Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150807010020/@comment-75.110.141.122-20180623165325

The authors of the series have been really careful with trying to not to reveal too much about the Emperor. It’s stated in Master of Mankind during his vision of his childhood that he shows to Ra that he used psychic powers to kill his uncle in retribution for the murder of his father, so he had psychic powers by then. I wasn’t a fan of the whole Molech portal thing until I finally read the book and realize that a lot of people jump to the conclusion that Emps is just a wannabe chaos god. What is stated in the book is... 1. Emps went to Molech during the Dark Age of Technology with a group of perpetuals. 2. His goal was to obtain the knowledge to create the Primarchs. 3. He went into the portal and came out with what he needed to continue his work. 4. A daemon tells Horus that Emps made a bargain with Chaos for what he was seeking, which he later broke. I wouldn’t trust a daemon with anything. To treat with Chaos when your goal to destroy Chaos just sounds completely devoid of foresight. He already had the scientific knowledge needed to create their physical forms. In Deliverance Lost it’s revealed that he used Dark Age cloning tech to make the Primarchs. In creating the closest thing as possible to “equals” he can copy and paste his body but not his soul, and that’s where the Molech trip comes in. The Molech portal leads to the palaces of each Chaos God, with the point of it’s existence being to create champions of Chaos. Conquer each one and you receive the blessings of all. I like to think Emps went far enough down the path to get what he needed and then promptly left. I imagine a humorous scenario where he’s right at the point of no return, then rips a book off a shelf and runs off like a Welshman and the Chaos gods are like “Oh shit.”