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 Psienesis wrote:

 Shidank wrote:

Alcibiades wrote:
People believing in the Emperor's divinity in no way turns him into a warp god. The warp is fueled by emotions, not belief.

This does seem like splitting hairs a bit. Faith can be considered a powerful emotion. The definition will vary from person to person, but I think it's futile to say it doesn't count as a strong human 'feel'.

Yep, this. People actively believing in the Emperor's divinity, and acting on that faith, from the Sisters of Battle down to the average Imperial Joe working in a mine on some Feudal World, will cause a reaction from the Warp which, yes, might coalesce into a sentience that will be a new Warp God.

I am absolutely appalling at referencing the fluff, but from memory, i thought that the Emperor was (or thought himself at least) on equal footing as the Warp Gods. Or that he was very close at least, and that this was related to the Terran Webway and "Warp Crusade" he seemed to be planing which was completely forgotten after the HH.

If he does coalesce into an entity "just as powerful" as a new Warp God, i'd say that the Emperor would not be very far from what he was. And linking the two outcomes (regenerate + Spawn a Warp God) as pretty much the same outcome: he comes back, 50/50 chance he's stronger than before or just the perpetual he used to be (which is not far off - but if he returns to infant stage, might get tricky...)