Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20130906234048/@comment-6078851-20141119134909

that's an interesting idea and i can see the plausability of sanguinius' soul being anchored in the collective blood angels. although why does anyone have to fill in for the emperor? emps dies, those primarchs still alive return to help the remnants of the crumbling imperium, amongst whom may be sanguinius, stave of it's impending doom, but without the emperor that doom would be inevitable (the doom of the imperium, not humanity).

if the approaching 'end times' is a genuine attempt to forward the story then the imperium must fall, or at least begin to fall in ernest. if emps gets reincarnated, or something like sanguinius returns to sit on the throne, then the story isn't really going to move forward at all, it'll pretty much just return to the imperium attempting to survive, dominate, and still stagnating. in my humble opinion if the imperium survives the end times then it's just a cop-out, and will be extremely disappointing.