Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24332685-20140111015135/@comment-6078851-20140111144752

this is technically the 6th thread - i started a 'return of the primarchs' thread about a year ago which ran to 3 parts, the first 2 being pretty big. it is nice to see just how much more there is to discuss :)

codex quote time again...

"buried yet deeper within the rock, hidden in its innermost chambers, is the final, greatest secret of the dark angels. only one person in the galaxy knows the full truth - the emperor. even in his living entombment upon the golden throne, even though the sunken orbits of his skull no longer have eyes, the emperor still sees much. hidden inside a secluded chamber at the heart of what was once the planet of caliban, unreachable by all save the cryptic watchers in the dark, the mighty primarch lion el'jonson lies sleeping. there he slumbers, his wounds long-healed, waiting for that time when he will be needed once again, when the clarion call of battle sounds for the last time, summoning him to once again defend the imperium of mankind against its enemies."

reading that again i've realised that there's no mention of stasis, so i'm not sure if i read elsewhere about him being in stasis or if i just assumed it from deductive reasoning - it makes sense if he's been in stasis for 10,000 years, yet the quote seems to suggest that he's been asleep: astartes can enter suspended-animation for quite a long time, but for 10,000 years?!?