Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-6078851-20130407131050

regarding the possible healing of roboute guilliman.....

primarchs have/had exceptional regenerative abilities but the poison in guillimans system was about to kill him, despite his regen abilities, in minutes. as i understand it that particular poison was specifically created to kill primarchs (by a chaos god, nurgle i think) and against guilliman it was doing exactly that - killing him, and quickly to boot.

there is no time flow in a stasis field, so if he is indeed healing it has to be happening 'outside' the stasis field so to speak, because if there's no time flow within it then there can be no cellular activity, either regenerative or degenerative, which is why he was placed in the stasis in the first place - to halt the progress of the poison. maybe peoples faith does have an effect in this instance or maybe the emperor himself is creating the healing.

if, however, time does flow at a minscule rate then he is still dying, and he will die. the poison is a primarch killer and it renders their regenerative abilities ineffectual, so if it was killing him in 'normal' time then it's still killing him in stasis' 'reduced' time.