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Behold, envision a figure of unparalleled greatness, a majestic legend whose name echoes through the ag- Ok I'm doing too much. So, Imagine the king is an absolute legend of a hero, and people think he's ruling over the land but he's been dead for 50 years and no one knows, and people create a Mythos about him, saying things he never actually did to want to look cool and say they saw him

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Warhammer 40K does a really good job of this exact trope, actually. If you’re interested, check it out!

[–] Kyoyeou 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wait are you telling me the Emperor is actually dead (I only read lore about the Tau because they were the one I was interested in)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The canon keeps it pretty ambiguous whether or not he’s actually alive IIRC. Several of the alien races refer to him as a “corpse emperor”, and obviously human sources in-world are unreliable. Either way, since he hasn’t actually been seen for 10,000 years, the effect is the same as OP describes.

[–] Kyoyeou 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Like I said to the other person, don’t hesitate to use it just because someone else has done it first. As the quote goes: “Good writers borrow, great writers steal”.

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