That raised a question: what about the Baina Robe? It seemed to have become a relic after gaining the power of human faith, or rather, it seemed to be a vessel for a human belief system.
It had a corresponding concentration of energy in the Warp, which the Baina Robe in realspace could contact.
That made things clear. Some of the power contained in the Baina Robe would still go to the Dark Gods, including violence and war (Khorne), compassion (Nurgle), core ideas and knowledge (Tzeentch), and the subversion of power (Slaanesh).
The only thing that would not empower those four gods was pure faith in the fifth god.
In a sense, the Ecclesiarchy was competing with the four gods for power.
It was merely a stopgap that kept humanity alive, prolonging its existence without solving the problem.
The reason humanity was bound to fail was that humans were a race with only weak psychic talent, unlike the Aeldari, whose every member could provide vast amounts of Psyker Power.
Even if every human devoutly worshipped the Emperor, he could never gain enough energy to protect them all. The energy one person supplied could not protect that person. It was a paradox.
The Emperor must have known that, so he was surely thinking of another solution.
So what had the old Emperor been doing lately? The Legion of the Damned, Living Saints, blessing Guilliman, suppressing the fiends beneath the Golden Throne...
Wait, suppressing daemons? The Webway? Psyker Power? No way.
*Could my dad, Jaghatai Khan, be helping the Emperor slaughter monsters in the Webway? Maybe the Wolf King Primarch was there too, or a few Aeldari were helping-the Webway was under Aeldari control now, after all, since the Old Ones were extinct. Then Guilliman definitely wasn't the first Primarch to receive