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While The Master of Mankind delivers on this by giving us some of the closest and most personal looks at this larger than life character, it also gives us so much more, with a rich cast of supporting characters and peeks into other elusive aspects of the setting, including hints and twists that tie in more closely with the 41st millennium than the 31st. I remember reading a little paragraph on him more than a decade ago when they first redid the Land Raider model for 3rd edition. He intended them to serve as His primary military commanders, diplomats and consuls for the Great Crusade. At one point somebody posted the entire story there, so you only need to find it in its specific tab as eventually everyone realized what they had done and deleted it (thankfully nothing fully vanishes from wiki sites like that, so the story's still there in one of the archived pages).
Whatever name he might address them by, maybe to the Emperor, a name like "The 7th or the 9th" conveys as much as the name an ordinary parents gives a child. Option 3 makes it clear that our logic is built on our work as opposed to criticizing current canon. Then again, I love ornate language, and I thought the narrative made artistic use of picturesque prose.
Through the eyes of a few distinct characters, the reader begins to see what separates them from both astartes and humans alike, and how they are more than just a marine on more 'roids. But with traitor legionaries and corrupted Battle Titans now counted among the forces of Chaos, the noose around the Throneworld is tightening, and none but the Emperor Himself can hope to prevail.
Together they brought thousands of worlds into Imperial Compliance, establishing the rule of the Imperium over these worlds and inculcating in them the values of the Imperial Truth -- a materialist, atheistic faith in reason, science and technological progress that rejected all the vestiges of Human irrationality and superstition, including all forms of religious faith. It is wonderfully crafted, brilliantly atmospheric and with a great conversation, yet it has the simple problem of making little to no sense in the grand scheme of things. It's rarely ever enough to give the full picture of course, but the moments granted are enough to give an impression of the deeper world about them. The Emperor chose to sacrifice His immortal life at the end of the Horus Heresy in the service and protection of Mankind. The fear was that AD-B's portrayal of a "narrow minded extremist" completely undermined this position.The fourth, Slaanesh, still slumbered, to be awakened by the follies of a different species, the Aeldari.
At some time after His father's murder, He left His village for the "first city of Humanity," likely one of the Sumerian city-states of ancient Mesopotamia.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. This could all be part of an act as well, something he's doing to distance himself any painful realities, but I think there is more truth in this tyrannical portrayal than lies. A standard year later the child who would become the Emperor was born in a Neolithic settlement of Anatolian herders and farmers of a normal mother and father, with normal brothers and sisters. Plus, it doesn't help that it retcons his overarching plan for humanity and psykers as well, though i'm not sure how much was down to ABD himself and how much was down to prior authors.
Individually or in small groups -- like the self-stylised "Dait'Tar" Thunder Warriors present during the Cerberus Insurrection of the early Great Crusade era -- some Thunder Warriors would survive, living mostly anonymous and miserable lives amongst the population of Terra, all honours of the past forsaken, always fearful of being discovered. The narrative follows a few plotlines – gathering a ragtag army, shoring up Terra’s defences and attempting to repel an insidious menace that seems impervious to all weapons – and they all seamlessly fuse into a dramatic finale. 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.
The Ten Thousand Custodian Guard, along with the Sisters of Silence and the Mechanicum forces of Fabricator-General Zagreus 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. While Horus’ rebellion burns across the galaxy, a very different kind of war rages beneath the Imperial Palace. 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.
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