So the Emperor is dead

Shreiks autist

Never directly, but that's not what I was referring to, they have released things somewhat like this to keep the fandom talking before, hints that are either, by their nature, b8, or never explained so people theorycraft over it.

It's pretty basic marketing stratagems in this day and age, where the internet will talk over anything you throw out with an official sticker on it.

Maybe, but at least I'm not so far along the spectrum that I go on a Cambodian Cave Drawing board to shriek at people who like what I don't like, even if that does render 90% of the board useless.

>"Army of Adeptus Custodes"
>Not "The Adeptus Custodes"
>Implying the Adeptus Custodes has been broken up by Robust Girlyman by this point in his efforts to lure the Custodes away from Holy Terra
And there's still people out there who don't think that his sudden return, introduction of new, unknown, powerful and admittedly "quirky" Space Marines, and the fact that Chaos will be receiving something close to the new Spacer Mariners in power isn't a sign that this whole status quo shift in 8th Edition is not in fact building up to the reveal that Top Smurf's been (potentially unknowingly) been working for Chaos all along, sabotaging the Imperium from the inside, placing their sleeper agent time bombs within the ranks of all Astartes.

It's interesting watching people's "guilliman was really a secret traitor all along" theories become more crazy as time goes on.

This is as decisive info on Emprah being dead as it is that they found out that the missing Primarchs answered the call.

A corpse is dead? No shit. He's been dead for 10,000 years.

>*Rawboat* I can show you the Imperium.
>*Rawboat* Grimy, rusting, unstable.
>*Rawboat* Tell me Yvraine, last let your pussy decide.
>I*Rawboat* Can open your legs.
>*Rawboat* Take you world by world.
> *Rawboat* Over land and sky on a brand new Strike Cruiser ride.
>*Rawboat* A whole new Imperium!
>*Rawboat* A new Chapter Approved point of view.
>*Rawboat* No one to tell us no, where to crusade, or say we are heretics.
>*Yvraine* A whole new Imperium!
>*Yvraine* A flickering light of hope I foresaw long ago!
>*Yvraine* But when I'm way up here, it's crystal clear.
>*Yvraine* I'm in a whole new Imperium, with you!
>*Rawboat* A whole new Imperium, with you!
>*Yvraine* Unbelievable sights!
>*Yvraine* Indescribable feelings!
>*Yvraine* Souring, Tumbling, Free wheeling!
>*Yvraine* Endless ships in the sky!
>*Yvraine* A whole new Imperium!
>*Rawboat* Don't you dare close your legs.
>*Yvraine* A hundred million worlds to save!
>*Rawboat* Hold your breath I'm pounding harder.
>*Yvraine* Like a shooting star, I've cum so far!
>*Yvraine* I can not go back to the Craftworld I use to be.
>*Rawboat* A whole new Imperium!
>*Yvraine* Every turn a surprise!
>*Rawboat* A whole new Imperium, with new worlds to save!
>*Both* I'll chase you anywhere!
>*Both* There's no time to spare!
>*Both* Let me rule this whole new Imperium with you.
>*Both* A whole new Imperium!
>*Rawboat* A thrilling chase!
>*Yvraine* A kinda meh place!
>*Both* For you and... me.

>There's a giant hole leading straight into the warp on Holy Terra
>Only thing keeping it something approaching closed is the will of a man whom most revere as an infallible God, but you, as a Primarch actually know is just a really, really, really, really, really, really, really good looking dude with some neat powers.
>It is verging on a miracle that nothing has fucked up his concentration for the past 10,000 years
>This dude and the supporting structure around him are also essential for the Imperium and humanity's continued existence
>The only safety net that guards in case his will wavers for a moment, is the Adeptus Custodes, the baddest dudes created outside of you and your brothers, who guard the palace and the hole to the Warp 24/7, for if it were to open for but an instant, without them Holy Terra and the Imperium would be doomed

>You know what would be a great idea? Kicking over much of the status quo of the Imperium which in large part is supported by said guy on a throne's constant concentration, and then let's bring those Custodes to fuck up some Chaos Worshippers, far, far away from the place that only they can protect and without which Humanity is doomed
I mean, it's not 100%, but that's shady as fuck. At the very least I expect Tzeentch to be involved in part of it.

wut

I never knew the inquisition was so shit at censorship

Seriously who was incharge of the censor? Was it done by a drunk? A passing spare Jokero?

White out is heretical as is the delete button.

The Emperor is dead
Guilliman replaces him
Adeptus Astartes rebranded to Adeptus Ultra
Ultramar declared to be either Holy Ultramar or New Terra
Remember "everything you knew about the final battle in the siege of terra is wrong"?
Horus soul was not forever destroyed anymore, it lived on inside Guilliman
Guilliman is the biggest traitor in 10k years and the imperium embraces him with open arms

>said treachery boils down to having constant sex with Yvraine

And then Alpharius saves the day

>OP's decades late
Pretty impressive to be honest

...

>Angron
>he's really angry

>Guile-man
>people act surprised when he seems like a schemer

>there STILL isn't any porn of this

>Abbadon makes it into the throne room
>approaches golden Throne
>Avatars of all 4 gods manifest arround him
>suddenly, a golden figure cloaked in light steps out from behind the throne
>it's the Emperor in all his glory
>Emp:"How nice of you to gather all my enemies in one place."
>the four avatars melt in the face of the Emps glory and are locked away by the golden tiles of the floor
>Abbadon:"No, this is impossible, I'm in charge here."
>emp puts golden hands on Abbadons shoulders
>Emp:"Do you feel in charge?"
>Abbadon recognizes the wrinkled features of Horus on the golden throne, before being atomized and wiped from existance itself
"a swift death awaiting all those who thought the Master of Mankind dead."

This is now my new canon

>Holy Ultramar
Ultramar isn't a planet. Macragge is the capital of Ultramar. However, Guilliman is the absolute meritocrat. He was willing to let another world take the center stage of Ultramar if their overcame macragge in splendour or might, as he had basically planned for Calth to become.

He considered Macragge his home, but he never showed any favourism towards it in terms of importance.

>emperor is dead
>humanity doesn't explode into daemons

chaos BTFO again

Oh come on it can't be THAT simp...

>Ferrus Manus
>Has metal hands

>Sanguinius
>Cursed to drink blood

>Jaghtai Khan
>Space Mongol

>Corax
>Pasty Goth who likes to quote Edgar Allen Poe

>Lionel Johnson
>Had a massive Johnson and often started meetings with the statement "Hello, is it me you're looking for?"

>Vulcan
>Liked to forge things and every seven years returns to his home planet to conduct the mating rituals.

Shit.

>Guile-man
>people act surprised when he seems like a family man

It was amusing to see Kurze butthurt when he met Guilliman's mom.

GW needs to hire you to write. I'd rather have this than another Thorpe powered wankfest.

Counterpoint: Dorn.

sensible chuckle

His stache is quite roguish.

>Rogal Dorn
>Is the last defense before the ROYAL palace, the gate, the DOOR even.

I like this theory.

Digits confirm.

>Magnus the Red
>is big and has red skin

>Horus
>whore us
>turned half the legions into prostitutes for the ruinous powers

Fucking finally, that asshole was really holding us back. Now we can finally build the Culture that the galaxy actually deserved.

Chaosfags are so bereft they cling like drowning men to any hope of not being shit.

Shine on, you crazy jobbers, if it weren't for you guys we'd have to go find Orks or Nids to beat up on.

/thread

Is English not your first language? It would say "is" right before dead

also new fluff leaks include mentioning a horde of khorne berserkers attack the walls of the Imperial palace before being driven back.

>also new fluff leaks include mentioning a horde of khorne berserkers attack the walls of the Imperial palace before being driven back.
>walls
PRAISE BE TO THE PRAETORIAN

>culture in the 40k universe
Culture Minds are Mary Sue even by 40k standards.

Yea...

Holy fucking shit, what a twist!

Patiently awaiting the reincarnated loli-emprah

>Perturabo
>is constantly perturbed

>>Lionel Johnson
>>Had a massive Johnson

Come on dude
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Johnson

*shota

I wholeheartedly support this.

What about a Holy Hermaphrodite? It's not like 40k doesn't crib pretty hard from Dune already.

>Terra Retailiates
>RETALIATES!

Bullshit. If he would be dead, the custodes would be sucked in the same warp rift, as the rest of the Segmentum Solar. Perhaps their was a assasin, he failed, was flayed alive before the custodes do something to his homeworld population, that would even make a night lord uncomfortable.

>Entirety of Terra gets sucked into the Warp like an island of relative normalcy in the endless lunacy
>Instantly the entire planet is swarmed by Chaos
>But Terra refuses to fall
>The Custodes fight back
>They stand in the wake the endless horde which would break even a Primarch
>Thus begins the Siege of Terra

>In the dark imperium the giant warp rift blocks out the Astronomican, on the other side things are going well and vessels are still traveling as they always have been
>lolno, the Emps is dead

Unless they retcon a shitload of established fluff, the death of the Emperor is impossible without reality being torn apart and replaced by Chaos, or at least the Sol system erupting into a new, massive Warp storm. Or technically however Abaddon is planning to kill him.
Not to mention the Astronomican.

If GW ever ends 40k and decides that Chaos will be the winner
>Abaddon approaches the Golden Throne while his followers are defending him against the Imperial counterattacks
>he raises his fancy sword, knowing that killing the Emperor with that sword will prevent the psychic backlash that would occur otherwise
>he cackles to himself, knowing his betrayal of the Chaos Gods will now see him as the new Emperor, leading the Dark Imperium to claim the galaxy under his vision
>suddenly his limbs freeze
>his honour guard are still fighting behind him, not realizing that their leader is somehow powerless
>as he rages in motionless silence, a shadow appears behind the Golden Throne
>the last thing he sees is a Daemon arm impaling it's claws through the Emperors brains
>the last thing Abaddon hears is the laughter of the Chaos Gods
Because it's cool, plus if the Imperium isn't getting the galaxy then no one should

Why do we need Terra exactly? Besides the Astronomicon everything else being destroyed wouldn't really matter in the long run.

>Besides the Astronomicon
Yeah, that minor little thing without which FTL travel is basically impossible.

You do realize the entirety of the Emperor's life as the Emperor was dedicated to fixing the utter shitshow that a relatively brief period in human history produced where all human colonies were cut off from each other, right?
It's a well established fact that without the Astronomicon, the Imperium cannot exist, Humanity can't maintain any kind of consistent military presence, and each planet would be turned into a free bite-sized appetizer for any and all enemies of the Imperium.

Aside from all the records, the tech, the system that allows the human race to have a galaxy-spanning empire.

>Khorne Berserkers attack Terra
>they are destroyed, the Custodes retaliate
We sure this isn't HH?

Maybe it's a very large number of Custodes, but not all of them.

>We sure this isn't HH?

There's no difference anymore in Nu-GW.

Personally I'm glad they've moved on from the frankly insulting idea that Sanguinius should come back Chaos.

Except the one version I liked, where someone suggest that they cloned him, and the evil clone dukes it out with the Sanguinor in an epic battle for the soul of the Blood Angels. That one actually works without shitting all over the character's older material.

While on the one hand, I certainly do agree that reducing the Emperor's protection detail is probably a bad move, it's not as if they took all of the Custodes.

The 300 Companions are still there, and presumably they are the best of their number. And if Valdor is still alive I very much doubt he fucked off somewhere in a black cloak cause he failed.

>Perturabo
>is constantly perturbed
Also a turbo-autist.

More like 40k in general on suicide watch.

Literally Age of fucking garbo shit smegma bullshit all over again.

>hurr ok time 2 advance da plot
>*chaos teleports behind imperium* nothin personnel kid :3 *kills emperor because chaos can never be stopped ever x3 don't you guys love chaos as much as we do :3*
>tau orks tyranids aren't important anymore get that shit outta here it's just the imperium fighting and losing against chaos because chaos can never be stopped x3 don't you guys love chaos as much as we do :3
>but let's add female space marines just cuz we can ;D feminism is awesome!
>let's have eldar start ruling the imperium and have a female because feminism is awesome ;D
>it's okay though if you're upset because chaos always wins and will just end the setting anyway so *chaos teleports behind galaxy pulls out chainkatana* nothin personnel fans :3 *kills universe*
>BUT GUESS WHAT THE EMPEROR'S SPIRIT SURVIVED AND HE'S ACTUALLY IN A POCKET DIMENSION IN THE WARP ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEW MINIS

its new fluff from the rulebook

Dark Imperium novel epub, anyone?

YOU ARE FAKE NEWS

Learn to read faggot

>space mariners

Can't happen, 40k can't into good writing.

Sounds like some age of sigmar business to me buddy

Dude, you realizing this shit just now?!

Jesus Christ, this is what someone who'd believe in every shitpost and meme on Veeky Forums without checking out the facts or playing the game would actually believe...

It looks nice and has a lot of shiny buildings on it?

But if he dead, it means that Astronomicon fuck up, and Imperium crushed into many mini-Imperiums. This is good, but not real. Only bait.

FEAR NOT LOYAL CITIZENS OF THE EMPEROR

I SHALL RETURN AND PUT DOWN THIS USURPER IN THE NAME OF OUR FATHER

Yeah, I see no way that the loss of FLT navigation, the loss of most of the navigator houses, the loss of the major sorting point for psychers, and the likely loss of Mars and Titan could possibly have negative effects on the Imperium.

>an entire army of Adeptus Custodes
Sure, why not, let's just throw the entire fucking universe out the window. They did it with Warhammer Fantasy, but at least it established a new label. Warhammer 40k will just degenerate into condensed awful.

That's pretty much how it is, though.

...

>all these replies and no one mentioned Alpharius
Just as according to keikaku.

Yeah, except for the fact that none of those things happened, that's pretty much how it is alright.

>Emprah reincarnates
>as a squat

I unironically support this at this stage of the trainwreck, just add bobby g getting his way with the elf waifu and all geedubs crimes against humanity would be forgiven

>Unless they retcon a shitload of established fluff
You write this as if this would be unexpected and is not the new(ish) norm.

PLUS ULTRAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I miss vulkan...

I know this is late but counter counter point: Dorn is the Celtic/Welsh/Irish/Breton word for Fist.

...

>all of 40K is jokes
whilst we're at it

>Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka
>Margaret Thatcher, the iron lady