Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

This article is to supplement some important settings outside the story. This article is about the relationship between the protagonist and the historical records of the Empire and the state religion.

As you can see, Vito is a founding father of the Empire. He helped the Emperor unify Terra, carry out the Great Crusade, etc. His psychic ability is also very strong, almost second only to the Emperor, and the two have a good relationship, so Vito also has a very important share in the official records.

In the official historical records of the Empire, Vito Constantine is clearly written as the great founder of the Empire, the founder of the Astra Militarum, the Imperial Navy and all the armed forces of the Empire, including the Space Marines.

In the early days of Terra's unification and before the return of the Primarch, Vito himself was the commander-in-chief of the Thunder Warriors and the early Astartes Legion. The official title was "Imperial Supreme Marshal", which was actually the Warmaster, but later the official title of the Warmaster was awarded to Horus. After Horus became the Warmaster, Vito was equal to Horus, and the two worked together to command as the left and right hands.

Back to the point, Vito is called the founder of the Empire's power because the protagonist personally formulated and created all the military regulations, strategies and tactics of the Empire, etc. His status is roughly equal to the "Astartes Codex" written by Guilliman later. During Vito's tenure as Supreme Marshal, he led twenty legions to sweep across half of the galaxy, and the area of ​​the world he conquered was enough to be comparable to any of the best Primarchs. Therefore, in the official history of the Empire, Vito has a high historical and political status. Even after the Primarchs of the Great Expedition returned one by one and reorganized their respective legions in their own style, the squad tactics, weapon use specifications and command organization formulated by Vito continued to be used. The mortal legions of each legion and the navy also completely adopted the Imperial military doctrine written by Vito. Therefore, in the records of later generations, Vito was regarded as the creator, founder and great pioneer by the Astra Militarum, the Navy and the Ministry of Military Affairs. Vito was not officially deleted, forgotten, or ignored by the Empire. On the contrary, his status has always been high. However, he was a "legendary figure" from 10,000 years ago. As time passed, he changed from history to legend, and from legend to myth. He has been regarded as a mythical figure in the Empire, and is one of the "gods" of the Empire along with the Emperor.

Therefore, in the doctrine of the state religion, Vito's status is also a god. He is worshipped and worshipped like the Emperor, but his religious status is more similar to that of an apostle in Christianity. He will be praised by people, but he is still a part of the faith attached to the Emperor.

So people will worship the Emperor and praise "God of War" Vito, but most people still remember the Emperor. After all, at the current education level of the Empire, ignorant people find it difficult to remember the extremely complex dogma of the state religion.

After thousands of years of religious craze, faith and years, his image is like that of the Emperor. Even Vito himself can no longer recognize him. The Vito Constantine in the state religion is a perfect, sacred, flawless god and saint, which is very different from the real Vito.

This is also the image of the various Primarchs in the imperial religion today. People continue to pile all their hopes, worship and awe on them, causing their image to completely change. If the Primarchs are really pulled out to see the description of them by the imperial state religion, they will be shocked.

Vito also exists in the church of the state religion. In the headquarters of the state religion in Terra, the shrines under the statue of the Emperor enshrine all the statues of the loyal Primarchs, and one of the shrines is Vito's.

It is precisely because he has not been forgotten in the empire and has a very high status that many people in the empire in later generations have the same name "Vito Constantine", especially among the nobles, and those in military families have this name.

Military nobles regarded this name as a holy name. Giving a child this name meant holiness and greatness, and praying that "God of War Vito" would bless him to achieve great things in the future was also a kind of amulet.

So Vito did not change his name, but this is why no one in the empire today can recognize him. His name and image have long become part of the empire today, so that they no longer belong to him.

Therefore, no one knows him, and no one has ever realized that the myth of his religion has actually been among the people of the empire for 10,000 years, and has been forgotten in a strange way.