Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-67.197.44.118-20130216115719/@comment-1657156-20130412230608

Marshall Silverman wrote: Ok. Because of the highly probable scenario that Sindry Myr proposed, i redirected some serious brain power and this is my idea of how incorporating the `death` of The Emperor and the Rhana Dandra taking place might be connected. And keep in mind that 40k is above all realistic decisions and outcomes taking place in a fantasy setting, it might not be the most optimistic of stories, but that is because 40k has an abundance of realism, from which the grim darkness originates.

If The Emperor were to die -- be it through the Golden Throne failing, assassination, or whatever -- the reprecussions would be BAD.

Just prior to the Horus Heresy, The Emperor was trying to open a webway-portal for human use at the base of the Imperial Palace. Doing so, though, created a fissure in real-space that allowed for daemons to emerge. The fissure was not very big, however, and The Emperor and his scientists were able to create psy-wards, that contained the daemons within the breach, as they continued work on the Terran webway portal. This changed during the Horus Heresy. Magnus the Red, the Primarch with the greatest psyker abilities, had visions of the Horus Heresy and was absolutely certain that Horus was about to begin his coup. There wasn't time to warn The Emperor using conventional astropaths because it simply was not a fast enough communications medium. In a fit of panick, he sent The Emperor a psy-message, across a distance of thousands of light-years, from Prospero to Earth. But doing this required him to use sorcery, which was outlawed in the Imperium because of its unpredictable 'side-effects'.

Magnus's good intentions couldn't have gone worse.

The psy-message reached The Emperor almost instantly. However, one of its side-effects was to destroy the psy-wards that were repelling daemons from the site of the Terran webway portal. In turn, this allowed a flood of daemons -- that had been 'bottlenecked' in the warp on their side of the psy-wards -- to enter real-space. Not only was the Emperor's work destroyed and his scientists slaughtered, but the fissure became too great to repel with psy-wards. This is when The Emperor began continuously residing within the Golden Throne: only his psyker-might was powerful enough to repel the flood of daemons that would otherwise emerge and destroy the Earth.

Ergo, if The Emperor to die, there would be a cataclysmic flood of daemons on an unfathomable scale that would emerge. The flood would be so great and so sudden, that it would cause a massive psy-explosion and result in a massive fissure in real-space; just as happened with the Eldar just prior to the awakening of Slaanesh.

This begs the question, though... 'If the Eldar's cataclysm resulted in the awakening of Slaanesh, what would a Terran cataclysm result in? Would the Starchild materialize and awaken, or might it lead to something evil and terrible?'