Editing Imperial Truth (section)

== Primarch's point of view ==
When [[Horus]] had a vision of the 41st millennium, part of his instant patricidal rage was that the Emperor was abandoning the Imperial Truth by seeking to become a real god (which made the Emperor a hypocrite if true). This in turn convinced him to renounce the Emperor. And then start worshiping the Chaos Gods. It’s double hypocritical when you realize that he could only get pissed at the belief his father was trying to become a god if Horus believed gods existed otherwise he’d think it was impossible. So, he broke the Imperial Truth in order to be able to believe the Emperor planned to break the Imperial Truth and then he broke it again by worshipping Chaos to stop the Emperor from breaking the Imperial Truth (Look, [[Horus]] was a right dumbass).

Magnus said that the Warp is just another type of knowledge to be used. The Warp, in turn, made him its bitch. Even ignoring that, there is nothing "possible, observable, and repeatable" when it comes to the Warp (before Mortarion fell to Chaos he believed this and attempted to put it into practice, which got him fucked up by a Daemon he wanted to interrogate), and many other things in 40k. It's well, chaotic, the hate, anger and madness of uncountable beings in the Galaxy. There is nothing rational about the emotional refuse of sentience, and trying to apply scientific principles to them is a waste of time at the absolute best.

During Jaghatai Khan's first visit on Terra (which he had refused to visit from time to time), he had attended a meeting with Malcador (Who the Khan did not hold high esteem of just like his father; the meeting was only possible because his psyker buddy '''Yesugei''' convinced him to attend) to discuss the Imperial Truth. Khan believed it was a giant hypocritical load of bullshit that would at best delay [[chaos|the inevitable]], and at worst be a form of slavery not unlike the one he overthrew on Chogoris. Malcador replied by saying the lie is noble and necessary, which is why they need the Primarch to get off their asses and conquer planets ASAP before the lie expired.

Pre-Heresy Mortarion hated psykers and supported the edict of Nikea, but also hated the Imperial Truth because he quickly realized how bullshit it was after noticing that the law's main architects were uber powerful psykers experimenting with [[Golden Throne|warp-tech]]. It was a hypocrisy that the Mortarion of old couldn't overlook.

[[Guilliman]] himself still believes in (at least modified version of) it after his return, and after being saved by a Living Saint during the Plague Wars he's seriously started to wonder if Lorgar and the Ecclesiarchy actually had it right all along. Even if he genuinely believed that the Emperor was telling the truth when he told Lorgar that he was no god, its entirely possible that he may more or less have become a god in his current state. He doesn't worship him, but does recognize that if he wasn't a god back then, he definitely is now.

This viewpoint would be further solidified after being saved by Big E's direct intervention. During an unusually rational debate with a Librarian and Farseer, Guilliman concluded that in 40K there ARE Gods that need to be factored in your actions, and that faith matters. He also concluded however that blind trust in Gods is a foolish thing since their agendas don't necessarily benefit Mankind, and thus shouldn't be given total control. Funnily enough, similar stances of independent thought are held by the likes of Abbadon and Archaon, who're so dangerous because even the Chaos Gods can't completely dominate them.

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