Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25149066-20140730083800/@comment-6078851-20140813143505

@ masterofagony,

first off i didn't say that emps wouldn't know how it works, i said it's questionable if he knew how it worked.

secondly, yes emps was around in the dark age of technology, subtley influencing the race, but he wasn't in the limelight and no-one even knew of his existence. but emps wasn't/isn't all-powerful or all-knowing so there's nothing to say whether or not he knew how it worked.

and thirdly, knowing how to use something is completely different from knowing how it works: just because emps knew how to operate the throne doesn't automatically mean that he knew how it did what it did. given the importance of such an artifact, if emps knew how it worked then he probably would have built another. emps utelized a few things from the DAoT but even he was unable to recreate them.