Vol wrote:Eeey, Malgus. The guy who did nothing wrong besides getting on the wrong side of murderhobos.
Didn't he kill his Twi'lek waifu because he thought love was weakening him?
Vol wrote:Seems an important point to note, given they're not purely enhanced humans, like the Thunder Warriors and Custodes, and way more warp-born than the regular Astartes. Rowboat being able to fight in a void, without a helmet, for an extended period is surely Warp magic.
That too. Though I'd think the Emperor is so powerful that there does not exist any Blank, or group of Blanks, that could truly suppress his power down to his true form. If he even had one.
Indeed, because while not every Primarch was a pysker, they all had Warp juice to one degree or another flowing in their veins, so what effect a sufficiently large and potent group of Blanks/Pariahs would have on one of them in a concentrated space would be interesting to see. Primarchs are basically to the Emperor what Greater Daemons are to the Chaos Gods, only with enough science-based materialism to their structure to keep them anchored and stable without the need for a constant Warp connection, sacrifices, or psychic feeding on external emotions/actions to maintain their physical form. The Warp flows through their very being, each Primarch has at least one special ability tied to the part of their nature that’s based on the Warp, and when one dies they release a light-show of psychic energy you don't see in other deaths in regards to the Emperor's creations. Another interesting note is that Fabius Bile’s Primarch clones were perfect replications of their transhuman DNA, but were still not as powerful/durable as the originals. This is because they’re missing the special Warp juice the originals had; this cannot be re-created unless you do the same unique warpcraft the Emperor did, which supposedly required him to bargin or steal from the Chaos Gods to do so. Bile can copy the hyper-advanced science that went into their making, but not the supernatural element that suffused them. This is how Abaddon could kill the Horus clone in the days before he become Warmaster; otherwise Abby would have been torn to shreds. Yet another case to ponder is that even though he is still loyal, Corvax has the ability to turn into a massive shadowy-raven-daemon-monster now as he hunts Lorgar in the Eye of Terror post-Horus Heresy. Corvax even considers himself tainted when he learned how he came to be, even though he's not corrupted or traitorous.
Yeah, the sheer number of Blanks/Pariahs needed to substantially weaken the Emperor or cut through his projections if he didn't want them cut is something that probably doesn't exist. There aren't enough potent Blanks/Pariahs in the galaxy to do that, especially given how rare they are. And so far we've never seen Emps interact with Necron Pylons or the Tyranid's Shadow in the Warp, so speculating there is kinda pointless at this stage without more information. My current theory is Emps was born a normal sized human, but as he came into his staggeringly colossal powers, and became more distant to his humanity as the millennia passed, his body slowly expanded and changed with them into the giant form he's traditionally depicted as. His armor/power claw/sword were forged to fit someone that size, so its not just psychic glamour and illusion. And as he is a potent biomancer, much like Magnus--and Magnus has shown he could grow to the size of an Eldar Wraithknight with no problem if the need or desire arose, and that was before he went Daemon Prince-- he can make his physical form as big or as small (or as handsome or as ugly, or any other physical aspect for that matter) as need or whim dictates, more or less. So he really doesn't have a true form anymore, really. His mind/will is the best representation of himself now, the body is just a shell. The first Siege of Terra book even highlights this a little when Emps and Horus are having a father-son psychic chat, and Emp's projection in the Warp takes on dozens of different forms, some of them not even remotely human, before final settling on a cloaked old man for the symbolism. I like the idea that he was a regular human who "evolved" into something more than human, a god in the making story, even if he would refute such an idea. (There's old lore I liked that used to say how the Ruinous Powers considered the Emperor to be their newest brother, just a few steps to becoming a full god like them, and would welcome him gladly to their table if only he would stop clinging to his anti-Chaos/pro-human ideals.) The idea Emps is a truly a tiny, shriveled little man who only cloaks himself in his giant, robust form like a psychic suit he puppets around doesn’t sit well with me and I don't subscribe to that theory.
