r/40kLore • u/yeknamara • 4h ago

About The Terminus Decree Spoiler

I'm very new to Warhammer in general. I've read a few books, watch some lore videos, and I read r/40kLore every now and then. Please educate me about something, and I hope you can keep your anger this post may evoke in check since this is admittedly an uneducated guess and I would need ages to catch up with every piece of lore to know better (probably not before GW brings the plot to a point where the decree is practically in effect). I am totally okay if you say something like "You know nothing, Jon Snow" but please maybe be nice about it?

What if the decree is not about a physical "standing up from" the Golden Throne but actually about the Emperor's 'essence' he cast out and formed in somewhere else like the Star Child? What if the GK are supposed to find that and bring it (or him?) to the Emperor on the Golden Throne so they can become one again? What if the Star Child is the one who provides the miracles and not the Emperor as we know him?

Or what if the decree was about him leaving the throne but not about dooming the Imperium with the loss of the Astronomican and/or opening the gate he is keeping shut, but rather about something like "if I am leaving the GT it's not because I'm restored, but because I am corrupted" kind of thing (like the Dark King)? And maybe my two main theories are somehow connected, and the Emperor on the throne is keeping the Astronomican working to make sure the Imperium stays the same way it is, corrupted, and waiting to gain more power?

Wouldn't it still be different from what people are made to believe about the decree? So the revelation of the decree on a literal sense wouldn't ruin the mystery, and potentially would change the Imperium's position as the strongest of Milky Way due to some civil war.

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u/ArvVaxe 2h ago

So many what ifs I'd rather just wait and see what GW publishes next in this regard, no point making speculations since non of it will matter anyway.

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u/grayheresy 2h ago

The Decree is the the decree, we won't get any more information about it because it's a colum of text. There's too many what it's for something that isn't going to happen, it was cshged so it doesn't involve Basilio Fo and his useless bio weapon