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First off I was wondering is our current reality part of the dark age of technology or was there a divergence in our timeline like there is with fallout? If not what kind of music do you think the God Emperor of Mankind is in to? He may be the "New Man" but I have a hard time believing he would not be in to any social constructs especially music who knows in his extremely long life maybe he was a world famous artist in multiple fields including music....

The DAoT will not begin for several thousand years yet. It does not begin until Mankind begins spreading out into the stars and founding extra-solar colonies.

Being that he's the amalgamation of several thousand souls compressed into one being, all with their own personalities and tastes, it is probably safest to assume that he's into all forms of human music ever created.

 Psienesis wrote:
The DAoT will not begin for several thousand years yet. It does not begin until Mankind begins spreading out into the stars and founding extra-solar colonies.

Being that he's the amalgamation of several thousand souls compressed into one being, all with their own personalities and tastes, it is probably safest to assume that he's into all forms of human music ever created.

Isn't that part retconned? As of late he seems to be the most powerful of all the Perpetuals.

Perpetuals don't exist, citizen. They are a myth spread around by heretics. As we all know, the Emperor came down from the sky and brought his light to humanity.

Anyway, the DAoT is somewhere between M20 and M30, iirc. We are currently in M3.

He listens to Bolt Thrower and nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bolt+thrower

 Xathrodox86 wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
The DAoT will not begin for several thousand years yet. It does not begin until Mankind begins spreading out into the stars and founding extra-solar colonies.

Being that he's the amalgamation of several thousand souls compressed into one being, all with their own personalities and tastes, it is probably safest to assume that he's into all forms of human music ever created.

Isn't that part retconned? As of late he seems to be the most powerful of all the Perpetuals.

Since 40k has no sort of canonicity, it is impossible to retcon something.

asiapalo wrote:
First off I was wondering is our current reality part of the dark age of technology or was there a divergence in our timeline like there is with fallout? If not what kind of music do you think the God Emperor of Mankind is in to? He may be the "New Man" but I have a hard time believing he would not be in to any social constructs especially music who knows in his extremely long life maybe he was a world famous artist in multiple fields including music....

We're living in what Imperials would call the "Age of Terra", which lasts until around M15 or M17 (depending on the source).



As for music, for somebody so long lived as the Emperor, he probably developed a variety of tastes over the millennia.

The Allfather listens to whatever he likes, well anything barring Dubstep and country Music I imagien

Many different publications depict music as something incredible. For example, Supernatural Season 11 . I can't see the Emperor not being a fan of music, or at least, I can't see him being opposed to it. At the least, he doesn't care, and at most, he likes it because of the harmony it naturaly instills.

Presumably, as a great and powerful being, he'd be into a wide variety of classical music through the ages he's lived such as Beethoven and Mozart, stuff synomonous with unity of mankind (such as jazz), or he may find casual amusement in stuff like death metal, as in "its so amusing these humans roar to sound aggressive and angry." He probably doesn't care for shallow, vain music like most modern pop songs or techno of any sort.

Goin by all the skulls, ima say Death Metal.

 Selym wrote:
Goin by all the skulls, ima say Death Metal.

That or viking metal

 Psienesis wrote:

 Xathrodox86 wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
The DAoT will not begin for several thousand years yet. It does not begin until Mankind begins spreading out into the stars and founding extra-solar colonies.

Being that he's the amalgamation of several thousand souls compressed into one being, all with their own personalities and tastes, it is probably safest to assume that he's into all forms of human music ever created.

Isn't that part retconned? As of late he seems to be the most powerful of all the Perpetuals.

Since 40k has no sort of canonicity, it is impossible to retcon something.

So if GW writes book that descripes exactly how Emperor came to be which is total opposition to what was said before(let's say for fun they say Tzeentch created him to create the 40k what it was) that's not retcon?

Of course you can in your home games decide otherwise but then again you can do same with say Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the rings(no Sauron was not defeated for good! He came back 500 years later!) etc.

There is some canon. By pure logic.

Humans exist. All sources agree there are humans. The existence pf lots of humans is key to the explanation how the universe is the way it is. Humans are canon.

tneva82 wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:

 Xathrodox86 wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
The DAoT will not begin for several thousand years yet. It does not begin until Mankind begins spreading out into the stars and founding extra-solar colonies.

Being that he's the amalgamation of several thousand souls compressed into one being, all with their own personalities and tastes, it is probably safest to assume that he's into all forms of human music ever created.

Isn't that part retconned? As of late he seems to be the most powerful of all the Perpetuals.

Since 40k has no sort of canonicity, it is impossible to retcon something.

So if GW writes book that descripes exactly how Emperor came to be which is total opposition to what was said before(let's say for fun they say Tzeentch created him to create the 40k what it was) that's not retcon?

Of course you can in your home games decide otherwise but then again you can do same with say Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the rings(no Sauron was not defeated for good! He came back 500 years later!) etc.

You are free to ignore any bits of fluff GW writes at any time.

http://www.boomtron.com/2011/03/grimdark-ii-loose-canon/

 Psienesis wrote:
You are free to ignore any bits of fluff GW writes at any time.

Yes. And I'm free to ignore any bits of fluff in star wars, star trek, lord of the rings etc.

If canon means you cannot ignore bits of it at will THERE IS NO CANON IN ANYWHERE! It's impossible to have canon in ANY series because everybody can ignore bits of fluff anywhere.

So in that case this:

Since 40k has no sort of canonicity, it is impossible to retcon something.

Should read:

Since nothing has no sort of canonicity, it is impossible to retcon something.

Since nothing whatsoever in this world has any sort of canonicity.

Funny that there's considered to be star wars canon despite bits of it being ignorable which according to you means there is no canoncity.

No. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

Star Wars has (had) a canon policy, ADB discusses it in the article I linked. Prior to the acquisition of the IP by Disney, there were things that were "definitely true" in the SW universe when discussing the fluff and the story. That was "G-Canon", defined as "anything George Lucas says". Following that came the stuff in the movies, then books and comics, then video games and such.

So, if you wanted to say that Luke wasn't Leia's brother but was, instead, her time-traveling college roommate... well, you're free to say it but, in the topic of the "truth" of Star Wars, you would have been flat-out dead wrong. The canon of Star Wars stated that Luke and Leia were twin siblings born of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala. That is, as far as the Star Wars IP is concerned, gospel truth. Disagree and be wrong.

40k has no such policy. It has no canon. So if you want to believe that the GK don't get their geneseed directly from the Emperor and, instead, ward off Warp Corruption through various psychic and sorcerous means, to include talismans wrought through black magic and the sacrifice of innocents.... you can. It's not an erroneous explanation for the faction.

If you want to believe the Blood Ravens are loyalist Thousand Sons... you can. If you want to believe the Blood Ravens are, instead, semi-Traitorous Raven Guard... you can. If you want to believe that the Space Wolves are actually a bunch of giant squirrels with Rings of Illusion and access to an intact STC for Astartes war-gear... you can. These viewpoints, as far as 40k is concerned, are not incorrect, because 40k has no "truth" to its fluff.

 Psienesis wrote:
No. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

Star Wars has (had) a canon policy, ADB discusses it in the article I linked. Prior to the acquisition of the IP by Disney, there were things that were "definitely true" in the SW universe when discussing the fluff and the story. That was "G-Canon", defined as "anything George Lucas says". Following that came the stuff in the movies, then books and comics, then video games and such.

But you can ignore star wars fluff as well if you want. So if that means it's not canon then there's no SW cannon either.

So, if you wanted to say that Luke wasn't Leia's brother but was, instead, her time-traveling college roommate... well, you're free to say it but, in the topic of the "truth" of Star Wars, you would have been flat-out dead wrong. The canon of Star Wars stated that Luke and Leia were twin siblings born of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala. That is, as far as the Star Wars IP is concerned, gospel truth. Disagree and be wrong.

And 40k's canon policy is what GW states. GW is the one creating it. It's their game. They say Emperor is creation of Tzeentch then he is. You can say he isn't but that means you are wrong as far as official canon goes.

If you disagree with GW's word you can(just as you can change SW's fluff) but you are still wrong as far as official canon goes. End of the story.

tneva82 wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
No. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

Star Wars has (had) a canon policy, ADB discusses it in the article I linked. Prior to the acquisition of the IP by Disney, there were things that were "definitely true" in the SW universe when discussing the fluff and the story. That was "G-Canon", defined as "anything George Lucas says". Following that came the stuff in the movies, then books and comics, then video games and such.

But you can ignore star wars fluff as well if you want. So if that means it's not canon then there's no SW cannon either.

So, if you wanted to say that Luke wasn't Leia's brother but was, instead, her time-traveling college roommate... well, you're free to say it but, in the topic of the "truth" of Star Wars, you would have been flat-out dead wrong. The canon of Star Wars stated that Luke and Leia were twin siblings born of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala. That is, as far as the Star Wars IP is concerned, gospel truth. Disagree and be wrong.

And 40k's canon policy is what GW states. GW is the one creating it. It's their game. They say Emperor is creation of Tzeentch then he is. You can say he isn't but that means you are wrong as far as official canon goes.

If you disagree with GW's word you can(just as you can change SW's fluff) but you are still wrong as far as official canon goes. End of the story.

Except you can't, because SW had the official canon system, where this is true and this is not. For example, Darth Vader worth a black helmet, fact, undisputable.

GW's policy is "idk lol." Just because the publish it doesn't make it true, its makes it their interpretation. But other writers come out and contradict that and they also consider that true. If they said "Ultramarines are undoubtably the most awesome Marines in the galaxy and every other Marine in the galaxy thinks so," its true. If a writer then writes a SW character who doesn't like Ultramarinee, they would also say "true." And then when you question the contradiction, the answer is "lol figure it out bruh, idek."

And 40k's canon policy is what GW states. GW is the one creating it. It's their game. They say Emperor is creation of Tzeentch then he is. You can say he isn't but that means you are wrong as far as official canon goes.

No, no it isn't, because there is no "official canon". You're putting words in GW's mouth here and making things up out of whole cloth. Their policy is "all of it's true, and none of it is". They have no canon policy. If two or more sources contradict one another? Then all of those sources are "correct", choose the one that you like the best, but the others are just as valid of interpretations.

Well, if the Emperor's taste in music corresponds with his taste in architecture, than he is likely into Gregorian chants and other church music, as well as grand, sweeping orchestral themes.