Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-58.179.157.107-20140511083958/@comment-37.152.33.225-20160309072956

A very interesting topic. I feel the answer is quite simple though, The Emperor chose Horus because he was his favorite son and believed him to be the most loyal. The Emperor had full faith in his plans to appoint a Warmaster and undertake the webway project. Being a higher being and even in all his awsome might, I don't believe the Emperor fully understands the emotions of men such as jealousy that his sons were affected by, he is just too far removed from such things. This of course, proved to be his downfall, with his sons being all too human in this regard and therefore the HH being impossible to predict by the Emperor, despite him being possibly the most powerful being in the galaxy.

In hindsight, someone like the Lion may have made for a better Warmaster, he was/is one of the most lyal Primarchs, but then again, so was Horus. Being a huge fan of the HH books and the lore, I really can't see Sanguinius ever being corrupted so he possibly would have been the perfect Warmaster. But we have to understand that this is the way the Emperor saw Horus, uncorruptable. It is interesting though that Horus himself saw Sanguinius as the better choice. In my view this is because Horus was of course more human the Emperor and perhaps better understodd the flaws of his brother and he and maybe knew on some level, that Sanguinius was the most noble of all, least affected by trivial rivalries and would never be corrupted by Chaos.