Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-98.81.158.208-20140213190331/@comment-66.87.121.181-20170503101430

I personally think that the Emperor is actually a concept. Let me explain. I'm not sure who it was but one of the plague lords​ followers said something along the lines of "The universe is cyclic, life springs forth into the universe like a flower but life is imperfect. Therefore it creates chaos. Chaos gets stronger the more chaos gets stronger until order can't stop it (a nice lil paradox for you brought to you by the whole everything you do feeds one of them somehow) it consumes the universe thus destroying itself (alpha legion cabal interaction) but out of the destroyed universe life springs anew repeating the cycle" I love this because it explains everything. The old ones spring up. They have amazing pyschic ability due to a calm warp without daemons. They create new races to seed the Galaxy. These new races are imperfect just as the ones who created them are imperfect. The speices create turblence in the warp which spawns the chaos gods (which makes the four gods a concept as well.) The species begin to fall to there imperfections as they evolve. The anathema shows up to prevent chaos from consuming order (the emperor which means the whole of humanity and the emperor is a replaying concept along with the eldar and there fall because someone has to birth slaanesh. A universal again and again.) Humans flock to the Emperor. The big betrayel happens (Horus heresy.) Chaos looses but secretly wins (big E being order can't ever kill his son right off so they wound him making him on life support) the stagnation makes chaos stronger until they wipe out all life and the cycle begins anew. This process explains why he is called the anathema (as opposed to the eldar gods). Why the chaos gods always say we've been around for all time when the books say that's not technically true. Why there are references to different time lines (different incarnations of the Galaxy in which different primarches fall, different arch betrayer so on and etc...) Why the shamans who all have supreme power would create the emperor (because it's there part to play in protecting life) why there are over arching beielf systems and motifs (like Christianity)that have an apoclpytic final showdown with chaos (rhana dandra) amd most importantly it fixes the biggest plothole in 40k. how a badass super pyschic like the emperor wouldn't have seen the Horus heresy coming a mile away (he did but he doesn't know which one of his sons will be the arch heretic plus again it's his part to play to protect life) souls are just warp energy after all so once the slate is wiped clean all souls return to the energy of the warp the sea of souls put back to state of being calm and clean and life starts over defying death once again. Yin yang bitches.