Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6767898-20130227013545/@comment-66.120.29.153-20130410194909

If the faith of billions could heal someone, the trillions across the Imperium would have healed the Emperor sometime in the last ten thousand years and if anything he's deteriorating faster. Guilliman healing is just wishful thinking on the part of the Ultramarines. Faith requires that you believe that something is true, regardless of whether there is proof it's true. The empyrean is affected in psychic emotional energy and as all cited miracles that occur are moments of sheer desperation, facing death and cleaving to faith even more strongly as you face your end fearlessly, these spikes can manifiest in the miracles such as the sanguinor, the fires of the flame falcons or the smaller miracles experienced by the sisters of battle. Day to day faith doesn't seem to get a lot of mileage miracle-wise.

I hate to say it, but the primarchs will never return. It would be such a story breaker and a game breaker if anything like that happened that the franchise would never recover. Who would care about the story of mankind after the primarchs show up and win the universe? What would happen when every army gets to use an uber super hero character?

Note about Ultramarine pride, the mental conditioning of Ultramarines goes much further than what they go through in neophytes. Unlike almost every other chapter cited, the Ultramarines are an active part of the society they live in. Ultramar is the largest area (number of planets, number of people) under the influence of any chapter, and it's one that they directly have a hand in governing. The people in Ultramar are raised in awe and veneration of the Ultramarines, so when a neophyte is accepted he already has literally hundreds of generations of conditioning behind him and has no doubt that he is joining the elite of an already prosperous and elitist society (compared to much of the imperium). So when that initiate is told about the superiority of the Ultramarines compared to other chapters and the infallibility of the Codex Astartes, your'e damn sure he's going to believe it with every bit of his heart and soul.