Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24944355-20141215055516/@comment-162.206.209.114-20170531053145

I think everyone is missing one really big important fact. The Emperor is the coalesced sum of a bunch of shamans who didn't want to be devoured by daemons when they died (before they could reincarnate). His tremendous psychic power effectively made him immortal and superhuman, but he's still basically just a really Really powerful shaman/psyker. If he dies, what's stopping him from reincarnating?

Granted, he would have to avoid being devoured by one of the chaos gods aaand...the whole human gate into the webway under his throne would unleash a horde of daemons on Terra, but I don't think the event would be sufficiently cataclysmic to generate a new Eye of Terror. Part of what created the Eye was, as SanguiniousLives pointed out, the Eldar were pretty uniformly corrupt by their decadent pursuits, but I would also point out that they, both as individuals and as a species, had a much more intense impact on the Warp realm than humans do. Comparing Emperor's true death to the events that created Slannesh is like comparing a tsunami from an earthquake to a supernova. Yeah, there's devastation, but the scale is wildly different.