Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150114163201/@comment-25869775-20150126221253

I don't know if we have any real reason to think that his abilities would be a shade of what they were, but I will acknowledge that your perspective has merit. =) He was a quite a guy back in the day though.

If he does lose his gear for some reason but retains the favor of the Four, Ezekiel could technically become a Prince and thus win that fight. He has turned down ascension for now because it is suitable that an astartes leads an army of astartes; plus he hopes to hit Terra eventually and that would be harder as a Prince(materialization issues). But I digress. Losing the favor of the gods would be the death of Ezekiel, they themselves would kill him to set the example, not Huron. So I think we should take that out of the equation.

As 4 the race question with Astartes. It should be mentioned that the Emperor was/is white. Basically the prime-proto Indo-European man. So it makes sense that the majority of the Primarchs were white, and thus the space marines too.

As far as regular imperials(non astartes) there seems to be a more or less even distribution of races in the 40 literature that I have thus read. It would not be too far fetched to say that Emps might have had certain prejudices, but I would not say he had any really animosity towards any human being because of their race. Emps was the great unifier. Your point is not entirely without merit though, as it seems culturally too the Imperium is very white, specifically southern European. E definitely has a hand in this at least. And why not, its his Empire. Your plague theory could be the case as well as we whites have outlasted plagues more so than other peoples.