10 Fates In The Warhammer 40K Universe Worse Than Death

1. Trapped On The Golden Throne

Lucius The Eternal
Games Workshop

So you spend your entire existence trying to better mankind and push them to new heights of prosperity, only for one of your own 'sons' to spoil everything and injure you so badly you're hooked up to a life support machine that requires the souls of the living to power. That was the basic gist of the Horus Heresy, a galaxy-wide civil war that acted as a precursor to the setting we all know and love today.

So after all that you're trapped in your own body, fully aware and conscious and completely unable to stop your subjects from backsliding into the very superstition and totalitarianism over the course of 10,000 years that you fought so hard to prevent ever happening. Just trapped on the golden throne forever more, internally screaming at your dreams turn into very real nightmares all around you with no hope of being able to save your beloved empire.

Congratulations, you're The God Emperor of Man-kind. Have fun with that.

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Summoned forth from a terrible accident involving a Warhammer Rule Book and a bottle of tonic wine Lawson has been stalking the north east of England in a paint splattered haze for over 3 decades.