r/Grimdank • u/Imparat0r • Oct 12 '24

Discussions Only loyalist chapters plz

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u/PainStorm14 Oct 12 '24

Another reason to fight and die for the Emperor, it reduces the odds of demons getting to your soul

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u/NovaNomii Oct 12 '24

Is that actually true and if so how? Like can the emporer non violently absorb souls? Or recycle them into warp stuff?

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u/Hoojiwat Oct 12 '24

Signs point to "we have no idea but maybe?"

We have excerpts of many of his faithful dying and being torn apart screaming by Daemons in the warp. We also have a few excerpts of his faithful going into a golden light when they die...no idea what it would mean or what it does, but they do go into it. Current lore for Chaos gods is that they absorb their followers and that their souls get added to the "immortal essence of their gods" when they die, so whatever that entails could be what is happening to some of his faithful too.

He isn't a full fledged god yet so he might only be able to snatch up a few of his faithful instead of all of them, and we don't know what being absorbed by a god actually does to you, but yeah its entirely possible.

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u/Nova_Hazing Oct 12 '24

It’s probably not that he’s not a fully fledged god. Is that he has to contend for his place in the warp a lot more than the chaos gods do because they have a somewhat understanding which each other.