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Sure, but "powerful" isn't the same as "good". And the collective human spirit is not magically pure. There's a lot of twisted stuff in there. The setting, quite realistically, depicts power as warping (pun intended!) one's intentions, too. So turning into a deity that embodies the collective...

It depends on your interpretation of the setting's metaphysics. This is a universe where the deities are powered -- and in fact created -- by the belief, passions, desires and devotions of mortal minds. If the Emperor, who is already a sort of superbeing (although his exact nature is kept vague...