Warhammer 40k fluff thread VI: They see me Ward'en, they haten

[Cheesegear]

While all of the above is true, it's also been suggested in some of the codices that the Emperor being tethered to his barely-alive body is the only thing preventing him from being reborn and/or going and beating the tar out of the Chaos gods.

He couldn't even beat the tar out of the Chaos Gods when he was alive the first time. Lorgar and the surviving Chaos Primarchs are more powerful than they ever were when the Emperor was alive, it's just that due to Plot ex Machina, they don't do a whole lot.