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So Abaddon hears a name that drives him into a furious rage.
Who is it? Hear me out..
Its Horus
Horus beat the Emperor in their one on one fight but afterwards felt the full weight of his deeds, and gave himself in to the Custodes. He waits until the moment he can act and preserve humanity's place amongst the stars.
They didn't kill him because...well...they literally can't. melon-fether can catch Turbo Penetrator rounds with a hand. Without even touching his powers.
The Emperor may be like unto a God, but Horus is too. And that's before he got a huge chunk of power from the rapidly strengthening Dark Gods. I cant see the Emperor winning that fight. You take away his powers and he's a man. You take away Horus' (now supposedly equal or even greater) power and he's an 11 foot tall post-human monster that can withstand superheavy plasma with no fatal injury, and bash giant tanks around.
Literally only the Custodes and maybe a few esteemed Inquisitors know and the official story has it that the Emperor killed Horus but was laid low.
Horus could've faked his own death easily to his fleet. Literally beamed the image of his lifeless body into the head of every man there.
Why would GW do this?
New lore has the Emperor as not only cold, calculating, and xenophobic but also hopelessly detached from humanity, needlessly cruel, bloodthirsty, and spiteful. He's not just some guy who thinks he's (and is) above it at all, he's also a legitimately terrible person.
And before all the chaos nonsense Horus was a legitimately good man who would be simply mortified and infuriated with the current imperium.
So as a lot have thought, the Emperor is in my opinion going to die. But me? I think he won't be coming back.
The new emperor is Horus.....

Fabius Bile stole Horus's corpse, though.

Im sure Horus' name was mentioned a few times after Davin

 ThePrimordial wrote:
. You take away his powers and he's a man.

Where do you get that idea?

I don't quite get the point of this theory. Is it that Horus is in the golden throne? There's a discussio on the first page n in the specialist games book "Inquisition" where a bunch of High lords decide whenever to revive the Emperor or not. It debunks that theory since it's clearly the Emperor and not Horus they're talking about, it happens right after the fight on the flagship.
EDIT: there used to be a theory that Rogal Dorn was actually sitting on the throne way back when.

Is it that Horus won the fight? He did, then the Emperor killed him with mind bullets. Horus also murdered Sanguinius before that. The original story was that the Emperor refused to fight back and then Horus beat the crap out of him. Afterwards, when the Emperors body was broken, a single human soldier stepped up between Horus and the Emperor (Saint Ollanius). Of course the human sold was a mere plaything to Horus and got wiped from existance. When the Emperor saw this he realised how far Horus had fallen and wiped him out from existance with psychic powers. He's known as "The anathema" in the warp and his psychic might has previously been proven to ve enough to devastate armies, so it's easily within his abilities.

Is the theory that Horus was a good guy? He's responsible for the biggest civilian murder in the history of them Imperium, save perhaps for Gogh Vandire. He slaughtered three legions of Astartes who trusted him, made sure the Imperium could never have peace, got half of the Astartes legions to start mundering civilians, unkowingly sabotaged safe interstellar travel in the Imperium and got completly corrupted by chaos. There's no going back from all that even if he had a change of heart at the end. Fulgrim actually did have a change of heart, realising what he'd done, but he was to far gone to do anything about it.

Is the theory that Abbadon is Horus? He's been around chaos marines that new Horus and could probably tell the difference through thousands of years.

Is the theory that "Horus" is a code word that gets Abbadon angry? He has said it himself on numerous ocassion, just look at chaos codex 3.5, Abbadons page. If so then Abbadon likes to be angry and say it alot himself.

Frankly I don't get it. Horus lost the battle for Terra and lowering the shields was his last ditch effort to remove the Emperor and thus demorilise the defenders. A gambit that did not pay off since,you know, he died. Fabius bild took his body, experimented on it and cloned it.

EDIT: Also the Emperor is a 60.000 year old immortal litteral god. I doubt he'd be easy to kill even if somehow stripped from his power, but it's probably easier to kill Draigo in the warp then it is to strip the Emperor of his powers.