Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-96.237.238.119-20131218020230/@comment-24944355-20170225072511

I think the Emperor is going to have a choice of either returning to the physical realm but in the process giving up all the power he has accumulated over the past 10,000 years. or surrendering his mortal existence & becomming a good of the warp. If he remains & is healed the Emperor would be in a better position to oppose humainties enemies physically but would leave the Chaos gods unopposed in the warp & leave all human souls at risk of being devoured. If the Emperor completes his elevation to godhood he would be able to battle the Chaos gods for control of the warp & give the bulk of human souls a shepherd to protect them after death, but this would likely cause the astronomican to fail & leave the imperium - or whatever congomerate of realms that replace it - more vulnarable to attack in the physical universe.

Now some are going to say why can't he do both? but it obviously doesn't work like that otherwise the Chaos gods would have done it themselves & would already have devoured the galaxy. It appears that any warp entity that enters out reality from the warp sacrifices much of their power as it's been often stated that demons are weaker out of the warp & are in fact only able to exist for any length of time in areas where the warp leaks into the real world or when bound into some object or as a demonhost. And what goes for a demon it seems goes double for the Chaos gods & none of them would ever sacrifice most of their power just to exist permanently in the real world, even if they were able. Hell they wouldn't even do so for a temporary appearance as while they were weakened & absent their enemies (the other Chaos gods for example) would launch a devastating attack against it.

So all this leads me to believe that one of the main planks of the upcoming end times event will the Emperor's choice. And as the Emperor is a big picture, long term looking type we can say with a fair amount of confidance that The Emperor will choose godhood.