Prophecy of the Emperor's Death

## Revelation

Amara has sent an urgent request to see you, saying that her divinations have revealed things that she only dares to tell you in the safety of the black room.

The “Black Room “ is the name given to a highly classified underground section of the Psyker city Sehr where all the most dangerous knowledge is stored and the most powerful rituals are performed. Built from carved out Adamantium (why this site was chosen for the city to be built on ), its walls inscribed with the most powerful protective spells and protected by a small army of Thelals and Auxilia possessing the pariah gene ; it’s often described as the safest place on Atlantis by those few who know of it.

If Amara has called you here, then her revelations are indeed important. You arrive to the central chamber to find Talios is already there and a minute later Amara arrives, looking as if she had aged a hundred years from the exhaustion. Carefully closing the door behind her, she says that what she is about to say is very dangerous information and she only called the both of you here so that you can decide who needs to know this.

You nod and Talios does too, though he looks suspicious. Amara continues by saying that as you asked she has tried to use her skills to peer into the emperyean’s tides for possible information on the God Emperor. She was successful and what she found is why she requested your presence.

Amara then says that she has ascertained that the Golden Throne will fail within sixty Terran years and with it the light of the astronomican will finally disappear for good, leaving millions of ships stranded in the hellish realm of the warp and dooming many systems , Sol included , to be trapped within terrible warp storms .

With his death the imperium will be no more, shattered into a million petty empires squabbling to reclaim its glory and power for themselves and humanity will fall into civil war, anarchy and be victim to the depredations of alien predators, chaos monstrosities and their own kin.

This is shocking to you, though you have known the astronomican was weakening you didn’t expect the death of the emperor to happen in your lifetime. Talios seems surprised but quickly composes himself. Amara isn’t finished however.

For when the emperor dies , his soul will be reformed through combination with the infinite energies and emotions generated by the endless prayers, wars, sacrifices and horrors committed in the god emperor’s name and channeled into his soul by golden throne. But what emerges won’t the reborn emperor leading mankind to a new age but instead it will rise as the Fifth Chaos God whose domains are tyranny, zealotry, ignorance and greed .

This God will bear many names : The Star Father, the Abomination, the Lord of Light and the Eternal tyrant just to name a few. It will claim dominion over a new tear in reality to rival the Eye of Terror, though Amara couldn’t see its exact size. The Star Father won’t be “born” immediately after the emperor’s death though its creation would take only minutes in the warp , it might take decades, centuries or even millennia in real space, however already echoes of the tyrant have already began to manifest and can influence minds and reality even though it is technically non existent at the moment.

You find yourself shocked and disgusted by what you hear, you can’t even believe it for a moment before your rational mind reasserts itself ; it all makes sense now , the Star Tyrant cultists, the Grey Knight captain’s disappearance and perhaps even the increasing insanity of the imperium can be explained by this. It is good that Amara hasn’t told anyone of this, though others and eventually the public will have to know of this eventually this gives you time to prepare for that.

You look at Talios and see that he is also alarmed by this new development, he asks Amara how come no one else in the entire galaxy has foreseen this by now. Amara looks at him funny for a moment before asking him how an inquisitor such as himself or indeed any good imperial citizen would react to being told that the immortal God Emperor will die soon, let alone be reborn as a chaos abomination. Talios appears to ponder this and agrees and tells her to continue.

Amara’s face contorts into a visage of despair as she quietly tells you that after the Star Father’s birth , she sees nothing of humanity, only endless screams and rattling of chains as the Star Father laughs in triumph.

Silence reigns as you try to imagine what this means, could it be that humanity or will not live past the birth of the god it birthed. Your mental enhancements quickly calm you down and inhibit the raging emotions stirring in you. You turn to Talios and see he too is having trouble with this , you two will have to discuss this in more detail.

Before you leave though Amara has one final thing to say. In her divinations she has also glimpsed scenes of the emperor’s life and though most of what she saw isn’t clear in meaning yet , she saw one thing with absolute certainty.

That Revelation, the traitor who ended Mankind’s golden age and plunged it into an endless era of suffering and misery was none other than the emperor himself.