Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-86.190.171.142-20150101083331

I wasn't really trying to suggest it would destroy it, more allow the enemy a too large an advantage, at a tactically perilous moment, to risk having the combined loyalist forces cut off whilst the traitors had unhindered travel from their warp  god patrons. A very very large amount could happen in a few hours etc

I was under the impression that the refractory period of regeneration for a perpetual was shorter than a day but longer than minutes but I'm not sure so maybe.

Emperor not knowing he was a perpetual...potentially likely I suppose if he was previously too powerful to never die then it would be difficult to know you were a perpetual, as opposed to simply long lived or such.