Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-69.142.168.238-20140724005240/@comment-2125941-20181026222233

I think putting the emperors restrain in the climax fight of the heresy only on his "fatherly love" would be a bit much, sounds almost absurd.

Of course the emperor showed a special affection to his sons escpecially Horus but i don't think it would really restrain him thaat much.

Remember the whole short story about the end fight from the emperors perspective is about doubt. Anything to this point, the whole heresy, was a disctraction by the chaos gods to weaken the emperor for this final confrontation to kill him off.

They try to take the emperor at his weakest including him heavily doubting and restraining himself. To accomplish that they defile his own work and throw his favored son against him while gathering strength for the strike.

The whole heresy was only a tool used by the chaos gods to get a clean shot to kill off the emperor and it almost worked.

But at the very last moment the emperor sees through the trap, the doubt is washed away, he regains his vision and one shots the Chaos Gods assault.

In the end they both failed in taking the other out.