Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20130906234048/@comment-24944355-20141123002416

The emperor would be far more powerful as a warp entity than as a mortal. The golden throne boosts his Mortal power but most of the Emperors power now lies in the warp with the souls of trillions of human worshippers await him and he can access only a fraction of it's potential. The reason he can't access that power is because he is still bound to the mortal world & if he tried to manifest his full warp potential his body would burn out instantly. It's the same reason none of the warp gods manifest in the mortal realm - they are simply too powerful hold a mortal avatar without giving up the bulk of their power.

My view is the golden throne is failing because even with the bulk of his power waiting in the warp the Emperor has become so powerful that he is burning the throne out. The reason he hasn't entered the warp yet is because when he does the astronomican will fail & the imperium will shatter and become easy meat for chaos unless the Emperor is able to meet all of the chaos gods with enough power at his disposal to at least reduce their influence in the real world - most likely by closing the big warp rifts. So the Emperor is holding on to life so as to build his warp power as high as he can before the warp war with chaos can begin.