40K Charted: The Emperor Part Three – The Golden Throne
December 28, 2015 by warzan
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Can the Emperor communicate? Only if this happens. (Warning; Strong Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8Six9qpcA&index=1&list=PLyiDf91_bTEgnBN0jAvzNbqzrlMGID5WA
man i love that series, funny as hell! warren would love it!!
Yes its fantastic. It the serie that makes want to buy Captain Sicaricus 😉
ooo they use Martial industrial band Triarii for music too, SOLD.
Great show. Waiting for more.
Excellent as always, love the “active adaptive camo” effect AJ’s shirt is giving 😀
Always thought conrad kurze let himself be killed to show in no uncertain terms that his assassination was the actions of a tyrant and a false emperor….
love this series. I sometimes wander where AJ gets all the information from. I know some is from the Horus Heresy books, but where’s the rest from?
A lot of the older and more aesoteric lore about the emperor comes from a pair of books called The Lost and the Damned and Slaves to Darkness. They are a fascinating read but hard to get hold of these days, at least for a decent price.
Talk about arrested civilization, fascism and racism… Humans in 40k are the absolute worst humanity can produce, and none of the best. Why does anyone root for the humans in this universe, and how come they’re not just the bad guys ? Even ugly mutations seem tempting, now…
I always thought that was the point, there are no good guys in 40k.
Great show again! Another interesting Sigillite photo here. Take a look on the skulls ….the 2nd and 11th. 😉
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/3/35/Large-sigillite.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120809191033
Noooooooooooooooo, I’m a massive geek!!! I spent the whole time picking holes and plucking holes in that chat!
Nooooooo, good work though, also, did not know curze was assassinated, has that happened in the HH series yet?
Aaron Dembski-Bowden wrote a short story about the discovery of the evidence of Curze’s assassination called Throne of Lies. It’s really good.
Well a few things. First of all space marines are allies to the Imperium, not part of it, they view the Imperium as the creation of their father and they will keep it intact, but see them above it, not part of it. Now the psychers sacrificed as the plot suggests are to keep the Astronomicon alive and not the emperor, essentially they do the job the emperor and Malcador did but they are lesser that the situation, that is why so many are needed and why they die, it is unknown if the Emperor is alive or not and… Read more »
The battle between Horus and the Emperor will be slightly different this time around as Horus is no longer ‘just’ a primarch. He made the same bargain with Chaos that the Emperor did, see the Vengeful Spirit book for more details.
I would also add that the reason that the Emperor stays on the throne is more to do with stopping the tides of chaos flooding through the webway gate that was smashed to bits by Magnus. That was why he couldn’t leave it at any point in the heresy until Malcador sacrificed himself.
Yeah I remember it being mentioned in fluff that it was a space marine but in other fluff it was a guardsman, I think they’re heading with perpetual and going the Saint Pius route this time. Oh, and also psyker’s die to maintain the astronomicon AND the Emperor, but through separate systems.So you can see how many psykers they need!
Curze was a psyker and had visions of his own death since he was born. They effectively haunted him his whole life. There’s a lot more to it than that but he let it happen and laughed when it did because he knew that was his time. Just a bit a of night lords fluff for you 🙂
Hey guys! I feel like this is my new favourite “get involved” show. Prepare yourselves for the walls of text. Konrad Curze was the primarch who, with his legion, inspired cooperation through terror tactics throughout the great crusade. He would leave planets so afraid of the consequences of non conformity that they would remain loyal through fear. He seems to be very like the historical character of Vlad the Impaler, who is also said to use fear to reign, with one story saying he would leave a golden gem encrusted cup at the centre of each village knowing that it… Read more »
I knew psychers didn’t look right! Psykers…….
As far as I remember from the horus heresy books the emperor is a perpetual so in order for him to return all that needs to be done is to unplug the golden throne from the wall.
well that was interesting so the Emperor may be still on the throne because the leaders want to keep the power for themselves knowing he would be reborn with all of his powers if he died?
I agree, a small group from the Inquisition originally wanted to let the emperor die so he would be reborn but the word had already spread that he was on the golden throne. They said the window of opportunity for saying he died had passed so they would have to wait, otherwise it would tear down the Imperium completely when it was already fragile from the Heresy.
Interesting update to the fluff @warzan @aj86 the traitor legions can actually see that the astronomicon is starting to get weaker and fail from the eye of terror, they know the emperor is dying.
Great end to the Emperor fluff. Nice fluff gap-filling by @lotan2012 too. 🙂
for anyone who wants a more detailed acount of the fall of the Eldar should read the black library book “Asurmen hand of Asuryan” as it gose in to detail about that time for the eldar.
Does anyone know what happened to the Emperor’s armour, sword and power claw? I imagine it’s held in some kind of relic chamber waiting for his resurrection but just wondering if anyone could ever get a hold of them? Might have to send in some sneaky sneakers!