What if, due to some horrible mix up, the one on the golden throne isn't The Emperor, but Horus, as in the devastation after their battle it was impossible to tell one body from another? What if this is why CSM scream DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR and why Alpha Marines still shout for the Emperor? What if this is what Cypher is coming to Terra to reveal? What if this is the real reason elements of the Inquisition resist attempts to revive the Emperor?
>Inb4 master of mankind
Fuck off and no one likes you and your books are aweful
>>50982211
What if this is why the whole event is referred to as the Horus HERESY, because of the soppressed heretical belief Horus is on the throne? What if this is why Abaddon hasn't assaulted Terra yet after 12 black crusades?
What if this is why the origins of the Grey Knights are suppressed, because they use Luna wolf geneseed?
>>50982211
>impossible to tell one body from another
This is where it falls down.
>>50982211
>>50982352
What are Custodes?
> gee could the guy we've been guarding and following all our lives be the one in the gold armour with all the eagles? Or is it the one with the dark, spiky one with all those eyes and runes
The emperor could still directly communicate for a decent amount of time after he was wounded.
Also other people were in the room when they fought.
>>50982211
what about that thing he does with the astropaths i think it was
maybe thats why nobody seems to be able to describe the expirence
What if the Emperor was dead, and knowing that without the Emperor, the empire put a mortally wounded Horus on the throne in his stead to give the appearance of legitimacy.
>>50983050
*the empire would collapse, so they put
>>50982246
GK actually use "fixed" Magnus' gene-seed
>>50982401
Anf the armour will surely not be affected by the BIGGEST FUCKING PSYCHIC BATTLE OF ALL TIME. Smaller psychic duels turned adamantium and steel around to marshmallows and purple goo as a side-effect of psychic fallout.
Let's be honest in the dark all Mon-keigh look grey.
>>50983050
That would be pretty hilarious, and would be a great way of ending 40k as a whole before rocks fall and kill the entire universe so they can make Age of Horus.
that would have some interesting implications on the astropath soul binding
>>50983344
>The Tyranids are attracted to the emperor's light because Horus is still willing something to destroy the Empire
>>50983037
>>50983344
>all astropaths life with the terrible secret of the truth about the golden throne knowing they can never reveal it or the imperium would fall apart
>>50984322
*live with