Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130130174042/@comment-1713318-20130317214452

The Emperor never had a mother, He is the physical reincarnation of the gestalt entity composed of the souls the majority of old Earth's psykers.

That IS the main reason he has so much trouble with human perception and frailty: he never was one!

The posts above enumerate his 'failures', but as a wise man from another universe said: "It all depends on your point of view!". Ultimately, He approached every problem with His inhuman standards, and that, more than everything else, is the core of the problem:

- Favoritism: no, the Emperor loved all His sons equally. However, amongst them it was a baseic meritocraty, and those that succeeded the best recieved more attention and more challenging tasks

- Poor education? Aye, from a human point of view, certainly, E. was the worst father imaginable. But in His eyes, the Primarchs were primarily a tool, a mean to an end. One does not educate a hammer, one uses it. (This being said he wasn't THAT blunt, and tried to connect with His sons)

I can go on like this, but all and every error from the Emperor's part stems from His lack of real humanity. Lorgar was actually right when he considered the Emperor god-like, not because of His power, but because He simply stood above and beyond humanity and no longer really was part of it.