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It's just that in the 40k universe, that's the kind of leader that is needed to ensure mankind's survival, you don't need to like him along the way. The Primarchs would be beings of such great mental and physical superiority that nothing merely Human could stand against them. Although there's no saving Erebus, the Word Bearers got a new lease on life with his take on Lorgar and his sons. This shouldn't be too much of a surprise for anyone familiar with the Night Lords trilogy, or even Betrayer, but it's especially evident here. In his opinion, what makes the story more interesting is to have a more anti-Imperial approach to things, where Chaos will always win no matter what.
It’s a story of creeping death, as inch by gruelling inch, the Emperor’s forces are compelled to fall back.In the name of character examination, Dembski-Bowden focused primarily upon their flaws and failings, enhancing them and exaggerating them.
In Helsreach, we had the Black Templars joining up with problematic allies, defending the hive, slowly losing it, and then managing to hold the city during the finale. I particularly like how to everyone in the throne room, Magnus appeared as a insanity inducing monster of pure horror, killing many of the mortals around him with his mere presence. Some of the New Man's plans proved less than successful; seeds of wisdom often failed to flourish or grew into uncontrollable monstrosities leading to eras of persecution and war. Then again, I love ornate language, and I thought the narrative made artistic use of picturesque prose.Eventually the shamans of Humanity, unable to reincarnate, would become extinct, and without the shamans and their psychic abilities to guide the race, Humanity would inevitably fall prey to the corruptions of Chaos, just as eventually happened to the Aeldari. The Emperor chose to sacrifice His immortal life at the end of the Horus Heresy in the service and protection of Mankind. This was a supremely powerful psychic navigational beacon powered by the Emperor's own will and psychic abilities that would allow simplified and safer interstellar travel through the Warp across far greater distances than before. Two, given the flexible relationship BL/GW has toward truth in Warhammer, we could choose to ignore MoM's Emperor on those grounds.
Magnus, one of the Emperor’s sons, had attempted to warn his father of his brother Horus’ betrayal by using the forbidden interdimensional network known as the webway. There's no room left here for the greater being other books suggested might exist, or even the more sympathetic man briefly seen in The Outcast Dead. It features larger than life characters, tonnes of blood and gore, superb pacing and an adoring attention to detail. While he lacks the sheer punch of McNeill's works or Abnett's sheer attention to detail, the thematic and emotive qualities of Dembski-Bowde n's books cannot be denied.We see in it reflections of his actions on Terra, his moments leading the Thunder Warriors and even a fleeting look into his earliest days. The ‘Ten Thousand’ Custodian Guard, along with the Sisters of Silence and the Mechanicum forces of Fabricator General Kane, fight to control the nexus points of the ancient eldar webway that lie closest to Terra, infested by daemonic entities after Magnus the Red’s intrusion. Here we get to see that in fact, portions of the webway are large enough to fit Warlord Titans, and even entire cities. Also, it is interesting you describe them as predictable as that's not something which occurred to me before.
It is for this reason that all of Daemonkind refers to the Emperor as "the Anathema," the embodiment of the metaphysical opposition to Chaos. To most people he is a godlike being, someone they can barely look at for more than a handful of moments. One thing that stood out was how ADB was able to get me acquainted with new characters as quickly as they were introduced. One more thing I'd like to point out is that if the Emperor didn't see the Primarchs as sons then the Horus Heresy wouldn't have happened, or if it did then it would not have happened anywhere close to the way it did. The man who would later become known as the Emperor of Mankind first appears in Imperial records as just one of the many warlords struggling for control of Terra during the later part of the Age of Strife in the early 29th Millennium.
I believe ADB's intention was to, like the Emperor, present a portrayal that could be all things to all readers. Once within the Immaterium He forged an unknown bargain with the Chaos Gods and was imbued with new powers and the knowledge required to ultimately create the primarchs, superhuman beings whose creation would combine techniques of arcane genetic science with the energies of the Warp.
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