Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20130906234048/@comment-6078851-20141123175750

zixis, the discussion is now in regards to the wiki contributor's post regarding 40k's story being advanced around 2016. and the fact is that gw, if they want to continue making money, need to advance the story since it's fanbase is being continually disillusioned by their dodgy market practices, and many 40k fans are leaving gw for other gaming companies.

the emperor is a perpetual and you are sure it's fact and not a theory? i'm sorry zixis but it is only a theory, even in-universe it's only a theory, as there is literally zero information of a factual nature regarding emps' perpetualness - no factual information means not fact but theory/opinion. and as we are talking in regards to the post of gw advancing the story by having emps move to a warp entity by his body dying then that would mean, by default, that he isn't a perpetual. obviously just because it's written doesn't make it true (this is the internet and anyone can say anything) but i'm choosing to trust that particular post as being true since i desperately want the story to move on.

sang, i didn't mean emps would always be less powerful as a warp entity than as mortal but rather that since he would be dead there would be so many people who would lose faith, his death would devastate the imperium regardless of how long his 'ascension' took and a massive portion of the faithful would have their belief destroyed. he would take time to get used to his new form and its abilities, and with belief in him waning i think it would be a while before his power would exceed what he had as a mortal. in time psykers would start to notice the emergence of a new entity in the warp and would, or ought to, realise that it was emps, after which belief in him would start to rise again, ultimately allowing him to become more powerful than he was as a mortal.