Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150807010020/@comment-212.250.144.60-20160905093958

Solid theory Attank. What we need to remember is that there is simply no way the Emperor 'got his powers' from the Dark Gods. It just wouldn't make any sense if it was written and is precisely the reason it isn't written. People making this ridiculous claim on here have no understanding of 40k lore and/or are trying to see something that simply isn't there.

What is there and makes sense is that as Attank says, the Emperor most likely gained knowledge to create the Primarchs from the Chaos Gods, nothing more. That makes sense. From there we can freely speculate what the Chaos Gods apparently wanted in return, but that doesn't mean they somehow made the Emperor more powerful in any way other than granting him that knowledge.

The false theory that the Emperor 'got his powers' from the Chaos gods is, as someone else said earlier, akin to the equally false theory that the Lion is a traitor - both ridiculous ideas from people wanting to see something that doesn't exist.