Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24944355-20141215055516/@comment-2A02:A451:6D52:1:1595:2A83:EC7E:3D18-20180509124814

My own 2 cents:

The Emperor is a Chaos God of ORDER

Bear with me a moment please:

The Immaterium, Chaos, contains witin all possibilities - including the possibility of structure.

In Real Life, time and time again it is proven that structures, an order, can spontenously arise in chaotic circumstances.Often, these structures try to grow and further organise the chaos around it.

The crystallisation of minerals out of over-saturated solutions, or ice forming out of water, comes to mind.

The Emperor that started as the collective reincarnation of Earth's early shamans is then the seed of a growing organised structure in the soup of Chaos. In a sense, He is Malice Plus: Malice is Chaos turning on Chaos, the Emperor is Order out of Chaos turning on Chaos.

The Emperor is Anathema to the Chaos gods, but at the same time does them a BIG favor: a common enemy, and nothing is as Chaotic as destroying Order.

Khorne would have less mass-carnage without organised armies, and less new weaponry without organised weapon research.

Nurgle would have less masses of people to infect without civilasation making those masses possible, and vaccines keep him sharp.

Without modern technologies, some advanced forms of Desire & Addiction are impossible, and nothing is as tempting as The Forbidden. Slaanesh also (ab)uses the Strife for Perfection, something helped by cultures setting standards.

In the massive organisation that is the Imperium many folks are at the bottom of the heap, they often have to Hope someting will Change for the better: food for Tseentch. And The Great Schemer likes nothing so much as abusing loopholes, so he profits too from any attempt to create Law & Order.

So the Big Four is actually the Big Five, as the Emperor is actuually an additional player in the Grand Game between the Chaos gods.

Big problem is the Emperor is in arrested development: the Golden Throne prevents Him from dieing, prevents Him from becoming reborn as the Starchild. But without the functions He fullfills from the Golden Throne - guiding the Astronomicon, Soulbinding weak psykers, etc.- the Imperium is doomed and the largest source of Order falls.

Excuses for my English and any typos.