THE KING IN YELLOW | THE EMPEROR'S GREATEST ENEMY OR SERVANT? | Warhammer 40K Lore

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can you imagine that he may become a living avatar of the emperor? Something like: "constantin valdor, avatar of the emperor" would sell like no other thing (as a model)

My theory is this: It is probably Dorn AND Valdor together, who symbolize the King in Yellow. The Palace of Thaumeizin struck me as something Rogal Dorn would be able to pull of in all it´s grandeur and overall aesthetics. I also got the feeling, that with building this new palace he may have made some kind of atonement for his "failure" back in the defence of Terra and the "death" of his father - he is bulding a new kingdom for his father, who is destined to be reborn someday. Valdor and the Adeptus Custodes are helping him with securing it. Doing the spy work, and going places "ethically", Dorn probably never would or wanted to. Don´t you think that they always had an interesting relationship, these two? Dorn and Valdor? Since the Palace exists in a dimension that is connected to/linked to the warp in some way, it lies in waiting for it´s true, reborn God king to return. Kinda "spicy".

The King in Yellow Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink beneath the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead; Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa. Camilla: You, sir, should unmask. Stranger: Indeed? Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you. Stranger: I wear no mask. Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

I think Valdor is trying to revive the Emperor. Plus, worst case senario, he's made an anti-chaos strikeforce; he's made an army of blanks, who hard vibe-check chaos (and other powerful psychics), and winged blood angels, who are the strongest 'stable' loyal chapter in a straight hand-to-hand fight.

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IT's pretty established that the big E planned past sitting in the chair, he laments time and such in "The Great Work" to Caul. Pretty sure he could use something to get Valdor up to speed on his part in the Great work. Taming the emperyian seems like a big E plan. Securing the webway is still possible. Getting E reborn as the starchild is also in the Abnett books, he's a heavy hitter in GW.

It would be funny to see abbadon make it all the way to terra just for Constantine Valdor to return with overwhelming force and absolutely dunk on chaos undivided as a whole and kill its leader in one fell swoop.

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Personally, I really hope it's Valdor. I think that would be even better than having Russ or The Lion coming back. There is also the theory that Valdor is a 'proto-primarch', that's physically similar to the other primarchs but lacking in access to free choice and the warp related abilities.

'Primarch of The Ten Thousand' kind of has a badass ring to it if it was true.

It would be great if they gave him a army to play in 40k and we got a 3rd human faction beyond Imperium Vs Chaos. From the Bequin books we already know he has Astartes with natural wings. As well as a clone army of Pariahs. As well as golden ships that sound like Custodes in spaceship form.

There's actually some debate about which of The Emperor's legs is cramping... Some believe it's the left and some are in the right leg camp and some whisper in secret it's actually Both legs!

Anybody else wondering about the effect of the mechanicus worshipping the omnisiah which is both the void dragon and the emperor will have on the relationship since psychic energy on a massive scale can have a huge effect on the warp

If it is Valdor (Im pretty sure it is) Then Greatest ally. The Custodes are literally incapable of betraying the Emperor. They are incorruptible, its mentiones many times, even bt their enemies, like Drach'nyen and the chaos gods. Drach'nyen - "All the stars in the universe will die and fade before a golden one (Custodes) betrays their father (Emperor)" It was also an inner monolog, so its notnlike it was "Second hand" experience, like many innacurate poetions of the lore are (Grey knights bathing in Sororitas blood anyone?) But side note Would be cool if somehow Eisenhorn allys with Valdor and enters his pocket dimension. Would love to see Eisnhorn in the Era Indomitus I believe The Novels take place a few hundred years before Guilliman and the Era Indomitus

Oh man things are all coming together for a great war! Would like to see the Lion to wake up after Luther woke up.

Valdor, the King in Yellow best line in the book is when he says to Bequin... "Don't eat yellow snow"

to be complately honest i really hope this actually changes 40k again like the great rift in 8th edition and what i really dont want to see is in the end valdor is stopped and killed off that is a huge waste of potential.