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‘Since then I have crusaded across his empire for over a century, raising icons and faiths in his image – and only now he objects? After a hundred years, only now am I told that all I’ve done is wrong?’

Magnus kept his silence. The doubt he felt shone through his narrowed eye.

‘Magnus,’ Lorgar smiled as he saw the emotion on his brother’s face, ‘only the truly divine deny their divinity. It’s written thus in countless human cultures. He never denied his godhood when he first came to Colchis to take me into the stars. You were there. He witnessed weeks of celebrations in his honour, never once rebuking me for lauding him as a god. And since then? He has watched me crusade for him, never saying a word about what I’ve done. Only now, at Monarchia, did he bring down his wrath. When he decided my faith had to be broken, after more than a century.’

And?

"All right, I AM the Messiah!"

Monty Python aside, Lorgar is right about one thing: the Emperor could have called him to account earlier. But Lorgar, in turn, missed the point of Monarchia (ironic given his later conversation about the Night of the Wolf with Angron).

The Emperor didn't just passively accept divine worship - Which was the difference between Colchis' peaceful and enthusiastic compliance - but actively sought it and enshrined it in Imperial law in the case of the Cult Mechanicum. As long as it was useful.

But Lorgar had stopped being 'useful'. In the century since taking command of the Imperial Heralds and reforming them into the Word Bearers, he'd slowed the pace of conquest catastrophically. Yes, he delivered loyal and stable worlds but so did Gulliman, and faster - that was the point of the comparison.

Note that once he picked up the pace again, people stopped checking on him - even though now, they really should have!

Monty Python shouldn't be put aside at all, as it's satyrical content. Likewise Lorgar, post-Monarchia, getting out of his funk by addressing his legion, pointing out that his judgment is questionable, and deciding that the entire legion will massacre a nearby planet as a team-building exercise is the kind of hilarity that people don't notice.

Hey, when you're an Astartes legion - especially one destined to end up on the spikier side of life- the odd recreational war crime is a valid option for team-building exercises.