From Lexicanum

Inquisitor Lord Fyodor Karamazov's reputation as a ruthless, unforgiving Witch Hunter was already well known throughout Segmentum Solar when he famously clashed with Ecclesiarch Decius XXIII in 945.M41. The confrontation almost came to outright battle, and concerned the excruciation and eventual immolation of a young preacher from the world of Salem Proctor. This world had broken faith with the Ecclesiarchy, its apostate cardinal turning the world's resources to his own ends and casting out all who defied him. Inquisitor Lord Karamazov led a fleet, together with two entire orders of the Adepta Sororitas, to depose the apostate cardinal, but upon its arrival, he found the world already in rebellion against its traitorous ruler.

A lowly preacher named Icarael led the revolt of the populace of Salem Proctor against the traitor cardinal and together with the Inquisition's forces, defeated his armies and cast him from the burning ruins of his cathedral. None who met the young man could fail to be moved by his simple eloquence, his devotion to the Emperor or his humility. To some, his incredible rallying of a planet was proof that Icarael was divinely guided and that the light of the Emperor moved within him. It did not take long before Inquistiors of the Thorian faction heard of this incredible young cleric and, feverish with the prospect of discovering a potential vessel of the Emperor's spirit, they set out for Salem Proctor. But Inquisitor Lord Fyodor Karamazov, marching over the charred bones of heretics in his monstrous Throne of Judgement, had other ideas.

Karamazov had risen steadily in the Ordo Hereticus for decades, acquiring many supporters within the more hard-line Puritan elements of the Inquisition for his unflinching determination to punish witchcraft and heresy without mercy. His deeds were repute with the rigid application of the Imperial Creed and, though some within the Inquisition criticised his inflexibility and claimed that he had sent thousands of innocents to their deaths, Karamazov would reply with Judge Traggat's famous maxim that claims of innocence meant nothing; serving only to prove a foolish lack of caution.

A staunch Amalathian, Karamanov was bitterly opposed to the notion of change, believing that the Emperor's plan for His people must be left to unfold as He had planned and without the arrogant intervention of those who believed that they understood his will. Before the Thorian Inquisitors arrived, Karamanov arrested Icarael, taking him to the Inquisition fortress of Serevian and placing him in the Chamber of Truth and Penance.

Images

Karamazov on his Throne of Judgement

Sources

• Karamazov miniature on GW website (accessed 2007.04.17)