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the game wouldn't be as fun if he dies, or lived again. religious zealetry has been fueling war for milleania. it wouldn't make sense.

I still say its like the movie "Dogma"... He can't die because of the machine, but once he is allowed to, he will rise again with his full powers.

I think he will die and go to paradise with a few pet chickens and a dog called Lesley, then the vampire Jesus(Mephiston) dies due to fact that he had a blood overdose. The emperor is telepathicly informed of this and is so happy that Mephiston has died that he returns to rule the imperium!

Or things just stay as normal and as they always have been during the 40k game.

(I don't like Mephiston)

As the star child, who the hell is that? Voted for it anyways...

He will rise again as the Star Child.

Because I am old and I don't forget old background and lately GW's been bringing back the old stuff in droves.

Nah this is how it goes emperor dies,everyone loses faith,necrons build pylons and close off the warp but just before the emperor gets reincarnated c'tan try to eat people emperor steps in and c'tan get banished to an alternitive universe until the end of time.

ZacktheChaosChild wrote:No. If he came back, that would ruin the grimdark.

This is what I think, too. If he came back it would be too... hopeful? Optimistic?

By the way, how do they normally advance the storyline? I asked my local GW if the new rulebook advanced the storyline when I bought it, and they basically said no, and that they think they will advance it in the codexes. Is that the way it's normally done? Or is it via novels? Or what?

An eldar farseer once saw the next event that will take place after the dead of the emperor, in the same date that the emperor dies, the GOD OF DEATH IS BORN a god so powerful that will eliminate all the other chaos gods...........maybe the emperor will become the nex god of death

I would prefer to think that he's already dead and he's not powering the Astronomicon, but rather the thousands of psykers sacrificed every day.

Also, on my time on Dakka I've learned that debating this is pointless because the canon is all contradictory and crazy regarding this stuff. In the end it all comes down to personal preference. If you think the background will be better if he's alive, then you'll think he's alive and if you think the background will be better when he's dead, then you'll think he's dead.

Other. It would ruin the whole universe if he died or came back. The god of death idea is interesting. Where did you hear/read that?

The Inquisition will do whatever it takes to make sure he's preserved as is because it controls the untold billions of people. His true death is a feared thing for the Inquisition. But I'm sure right after the Emperor got into his yellow chair he was like "Please do not circumvent our word filter. Thanks. Manchu did I just du? Fak..." now he's trapped with all these leeches keeping him alive. If he were allowed to die, I'm sure he'll just battle the gods in the immaterium for eternity still fullfilling his current role but also actively fighting chaos on another front. Him and Draigo duo of awesome-sauce for eternity! Did I just troll 800 people with that last sentence?

Thinking about it again now, I can see a massive invasion of, I dunno, Tyranids, and the only hope is the Emperor for some reason. So the Eldar launch a mass assault on Terra, kill the Emp, and free his spirit to be reborn as "......." who then promptly goes about roflstomping everything in site.

It could lead to a nice story of the Eldar assault on Terra, and then the IoM's galactic search for the emperors resurrected form, and then the eventual battle of the titans. All the while this massive invasions still going on. Lots of sub stories can come from that

What if the eldar made the emperor their god of the dead, kill chaos maybe save themselves?

I chose the destroy all AI ending.

Blazesnake wrote:What if the eldar made the emperor their god of the dead, kill chaos maybe save themselves?

Kaela Mensha Pwn?

The Eldar god of the dead is named Ynnead, and Eldrad predicts that when all of the Eldar have died, that the infinity circuit will have enough souls to awaken Ynnead, and he will rise and slay Slaaneesh forever, freeing all of those Eldar who had been consumed, Its on the same page as Guardians.

kitch102 wrote:I think he's already dead, and that the IoM is wasting their time praying to what is essentially a 40k eqyptian mummy equivalent. However, I think it'd be awesome if he were somehow to be brought back to life. How? Future tech, recovery of STC's, chaos playing about, who knows, though itd have to be at the end of mankinds time, when the emperor & his loyal primarchs stand side by side once again

It has been canonically stated that the Emperor is alive. And before you bring up that "All fluff that says he's alive is Imperial propaganda" argument, I'd like to point out that much of the same fluff deems the Imperium to be on the verge of collapse. The only official fluff that says he's dead is what is presented as Chaos propaganda.

I believe that the emperor will die and billions upon billions will lose faith allowing chaos to flood into this universe full stream
millions of world fall prey to the chaos gods. chaos creates a new empire of servants hell bent on destroying the last
of the Imperium of man. the chaos empire becomes the dominating power bringing them into direct conflict with orks that infest
the galaxy and tau that still spread their message of the greater good. orks just enjoy the fight while the tau seeing this evil begin battles on hundreds if not thousands
of world. these battle taint some of the soldier and Ethereals of tau. these tainted few come to see the power of chaos, they also fall prey to the
chaos and start worrshipping them. the tyrainds are still gonna do what they do best, consume. the dark eldar become embolden and start preying upon more worlds then ever.
in doing so they leave the webway open of longer and longer periods of time
allowing chaos to seeping in. c'tan and the necrons still fight to resurrcute their empire, now with chaos everywhere, this brings c'tan in to direct conflict with the chaos gods. mankind splitter into different factions: most worshiping chaos, few worshiping the dead emperor and the least following the last primarch and the star child when the both come
out of hiding. this new Imperium of man forge their own empire and unites the last pockets of man. seeing the old Imperium
of man will not change their ways in worshiping a dead emperor does not accept them. now mankind is in a three way battle with mankind of survival. new Imperium vs old Imperium vs chaos Imperium.

The emperor will die soon. His throne is failing, the mechanicus made it worse trying to fix it, and if he dies, most of the universe will get murdered by the horrible stuff that will break out of the warp

ZacktheChaosChild wrote:No. If he came back, that would ruin the grimdark.

mingus89 wrote:he shouldnt ressurect, as hes not dead, his mind and body are in the immaterium, as his worshipers allow that to happen by praying to him, also ressurecting him would stop 40k dead.

Crystal Geyser wrote:he will stay like this forever

Tech Guard wrote:Nope GW won't let him come back, plain and simple!!!

As others have pointed out, the Emperor will remain in his current state as long as the 40K game exists. The Astronomican, the imbecilic Lords of Terra, and the IoM battling to survive in a Grim Dark universe all require maintenance of the status quo.

The emperor is in a chair and eating thousands of people daily. They cannot heal him otherwise they would've already (not to mention it would end 40k as we know it) and they definatly wont let him die as that would be the greatest heresy.

if magnus the red could reform after his head got cut of the emporer could reform too

On a side note, IF the Emperor was to wake up, it would be ironic that the first he would turn against would be his own! The Inquisition, the Imperial Guard, the Lords of Terra, even his Marines have fallen so far from what he had envisioned for humanity that he would definitely feel the urge to kick their butts and start from scratch again.

As others before me, I also agree that the Emperor will and indeed should NOT return. If he did, then the game would really have to be called 41k from that moment on, since it will be something completely different.

 kitch102 wrote:
Thinking about it again now, I can see a massive invasion of, I dunno, Tyranids, and the only hope is the Emperor for some reason. So the Eldar launch a mass assault on Terra, kill the Emp, and free his spirit to be reborn as "......." who then promptly goes about roflstomping everything in site.

It could lead to a nice story of the Eldar assault on Terra, and then the IoM's galactic search for the emperors resurrected form, and then the eventual battle of the titans. All the while this massive invasions still going on. Lots of sub stories can come from that

Imagine that as a worldwide campaign revealed on December 21st! If that happened, that seems to be a way to progress the story but still keep it sort of grimdark.

Other: We will never know because, in all honesty, the plot will never progress.

 Yojiro wrote:
Other: We will never know because, in all honesty, the plot will never progress.

I believe that too.

Write-in: I believe the Emperor will resurrect in some fashion nobody has readily predicted, because evidence from books like Mechanicum pretty much flat out say that is what he does. Odds are the Emperor is probably walking amoungst the people of the Imperium of Mankind unbenknownst to them, working towards his ends in earnest as usual.

It was hinted in 5th that his portapotty was broken/breaking. So he's probably dead/dying.

Yes, as a £100 quid modle from either FW or GW....

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