Please, Just Call Me The Emperor of Mankind

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**Nurglitch**

epronovost wrote:
Esmer wrote:
Um, Napoleon Bonaparte? Guy made a point of crowning himself emperor without any sort of divine mandate.

Napoleon had to work hard to be crowned by the pope to give a sense of divine mandate and legitimacy to his rule.

As far as titles of supreme leadership in human history go, you really cannot go higher than emperor. Why settle for something lower?

As to not look like an unhinge megalomaniac with a god complex. Today even unhinged megalomaniacs with god complex don't call themselves king or emperor preferring more tame titles like President.

It used to be that unhinged megalomaniacs wanted demur titles like Caesar, or Princeps.

**=Angel=**

There are two 'it is the 41st millennium' openings.
The novel one, which ends and there is only war.
The rulebook one which ends you will not be missed.

**Hellebore**

Gadzilla666 wrote:
RaptorusRex wrote:
I think it’s worth recalling this introductory passage:

“For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium, for whom a thousand souls die every day, for whom blood is drunk and flesh eaten. “

*frantic searching through old codexes, rulebooks, and bl novels *

Where the feth do you get "for whom blood is drunk and flesh eaten "?

It's the original preface, found it RT and 2nd ed

**BrianDavion**

2nd edition also half a half-eldar ultramarine.

**Gadzilla666**

Hellebore wrote:
Gadzilla666 wrote:
RaptorusRex wrote:
I think it’s worth recalling this introductory passage:

“For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium, for whom a thousand souls die every day, for whom blood is drunk and flesh eaten. “

*frantic searching through old codexes, rulebooks, and bl novels *

Where the feth do you get "for whom blood is drunk and flesh eaten "?

It's the original preface, found it RT and 2nd ed

I see. Never could get my mother to buy me the original Rogue Trader when I was a kid.

**Duskweaver**

BrianDavion wrote:
2nd edition also half a half-eldar ultramarine.

Nope. Illiyan Nastase was only in RT. Tigurius had already replaced him by 2nd edition.

Also, the "for whom blood is drunk and flesh is eaten" phrase is still in the preface text in the 8th edition rulebook, so what are people arguing about?

**Skinflint Games**

Dude. that's in the original Rogue Trader, I remember that from '91