the rye said:
willofbob said:
the rye said:
Unlimited power? I would proclaim myself god emperor, now to create an army of super genetically enhanced soldiers who shall go on a holy crusade in my name and conquer the galaxy.
Actually, the Emperor didn't have a god complex. Yeah, he was insanely powerful, but he was avowedly atheist and hated people worshiping him as a god. It's only after the Horus Heresy that the Imperium started worshiping him, and he doesn't like it.
And that's why its so ironic, he was an atheist opposed to being worshiped but ends up being deified. And if i recall correctly it was one of the heretical chapters that originally promoted a theological idea of the emperor.
The Horus Heresy started because Tzeench showed Horus a future in which his father became worshipped as a God, something he knew his father would hate, so he vowed to kill his father before that happened. Ironically, it was this choice that caused the Imperiums descent into thecoracy in the first place.
Tzeench is one of the more important Chaos Gods for this reason, and also the most enigmatic; Tzeench can see the future, and would have known the outcome of this course of action, and he chose to do it anyway. While doing this would secure an enormous amount of worshipers, it also made humanity very aware of the threat Chaos posed, if my canon is correct, it may have even led to the founding of the Ordo Hereticus and Ordo Malleus, who are both great threats to the Chaos Gods. Did Tzeench believe that, in this case, that gained outwayed that which was lost, or is he secretly on our side in a very Macchiavellian sort of way, doing this simply because it would lead to the downfall of his compatriots, or is there something even more sinister in the works here?