Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-5781149-20130130013422/@comment-184.88.215.62-20130317204150

First of all Ciaphas Cain did not enter the Schola Progenium at birth but spent his first years running wild in the underhive on an unknown planet where he'd have had plenty of time to polish survival skills like a silver tongue and acting ability. Then he was in the Schola for several years before being picked for Commissarial training and indoctrination giving him time to learn how to apply his subversive skills in his new environment. He thus succeeded in putting up the necessary front to slide by - and my bet is he isn't the only one to have done so.

But in fact he believes as sincerely in the Emperor as any more conventionally pious subject, he just doesn't believe that He can take time out from sustaining Galactic Order in the face of Chaos to personally manage Ciaphas' own life.Though as the years and a thousand dangers pass this becomes more a hope than a conviction. As he often says; if the Emperor is indeed watching He has a nasty sense of humor.