Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24332685-20140111015135/@comment-18016240-20140728072326

Yamato Jim wrote: Well the Emperor doesn't exactly have a perfect score when it comes to fighting chaos so there is no telling if he would win even if he returned. Also there is no Guarantee that he will come back for a final battle. He could just die and resurect into another child in some random place. If the Chaos gods had a hard time eating him when he was a large number of shamans he would probably be even harder to eat now.

Ah but that was before there were Chaos Gods in the first place, back when the shamans did the whole "kill selves to become hive shaman" plan the only daemons around were very small since humanity hadn't had a large psychic foot print yet. If the Chaos Gods were around when the Emperor was being formed... it would likely not have ended well.