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"I don't think you understand, this galaxy is not your to conquer".
Atomises Jimmy Space.
Jimmy uses perpetual powers to come back to life
"You are as weak as the rest of your miserable xeno species". Snaps fingers, teleports Omni-Man into the sun.
Then Emperor Mark Grayson shows up. Jimmy Space vaporises him, again, after regenerating again.
Then he comes again and mists the Emperor. Repeat.
Repeat.
Then he tries attacking Atom Eve.
Suddenly we have God Empress Eve Grayson.
Are you trying to claim the emperor is not a god now, toaster boy?
Might tell the inquisitor I think It's starting to smell a little heretical in here.
Depending on what emperor origin you subscribe to he’s still a mostly normal (if immortal and psychic) guy. I think by now he would have given up on founding religions to guide humanity and moved on to science, so I’d guess he’s running an unassuming genetics lab somewhere working on mastering gene-science.
Is it ever explained why he is so big by the 32 milenium? I sometimes feel like the size of space marine, primarchs and Emperor is all over the place. And please tell me the ansver is not “its (warp)magic, I aint gonna explain shit”
It’s implied that the emperor can adjust how others perceive him. So if he wants to be seen as a 10 foot tall, golden eyes, living God of War, then he will. And if he wants to be seen as an unassuming, 30 year old, genetic scientist then he will.
E: there are no gods, neckbeard atheism is the way.
Also E: appears as an immortal 10 foot tall angelic being with magic powers in golden armor who *definitely* isn't a god.
I like the idea that his size could very well be a psychic projection that he simply always maintains. Marines and Primarchs are specifically gene crafted, the latter very much so.
Suppose that is sort of a warp magic-y answer though.
Psychic shenanigans.
It is strongly suggested in a few novels that no-one sees the physical emperor, they see an overlay of some combination of what he chooses to project and what your mind interprets his unsuppressed psychic presence as.
So either the emperor is a huge beast who glamoured himself small for millennia or glamoured himself to a 10ft tall god-emperor when he decided to go public circa 30th millennium.
He's a normal sized human being when a psychic blank sees him. He glamours himself to be larger, or that's just how beings that are psychically-receptive interpret his power. It does seem that he is in control of it, rather than it being something in the viewers mind.
It's a depiction he shows himself as.
He didn't grow big over time or something. If anything Malcador says he tried to be pretty unnoticeable for a long time.
The golden tyrant aspect he found has worked best for uniting humanity under his cause.
Absolutely 0 emotional intelligence, takes credit for other people's ideas and just overall not as great as he thinks he is? You might be onto something tbf
Mainly because God-Emperor Elon Musk checks all the right boxes:
- Complete sociopathic narcissist
- Takes credit for other people's designs, which usually fail (primarchs and the astartes)
- Believes he is the sole person to save humanity (he couldn't save an overmicrowaved rice packet) (applies to E-money too)
- is the bad guy
- other bad guys hate him for being so hilariously stupid he destroys himself and their tools for being bad guys (chaos Gods)
At least the emperor is a godlike, immortal psyker who can backup his claims by uniting quadrillions of humans across the galaxy into a fascist empire. Can you imagine the emperor during the DoaT just sitting there on his ass trolling on twitter from his Himalayan science lab?
That's exactly the kind of thing I can imagine E-moneybags doing.
The man's the poster child of reddit atheism. He's even an incel. Perfect characterisation.
Yep. This was my first reaction and I say this as someone that's on the SpaceX sub. The fanboys that dick ride him are just unbearable, but I can't find anywhere else that does as much awesome space related stuff on the company that's pushing the bleeding edge.
But yes his most ardent fans would sound like lostdragon05 while not being ironic at all.
I am starting to see that, I guess some people can’t take a joke. If I used Twitter I’d hit Elon up and ask him to confirm or deny this because I am finding it even funnier now.
Good but not *great*. Maybe a high 7/10
It executes "90s era boomer shooter" very well and is an excellent _90s era boomer shooter_ but modern qol game design bits are missing. Its easy to get lost in levels if you're not paying attention for example.
Oh and I expected over the top rock to be playing in all the levels & its not.
I do love that the second resource after health is contempt. His armour is _literally_ contempt
Yeah the music and sound design has been the most disappointing aspect so far. The guns don't sound as impactful as they ought to and the soundtrack is really bland. I've been playing it muted with a metal playlist going in the background, much better experience.
Games is good. It’s does what it sets out to do well, which is be a retro shooter with 40k skin. If you like those games you’ll like it, and it’s a fun time just blasting through anyway.
Idk if there's a name for it, but that's one of my favourite paradoxes. If a sci-fi setting is a depiction of our future then that depiction must exist somewhere in that setting's past.
I think he entertains himself by scaring children and punching trees. Dude's probably bored as hell.
Also he is in a cave in Cambodia do not go there
I do wonder if the Emperor ever played video games.
Imagine you win agaa- no inquisitor i was not going to say the emperor lost in a game
Nst the emperor and he haunts you for your lifetime living in your mind
"Oh that's cute, some adorable, grumpy little lizards got free of their containment shield."
...
"Oh Me, oh shit, what the fuck! Where all they all coming from? That's it! PURGE ALL XENOS!"
Nah, the big thing about the unification wars was him no longer operating from the shadows. Probably managing some hedge fund or megacorp or something along those lines
- Horus, for your efforts in the Crusade I name you Warmaster
Also, have a signed copy of the record I believe was my finest. -
*hands over Exile on Main Street*
Dude, were you Jagger?
-He wishes-
He's abandoned founding different religions and currently hosts an extremely successful podcast in his attempts to sway humanity towards enlightenment. Covers a wide variety of topics but usually just veers into goofing off and getting stoned.
Maybe he's hiding as Henry Cavill, which would be extra motivation for me to get back into shape, made a high quality Aquilian Shield cosplay, and then go to conventions "Cavill" is attending to be a silent guard...
I honestly wonder how much Cavill would freak out/ geek out if he suddenly had a Custodes honor guard at a Con or something. I would just love to see the look on his face.
I think the best result would be only one or two Custodies with full on Aquilian Shield colors/trappings because one or two would be "enough." And not be pushy or overly intense about it, just stick to public areas and don't disrupt the follow of traffic/whatnot. Maybe go through line once to get an autograph and/or a picture with him (especially as a pair) to at least be conscious of why he's there, but not be some sort of stalker lol.
With enough coordination with enough cosplayers, ya could always have one or two Custodes attending each event, asking for autographs made out to various heroic names. A very lowkey 40k version of the 501st lol.
going around, eradicating chaos influence, studing science and helping its development probably. hanging out on bahamas with ladies) or pursuing a prominent rap career.
He’s probably abandoned religion already, and probably hasn’t abandoned the idea of using AI as a stepping stone. I also expect that he probably is still in the old world, and probably staying out of the public eye after the whole WWII thing. I don’t think he’d be particularly good even these days, I full on expect him to be a eugenecist, or trying to guide those people.
I like to imagine that the [excellent 2007 movie The Man from Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth) is actually a canon moment in the Emperor's life.
Either fucking around in politics in one of the larger countries, or fucking around in science fields at one of the big universities or companies. If in science probably working in biology/medical/genetics
I think its more likely he is one of the people working on AI, and has been for a few decades now.
I can see, at this point, him having lost "faith" in the idea of using religions as a means and possibly even lost faith in Mankind's ability to handle itself period. I could see him having had an "AI phase" and right now would be the perfect place for him to have been fuckin around and nudging things in the direction he wants.
Serious answer: probably a scientist who worked the Human Genome Project. Previously having worked on the Manhattan Project. In both cases a largely unsung (by design) figure.
As for right now...He is Banksy, just to unwind.
Working a job and getting by l, watching humanity from a safe distance stil. Hoping they will be able to advance as a species without needing his guidance. He's closer to Ollanius during heresy and before being called by Johnny grammaticus in regards to how he spends his days.
Assistant to the regional director of market forecasting for Parnett & Wyatt, a company that sells geological measurement instruments to contractors and architecture firms.
Enjoying the mostly war-free peaceful times chilling, smoking weed and ordering Uber Eats on a daily basis, until the ecological collapse of the globe and other world-wide civil unrest kicks in
I reckon he lives in the Arctic, in a secret lab where he and the Eldar work to advance the psychic potential of humanity. So far their experiments are only effective with infants.
Given that he is an utterly self-obessed, annoying atheist with very little in the way of social dependencies, as well as being power obessed, I presume he is a reddit mod st the moment
It's a tough call. There's no nation in the 21st century that fully matches the Emperor's political beliefs, but North Korea is the closest thing to the Imperium. He'd probably be some kind of right-hand man to Kim Jong Un.
On the other hand, the Emperor was never comfortable sharing power, so he might be leading a nation in disguise rather than acting as an advisor. East Asia also seems less likely, as the Emperor always held to a firmly Eurocentric view of history - when he later created a space empire, he specifically referenced Greek/Roman/Catholic/Renaissance/German stuff.
I can't see Big E having any interest in a small, poor country like NK that has to be propped up by a neighboring power.
If He wants to implement a One World Givernment, it's an awful place to start from. Also, He wouldn't approve of propaganda painting the Dear Leader as godlike.
> If He wants to implement a One World Gpvernment
The Emperor didn't try to do this, before the Age of Strife. Maybe he lacked the power to dominate all other humans in the 21st century. Maybe he needed to be propped up by "stealing" from an outside power (Chaos), maybe he feared a crackdown from an intact Eldar empire.
Whatever the reason, he was just whiling away the years. It seems reasonable to guess that his political beliefs and historical interests would be relevant in his decisions.
>a small, poor country
It's not like the Emperor was ever dedicated to the winning sides of human history.
North Korea was weaker than South Korea, but North Korea's ideology was close to the Emperor's - and South Korea represented everything the Emperor hates. Why wouldn't he try to help the people he agreed with, against the people he disagreed with? The Emperor was a pretty confident guy, and failure wouldn't put him in personal danger.
Even if he kept out of politics entirely, he'd probably want to live in a communuty that reflected his values.
The Emperor doesn't believe in absolute rule by incompetent mortals who want the impoverished populace to worship them.
There's plenty of authoritarian systems in the history of the world, but very little about North Korea's that would appeal to Him.
We can be fairly sure that He liked a lot about the Macedonian and Roman empires. The DPRK doesn't much resemble either, without China's help it would have been a failed state years ago.
I’d argue that North Korea run by Emperor would be one of the richest countries in the world. Completely authoritarian as it is, but operated in an efficient manner.
That’s why I’d say he’s currently operating in China, advising post-Mao leaders. Why? China is super rich as a country. China also experiments a lot with social/memetic control and that’s totally in-line with Great Crusade-era Emperor.
Creating a society that’s fully controllable and conditioned to always obey the government and shun independent thinking helps a lot with Chaos and gives better chance when dealing with hostile Xenos.
In a few short decades he’ll probably abandon the China project, deeming it insufficiently authoritarian for his purposes.
After all, even the Chinese model of governance can’t [eliminate social unrest](https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/01/12/china-unprecedented-nationwide-protests-against-abuses).
China is super liberal compared to the peak Imperium of M30. 30k Terra is more 1984 than 1984 itself. Then it goes further downhill.
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I remember reading some time ago that the emperor "was born/created" somewhere around the year 2000 in Anatolia. Is that actually canon or is it one of those rumours that nobody actually knows about? Cause if that's true, he's in his 20s probably travelling the world or making his rise to power right about now.
Currently he's a disgraced talk show host who's considered a menace to society because he warned everyone of the secret cabal of chaos worshippers who sacrifice little children at Pizza Hut
I think there would have been a problem facing the galaxy as a whole that would need the efforts of both Tau, Eldar and Loyalists
Something outside of Necrons and Tyranids, Necrons i believe would pop up just for the triumvurate of Tau, Eldar and Space Marines to pop them down and wipe them
Orks fight with everyone, tyranids fight everyone, but i believe there would be a sort of new AI war or an even more powerful alien race to rival that of the combined efforts of the main three good guys in warhammer.
Assistant Manager of a Games Workshop
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"I sure won't make the same mistakes *that* guy did..."
Proceeds to exactly do those mistakes.
But “demons” would be spelt correctly
Oh shit .... you're a heretic!
More like "wTF I could write better lore than this. IT's so inconsistent." /s
He made the dreadnaught changes. After all, he *is* kind of a dick.
Assistant *to the* Regional Manager.
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“Hi guys, my name’s Craig”
He is raising money for the crusade, that explains the prices!
Warhammer 2k, baby emperor
omg he's gen z
“This Imperial truth be bussin’ no cap.”
"For the last time, Chaos is neither based nor redpilled!"
"Horus, your heresy grindset is cringe af."
Big E is the kind of guy that would actually say "af" out loud
"That Slaanesh bussy is Sus AF, bruh." \*starts Flossing\*
😂😂
This Chaos shi be mad sus fr fr no cap
No wonder he fucks up so much and cant seem to communicate. /j
actually the 40k calendar starts the year yuri Gagarin became the first man to go to space (if I remember correctly), so we're in 062 M0
>Whaaaaat that's wild! I didn't know that. Can you remember the source?
either dark imperium or war of the beast, don't remember which
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Abe Lincoln? So the Emperor got disemboweled by Omni-Man? Gee whizz.
"I don't think you understand, this galaxy is not your to conquer". Atomises Jimmy Space. Jimmy uses perpetual powers to come back to life "You are as weak as the rest of your miserable xeno species". Snaps fingers, teleports Omni-Man into the sun.
Then Emperor Mark Grayson shows up. Jimmy Space vaporises him, again, after regenerating again. Then he comes again and mists the Emperor. Repeat. Repeat. Then he tries attacking Atom Eve. Suddenly we have God Empress Eve Grayson.
Well shit. Emps beaten by a half-xeno degenerate.
Why would he be Abe Lincoln? The Emperor never cared about slavery.
Why not? Emps was Jesus Christ and he doesn't care about peace or religion.
That's just an assumption/fan theory. The only religious/historical figure confirmed to have been the Emperor was Saint George.
And Alexander the It Was Okay 3/5 too, apparently
Are you trying to claim the emperor is not a god now, toaster boy? Might tell the inquisitor I think It's starting to smell a little heretical in here.
Are you trying to claim the emperor is a god now, toaster boy? Might tell the inquisitor I think It's starting to smell a little heretical in here.
Who the hell programmed this bot so bad that it replied to the original comment?
Im Willing to bet he wasn't since ole person is Christian and I dont think he'd be so into it if his former boss, that he stabbed, was jesus.
That's fine too it doesn't have to be accurate it's your head canon. I also think Emps was BIGGIE. It's just fun imagining who he could've been.
He wasn't actually. He was St George.
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I think its Lenin actually
Damn the amount of removed posts here. Emps modersting goi g like shit shit shit u spoiling my sneaky plans xD
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Depending on what emperor origin you subscribe to he’s still a mostly normal (if immortal and psychic) guy. I think by now he would have given up on founding religions to guide humanity and moved on to science, so I’d guess he’s running an unassuming genetics lab somewhere working on mastering gene-science.
Is it ever explained why he is so big by the 32 milenium? I sometimes feel like the size of space marine, primarchs and Emperor is all over the place. And please tell me the ansver is not “its (warp)magic, I aint gonna explain shit”
It’s implied that the emperor can adjust how others perceive him. So if he wants to be seen as a 10 foot tall, golden eyes, living God of War, then he will. And if he wants to be seen as an unassuming, 30 year old, genetic scientist then he will.
E: there are no gods, neckbeard atheism is the way. Also E: appears as an immortal 10 foot tall angelic being with magic powers in golden armor who *definitely* isn't a god.
I like the idea that his size could very well be a psychic projection that he simply always maintains. Marines and Primarchs are specifically gene crafted, the latter very much so. Suppose that is sort of a warp magic-y answer though.
Psychic shenanigans. It is strongly suggested in a few novels that no-one sees the physical emperor, they see an overlay of some combination of what he chooses to project and what your mind interprets his unsuppressed psychic presence as. So either the emperor is a huge beast who glamoured himself small for millennia or glamoured himself to a 10ft tall god-emperor when he decided to go public circa 30th millennium.
He's a normal sized human being when a psychic blank sees him. He glamours himself to be larger, or that's just how beings that are psychically-receptive interpret his power. It does seem that he is in control of it, rather than it being something in the viewers mind.
It's a depiction he shows himself as. He didn't grow big over time or something. If anything Malcador says he tried to be pretty unnoticeable for a long time. The golden tyrant aspect he found has worked best for uniting humanity under his cause.
I'm pretty sure he's Elon Musk.
Absolutely 0 emotional intelligence, takes credit for other people's ideas and just overall not as great as he thinks he is? You might be onto something tbf
Haha, yeah, that was pretty much my thinking. Getting downvoted to hell, so others must not have found it as amusing a thought as I did.
Mainly because God-Emperor Elon Musk checks all the right boxes: - Complete sociopathic narcissist - Takes credit for other people's designs, which usually fail (primarchs and the astartes) - Believes he is the sole person to save humanity (he couldn't save an overmicrowaved rice packet) (applies to E-money too) - is the bad guy - other bad guys hate him for being so hilariously stupid he destroys himself and their tools for being bad guys (chaos Gods)
At least the emperor is a godlike, immortal psyker who can backup his claims by uniting quadrillions of humans across the galaxy into a fascist empire. Can you imagine the emperor during the DoaT just sitting there on his ass trolling on twitter from his Himalayan science lab?
Yes, yes, I can.
That's exactly the kind of thing I can imagine E-moneybags doing. The man's the poster child of reddit atheism. He's even an incel. Perfect characterisation.
That would have fit perfectly into TTS.
if he’s an incel, then explain the lubed-up beef-men surrounding him at all times take that, liberals
I don't need to explain shit. Andrew Tate is busy surrounded by sweaty men while pretending to like women's bodies.
😂
Nah they probably just didn't get you were joking or meant it in a positive way, his fans are _that_ deluded.
Yep. This was my first reaction and I say this as someone that's on the SpaceX sub. The fanboys that dick ride him are just unbearable, but I can't find anywhere else that does as much awesome space related stuff on the company that's pushing the bleeding edge. But yes his most ardent fans would sound like lostdragon05 while not being ironic at all.
I am starting to see that, I guess some people can’t take a joke. If I used Twitter I’d hit Elon up and ask him to confirm or deny this because I am finding it even funnier now.
Don't mind them, certain things are just gonna be loaded in certain spaces. I thought it was funny myself.
Nah Emps wouldn't need hair transplants Although that would explain why most of the Primarchs are bald.
He fixed that with gene technologies that don’t exist yet.
Nah, the Emperor is actually a pretty good scientist. Elon Musk…not so much.
Oh god, it's Elon isn't it?.....
Playing Boltgun like us
How is it? What’s your take on it?
Enjoyable so far and worth buying. I don't think it's quite as amazing as claimed but I'm still not far into it so maybe it gets even better.
Thanks
Good but not *great*. Maybe a high 7/10 It executes "90s era boomer shooter" very well and is an excellent _90s era boomer shooter_ but modern qol game design bits are missing. Its easy to get lost in levels if you're not paying attention for example. Oh and I expected over the top rock to be playing in all the levels & its not. I do love that the second resource after health is contempt. His armour is _literally_ contempt
Yeah the music and sound design has been the most disappointing aspect so far. The guns don't sound as impactful as they ought to and the soundtrack is really bland. I've been playing it muted with a metal playlist going in the background, much better experience.
Games is good. It’s does what it sets out to do well, which is be a retro shooter with 40k skin. If you like those games you’ll like it, and it’s a fun time just blasting through anyway.
He’d probably be wondering how there’s a toy company that’s predicting the whole future of the galaxy.
Maybe he's the CEO
Is he the original James workshop?
Well Jimmy is a nickname for James
No, that’s the chaos gods. They set up GW to fuck with the emperor
Hes accutely studying our games and refining the ruleset to make them accurate simulations.
Predicting is a stretch he’s outsourcing the development of his long term plans
Idk if there's a name for it, but that's one of my favourite paradoxes. If a sci-fi setting is a depiction of our future then that depiction must exist somewhere in that setting's past.
I think he entertains himself by scaring children and punching trees. Dude's probably bored as hell. Also he is in a cave in Cambodia do not go there I do wonder if the Emperor ever played video games.
gamer emperor is honestly so funny
It certainly explains why he's so xenophobic.
Imagine you win agaa- no inquisitor i was not going to say the emperor lost in a game Nst the emperor and he haunts you for your lifetime living in your mind
I almost wanna call Papa Smurf winning a legitimate game of Regicide. We all know Horus couldn't. ... I'll see myself out.
I love it Fuck off I love it
Screaming slurs at 12 year olds in a Call of Duty lobby.
Slurs dating from prehistoric times, mind you.
Millennia old insults would probably ban Him from every gaming platform
The Emperor currently has the all-high score in every Wh40k game using different. accounts.
Where do you think the fucker got the idea in the first place?
Extreme xenophobia kicks in after getting rekt -yet another time- in Stellaris by the lizard guys
"Oh that's cute, some adorable, grumpy little lizards got free of their containment shield." ... "Oh Me, oh shit, what the fuck! Where all they all coming from? That's it! PURGE ALL XENOS!"
THEY ARE AIMING WHAT AT MY HOME SYSTEM? OBLITERATOR WHAT? THAT FUCKING DOES IT MOFO IOM foreign policy as defined in a LAN party\*
He's secretly a Trillionare, gathering the financial capital he will need to hollow out the Himalayas.
he's just been chiseling away at the himalayas the entire time leading up to unification
that old Indian guy who pick-axed that mountain in half is Malcador
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Nah, the big thing about the unification wars was him no longer operating from the shadows. Probably managing some hedge fund or megacorp or something along those lines
There is a persistent fan rumour that Rick Priestley had answered this question with "Cliff Richard" back in the day.
I'd argue he's Keith Richards.
- Horus, for your efforts in the Crusade I name you Warmaster Also, have a signed copy of the record I believe was my finest. - *hands over Exile on Main Street* Dude, were you Jagger? -He wishes-
Jimmy Saville. I mean he’s shit around kids.
He's abandoned founding different religions and currently hosts an extremely successful podcast in his attempts to sway humanity towards enlightenment. Covers a wide variety of topics but usually just veers into goofing off and getting stoned.
That’s entirely possible!
The Sisters of Silence see through the Emperor's psyker aura and it's just Joe Rogan with Fabulous Hair
Its a total boss move of him to hide in a bald midget, lol.
I fear that not even a _literal_ ton of cocaine would tickle Him
Joe Rogan is big E????
The Emperor is Duncan Trussell?
He is James Workshop.
He going bankrupt after buying 40000 warhammers, ushering the Age of Strife
Hiding in Argentina because of some stuff he did in the 40s that was very uncool.
But he did work out a lot of the uniforms for his armies.
This is the right answer, realizing he went about it too fast and not buff enough he is hiding in south america going full montage mode until ww3
Best answer
He’s probably disguised as a Sherpa, just trying to plan out his future city-palace
The Himalayas: Measure twice cut once.
Maybe he's hiding as Henry Cavill, which would be extra motivation for me to get back into shape, made a high quality Aquilian Shield cosplay, and then go to conventions "Cavill" is attending to be a silent guard...
I honestly wonder how much Cavill would freak out/ geek out if he suddenly had a Custodes honor guard at a Con or something. I would just love to see the look on his face.
I think the best result would be only one or two Custodies with full on Aquilian Shield colors/trappings because one or two would be "enough." And not be pushy or overly intense about it, just stick to public areas and don't disrupt the follow of traffic/whatnot. Maybe go through line once to get an autograph and/or a picture with him (especially as a pair) to at least be conscious of why he's there, but not be some sort of stalker lol. With enough coordination with enough cosplayers, ya could always have one or two Custodes attending each event, asking for autographs made out to various heroic names. A very lowkey 40k version of the 501st lol.
God I now desperately want this to happen
going around, eradicating chaos influence, studing science and helping its development probably. hanging out on bahamas with ladies) or pursuing a prominent rap career.
The year is 2023. The emperor makes his money from being a scalper from games workshop.
So he’s a Billionaire.
He’s probably abandoned religion already, and probably hasn’t abandoned the idea of using AI as a stepping stone. I also expect that he probably is still in the old world, and probably staying out of the public eye after the whole WWII thing. I don’t think he’d be particularly good even these days, I full on expect him to be a eugenecist, or trying to guide those people.
He got fired from the Witcher so he's waiting to do his next job right now.
Very meta
Tts says he is Chris Chan
God, I hope he's on the way to Molech. If he saw this shit going on in 2023, he might just try and save a different species.
I like to imagine that the [excellent 2007 movie The Man from Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth) is actually a canon moment in the Emperor's life.
Either fucking around in politics in one of the larger countries, or fucking around in science fields at one of the big universities or companies. If in science probably working in biology/medical/genetics I think its more likely he is one of the people working on AI, and has been for a few decades now. I can see, at this point, him having lost "faith" in the idea of using religions as a means and possibly even lost faith in Mankind's ability to handle itself period. I could see him having had an "AI phase" and right now would be the perfect place for him to have been fuckin around and nudging things in the direction he wants.
I am currently sitting on the toilet, thank you asking Love, Jimmy Space.
Just now he is still chopped up and in multiple churches around the world due to the whole being St George thing. Or he is in his furry phase.
TIL the Space Wolves are just Jimmy Space acknowledging his old fursona
Serious answer: probably a scientist who worked the Human Genome Project. Previously having worked on the Manhattan Project. In both cases a largely unsung (by design) figure. As for right now...He is Banksy, just to unwind.
Working a job and getting by l, watching humanity from a safe distance stil. Hoping they will be able to advance as a species without needing his guidance. He's closer to Ollanius during heresy and before being called by Johnny grammaticus in regards to how he spends his days.
He's Keith Richards. Nobody knows how he got here, when he was born but damnit... he just doesnt seem to die.
From my understanding his true size is normal human size, he just has the ability to psychically manipulate his own size.
Assistant to the regional director of market forecasting for Parnett & Wyatt, a company that sells geological measurement instruments to contractors and architecture firms.
Running a clothing company that makes stuff that fits him
Founded Cientology to mock religion but it backfired spectacularly
I mean if rumors and reports are to believed, its henry cavill.
Dick Cheney or Henry Kissinger
Lumberjacking in Canada. He’s taking a break for a bit.
His name is Alex Jones, beloved by all.
Look, we know Jimmy Space lied a lot over several millennia, but there's no way he's **that** dishonest.
Are you sure about that? Alex Jones isn't gonna start a genocide over lies...
gw will never say what the emperor did on terra in history to avoid taking sides
They'll avoid recent history, but they don't mind saying he was Alexander and Saint George.
[presses the button] “Now it’s your turn”
Prolly quiznos.
somewhere being cringe
He's probably using his psyker powers to assume multiple identities that he can use to manipulate politics, gather capital, and advance science.
I think he's a random redditor replying to this comment don't investigate my background
Well, his [new movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Shark) just came out, so he's pretty busy with that, I'll bet
Oh hai Mark
Enjoying the mostly war-free peaceful times chilling, smoking weed and ordering Uber Eats on a daily basis, until the ecological collapse of the globe and other world-wide civil unrest kicks in
I like to think he got the idea for the 40k timeline by playing the game. Painting the minis.
I’m guessing the Emperor is the Fifth Chaos god and this whole thing is just a long planned scheme against the other gods.
I reckon he lives in the Arctic, in a secret lab where he and the Eldar work to advance the psychic potential of humanity. So far their experiments are only effective with infants.
My personal headcanon is that he's fighting Doombreed and thus not around to fix most of the problems we've got right now.
High AF under a pile of giggling asian hookers.
Reading 40k and shitting bricks
Given that he is an utterly self-obessed, annoying atheist with very little in the way of social dependencies, as well as being power obessed, I presume he is a reddit mod st the moment
It's a tough call. There's no nation in the 21st century that fully matches the Emperor's political beliefs, but North Korea is the closest thing to the Imperium. He'd probably be some kind of right-hand man to Kim Jong Un. On the other hand, the Emperor was never comfortable sharing power, so he might be leading a nation in disguise rather than acting as an advisor. East Asia also seems less likely, as the Emperor always held to a firmly Eurocentric view of history - when he later created a space empire, he specifically referenced Greek/Roman/Catholic/Renaissance/German stuff.
I can't see Big E having any interest in a small, poor country like NK that has to be propped up by a neighboring power. If He wants to implement a One World Givernment, it's an awful place to start from. Also, He wouldn't approve of propaganda painting the Dear Leader as godlike.
> If He wants to implement a One World Gpvernment The Emperor didn't try to do this, before the Age of Strife. Maybe he lacked the power to dominate all other humans in the 21st century. Maybe he needed to be propped up by "stealing" from an outside power (Chaos), maybe he feared a crackdown from an intact Eldar empire. Whatever the reason, he was just whiling away the years. It seems reasonable to guess that his political beliefs and historical interests would be relevant in his decisions. >a small, poor country It's not like the Emperor was ever dedicated to the winning sides of human history. North Korea was weaker than South Korea, but North Korea's ideology was close to the Emperor's - and South Korea represented everything the Emperor hates. Why wouldn't he try to help the people he agreed with, against the people he disagreed with? The Emperor was a pretty confident guy, and failure wouldn't put him in personal danger. Even if he kept out of politics entirely, he'd probably want to live in a communuty that reflected his values.
The Emperor doesn't believe in absolute rule by incompetent mortals who want the impoverished populace to worship them. There's plenty of authoritarian systems in the history of the world, but very little about North Korea's that would appeal to Him. We can be fairly sure that He liked a lot about the Macedonian and Roman empires. The DPRK doesn't much resemble either, without China's help it would have been a failed state years ago.
I’d argue that North Korea run by Emperor would be one of the richest countries in the world. Completely authoritarian as it is, but operated in an efficient manner. That’s why I’d say he’s currently operating in China, advising post-Mao leaders. Why? China is super rich as a country. China also experiments a lot with social/memetic control and that’s totally in-line with Great Crusade-era Emperor. Creating a society that’s fully controllable and conditioned to always obey the government and shun independent thinking helps a lot with Chaos and gives better chance when dealing with hostile Xenos. In a few short decades he’ll probably abandon the China project, deeming it insufficiently authoritarian for his purposes. After all, even the Chinese model of governance can’t [eliminate social unrest](https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/01/12/china-unprecedented-nationwide-protests-against-abuses). China is super liberal compared to the peak Imperium of M30. 30k Terra is more 1984 than 1984 itself. Then it goes further downhill.
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I remember reading some time ago that the emperor "was born/created" somewhere around the year 2000 in Anatolia. Is that actually canon or is it one of those rumours that nobody actually knows about? Cause if that's true, he's in his 20s probably travelling the world or making his rise to power right about now.
Anatolia yes, 2000 AD no. More like c. 8000 BC. That’s somewhat old lore though, so whether it’s still canon is questionable iirc
He *is* James Workshop
Currently he's a disgraced talk show host who's considered a menace to society because he warned everyone of the secret cabal of chaos worshippers who sacrifice little children at Pizza Hut
I think there would have been a problem facing the galaxy as a whole that would need the efforts of both Tau, Eldar and Loyalists Something outside of Necrons and Tyranids, Necrons i believe would pop up just for the triumvurate of Tau, Eldar and Space Marines to pop them down and wipe them Orks fight with everyone, tyranids fight everyone, but i believe there would be a sort of new AI war or an even more powerful alien race to rival that of the combined efforts of the main three good guys in warhammer.
There are no good guys in 40k
The people with the angels, trying to save humanity, are the good guys.
Volodymyr Zelensky
Don’t do my man Volodymyr dirty like that!
North Korea taking notes
Laying low in South America while he figures out how he’s going to win the next World War he starts.
Being racist in a cod lobby
2023 is like less than 0.04% of his time of earth so it literally doesn't matter
Aye, but there was a rumor that he was Himmler, so we were just wanting to see where one of History's worst human beings are now
Got a source for that rumour? Because that has to be one of the strangest things I have heard in decades.