Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24332685-20140111015135/@comment-18016240-20140716053234

153.107.33.152 wrote: it is written in the tarot only seen by those who truly believe, the emperor shall be reborn in the starchild. and the primarches will return when the emperor is born anew, warhammer will make this happen it will be a big turn for 40k but they will prlong this so they can make game after game about saving the imperiums world.

they will then make possible the star child theory possible and a new line of games where the emperor and the primarches return and start a series of chained victories against the heretical scum who sought to destroy the imperium.

altho this would take a long time due to if they brought back the emporer and the primarches the game series would have to end.

but i believe in the emperor he shall return with the primarches and anew the imperium of its defeats and billions of losses to victories and billions of wins and my 101st cadian regiment will be in his service when this happens ,FOR EMPEROR AND IMPERIUM!~general patton cammander of the 101st cadian

yes my points are everywhere but you guys i hope can understand^>^ Erm, right... I'm not sure I quite got that. Don't get me wrong I'm not intending this as a personal attack or anything but your writing skills (at least regarding English) are... pretty weak.

Now as a rebuttal (and my own interpretation of 40k.):

For one, GW won't advance the plot beyond the current point in any great degree because having the status quo as it is allows them to make all the money, so the Emperor will always be in a coma on the throne. He'll be dying, but he'll never be renewed or anything because the thought of something actually happening in the 40k universe probably makes GW collectively crap it's pants and start spamming retcons everywhere.

Here's the thing though, the tarot isn't always one hundred percent accurate, the reader can screw up and since it's power comes from the Emperor it isn't omniscient. As for the starchild theory that's all it is, a theory and an unlikely one at that given the circumstances. The reason why the Emperor could be born in the first place is because Chaos was just forming, so the amalgamation of souls was strong enough to destroy what few daemons were attacking it and form into the Big E, with the Chaos Gods around that's a much, much riskier gamble since if he died he'd be fully in the warp dealing with entities as powerful as he is on their home turf.

I don't really know where you're getting the idea that GW would make this new bit of fluff, but even in the event (however unlikely) that the Emperor was revived and the surviving primarchs came back it wouldn't be nearly as easy as just "gaining a chain of victories against the heretical scum". For one, the space marine legions have been broken up into many, many diverging chapters and we can't be fully certain that they'd all come running back into the fold of their primarchs all because they suddenly returned and said that the kids should come home. You also don't seem to have taken into account that Chaos wouldn't just sit there and let something so monumental happen, the traitor primarchs, greater daemons, and their other forces would immediately swoop in to try and destroy the loyalist primarchs and Emperor.