Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24.177.35.35-20130905071358/@comment-6078851-20130910153546

as far as i understand it he's completely aware of the imperiums state. i may be wrong but i think emps is, or very nearly, omniscient, at least in regards to the human race - besides the watchers he's the only person who knows of el'jonson's location.

he wants to "flip the light off". his entire being is in a state of constant torture: mentally his mind is constantly assailed by entities of the warp whom he holds at bay, physically his body, which he is inextricably linked to, is a 10,000 year old carcass, and spiritually his soul is under the greatest strain as he sees, very clearly, what humans do to each other in order to survive. he thinks letting the human race die might be a mercy, but his love and hope for us is so great that he's willing to indefinitely endure his tortures on the small chance that humanity might prevail.

quite a few of us have mentioned how emps is so far removed, emotionally, from humans, astartes and primarchs, because of his intellect and lack of understanding of us lesser beings, and yet the one thing that keeps him confined in his tourtures is something that's unequivocally human - hope.