Most of his life remains unknown prior to the 30th Millennium AD, whereupon he became the Emperor and led humanity, first in the Unification Wars of Terra and then during the Great Crusade, where he set out to conquer the galaxy. Though most of these ancient figures are unknown, the short story The Last Church by Graham McNeil suggests that he may have been Saint George, based on an artwork found in the church which the story takes place in, depicting "a battle between a golden knight and a silver dragon." This theory is supported by the fact that, sometime prior to the Unification Wars, the Emperor would battle the Void Dragon, one of the god-like energy beings known as the C'tan once worshipped by the ancient Necrontyr, supposedly burying the creature's physical form somewhere on Mars - the Emperor is commonly shown wearing a suit of golden power armour, as seen above, whilst necrodermis, the living metal used to create a physical form for the C'tan, has appeared similar to iron or steel in some cases and, more commonly, silver in others, and, as it's name suggests, the physical form of the Void Dragon is believed to be that of a dragon. He used these powers, under different names from human myth and history, to lead humanity to greatness and to protect it from the Warp. The collective souls of the shamans had granted the Emperor immortality and powerful psychic abilities, or magic as it was known at the time. A year later, a family of Anatolian farmers had a child who possessed this soul.
As each shaman died, their soul entered the Warp, until so many had overwhelmed the hungry daemons and created the future Emperor's soul. They did this through ritual mass suicide. He was created by the shamans of ancient Earth to keep them alive, as they were being devoured by daemons instead of reincarnating when they died, and without them, humanity would turn to Chaos.
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The Emperor was born during the 8th Millenium BC, back when the three gods of Chaos (the fourth, Slaanesh, had not yet been "born," as the Fall of the Eldar had not yet occurred) hadn't reached thier full power, in ancient central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). This didn't stop cults, the largest being the Lectition Divinitatus, later known as the Ecclesiarchy, from worshipping him as such. Although he is immortal, he claimed that he is just a man.
The Golden Throne has kept him from reviving in the way all perpetuals are capable of, keeping him alive through ancient machinery from the Dark Age of Technology and, it is believed, the souls of those killed in his name across the galaxy. One of the Perpetuals - a group of immortal humans, the Emperor is currently a decaying corpse on a throne, after his near-death against the traitor Warmaster Horus and subsequent interment on the Golden Throne. Referred to by the Chaos gods and daemons of the Warp as " the Anathema" and by humanity's Ecclesiarchal Cult as the God-Emperor of Mankind (among other titles), he is the ruling monarch of humanity. The Emperor of Mankind is the master of the Imperium of Man in Warhammer 40,000.
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