Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-6078851-20130402152947

the emperor should definitely have told at least 1 primarch everything he knew about daemons and their masters, horus being the obvious one to tell.

i have a notion:

the gods refer to emps as the anathema, i imagine his power having a lot to do with this title, but what if it also had something to do with his 'imperial truth'. there are no gods in the classical sense - life wasn't created by an entity that then demanded worship - but there are beings who can create facsimilies of life and who grow in power when worship and ritual are directed at them.

i'm thinking that the emperor's idea that nothing exists that should be worshipped is maybe part of his anathema-ness. the gods all exist through the rage, despair, sadism etc of sentient species, but these species also believe in the notion of gods. maybe a belief in gods is the first step in the creation of one - the emperor himself could be used as evidence. so maybe his 'imperial (there are no supernatural deities so don't bother believing in them) truth', if it was carried to fruition through his use of the primarchs, would have resulted in the eventual demise of chaos gods completely.

if so then tzeentch would have seen this demise. he would have then told (or manipulated) the others - schemes are schemed and plans are planned - and the primarchs are then scattered and over time fully half of them manipulated into aiding chaos. the irony being that the primarchs who would have aided the demise of the gods are then responsible for aiding the demise of the imperium, i reckon tzeentch is a big fan of irony.

if any of this is accurate it's maybe why the emperor shared so little about chaos with the primarchs.