Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Novels/@comment-194.237.158.57-20130818152037/@comment-25895989-20141222142427

I'm thinking about the motives and mores of this omniscient being. Why would he go all "deadbeat dad" and just run off?

He wouldn't.

I think he knew that it was unravelling. He is supposedly the only one who is perpetuating the "there's no chaos/warp/Evil with a capital E" mythos who actually knows it isn't true. Now he has these 20 sons (oops, 18 now) and they are running around and growing and QUESTIONING. They are going to figure it out, and find out, and its all going to blow up.

He built this invincible mechanism that is his Imperium only to realize that he made it much too strong, and it will run amok. So he rushes back to Terra. He knows that he can puzzle out the damn Webway and get it set up (much like the Unremembered Empire's conveyor beacon), then he CAN actually seal off the warp. He is the Emperor, he has the knowledge and power of all the mysticism of his entire species. He can sacrifice himself to seal it off. The one thing he knows will doom us all.

But he guessed wrong, and when he made his kids, he made them far, far too human. He ran out of time, and Magnus & Horus blew up his schedule.

I like to think he was just making the difficult choices to get us to where he really wanted humanity to be;  he just couldn't make it work out