From Lexicanum

Inquisitor Amberley Vail of the Ordo Xenos is an active Inquisitor in the year 999.M41.

She worked many times with the famous Commissar Ciaphas Cain and helped in the Genestealer incursion on the backwater world of Gravalax, and the cleansing of Necron forces from Simia Orichalcae. In Cain's memoirs, she is mentioned frequently, and is thought to of had a romantic relationship with Cain. It is believed that she has served with the Ordos Xenos for over half a century.

During the seige of Gravalax, Tau forces, who were stationed there had grown weary of the human presence and had tried to keep order in the human parts of the city as well. Fearing the Tau liberators, the Ordos Xenos sent Inquisitor Vail to investigate. She disguised herself as a singer (also wooing Cain over) and infiltrated the Imperial Governor's palace. After escaping the tunnels of the planet during a more in depth investigation, she enlisted Cain to dig further into the planet's tunnels ( and found out that Cain's aid Jurgen was a blank ). The troop found a gene-stealer cult, and eliminated it's leader.

Inquisitor Vail was also instrumental in eliminating the Necron threat from Simia Orichalcae, after (yet agian) Commissar Cain sent a message of the highest importance. Cain's personal memoirs begin to detail the relationship between Cain and Vail, but is abruptly ended by Vail as she assumed editorial powers over the Cain Archive.

Amberley Vail's entourage

Rakel - A nervous and excitable female psyker whom Cain describes as "almost completely round the bend" and having "a voice like fingernails on a blackboard." It is Rakel's extreme physical and mental reaction to Jurgen that prompted Amberley to suspect him of being a blank.

Caractacus Mott - A savant with numerous bionic augmentations who frequently suffers logorrhea on any number of subjects, often at inopportune moments. Nevertheless Cain seems to enjoy Mott's company, and Mott will at times help him cheat in gambling houses.

Sources

• ¹:For the Emperor by Sandy Mitchell
• ²:Caves of Ice by Sandy Mitchell
• ³:The Traitor's Hand by Sandy Mitchell
• ⁴:Death or Glory by Sandy Mitchell
• ⁵:Duty Calls by Sandy Mitchell
• ⁶:Cain's Last Stand by Sandy Mitchell
• ⁷:What Price Victory by Marc Gascoigne
• ⁸:Crucible Of War by Marc Gascoigne
• ⁹:Bringers Of Death by Marc Gascoigne