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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
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The '''God Incarnate''' is a philosophy closely connected to [[Thorian]]ism that maintains that the Emperor's essence in the [[Warp]] may be transferred to a physical vessel, one deemed a '''Divine Avatar'''.{{Fn|10}}
==Additional InformationAppearance==
[[Image:EmperorArtMauro.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Emperor and His many guises{{Fn|43e}}]]
Before he was trapped atop the Golden Throne, the Emperor could appear to any individual however he wanted, each person perceiving him differently. The Emperor has appeared as male or female, or neither, as an elderly man or a child, as a peasant, king, magician and a fool. None has ever seen his true face.{{Fn|38g}}
* To most, and in most depictions of him, the Emperor appears as a giant of a man clad in golden armour with long brown hair, a square jaw, and a stern demeanour. He often has an angelic halo surrounding his head. This form was a Golden giant that was meant to appeal to the warrior instincts of the [[Primarch]]s and inspire the teeming masses of the [[Imperium]] to fight for him. According to [[Malcador]], the Emperor disliked this form and sought to abandon it upon leaving the [[Great Crusade]].{{Fn|38g}}* When he appeared to [[Ezekiel Sedayne]], prior to the [[Unification Wars]], he appeared as a man in rich clothes. His hair was brown, long, and clean. The Emperor's face was both youthful and old. His eyes were placid brown and deeper than time. When speaking to Ezekiel, Ezekiel states that he looks different than when he appeared to the people. The Emperor states that he does change his appearance sometimes, but claimed that his appearance to Ezekiel was "truthful".{{Fn|24b}}
* When he spoke to [[Belisarius Cawl]], through Ezekiel's memory, he appeared unremarkable. He had his hair tied back. The Emperor wore a scientist's lab coat and was not tall, yet not short. He was handsome, but not outrageously so. He was slight, but not thin.{{Fn|24b}}
* During the Unification Wars on [[Terra]], the Emperor appeared to [[Uriah Olathaire]], the priest of the [[Church of the Lightning Stone]]. He first appeared as a tall man with a remarkably unremarkable face that was stern, but not unkind, and seemed at odds with his "martial bearing". His skin was leathery and tanned, his hair dark and pulled back into a short scalp-lock. He then presented himself as towering, with an ebony face, long dark hair, clad in his golden power armour, and radiating light bright enough to illuminate the darkened interior of the church.{{Fn|26}}
