Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-68.32.121.238-20141103170325/@comment-6078851-20141106151914

his arm was torn off: is that lore? every image i've seen of emps on the throne (post heresy) shows him with 2 arms.

and for everything that emps was there's one other thing he surpassed everyone else at: his self important arrogance. if emps hadn't personally seen the level of horus' descent into chaos then he probably would've died attempting to save him, possibly thinking that such a death would snap horus out of his 'rebellious phase'.

the amount of injuries emps took probably didn't hurt him as much as the realisation that he was utterly wrong, and the majority of the heresy could've been avoided if he had accepted that he could be wrong and listened to magnus.