Editing Malcador the Sigillite (section)

==Malcador's Fate==
Malcador is dead. Very, very dead. During the Siege of Terra, the only chance that the Emperor could get to join the battle would be if someone took his place sitting on the Golden Throne, since [[Magnus]]'s interference broke it and threatened Terra with a new [[Eye of Terror]]. Malcador's psychic power meant he was the only potential candidate to do so while the Emperor fought off the [[Chaos Space Marines]]. However, since he was really not on the same psychic level as Big E and neither possessed his nearly divine physical abilities , the process of painfully shutting the door in the daemon's faces each time they tried to open it burned him out (literally) in a matter of hours. He crumbled to dust after the Emperor was returned to the seat by Rogal Dorn and Jaghatai Khan. Keeping in mind that Malcador is a [[perpetual]], that's some pretty hardcore currents flowing through and goes even further to show how ridiculously OP the Emperor is. With his last ounce of strength, he allowed the Emperor to communicate with his mortal servants one last time. Truly, Malcador was an all around awesome bureaucrat and manipulator to the very end.

Though, the fact he disintegrated after being taken off of the golden throne sort of defies the claim made in ''The Last Council'' that he's a perpetual. One could argue that he sacrificed his perpetual power to marginally restore the Emperor back to consciousness, what can't be waived away is the fact that unlike any other perpetual, he's a decrepit old man by the time of the Horus Heresy, and it's known he used his psyker powers to mask his age whenever it suited him and he's been subject to rejuvenation treatments to extend his own life; both are things that shouldn't be necessary for a perpetual, impossible in the former's case ([[derp|unless it happens he was faking being old this whole time]]). In an attempt to cure this bizarre inconsistency, ''Fury of Magnus'' tries to retcon the fact that Malcador was already established to be a perpetual after the [[Rangdan Xenocides]] concluded in ''The Last Council'' by having a perpetual named Olivia give it to him after he got barbecued by Magnus during the Siege on Terra, making her own sacrifice a total waste and utterly pointless. The very idea that he self-immolated on the atomic level just so the Emperor could speak without having to use his own psyker powers is made all the more monumentally stupid considering how much more good he could've done had he not, unless it happened there was no chance he could regenerate anyway and was just making some last ditch effort to save the Imperium before the inevitable... save for the fact he had another perpetual on tap just to pointlessly waste it on reviving himself from an unnecessary confrontation with Magnus instead of reserving it for when he's about to die on the Golden Throne or have Olivia give it to the Emperor after fighting Horus.

It might be that he was doing more than just sacrificing his perpetual status so the Emperor could open his eyes slightly and slur out some orders like an alcoholic on a binge struggling to stay awake. The going fan-theory is that the Emperor might himself be a perpetual, but the message being sent by this revelation is that while the Emperor is indeed a perpetual himself as of the time he was interred to the Golden Throne, he wasn't always, and it took Malcador giving it to him at the expense of his own life to make it happen, which would make better sense considering that while ordinarily being turned into a rotting corpse means you're not a perpetual as they heal like [[fail|Wolverine in X-Men 3]]. Except now Malcador has been given double perpetual status somehow, meaning he should still be alive regardless.

In terms of Malcador's double Perpetual status we know from Vulkan lives that allegedly a sufficiently potent psykic force can overcome a perpetuals ability to regenerate and cause true death (see Fulgurite) making it likely that Magnus incinerating Malcador was a trauma of sufficient potency to strip Malcador of his ability to regenerate this needing Olivia' sacrifice to restore his status. Likewise this would explain true death on the Golden Throne. We also know from Saturnine that not all perpetuals are regenerators; Erda states as much when speaking to John Gramaticus that the ability to ressurect from death is rare amongst perpetuals thus why the Primarchs being perpetuals aren't all able to regenerate (yes Erda states this too, all Primarchs are created as perpetuals) this could explain Malcador's inability to ressurect himself following Magnus' temper tantrum.