Manchu wrote:Heretical types like to troll the faithful with phrases like "corpse god" but decent, upright, correct-thinking people all know that the Emperor is very much alive
and well and, well, strapped into the Golden Throne, projecting His Divine Light out through the worthwhile parts of the galaxy.
Why do you ask?
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Imperium-Guy-Haley/dp/1784966649
Guy Haley's
Dark Imperium reconfirms he is alive. But ADB's
Talon of Horus and
Throneworld from the Beast Arises (also by Guy Haley) confirm that.
And Erebus in
False Gods said the Emperor wants to be a god, but would you honestly trust Erebus? Especially when Horus did not believe him, and neither did Magnus? Magnus was there telling Horus not to listen to Erebus.
Because some people doubted he was alive.