The Emperor was born during the 8th Millenium BC, back when the three gods of Chaos (Slaanesh had not yet been born) hadn't reached their full power, in ancient central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). He was created by the shamans of ancient Earth to keep them alive, as they were being devoured by daemons instead of reincarnating when they died and without them humanity would turn to Chaos. As each shaman died, their soul entered the Warp, until so many had overwhelmed the hungry daemons and created the future Emperor's soul. A year later, a family of Anatolian farmers had a child who possessed this soul. The collective souls of the shamans had granted the Emperor immortality and powerful psychic abilities, or magic as it was known at the time. He used these powers, under different names fro