Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Novels/@comment-194.237.158.57-20130818152037/@comment-3258762-20130819233354

1: It is implied that the 2nd Primarch was executed on orders of the Emperor by Leman Russ and his Legion.

2: The problem for the Emperor is that he is too intelligent. The reason he felt religion was unneccesary was because he had never been faced with a problem he could not outthink, which most people face sooner or later, and such never felt the need for any certainty other than that he could tackle the problem. When it comes to squabbles, such as Russ' or Lorgars superstition or Angrons anger, he could not look upon it the way a human would, and feel their emotions, he would only see it logically. It was logically unsound to be superstitious, and it was logically sound to teach Lorgar a lesson.

But what he never thought of was that it was emotionally sound to be superstitious, especially in the 40k universe, and that it was emotionally unsound to teach Lorgar a lesson.