Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130130174042/@comment-6078851-20130314153646

i agree that GW probably won't forward the story much (if at all!!) but if the story did progress the emperor will die, and here's why...

the emperor is a corporeal being, he didn't burst into existence because of peoples' emotions and beliefs. now granted he has a colossul presence in the warp which is boosted by belief, but this is technologically augmented. now this technology is failing, and when it fails two things happen - 1, the emperors warp presence will be vastly and terminally diminished allowing the gods to destroy him utterly, if he lasts that long because, 2, when the throne goes the emperors corporeal form finally succumbs to the bane of all corporeal existence - entropy, death, non-existence. as i've mentioned elsewhere i think that because the emperors mind is still inextricably connected to his body, when the body goes so too does the mind.

now i'm aware of the hole in this theory - logic. i'm also aware that GW more than frequently ignores logic.