Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-6078851-20141220151147

if it's true about emps dying to become a warp entity with the end times plot advancement then, whether or not he becomes a god of order, technically he could be called a chaos god: not in terms of causing the suffering of corporeal sentience but rather like the chaos gods themselves his existence would be entirely reliant upon the emotional input from corporeal sentience. a large part of his current warp presence is due to the emotional input of humans but he is, very technically, still alive and corporeal so doesn't need such to exist, but part of being a warp entity is the fundamental requirement of emotion from sentient life to exist.

as for returning primarchs: with most of the loyalists it's simply unknown whether or not they still live, with the exception of el'jonson and guilliman (and personally i think gulliman is dead the second his stasis is switched off). with vulkan we can confidently assume that he still lives, with his perpetualness and all, but without an eyewitness we can't truly be sure, although i believe he does indeed live on and personally i think he is the most qualified to take up the mantle of ruler of the imperium (should he return in such time that the imperium still exists). and while it's always unpopular to say so, there is the distinct possibility that they are all dead (although i'm fairly sure that gw wont have that, and will contrive to resurrect 1 or 2 who were dead), and after gulliman wakes and dies that would leave only the lion. there's a degree of poetry in that: after emps' death the only primarch left to carry on his works is the 1st one he created. i don't believe this would happen but it would be good if it did - not good for humanity in 40k, it would be terrible for them, but good that gw could advance the plot without re-dressing old plot.