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I don't know if this is a valid idea or not, but can the God Emperor be corrupted by Chaos? Or is he beyond their control.

And if so, what would such an entity be like?

Also, what is the greatest being the ruinous-powers have been successful at converting, aside from the Primarchs.

I would imagine if they really did try their hardest, they might be able to corrupt the Hive Mind and C'tans. The Emperor has some kind of holy divine aura so he can't be corrupted i think because hes Holy!

Hmmm, I douubt it, somehow. They never tried just corrupting him, instead corrupting his sons and attempting to simply kill him. Also, he is a singularly powerful psyker, so I could see him fighting a battle of wills with the Chaos gods on fairly even terms

VampireDeLaVega wrote:
I would imagine if they really did try their hardest, they might be able to corrupt the Hive Mind and C'tans.

Nah, both of those are explicitly said to have resistance to warp stuff. The Hive Mind especially, since it has its Shadow in the Warp thing, which lets it shut down any sort of warp energy.

"Even the Golden Throne cannot keep the cells of the Emperor's dead body alive forever. Over the millennia the link between his soul and body has become increasingly tenuous. Worse of all, the Powers of Chaos have begun to infiltrate his mind, sowing seeds of doubt, dissolution and fear. It is impossible to say for how long the Emperor can survive in this condition. It is unlikely that even he really knows how much time is left to him before the tenuous hold upon his physical body is broken by weakness or finally rent apart by insanity."

Realm of Chaos : The Lost and the Damned - page 185

Ergo, yes.

It doesn't say that they're successfully corrupting him. For now, the best they can do is put "the seeds" of negative emotions into him, not outright corrupt him.

We can take this quote by every way. Try to make those words mean whatever we want them to mean.
Thing is, the Chaos gods are getting in the mind of the emperor. And it's not something he really likes/wants.
The seeds of doubt and fear, I call it corruption.
But in the end, we know as a fact that the emperor is not outside of the god's reach, and he's nowhere safe from them. They already are in his mind and have an influence on him. Is that influence corruptive ? Matter of perspective I guess.

Chaos is powered by thoughts and emotions.

To be truly corrupted, not possessed or blackmailed or forced, some part of you has to want it. If the God Emperor wants it, corruption is a possibility... In my opinion though, the God Emperor is dead for all intents and purposes, and because of that can't be corrupted. In life he couldn't be corrupted because he was unwilling to share any power, not because of theological differences or holiness. He was a xenophobic tyrant who literally exterminated entire species and obliterated worlds, just because he liked to conquer things.

To be truly corrupted, not possessed or blackmailed or forced, some part of you has to want it

That's not true. Like, not true at all.
Corruption is a change, a shift. It can come from the inside, but also from an external source. Just like what happens to the emperor.

 LoneLictor wrote:
Chaos is powered by thoughts and emotions.

To be truly corrupted, not possessed or blackmailed or forced, some part of you has to want it. If the God Emperor wants it, corruption is a possibility... In my opinion though, the God Emperor is dead for all intents and purposes, and because of that can't be corrupted. In life he couldn't be corrupted because he was unwilling to share any power...

I think there's a lot of truth in this. If the Emperor is still alive, I think he knows the threat of Chaos well enough to steel his mind against their corrupting influence. However, hes not quite himself at the moment, and from that old Realm of Chaos quote, it sounds more like the Gods are focusing on weakening the Emperor so he dies faster, and less on tempting him to pledge himself to them.

There are many ways to become corrupted.... It can be completely external. The chaos powers can basically pull an inception on you, planting seeds and ideas that are not your own and then BAM you're carving eight pointed stars on your forehead and growing an extra arm/claw

He was incorruptible whilst alive due to being Anathema to Chaos.

During the edict of Nikaea he basically says due to him having swum the depths of the warp, he doesn't want other people to do it. Which proves he has the ability to resist / survive Chaos / the Warp and others don't.

 Serevor wrote:
We can take this quote by every way. Try to make those words mean whatever we want them to mean.
Thing is, the Chaos gods are getting in the mind of the emperor. And it's not something he really likes/wants.
The seeds of doubt and fear, I call it corruption.
But in the end, we know as a fact that the emperor is not outside of the god's reach, and he's nowhere safe from them. They already are in his mind and have an influence on him. Is that influence corruptive ? Matter of perspective I guess.

Hmm, nah. At best it says that they're exerting only a fairly minor influence over him. And even then, only when he's on the verge of death. They're not able to control him or instil outright terror into him.

Maybe this influence will grow if their "seeds" take root, but as is, we can see that even when near death Big E is largely resistant to Chaotic influence.

He was incorruptible whilst alive due to being Anathema to Chaos.

During the edict of Nikaea he basically says due to him having swum the depths of the warp, he doesn't want other people to do it. Which proves he has the ability to resist / survive Chaos / the Warp and others don't.

He wasn't incorruptible, proof is he's being corrupted. No one is incorruptible. Stray from the Matt Ward rethoric a bit and read the actual background.
Your other point is fallacious at best. By the time of Nikaea, Magnus already bathed himself in the Warp. He wasn't yet a daemon prince of Tzeentch, right ? Does that prove he was anathemaimmunetoChaos ? Quite the contrary, in fact.

Hmm, nah. At best it says that they're exerting only a fairly minor influence over him. And even then, only when he's on the verge of death. They're not able to control him or instil outright terror into him.

Maybe this influence will grow if their "seeds" take root, but as is, we can see that even when near death Big E is largely resistant to Chaotic influence.

The emperor is dead. His soul, in the Warp is being attacked by the Chaos gods who are having fun with him. And this may drive him insane if he's not fortunate enough to die from his wounds beforehand. That may be "minor" to you, but I doubt the emperor finds it minor.
That's what the RoC quote meant.

 Serevor wrote:
The emperor is dead.

He's not. The Golden Throne is a big life support machine. The end of the current timeline has it failing and the mechanicus being unable to repair it.

"Even the Golden Throne cannot keep the cells of the Emperor's dead body alive forever"

 Serevor wrote:
"Even the Golden Throne cannot keep the cells of the Emperor's dead body alive forever"

Dead body. His brain and mind is still intact, iirc.

 Serevor wrote:
"Even the Golden Throne cannot keep the cells of the Emperor's dead body alive forever"

Surely that's saying that he's not completely dead, then? It clearly says that parts of him are being kept alive, therefore he isn't dead in the world outside the warp like you said he was.

Honestly, that's just a very confusing quote. Surely if the cells and brain are alive, then the body is too some small extent too?

I thought lore said that the Emperor was dead, and the golden throne just maintains the tenuous link between his body and his soul.

Dead body. His brain and mind is still intact, iirc.

The brain is an important part of the body, you know.

Surely that's saying that he's not completely dead, then? It clearly says that parts of him are being kept alive, therefore he isn't dead in the world outside the warp like you said he was.

Honestly, that's just a very confusing quote. Surely if the cells and brain are alive, then the body is too some small extent too?

Braindead.
You know, even when you die, your cells keep living their own lives for some time, before dying in the end.
I sure think it's a confusing quote for those who would like it to say something else.

I do remember hearing about a plotline that involved some faction (I think of the inquisition, but I can't quite remember) that believed if you killed the emperor for good that he would either become a warp entity in full that was powerful enough to challenge the chaos gods/ be reborn as the "star child" who would lead the Imperium to a new golden age. obvioyusly not a popular viewpoint in the imperium, however.

 Serevor wrote:
"Even the Golden Throne cannot keep the cells of the Emperor's dead body alive forever. Over the millennia the link between his soul and body has become increasingly tenuous. Worse of all, the Powers of Chaos have begun to infiltrate his mind, sowing seeds of doubt, dissolution and fear. It is impossible to say for how long the Emperor can survive in this condition. It is unlikely that even he really knows how much time is left to him before the tenuous hold upon his physical body is broken by weakness or finally rent apart by insanity."

Realm of Chaos : The Lost and the Damned - page 185

Ergo, yes.

HAHA yes... Death to the false Emperor!
That was exactly what I wanted to hear here