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Whether or not this will be retconned with the eventual conclusion of the HH series is anyone's guess, but the old Lost and the Damned explained exactly why the golden throne was necessary. The Emperor and Horus battled in the immaterium simultaneously with their battle aboard the Vengeful Spirit. Horus wounded him deeply in both realms, and the Emperor's spirit was removed from his body. There is still a partial connection to his physical body, and that is why he gave Rogal Dorn the instructions on how to modify the Golden Throne to be life support. As long as his body is technically still alive, his spirit can use it as a conduit to interact with the physical realm.

It gets a little more confusing when it explains how much damage was done to the Emperor's soul, and that he actually felt his immortality slipping away.

Don't each of the Primarch's embody aspects of the Emperor?

Horus - Big E junior
Fulgrim - Big E's combat flair
Curze - Big E's premonition
Lorgar - Thinking (ie non combat stuff) (philosophy)
Mortarion - Big E's Tougness
Alpharius - Master Tactician
Pertuarbo - Implacability
Magnus - Psychic Power
Lion El'Johnson - Knowledge & Secrecy
Leman Russ - Savage Strength and Prowess
Corax - Stealth and intelligence
Iron Hands guy (forgot his name idek how) - Strength & Augmentation
Rogal Dorn - Stubborness & Siege Tactics
Guilliman - Leadership
Vulkan - Craftmanship & Perpetual






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Meaning that the Emperor could come back, and the reason that the Chaos Gods were probably angry at the Emperor was that the Big E couldn't just create the life he needed for the Primarches, he needed souls (or life-matter). The Chaos Gods gave him the souls of some of their most powerful daemons. In return for the life matter the Emperor promised his own life (as he knew he was a perpetual). But he still needed the Life Matter, so he had himself sacrificed in a ritual, his reasoning to the Gods was that he would leave the Primarchs to rule Humanity in his stead. The Chaos Gods therefore gave him the life matter of their daemons, and were thus enraged when the Emperor came back to life. Thus after their attacks on the infantile primarchs, they started the HH just to get one the primarchs to wield something that would kill the Emperor or at least trap his power, meaning that he would have to stay on the Golden Throne to stay alive.