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History of the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40,000.
History[]
Early Life[]
Long time ago in Stone Age, there are ancient Pyskers/Shamans group of people who have deep understanding of the warp, they used their wisdom and powers to guide other people, and is able to reincarnated when died. Around the time the Warp began to destabilize, numerous human Psykers/Shamans are failed to reincarnated and has their souls devour by demons living in the Warp. The remaining Shaman on Neolithic Earth came to the conclusion that a savior needed to be born amongst their race to save them from the oncoming disaster that would engulf them all. So, in mass ritualistic suicide, the human psykers fused their psychic souls into one, reincarnated as one vastly powerful psyker in Anatolia, one who would later be known as the Emperor of Mankind.
Now reincarnated, the child who would later become the Emperor was born to a normal mother and father, with normal brothers and sisters. During his childhood, the Emperor’s father was killed by his uncle, with the Emperor being able to perceive this crime with his psychic powers. During his father’s funeral, the Emperor, with no emotion, walked up to his uncle and stopped his heart with his mind. From that moment on, the Emperor came to the conclusion that humanity will collapse into evil if not properly controlled by a guiding hand.
During the Ancient Greek era, the man who would become the Emperor created one of the largest empires in mankind's history under the alias Alexander III of Macedon, also known as Alexander the Great. Later, during the Ancient Roman era, he became a religious leader using the name Jesus, and after his execution by the hands of Romans, his teaching became Christianity, which lasted for millennia before being ironically ended by its founder during the Unification Wars.
Unification War[]
The Emperor, in spite of his near-limitless psychic might, remained in the shadows, only influencing humanity in the subtlest of ways. He saw humanity grows over the millennia, slowly building an interstellar empire from the third millennium onwards. Between the 15th and the 25th millennium, humanity reached the apex of its technological prowess, having colonized most of the galaxy. However, this age would come to an end when the Aeldari's debauchery resulted in massive Warp storms, raging all across the galaxy, cutting off subsectors from each others.
As the various worlds' economies depended on each others, the isolation resulted in the collapse of most worlds and settlements, and Earth was no exception. Humanity's cradle fell into disarray, with devastating wars turning Earth into a planetary wasteland, before tribal warlords carved their own territories. In the 29th millennium, the Emperor finally revealed himself, and began a bloody conquest of the world, using his armies of Custodes and Thunder Warriors to wage war over all the other warlords, painstakingly reuniting Earth under his mantle. Later, the Emperor would dispose of the Thunder Warriors after the last of his enemies was vanquished, a betrayal that would foreshadow the Emperor's callousness in the millennia to come, although it could be argued that the Emperor put them out of their misery, considering their genetic instability. And thus, the Imperium was born.
The Last Chruch[]
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Creating Primarchs[]
The Emperor would go on to create the twenty Primarchs, superhuman offsprings imbued with his gene and a fraction of his might, intended to serve as his generals to oversee the conquest of the galaxy; and, from the Primarchs' gene-seed, the Space Marines, elite forces replacing the Thunder Warriors and organized in legions, each under a Primarch's command. However, before the Emperor's plans came to fruition, Erda suddenly has a change of hearts and don't want her children to become the weapon of wars, secretly betrayed the Emperor, helping the Chaos Gods to scatter the Primarchs (then infants) into the galaxy at large. After that she's run away. Emperor know where she's hiding but never bother to seek vengence on her.
At the onset of the 30th millennium, Slaanesh was born in the Warp. While their catastrophic birth led to the destruction of the Aeldari Empire (and most of the Aeldari with it), it also stabilized the Warp, and its raging Warp Storms which prevented interstellar communication and travel finally ceased. This allowed the Emperor, who sought to reunite all of humanity under his rule and also to recover his Primarchs, to begin the conquest of the galaxy. He first subjugated Luna, and made a pact with the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars, forging an alliance that would last until the setting's current era, in the 41st millennium, before launching the Great Crusade.
Great Crusade[]
During the Great Crusade, the Emperor slowly reunited the galaxy, using his Space Marines to bring into compliance any world who resisted, and destroying any and all malignant Xenos (alien) along the way. Subjugated worlds were now under the protection of the Imperium's forces, but had to pay tithes (taxes), consisting of goods, weapons and soldiers, integrated to the Imperium's grand armies, the Astra Militarum. In addition, the Emperor forbid religion, and instead compelled his subjects to adhere to the Imperial Truth, an atheistic, materialistic and purely rational worldview of reality. The Emperor's real plan was to starve the forces of Chaos through the destruction of religion. However, the Chaos Gods took notice of the nascent threat posed by his influence, and began to plot his downfall, which would involve corrupting his sons to turn them against him and his ideals.
One by one, the Emperor recovered his Primarchs, the first of which was Horus Lupercal, who would quickly become the Emperor's favorite, followed by Leman Russ, Ferrus Mannus, Fulgrim, Vulkan, Rogal Dorn, Roboute Guilliman, Magnus the Red, Sanguinius, Lion El'Jonson, Perturabo, Mortarion, Lorgar, Jaghatai Khan, Konrad Curze, Angron, Corvus Corax, and finally Alpharius and Omegon. In addition, the Emperor recovered two Primarchs, called "lost" as their identities and histories were all but expunged from every Imperial record (or so is it claimed), for completely unknown reasons.
He tasked each Primarch to take control of the Legion of Space Marines with their gene-seed, and conquer worlds for the Imperium, a task that all of them dutifully followed, although some of the Primarchs were clearly discontent with the Emperor and his project. The Emperor slowly drew the ire of several Primarchs, namely Angron by refusing to save his friends and families from the wrath of the Nucerian's slavers (whom he pardoned); Perturabo, for refusing to give him any consideration beyond formalities for his hard work; Mortarion, for denying him his revenge as the Emperor slew his hated adoptive father just before Mortarion could deal the fatal blow; and, last but not least, Lorgar, by destroying his beloved city for refusing to adhere to the Imperial Truth. Lorgar, heartbroken, would fall under the influence of the devious Erebus and Kor Phaeron, both of them leading the Primarch into the clutches of Chaos.
The Horus Heresy[]
Lorgar, now worshiping his new masters, the Chaos Gods (under the banner of Chaos Undivided), began to plot a rebellion. His schemes targeted the Emperor's favorite, Horus. Horus was by then named Warmaster by the Emperor, and in charge of all the crusading armies of the increasingly growing Imperium, as the Emperor had to return to Terra completing his secret Webway project, and put all his trust onto his mightiest of sons. However, Horus slowly began to resent his father, as he opposed certain of his decisions (such as creating a Council of Terra who would administer the Imperium's legal matters, relegating the Primarchs to the military matters), and was also consumed with the stress of the ongoing crusade, and his own insecurities. Such vulnerabilities that Lorgar and his acolytes, namely Erebus, knew all too well, and would exploit for their own sinister ends.
Horus was led into a trap on Davin, mortally wounded by a Chaos-corrupted governor, and unable to be cured by his Legion's apothecaries. Erebus convinced the Luna Wolves (Horus' legion), to take him to the Temple of the Serpent Lodge, where Horus was killed, and his soul released into the Immaterium. There, Horus was manipulated by the Dark Gods, and shown visions of a nightmarish future, in fact the current era, where the Imperium devolved into an ignorant, savage theocracy where the Emperor and several of his Primarchs, but not Horus, were worshiped as "gods". The Chaos Gods told Horus only he could prevent such a dreadful future, and offered him the galaxy, in exchange for his subservience, and the death of the Emperor. Horus, horrified, eventually accepted their bargain, pledging his allegiance to the Ruinous Powers. Cured of his ailments and reincarnated with a fraction of the Chaos God's might, Horus was now under the service of Chaos, as Erebus and Lorgar expected. Soon, his rebellion, the Horus heresy, would begin.
Magnus foresaw Horus' corruption, and tried to warn the Emperor through a psychic message; while doing so, Magnus breached the Webway, causing catastrophic damages on Terra and opening the gates for a massive demonic force, forcing the Emperor, the Custodes and the Sisters of Silence to fight against the Empyrean's tides. The Emperor recalled Magnus for Terra, as the Primarch was due to be tried due to his carelessness and abuse of sorcery. He sent Leman Russ, along with his legion and a contingent of Custodes and Sisters of Silence, to capture and transport Magnus, then based on his homeplanet of Prospero, back on Terra. However, along the way, Horus manipulated Russ and his expeditionary force into razing Prospero and killing Magnus, rather than simply arresting him. In the ensuing massacre, Magnus watched with horror Russ and his forces destroying all the arcane knowledge he painstakingly collected over the decades, before Russ and Magnus engaged in a duel, which was largely one-sided in favor of Russ. However, just as Russ was about to kill Magnus, Magnus and his forces escaped into the Warp, swearing revenge upon the Emperor and his forces for their cruelty.
Meanwhile, Horus convinced Angron, Mortarion, Perturabo and Curze, who by now all seriously ressented the Emperor, to assist him with his rebellion. Fulgrim, corrupted by the Laer's Blade, a Greater Daemon of Slaanesh taking the form of a sword, also joined forces with Horus, and tried to convince his friend and fellow Primarch Manus, who, horrified and disgusted by his treachery, ruptured his bond with Fulgrim. Now, Horus led an heretical army made up of his forces, along the forces of Lorgar, Angron, Mortarion, Perturabo, Curze, and Fulgrim, although the traitors had yet to reveal themselves.
Horus first wanted to expunge all the suspected Loyalist elements from the traitorous Legions, sending them into the rebellious planet of Isstvan III reestablishing order, before bombing them to oblivion with Virus bombs (also exterminating nearly every living being on the planet by the same occasion), and sending the Traitors' troops to flush the hidden Loyalists off. The battle between former brethren-in-arms, now sworn enemies, was much longer and bloodier than expected, although the Traitors eventually prevailed by overwhelming the Loyalists. However, a few Loyalists managed to warp back at Terra, warning the Emperor of Horus' treachery. From this point on, the civil war begun.
After dealing a huge blow to the Loyalists during the Drop Site Massacre, Horus and his forces carved their own little empire, taking over planets and forcing them into a twisted parody of the Imperial Compliance, the dark compliance, wherein conquered worlds would swear allegiance to Horus and the Chaos Gods, providing the traitors with men and resources for their foul crusade against the Emperor. However, Horus' actual plan was to take over Terra and kill the Emperor, which is why he needed to amass as much manpower as he could. Meanwhile, Lorgar and Curze managed to distract Guilliman and the Lion by waging war against their forces, thus preventing the most formidable Loyalist Legions to assist the Emperor in the defense of Terra.
Slowly, the Traitors made their way onto Terra, until Horus and his massive armada of vessels breached into the Sol System. The Fabricator of Mars revealed himself to be a worshiper of the Dark Gods, and turned on the Emperor, causing a religious schism and subsequent civil war on Mars. Horus and his armada finally arrived at Earth, and began to engage in a massive space battle, the Terran void-shields protecting the Palace from any orbital nuke. The Traitors finally landed on Terra, with Angron, Mortarion and Perturabo, assisted with their forces and the Dark Mechanicum, trying to breach into the Palace, defended by Dorn, Sanguinius and Khan, assisted with their forces too and the Custodes. The Emperor was unable to take part in combat, as he had to sit on the Golden Throne, to stem the growing tide of Daemons coming from the breached Webway (thanks to Magnus).
The siege of Terra, as it would be called, caused untold devastation onto the planet, that would even outshine the devastation wrought during the Age of Strife. An untold number of civilians and soldiers (likely billions, if not trillions) died, either bombed to oblivion, tortured and massacred by rampaging traitor Marines, Chaos cultists and Daemons, starved, afflicted by illnesses, or driven to suicide under the Warp's influence. Entire Hive cities either collapsed, were blown to dust, scourged clean of life by the Traitors, or even turned into giant playgrounds for the Traitors, the regular militias powerless to prevent their advance, as the bulk of the Loyalists was focused around the Emperor's palace. The continuous, worldwide bombings also turned Terra back to the wasteland it was a few millennia ago.
Eventually, Terra itself became twisted by the Chaos God's influence, the Warp increasingly corrupting the planet's soil, and causing temporal anomalies of increasing severity. The Emperor decided it was time to act, before Horus would doom them all. He entrusts Malcador to take his place on the Golden Throne, while the Emperor would personally teleport into Horus' ship to put him down. Malcador accepted, but the Golden Throne was far too much to bear for the old regent, and he slowly died, turning into dust in the span of a few hours. However, it left enough time for the Emperor to confront Horus.
The End and the Death[]
Teleporting himself and his Custodians onto Horus's ship, the Vengeful Spirit, the Emperor soon found his treacherous son, gloating about his inevitable victory. The Emperor soon realized that Horus had become so powerful that not even him could defeat Horus, so he decided to once again dive deep into the warp and absorb its power, as he once did at the gate of Molech, but by doing this, he was inevitably ascending into a fifth Chaos God, The Dark King. This was the Chaos Gods' true plan all along; if his ascension is complete, he will no longer be himself but the ultimate God of total ruin that will destroy the galaxy until no life is left, even if he defeats Horus. However, before his ascension could be complete, Ollanius Pius, his old perpetual friend, came to convince him to abandon the Dark King power and give him a chance to try to defeat Horus in another way. The Emperor agrees, letting go of the Dark King powers, and chooses to fight Horus; better to die as a man than to become a demon.
Emperor, Ollanius Pius, and Custodians eventually confronted Horus, who just killed another one of Emperor's sons, Sanguinius. But Emperor could not bring himself to kill his favorite son, and thus, Horus was able to overpower and nearly kill the Emperor. Before Horus could finish him off, Ollanius Pius stood up to Horus, causing Horus to kill him with a glare, to the point that Ollanius can't be resurrected with his perpetual power. Upon seeing this, the Emperor realized Horus was too far gone and quickly overpowered and defeated Horus. Upon realizing the terrible things he had done, Horus begged the Emperor to kill him, which the Emperor quickly did. Destroy his son's soul to prevent him from being resurrected or turned into a Demon Prince by the Chaos Gods. Though Horus was dead, and his forces cowardly fled, the Imperium was broken. The Emperor himself was mortally wounded.
Rogal Dorn and Constantine Valdor carried him back to the Golden Throne to keep the warp gate from the Webway project sealed, and now the Emperor sits on the Golden Throne, still battling the Chaos Gods from afar, while powering Astronomican at the same time allowing humanity to use warp travel over long distances, sacrificing a thousand psykers every day to keep the Golden Throne functional and The Emperor alive.
Post-Heresy[]
Since the end of the Heresy, the Emperor has never left the Throne. Left in constant agony from the Golden Throne's strain and unable to heal from the wounds dealt by Horus, he slowly decayed physically, and eventually died in the physical realm. Yet, his psychic might within the Immaterium remain intact. With that said, the Emperor was no longer able to directly communicate with his servants. Instead, he would communicate through psychic manifestations such as in dreams, with the Emperor's Tarot, and other such manifestations. Such communications would be very sparse (and become increasingly so as time passed), as the Emperor had to dedicate most of his psychic might to fight the hordes of Daemons off, who were (and are) still trying to breach through the Webway.
The High Lords of Terra would lead the Imperium in his name, although the Imperium slowly degenerated into a nightmarish parody of the Emperor's ideals. The Emperor was deified, the Imperial Truth replaced by the Imperial Creed. Quite ironically, Lorgar's Lectito Divinitatus served as the basis for the nascent cult. Even more ironically, Horus' treachery led to the very nightmare he (and the Emperor) fought so hard to prevent: the establishment of a totalitarian, obscurantist theology, centered around the worship of the Emperor.
During the millenia to come, the Emperor would sometimes bestow a fraction of his might onto some of the most vaillant Imperial's heroes, turning them into Living Saints, the most famous of which is Saint Celestine. It has been hypothetized the Legion of the Damned was dead Loyalists resurrected by the Emperor to assist the Imperial forces when they were fighting their last stands, often turning the tides in favor the Imperium. The Emperor's might would accomplish countless other miracles accross the ages.
Era Indomitus[]
After the resurrection of Guilliman thanks to the combined efforts of the Ynnari, Belisarius Cawl and the Ultramarines under Marneus Calgar's command, the reborn Primarch went on a meeting with the Emperor on Terra after a lengthy crusade accross space. The Emperor's psyche was too heavily fragmented to even make a coherent sentence to his son. However, the Emperor managed to tell Guilliman he was his "last hope", causing Guilliman to organize the Indomitus Crusade in an effort to stabilize the Imperium in the wake of the Great Rift.
Years later, the Emperor would intervene again to save Guilliman from Mortarion's godblight. He took possession of Guilliman, and used his sword to grievously injure Nurgle by burning a lengthy part of his fetid garden (since both are tied together). He warned Nurgle and his fellow Chaos gods that the warp has "tipped the scales" for "too long", and that "it is not only the warp that is capable of pushing back", adding that "this realm is not real" and that "only will is real", remarking that "none may outmatch my will". Whether the Emperor directly addressed the Chaos God through his vessel, or Guilliman was empowered by the Emperor to fight back, as Guilliman finishes by "I speak for the Emperor of Mankind", remains ambiguous.
It is implied the Emperor took part, along with the Watchers of the Dark, in the awakening of Lion El'Jonson. He appears as an "old king" sitting on a bark, in the middle of a river, surrounded by four shadows (heavily implied to be the Chaos Gods).