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This article is about the Imperium institutional role, for the other uses see Inquisitor (disambiguation)

Inquisitors are members of the Inquisition, the organization responsible for ensuring the safety of the Imperium.

Potential Inquisitors are usually drawn from the Progena of the Schola Progenium showing the most promise.^{[Needs Citation]}

All Inquisitors begin as Acolytes, apprentice-Inquisitors given over to the tutelage of a more experienced member of the Inquisition. Acolytes accompany a fully experienced Inquisitor in his Inquisitorial duties. He may perform a number of tasks such as warrior, scribe, and interrogator. After a set amount of time, his master will give him a recommendation to the Ordos of the Inquisition to advance his pupil to full Inquisitorial rank. After this, the Acolyte is a full Inquisitor and begins his own agenda and operations. Although the Acolyte/Inquisitor is no longer bound to his old master, they will have formed a bond and may work together and help one another in the future.

Retinue

Inquisitors have the right to call on the services of any citizen or servant of the Emperor. Often an experienced Inquisitor, or one in need of specific services (depending on the current situation at hand), will have a retinue of henchmen that he has deemed most useful. These retinues are made up of individuals drawn from citizens with unique and useful talents, and from the ranks of all Imperial institutions, such as the Ecclesiarchy and Adeptus Mechanicus. The full list of known henchmen types is described below^{1, 2}:

• Acolytes - Apprentice-Inquisitors, useful for taking damage in game terms. Acolytes are in training to become full fledged Inquisitors.

• Chirurgeons - Members of the Orders Hospitalier or just those trained in the medical field to assist in interrogation and torture; useful in combat for healing wounds suffered by the Inquisitor.

• Familiar - Familiars are artificial constructs, boosting the psychic prowess of inquisitors and allowing him faster initiative. (In Inquisitor these are characters' equipment, not members of the warband.)

• Hierophant - Fanatical members of the Ecclesiarchy, they boost the faith of the Demonhunters they are in service to and chant exorcisms and prayers that can cause agony to nearby daemons.

• Mystic - Psykers used by Inquisitors to detect the presence of daemonic creatures.

• Penitent - When a Witch Hunter makes a heretic psyker repent his sins (a notably rare event), he can become what could be called a "psychic lightning rod", used to absorb the psychic attacks of other heretic psykers and protecting the Inquisitor and his retinue in battle.

• Sage - Battlefield logisticians.

• Warrior - Bodyguards and gunmen.

Especially helpful, competent, or attractive retainers may become permanent members of an Inquisitor's retinue. Note that this list is not exhaustive as many different kinds of individuals with many different personalities and jobs have been seen in the employ of Inquisitors in fiction: from bounty hunters to daemonhosts to prostitutes to circus performers to assassins. This allows for Inquisitorial Retinues and the Inquisitors themselves to be highly characterful models with different personalities, weapons, histories and attitudes.^{1, 2}

Images

Hereticus Inquisitor	Hereticus Inquisitor	Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus	Ordo Malleus (Daemonhunter) Inquisitor
Ordo Malleus (Daemonhunter) Inquisitor	Ordo Malleus (Daemonhunter) Inquisitor	Hereticus Inquisitor with retinue	Close-up Hereticus Inquisitor
Inquisitor (Early Rogue Trader)	Ordo Malleus (Daemonhunter) Inquisitor (Rogue Trader/Realm of Chaos era)	Ordo Malleus (Daemonhunter) Inquisitor (Rogue Trader/Realm of Chaos era)	Ordo Malleus (Daemonhunter) Inquisitor (Rogue Trader/Realm of Chaos era)
Inquisitor Lord Torquemada and his retinue.

Sources

• ¹ Codex: Daemonhunters (3rd Edition)
• ² Codex: Witch Hunters (3rd Edition)

Ordo Hereticus Army List
HQ	Canoness • Palatine • Inquisitor Lord • Priest
Elites	Arco-flagellants • Callidus Assassin • Celestian Squad • Culexus Assassin Death Cult Assassin • Eversor Assassin • Inquisitor • Vindicare Assassin • Repentia
Troops	Battle Sister Squad • Inquisitorial Storm Troopers • Zealots Seconded Units: IG Armoured Fist Squad • IG Infantry Platoon • SM Tactical Squad • SM Scout Squad
Fast Attack	Dominion Squad • Seraphim Squad Seconded Units: IG Rough Rider • IG Sentinel Squadron • SM Assault Squad • SM Bike Squadron • SM Land Speeder Squadron
Heavy Support	Exorcist • Immolator • Penitent Engine • Orbital Strike • Retributor Squad Seconded Units: IG Leman Russ • SM Devastators • SM Dreadnought • SM Predator
Transport	Rhino • Chimera • Immolator

Ordo Malleus Army List
HQ	Grey Knights Grand Master • Brother-Captain • Inquisitor Lord
Elites	Callidus Assassin • Culexus Assassin • Death Cult Assassin • Eversor Assassin • Daemonhost • Inquisitor • Grey Knights Terminator Squad • Vindicare Assassin
Troops	Grey Knights • Inquisitorial Storm Troopers Seconded Units: IG Armoured Fist Squad • IG Infantry Platoon • SM Tactical Squad • SM Scout Squad
Fast Attack	Grey Knight Teleport Squad Seconded Units: IG Rough Rider • IG Sentinel Squadron • SM Assault Squad • SM Bike Squad • SM Land Speeder Squadron
Heavy Support	Grey Knights Dreadnought • Grey Knights Land Raider • Grey Knights Land Raider Crusader • Grey Knights Purgation Squad • Orbital Strike Seconded Units: IG Leman Russ • SM Devastators • SM Dreadnought • SM Predator
Transport	Rhino • Chimera • Land Raider