilverskullSS wrote:

iproxtaco wrote:

SSsilverskullSS wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

Saintspirit wrote:Aren't the Stompas "supposed" to be their avatars?

By that same logic - Titans are Emperor's Avatar's.

The emperor isn't a god though

Define 'God'.

A god is an immortal being, the last time I checked the emperor is not immortal, in fact the only reason why he is alive is because the golden throne is keeping him alive

That's your definition of God. Really, there is no real definition as there are far too many criteria to consider. The Emperor is a deity in a religion, the only difference between him and any real world God as a symbolic figure is that we know he exists as the omnipresent viewer of the setting. Even then, we don't know he isn't immortal. His mind could well become another Chaos God in the Warp, meaning this Golden Throne was to keep him in the mortal world for as long as possible.

clively wrote:The Emperor put the Dragon on Mars in order to create a technological source that was not on Earth.. Hence, the Mechanicum... So, although the Machine God is technically the Void Dragon it was due to the Emperor's acts of imprisoning the dragon on Mars during the 3rd (or 12th...) century that turned it into the "Machine God"...

Just to clear up the dating controversy, Dalia, in Mechanicum, is informed by Seymon that her vision took place in the 11th or 12th century. He goes on to describe the Emperor as a soldier of Diocletian (r. AD 286 - 305) - an apparently vast discontinuity. This is however resolved if Seymon is presumed to be using the calendar of the time, dating from the founding of Rome (Ad Urbe Condita) in 753 BC. By this, the year would have been some time between 1039 and 1053, and thus, to a Roman, the eleventh century.