Should the Emperor have kept Magnus on Terra?

[Karhedron]

1 minute ago, lansalt said:

So the Golden Throne has never technically kept him alive after his wounds at the hands of Horus, quite the opposite.

 

I believe the older fluff was that the GT was modified on the Emperor's orders after Horus's death to also function as a life support system.

[MegaVolt87]

6 hours ago, Karhedron said:

 

I believe the older fluff was that the GT was modified on the Emperor's orders after Horus's death to also function as a life support system.

 

It was ? I assumed it had that function already built in from the older lore, a by product of its construction, not an extra. 

[Karhedron]

43 minutes ago, MegaVolt87 said:

It was ? I assumed it had that function already built in from the older lore, a by product of its construction, not an extra. 

 

There was some fluff written that had the badly wounded Emperor brought back from the Vengeful Spirit by Dorn, just before Malcador died on the Throne. Before he died, Malcador was able to transfer just enough of his life force to Emperor for him to regain conciousness. He then issued instructions for converting the Golden Throne into a life support system. I can't remember where this was written, it might have been Collected Visions.

 

EDIT - Ah, here we go.

 

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Though he was a powerful psyker in his own right, Malcador's mental powers were nothing compared to that of the Emperor, and so when Rogal Dorn brought the severely injured ruler of mankind back to the Golden Throne, he found Malcador sitting wasted, energy lashing across his shrivelled body, tortured by the psychic bombardments of the Webway. He was almost dead. Tech-priests then made the exchange - disengaging Malcador from the machine. As he was removed, the last flicker of life left him and the dust of his corpse blew across the stone floor.

 

At the instant of Malcador's death, the Emperor awoke from his coma - Malcador had saved a last kernel of strength and passed it on to the Emperor so he could give his servants their final orders

 

Edited March 8, 2023 by Karhedron