[Excerpt: Dark Imperium, Godblight] Guilliman meets the Emperor

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/u/Wardog_Razgriz30: This is actually a really interesting excerpt because it provides some additional coloring to the fabled reunion of The Emperor and His Avenging Son.

Previously, we had Guilliman's word that the Emperor never really cared about his sons and that they were all tools from the start. However, this shows that this is not exactly true.

In reality, Roboute was faced with the deathbed of a dying god. The Emperor after centuries of isolation, suffering, and disappointment has become a shadow in more ways than one. The man who united humanity no longer exists and has been replaced by an even more jaded husk that poses near limitless power. On top of that, the husk is visibly falling apart at the seams and is one bad batch of Psykers away from plunging humanity into the warp.

To Roboute, this is nigh incomprehensible and one final grain of salt in the wound that was being revived into this waking nightmare of a setting. The horror aside, Guilliman is physically and psychically unable to comprehend whatever message his father wants to give to him because he doesn't poses the same level of Psyker power his brothers had. He only received the fragments he got at all because he was is a Primarch, a being born of the energies of the warp given flesh and "human" form.

It's no wonder why he thinks the way that he thinks because Roboute Guilliman is struggling to comprehend what the hell just happened and all he could make out was a very vague "go save my imperium, lug wrench".