Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150807010020/@comment-27704958-20160130174944

Are you talking about this quote from Vengeful Spirit?

[Horus speaking]

"‘At the dawn of the great diaspora, the Emperor travelled here [to Molech] in humble guise and found the gateway to a realm of immortal gods. He offered them things only a god-in-waiting could offer, and they trusted Him. They gave Him a measure of their power, and with that power He wrought the science to unlock the mysteries of creation."

I understand this as though the Emperor already had his godlike-powers. He only bargained with the "power of creation," i.e. to create the Primarchs.

I find this very confusing because on the Lexicanum w40k wiki, in the articles about the Emperor and the Primarchs, it explicitly says that the Emperor got his own powers from the Chaos Gods, and the reference is just this book, Vengeful Spirit, and no page number.

Can someone point me at the direct quote where it says that the Emperor got his own power from the Chaos gods, and not just the power of creation to make the Primarchs? I have looked and I haven't found it. I'm starting to think that this idea of the Emperor getting his own powers from Chaos is at best a disputable interpretation of an ambiguous quote from the book, or at worst a misenterpretation of this quote where it says he bargained for the "power of creation."