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 The Apothecary wrote:
I think Cypher will take his place. Unless that traitor actually ask for forgiveness.

Better choice would be someone reliable-Marneus Calgar

 THEDARK1RI5ES wrote:

 The Apothecary wrote:
I think Cypher will take his place. Unless that traitor actually ask for forgiveness.

Better choice would be someone reliable-Marneus Calgar

If only because his level of fluff-murder is almost on par with that of Matteus Wardius himself.

Able to hold the Avatar's Sword, my left bollock.

 Selym wrote:

 THEDARK1RI5ES wrote:

 The Apothecary wrote:
I think Cypher will take his place. Unless that traitor actually ask for forgiveness.

Better choice would be someone reliable-Marneus Calgar

If only because his level of fluff-murder is almost on par with that of Matteus Wardius himself.

Able to hold the Avatar's Sword, my left bollock.

What did you expect? The Avatar is GW butt-monkey. Even if Ward wasn't the writer, the Eldar would have been humiliated regardless.

he's already dead, glory to the dark Gods!

Death to the False Emperor! duh.

Already a corpse, and the technology behind the golden throne is the thing that keeps the astronomicon running.

The IoM just doesn't know it, and think it's magic that requires ritual mass sacrifice.

 scarletsquig wrote:
The IoM thinks it requires ritual mass sacrifice.

As you do.

As Space Wolf player I´m probably going to go for resurrection as himself, at the Wolftime...

GW will not progress the storyline. Mainly because they can rehash the same stuff over and over and the fans will keep buying it over and over.

I somehow misread the first option 'no opinion' to read 'onion'

So I know firmly believe the emperor will return as a gigantic space-onion...

He already resurrected as Malal, the minor Chaos god of hating Chaos gods, think about it, he never extolled the idea of Godhood as was strictly against religion, imagine the irony.


And that children, is GrimDark.

No, he will not resurrect because GW does not want him to.

For the glorious emperor to resurrect, then it would need to come from the heretical thought that he is already dead. Since the astronomicon shines and he protects us from nameless horrors this is a baseless treachery.
(actually I voted starchild so I guess I'm a heretic!)

The Emperor will finally show his true colors. The Emperor is really Khorne. He is playing the whole Palpatine angle. Come on it is obvious. how much blood does he need a day to live? Dude is getting his from both sides.

Nah, he's dead already. But It would be cool if Tzeench brough him back, which he would do because reasons. Or, If the Chaos Gods take control of him, in his weakened state, and make him either no more than a pawn chaos or a Daemon. Would totally ruin the fluff, but just imagine a Daemon Emperor

He's not dead and doesn't want to go on the cart!

In all fairness they should just switch the throne off, I mean he's an eternal like John Grammaticus and Vulkan according to the fluff he will regenerate all his wounds etc and just come back as before.

I don't think its possible that he's already dead. His will that's keeping the forces of chaos at bay. That's the reason why they have to sacrifice 1000 psykers a day to sustain his life force.
From reading the fluff the Star Child thoery seems most likely, especially as the Imperial cult and Eclesiarchy try so hard to supress it. It's a lot more fitting with the universe than a ten thousand year old skeletal remains jumping up from the throne, completely healed. Though I don't think GW will ever bring the Emperor back in any case, no more than they will have Russ return, Abbadon finally bite it or the Dark Eldar be prosecuted for war crimes. The sense of eternal suspense and the insecurity of the Imperium is what makes 40k. Also I think if they brought back the Emperor it would seriously annoy Chaos players!

 thegreatchimp wrote:
I don't think its possible that he's already dead. His will that's keeping the forces of chaos at bay. That's the reason why they have to sacrifice 1000 psykers a day to sustain his life force.
From reading the fluff the Star Child thoery seems most likely, especially as the Imperial cult and Eclesiarchy try so hard to supress it. It's a lot more fitting with the universe than a ten thousand year old skeletal remains jumping up from the throne, completely healed. Though I don't think GW will ever bring the Emperor back in any case, no more than they will have Russ return, Abbadon finally bite it or the Dark Eldar be prosecuted for war crimes. The sense of eternal suspense and the insecurity of the Imperium is what makes 40k. Also I think if they brought back the Emperor it would seriously annoy Chaos players!

It'd be alright so long as Horus got a second shot, and instead of trying to kill the emprah with a sword, he just blew him up by crashing several emperor-class warships into the Imperial Palace at 3/4 the speed of light.

The effect would resemble a much more impressive version of a planet-killer shot.

The emperor is infinitely powerful. All hail The Lord of mankind through the blood of my battle-brothers.


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paintwhore99 wrote:
The Emperor will finally show his true colors. The Emperor is really Khorne. He is playing the whole Palpatine angle. Come on it is obvious. how much blood does he need a day to live? Dude is getting his from both sides.

Pray we never meet on the battlefield, for then I will sear the flesh from your bones in the name of the Astartes. Curse you for challenging the word of the imperium and our eternal lord the emperor. Don't take me too seriously, I'm just an Astartes loyalist.

He's gonna die. Just face it.


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...unless da orkses loots 'im first!!!

Star Child, of course. The Inquisition War series is still canon!

Yes, and his reincarnation shall be named Sigmar

Yes. As a giant Astartes.

I personally think that it would be awesome if they had the Emperor die and then become like one of the Eldar Gods in the fluff- only for humanity. Because the Eldar Gods were Gods of Order, and the Imperium and the Emperor are the strongest sources of Order in the 40k Universe, so wouldn't it make sense that when the Emperor's body dies and the last remnants of his soul go into the Immaterium that he would just become a God of Order that is able to hold Chaos at bay? It would only make sense, because Slaanesh was born from the Eldar's fethed up civilization, so wouldn't the Emperor (the most powerful God in 40k) just start cleansing the Warp that's directly around Terra? The Emperor would basically just remain in the same state as before, only he would be able to better combat the Ruinous Powers. Maybe he could capture the souls of dead Space Marines and turn them into his version of Daemons. Sort of like Angels in the Christian religion.


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paintwhore99 wrote:
The Emperor will finally show his true colors. The Emperor is really Khorne. He is playing the whole Palpatine angle. Come on it is obvious. how much blood does he need a day to live? Dude is getting his from both sides.

In case you haven't read the fluff, the Emprah collects absorbs the souls of the dead. He basically just turns their souls into formless energy and puts into his corpse so it doesn't die. He is the Corpse-God of Order, and if they were to resurrect him then they would sacrifice like 10,000 psykers so that he gains a major boost in power for him to sanctify and control the Warp that is around Terra without having to worry about Chaos.

Empereror gets offered a 'deal' by the deceiver, next necron HQ confirmed.

Star Child because KISS!

I voted "Other", as the "No, he won't reincarnate. Nothing will change. He will remain on the Golden Throne"-option was inexplicably missing from this poll.

Voted other because I hope not, I like the impending threat of darkness and despair as all fails

Emperor will die, use the faith of trillions of people to be reborn a chaos god of logic. Similar to birth of Slaneesh, Earth will rip into the warp and become the Butthole of Terror.

 Pyeatt wrote:
Emperor will die, use the faith of trillions of people to be reborn a chaos god of logic. Similar to birth of Slaneesh, Earth will rip into the warp and become the Butthole of Terror.

Wouldn't that be the exact opposite of a chaos god? Like, an order god or something. I mean, Chaos god of Order just seems weird.