Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-86.190.171.142-20150101171117

I concur, I have a feeling that the Emperor is trapped in a feedback loop of sorts where he is very powerful as he has next to no physical body to imped his abilities (working on the principals that blind/deaf etc people of find other facualties increase to compensate), but also not really physical abilty to kill him self/let himself die. As I have a feeling he can't will himself to die.

So I think as he is effectively in a coma, he is trapped within the nigh corpe of what he is now, doing his best.

Maybe the Emperor expected to die, the last conversations he is reported to have with Dorn et al suggest he was fairly fatalistic so perhaps he expected to live out abit - long enough - to help bring the civil war to a managable point via the Golden Throne then perish. Maybe he over estimated the Golden Thrones abilites to maintain him. I look forward to reading on the matter from the Dark Library...cough splutter, sorry, Black Library.

I'm hoping that he'll die, turn back up again and roll back some of the tide of mutant, alien, heratic and daemon tearing at all the good, Emperor believing, human types of the universe.