What is the emperor of Mankind's origin storyI like he's a bunch of different shamans cuz it's also explains how he can act so different on the situation he's in at the moment
>>98389621there's an equal chance he was a DAoT superweapon who broke out
>>98389621Long before recorded history, the Emperor was the last survivor of a forgotten xenos civilization that mastered the Warp but fell to its corruption. Hiding his true origins, he guided humanity in secret for millennia, determined to prevent history from repeating itself. Only during the Horus Heresy did the consequences of his ancient past finally catch up with him.
He was a county circuit wrestler in 1850's Arkansas who fell into a vat of snakeoil tonic, and gained all the powers listed on the bottle, plus some extras.
>>98389621After digging his way out of his earth-mother womb, now called Gobekli Tepe, he established the megalithic sites from which to teach autism and agriculture. But the usurpers of the wooden circles challenged his control and disrupted his psychic communication network.Thus he came to wander the world, siring sons and daughters, strengthening Humanity's psychic potential, as the Shamans first planned. Upon discovering the Old One artifact dubbed Golden Throne, he became a scholar, gazing upon the warp as an astronomer gazes upon the stars. When leaving Shambala, he was shocked with Humanity's rapid development in just a few millennia, watching a firework display upon the shores of the Yellow River. Thus he decided to guide his fellow man again.He was the King of Tartaria, and after it challenged his might, he covered it in mud. That was the end of the Nephilim, the Emperor's descendants which used their biomancy to become giants.Then He gave a chance for the art of mortal science to guide the world, and it flourished beautifully, achieving wonders and terrors only familiar to him through the alien memories rescued from oblivion within hidden angles of the warp. Instead of overt control, he manipulated and helped as he could. In the meanwhile, he tested his greater powers by designing the first two World Wars to destroy the remaining traces of Tartaria.As the Dark Age of Technology spread Humanity through the stars, he went far and away, learning, rescuing, recording. To his eyes, Humanity had became a beast like a hydra, spreading beyond any limits. He sought to match it, or it would grow beyond him.He was a half galaxy away, at the onset of the Age of Strife. Took him two millennia to return to Terra. His Shambala refugee was in shambles, the psyker community ate its own minds and souls as Chaos spread. Only the Golden Throne vault was untouched. After a brief decade of grief, he assumed the mantle of the Emperor.
he's experiment conducted by malcador and the sigilite order,using leftovers of DAoT genetic technology to create a "living god" around whom humanity would truly unite, and of course he would be controlled by the orderbut shit goes south, big E immediately rebels against his creators and wipes out almost everyone, sparing only those members of the order who he found useful or those who pledge their allegiance to him
>>98389621The Shaman thing was retconned.The new lore is that the Emperor was part of a mutant subspecies of humanity called the Perpetuals or Homo Superior.All of them were immortal and unkillable, and some possessed potent psychic abilities. The Emperor was the first human/Perpetual to manifest psychic powers on Terra and by far the most powerful. Before the Emperor, there were no psykers on Terra.The Emperor and the rest of the Perpetuals attempted to lead humanity from the shadows, but the Emperor was a control freak and sorta a tyrant, so one by one the Perpetuals, except much later Malcador, turned on him or abandoned him.
>>98389698No, we have people from before bronze age who knew of the Emperor
>>98391353>The Shaman thing was retconned.It was sort of soft-retconned, and then un-retconned. Malcador still refers to Big E as the First Shaman, and it's confirmed he originates from prehistoric Anatolia as per the old version of the shaman fusion dance. With the reveal that all the Primarchs are artificial Perpetuals created by fusing powerful warp entities from human culture, it lends credence to the idea that the Emperor himself might be the first artificial Perpetual, created by the Perpetual shamans before history using their suicide ritual to combine their souls. It would also explain why the Emperor is leagues more powerful than all the other natural Perpetuals like Malcador, Erda, and Ol' Pious.
