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** I always tought that the 'gods' who endorsed the emperor were humanity's own warp entities, like [[Greek Mythology|Zeus]] or [[Norse Mythology|Thor]] or possibly [[Egyptian Mythology|Ra]]. They got consumed by Chaos a long time ago (they only had energy from one planet of sentients, and they were so many of them that they didn't have enough power to resist) but were able to give their power to the Emperor before they were fully consumed. But since there's no canon evidence for such a thing, that's another WMG entirely... |
** I always tought that the 'gods' who endorsed the emperor were humanity's own warp entities, like [[Greek Mythology|Zeus]] or [[Norse Mythology|Thor]] or possibly [[Egyptian Mythology|Ra]]. They got consumed by Chaos a long time ago (they only had energy from one planet of sentients, and they were so many of them that they didn't have enough power to resist) but were able to give their power to the Emperor before they were fully consumed. But since there's no canon evidence for such a thing, that's another WMG entirely... |
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*** That doesn't really work, because the Emperor is supposed to have been around since prehistoric times, which means ''before'' any of those beings were worshiped, or even dreamed up. But consider this: who puts that inscription about the Emperor at the beginning of all the Warhammer 40K novels? The publisher, obviously. And who is the publisher? The Black Library. And what is the Black Library? It is the repository of all the information the Eldar have collected on Chaos over the millennia. So why are all these stories about the ''Imperium'' coming out of an archive that's supposed to be about ''Chaos''? Because the whole Imperium unwittingly serves Chaos, because the Emperor is an agent of Chaos. It's all some big [[Xanatos Gambit]], probably by Tzeentch. |
*** That doesn't really work, because the Emperor is supposed to have been around since prehistoric times, which means ''before'' any of those beings were worshiped, or even dreamed up. But consider this: who puts that inscription about the Emperor at the beginning of all the Warhammer 40K novels? The publisher, obviously. And who is the publisher? The Black Library. And what is the Black Library? It is the repository of all the information the Eldar have collected on Chaos over the millennia. So why are all these stories about the ''Imperium'' coming out of an archive that's supposed to be about ''Chaos''? Because the whole Imperium unwittingly serves Chaos, because the Emperor is an agent of Chaos. It's all some big [[Xanatos Gambit]], probably by Tzeentch. |
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**** Timing is not a problem, given how little is known. "Have been around since prehistoric times" may apply in different senses: if he absorbed servants of the Old Gods of humanity, part of him ''was'' around and he remembers all this. Also, gods may have many names, and can always be older than just the last alias, so who knows when they really appeared? And/or it doesn't have to be a single event, he could have been first used as the last resort escape from complete death long ago, then the last gods losing the war knew about him and used what already was proven to work. |
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*** [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Tartar Sauce!]] And it was a good theory too. What about the Great Mother and the Great Horned One? They can't be aspects of Slaanesh then, as s/he was born during the Fall of the Eldar, which was thousands of years after the Emperor's birth. Sorry, grasping at straws here. |
*** [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Tartar Sauce!]] And it was a good theory too. What about the Great Mother and the Great Horned One? They can't be aspects of Slaanesh then, as s/he was born during the Fall of the Eldar, which was thousands of years after the Emperor's birth. Sorry, grasping at straws here. |
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