Thousands of them poisoned themselves and sped their souls to the warp at the same time. Already having gained the power to reincarnate themselves (upon death, the shamans' souls would transfer to the Warp, accumulating power enough to reincarnate as human) the shamans entered a suicide-pact. Finding their souls - and those of humanity - endangered by the growing perils of the Warp-gods, these psykers decided to pool their power into one human, a being they called 'the New Man'. These men, termed 'shamans' by their society, were powerful psykers with great experience of the Warp. It is said that the Emperor's birth, while a natural process, was actually the result of a scheme created by the wisest and most powerful of living humans at that time the conclave of Shamans. There is a source from 1st Edition Rogue Trader (that being the now-outdated Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned) which details the Emperor's backstory. A few pieces of information have come to light, from various different sources, and present some small parts of a coherent whole however, their reliability is often disputed, especially as the Emperor's tale changes somewhat with each retelling. Little is known about the majority of the Emperor's life of who he was and what he did before he emerged as the great Emperor of Mankind, only the Emperor himself remembers.

ĭaemonkind refers to the Emperor as The Anathema. In the millennia since his ascension to the Golden Throne, the Emperor has become a god to his people, the worship of Him uniting humanity throughout his Imperium, superstition and dogma replacing his doctrine of Imperial Truth. The Emperor knows that to protect his race he must survive as long as necessary for the emerging race of psychic humans to evolve sufficiently. Without the Emperor there would be no Imperium, little space travel, and no protection from the multitude of threats facing mankind. The Emperor's role as guardian of mankind seems to have been predestined for Him. His immense psychic powers constantly keep the Chaos Gods in the Warp at bay, preventing their intrusion into the material universe and protecting his people throughout the galaxy.

All at once He guides his race through the Emperor's Tarot, soul-binds psykers, holds audiences with His most important servants and directs the Astronomican beacon that guides space vessels through the Warp. For ten thousand years the Master of Mankind has served humanity, simultaneously carrying out a multitude of tasks vital to its survival. His will is omnipotent, extending across the million worlds that comprise His Imperium. Although once a living man, His shattered body can no longer support life, and remains intact only by a combination of ancient technology and the sheer force of His will, itself sustained by the soul-sacrifice of countless millions of psykers. He has sat immobile within the Golden Throne of Terra for ten thousand years. The Emperor of Mankind is the sovereign of the Imperium of Man, and Father, Guardian, and God of the human race. The Emperor of Mankind battles during the Great Crusade

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