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Anonymous01/12/26, 16:10No.97349107
He is basically the antichrist.
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Anon01/12/26, 16:16No.97349143
Be gone foul heretic!
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Anon01/12/26, 16:30No.97349208
Traditional games?
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Anon01/12/26, 17:10No.97349416
The Emperor was Jesus - he just at some point became a militant atheist.
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Anon01/12/26, 17:11No.97349418
>hate religion
>become godlol
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Anon01/12/26, 17:13No.97349425
The point of an antichrist is that they say "I am the Christ; worship me" whereas the Emperor did the opposite
30k lore is dogshit anyway
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Anon01/12/26, 17:33No.97349535
OP is an atheist or doesnt understand 40k lore.
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Anon01/12/26, 18:28No.97349856
*An Antichrist.There's no one Antichrist, stupid Westerner, it's just a cycle of strongmen doing strongmen faggotry to make things annoying for the rest of us peasants.
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Anon01/12/26, 19:05No.97350048
The Emperor is Jesus and the Imperial Ecclesiarchy is the Catholic Church.
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Anon01/12/26, 20:02No.97350377
He's pic related if he had won instead of losing and freezing himself.
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Anon01/12/26, 20:02No.97350378
>he Imperial Ecclesiarchy is the Catholic Churchi became an old fag , i miss the old days when people knew the esoteric knowledge of the settingthe Emperor is clearly depicted in the Old ones Tablets as the one who will create the primarchs in cooperation and an Old one (a tentacle connect to the old ones the other directly to a mysterious person to the embryo and the sphere represent planets while the triangles are the scattering) and scattered them all over the galaxyas we can see all the other races are directly linked to the Old Ones except for the embryo , there is another actor beside the old ones , likely the Emperor , notice each one of the Old ones and the mysterious actor all have different glyphs (probably the Annuncia)so the Emperor is an old one or an agent of the old ones and the creation of the primarchs is an Old ones Hail Mary project , one of the three depicted above the Necron's death mask , another project of thier's is the webway and the eldar laughing god harlequin face , the third is scratched and unrecognizable though speculated to be the Tyranids , an attempt to assimilate all organic life and reset the galaxy , depriving Chaos from their fuel
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Anon01/13/26, 01:12No.97352433
Gods, Realm of Chaos giving the Emperor a backstory as an immortal super-psyker from the Stone Age was so STUPID.
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Anon01/13/26, 01:16No.97352456
I'd say he's closer to Lucifer than the Anti-Christ; he once loved God before ultimately losing his faith and turned in a misguided attempt to further what He represented thinking he could do a better job. His Golden Throne is made to resemble the Morning Star, which he literally is as the Astronomican.
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Anon01/13/26, 01:19No.97352477
To add to this, he was a literal saint, making him one of God's most treasured individuals, just like Horus was the Emperor's favored son.
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Anon01/13/26, 02:53No.97352923
H E R E S Y
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Anon01/13/26, 03:48No.97353147
He's Tarzan, that's why he doesn't get old and why he has the same skin tone and hair as Tarzan.
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Anon01/13/26, 06:53No.97353778
what does that mean?
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Anon01/13/26, 17:10No.97356128
The Emperor did nothing wrong. Everything got screwed up because of other people who thought they knew better than him.
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Anon01/13/26, 19:23No.97356937
The Last Church was a cool little vignette, but I don't think Emps really fits inside a Christian eschatology.
What that story represented was something far worse for a Christian than the fulfilment of Revelations.
He represents the obsolescence of religion.
But bear in mind, The Emperor is a liar.
He knew the Chaos Gods were real.
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Anon01/13/26, 20:43No.97357423
he's both the christ figure and the antichrist figure, now more than ever with the competing paths for the starchild and the darkking
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Anon01/14/26, 16:04No.97362580
The Antichrist is political figure someone with scripture on the brain doesn't like.The Emperor can't be the anti-christ, because the anti-christ is Barack Obama. And Pope Clement IV. And Lyndon Johnson. And Muhammad.
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Anon01/14/26, 17:31No.97363167
>have a reddit atheist write a story about how the emperor pwns a priest with facts and logic
>condemn the character to 10,000 years of gethsemaneFeels like an own goal desu.
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Anon01/15/26, 14:19No.97368685
Yes. Revelation 13 eerily fits 40k.>The dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
The Chaos Gods inhabiting the Eye of Terror (the sea = space).>And I saw a beast coming out of the sea.
The Emperor conquering the galaxy during the Great Crusade.>It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.
Hierarchy of Imperial organizations, lords, honorifics etc.>The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion.
The Emperor's violent nature (speed, brute force, roaring conquest), shifting appearance and unification of global cultures.>The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.
The Chaos Gods, deceived by the Emperor, gave him power.>One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed.
Horus killed most of the Emperor's aspects, leaving just one barely alive. The Emperor was effectively dead but remained in life thanks to the Golden Throne.>The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.
Birth of the Imperial Cult.>People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast
Since the Emperor's power comes from the Warp, people worshipping him are also worshipping the forces of the Warp.>and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”
The Imperium is militarily unmatched, and people say "The Emperor protects" and many things like that.>The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.
"for forty-two months" = until the 42nd millenium.>It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.
The Imperial Truth outlawing all religions.>It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them.
The Great Crusade suppressing religious cults.
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Anon01/16/26, 00:51No.97372742
bump
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Anon01/16/26, 01:26No.97372886
What does this guy even do now that all his science feats got stolen?
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Anon01/16/26, 03:58No.97373397
The Emperor is a champion of Tzeentch, plots within plots, and his standard is a two-headed bird (Changer of Ways).
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Anon01/16/26, 11:35No.97374726
A SEXY anti-christ……
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Anon01/16/26, 13:40No.97375222
>He is basically the antichrist.
But he was born before Christ.
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Anon01/16/26, 14:21No.97375405
Correct. The Warhammer 40,000 world is basically a punishment being handed down to a fool that has eliminated Christianity in his universe. He will suffer on that chair forever.
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Anon01/16/26, 14:44No.97375535
So he planned to make all agri-worlds farm corn?
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Anon01/16/26, 22:22No.97380178
do they explain how *not highlander Immortals* AKA perpetuals came into being? or Emperor was just lucky to be born as super special mutie (perpetual + alpha ++ spyker)?
I Know old lore that he was supposed to be soul construct of thousands of early mankind spykers, but IIRC it was retconned in HH books as no longer valid/Emperor being *just* powerful mutie who happens to be very very lucky winner of genetic lottery?
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Anon01/17/26, 21:41No.97389881
He is the allegory for Jesus Christ (peace be upon Him), who will one day resurrect again and will bring in the End Times and uplift Humanity into evolving into super spiritual creatures unlike the forces of Chaos, opening the parallel universe of the Gates of Heaven.
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Anon01/17/26, 23:25No.97390574
Truth Nuke, he destroyed Christianity basically.
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Anon01/19/26, 15:07No.97401776
Christianity is a death cult praying for the return of their god that would usher the end of the world with the devil getting to rule over what is left.
Not sure how Emprah fits that belief system.
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Anon01/19/26, 15:25No.97401872
He's a dark inversion of Christ.
>Christ loved man in spite of his sinfulness and imperfection. The God-Emperor sought to eliminate human imperfection through eugenic breeding programs.
>Christ, the son of God, sacrificed himself to redeem the souls of mankind out of love. The God-Emperor had to let go of his love in order to slay Horus, son of the God-Emperor.
And he introduces himself as "Revelation" (the part of the bible that talks about the antichrist)
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Anon01/20/26, 07:30No.97406611
Why did the Emperor suddenly get all blinged up? He used to be a rotten corpse on a life support machine. Was it satire on how Gangsters and conmen use bling to impress idiots?
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Anon01/20/26, 09:12No.97406844
he's anti any religion and god so yeah, you're technically correct, he's also anti christ
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Anon01/20/26, 14:57No.97408035
No, that would be Mr. Beast.
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Anon01/22/26, 20:18No.97423181
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Anon01/25/26, 12:38No.97438600
I like the Emperor of Mankind concept as it was originally developed by Rick Priestley. In its early form, the Emperor was heavily influenced by Leto II from Dune and Big Brother from 1984. He was envisioned as a grand, far-sighted ruler who devised a plan for humanity - one meant to guarantee its survival and dominance - but a plan that required him to sacrifice his own humanity in the process. Ultimately, it doesn’t even matter whether the Emperor is alive, dead, or ever truly existed at all. What matters is that the religion built around him wields very real power and authority.I don’t like the Horus Heresy era’s obsession with the Emperor and the Primarchs. They’re supposed to be entities beyond normal human understanding - figures whose very existence should be ambiguous, almost mythical. Instead, the HH series portrays them as acting no differently from ordinary people, making petty, shortsighted, and foolish decisions. That kind of portrayal strips away the mystery and undermines what made them compelling in the first place.
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Anon01/27/26, 02:19No.97447840
but he is cool 2
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Anon01/27/26, 17:42No.97451378
The Emperor reveals how much of a dickheard the abrahamic god is. He was neither omnipotent nor omniscient and he still tried his best to save all of humanity, and even forgave Horus in the end. The abrahamic god not only caused all problems and didn't solve any, but wants you to worship him. The contrast is not in favor of religitards.
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Anon01/28/26, 17:26No.97458421
Unironically yes, and funny enough he did exactly what the antichrist would do, damns humanity to a endless cycle of war and death through his own hubris.However even that being a fact, IoM is still the objectively good faction.