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All users, please help me out with these Inquisitors to confirm that they are already in the Lexicanum

I need to see if these are already inside the Lexicanum, but don't have the time now, please edit and remove (<del>text</del>) those that are already in, and make sure that they ARE 100% in, with the maximum detail a page can ever get, thanks.

Agmar, Inquistor

As a young member of the Ordo Hereticus, he lead attacks upon Ichar IV's capital city of Lomas to break up rebellion among strange cult members. It turned out that the rebellion was created by a massive Genestealer infestation. With the Adeptus Arbites, he destroyed enough defenses to allow the Ultramarines to seize back the planet. It was then that Angmar's Astropaths felt the approach of Hive Fleet Kraken and it was his initiative that led to the breaking of Hive Fleet Kraken at Ichar IV.[5].

Barzano, Ario

Member of the Ordo Xenos. Featured in the book Night Bringer by Graham McNiell, He disguises himself as an adept of the administratum on the planet Pavonis in order to help the Ultramarines stop the awakening of the C'tan called the Nightbringer. He dies in the attempt and is buried on Pavonis.

Covenant-In Lexicanum, but considered stub

One of a new breed of Daemonhunters who hunts down traitorous members of the Inquisition itself and their Daemonhosts. Trained Daemonhuntress Ivixia Dannica. Covenant is equipped with a power-falchion, a psy-cannon and limited psychic powers.[6]

Coteaz, Torquemada

An Inquisitor Lord of the Ordo Malleus and High Protector of the Formosa Sector, a title he took from Inquisitor Laredian when it was revealed that Laredian created Daemonhosts and other abominations. Coteaz is an infamous adversary and destroyer of daemons; his name is a reference to Tomás de Torquemada.[4]

Czevak

One of the few non-Eldar to gain access to the infamous Black Library. Czevak reported the destruction caused against the Eldar craftworld Iyanden and its supporting spacefleet.[5]

Dannica, Daemonhuntress Ivixia- Inserted by myself

After her father Colonel Dannica was murdered by a daemon summoned by cultists who wanted revenge for the purge he enacted on them and their brethren, Ivixia was trained by Covenant. She had her father's skull fitted with an autogun and fitted to her armour so he could serve the Emperor beyond death. Wields a power halberd made from the shards of Saint Josmane's armour. The weapon is filled with the power of the saint and has sent scores of daemons screaming back to the depths of the warp.

Draco, Jaq

Main character in the Inquisition War Series, written by Ian Watson. Ordo Malleus Inquisitor, declared heretic for the alleged unneccesary Exterminatus order of the Hive planet Stalinvast- a grievous act, even by the most Puritanical standards. Gained access to the Eldar Black Library and stole the Book of Rhana Dandra, a fabled tome concering the end of the universe. One of the few to enter the Emperors Throne Room since his internment. Having also visited the Eye of Terror and explored the Eldar Webway, he is among the most widely travelled of Inquisitors. Draco has, for much of the Inquisition War Series, a retinue consisting of a Navigator, an Assassin and a Squat. He is a formidable psyker. (Note that, being written early in the history of GW or Black Library fiction, much of the background surrounding this character has become questionable, while some aspects have been entirely retconned).

Eisenhorn, Gregor - checked, already inside Lexicanum, detailed

An Amalathian member of Ordo Xenos, he was the infamous inquisitor who orchestrated the downfall of Quixos the Bright and Pontius Glaw using a stolen daemonhost named Cherubael, a former tool of Quixos. He seemingly vanished soon after the downfall of Pontius Glaw. Eisenhorn changes during the course of the novelisation from being amalathian to radical through justified choices he makes. Choices such as choosing, against all odds, to keep the Malus Codicium for himself, and trying to save his comrades from the attack of Cruor Vult (a Chaos Warlord Titan) by summoning Cherubael. Gregor also causes the downfall of many other foes - such as Beldame Sadia, Mandragore, The house of Glaw, Cruor Vult, and rogue inquisitors Lyko and Quixos. (Eisenhorn's story is told in the trilogy written by the Black Library's author Dan Abnett. The three books are, "Xenos", "Malleus" and "Hereticus". This trilogy was written in support of the "The Games Workshop" release of the "Inquisitor" role playing game in 2001.).[6]

Hand, Silas

He is an important character of Daemonifuge, a graphic novel by Kev Walker. He was first a Witch Hunters serving under the Ordos Solar and eliminated thousands of heretics. After being approached by an important Daemonhunter, Inquisitor Lord Hephaestos Grudd, he was invited and joined the Ordo Malleus. Inquisitor Hand was sent to Ophelia VII to identify if Ephrael Stern was tainted by Chaos. Mysteriously, she was the sole survivor out of 12,000 that was sent to the planet Parnis. His investigation led to no conclusion, and Hand was forced to return with her to the planet Parnis. During the return, their vessel's navigator was possessed by Chaos and destroyed their ship the "Hammer of Thor." Escaping, both Hand and Stern were able to land upon the surface. However, they soon confronted the Daemon Q'tlahsi'issho'akshami. Only Stern managed to live through the battle.[7]

Jerico, Lady Helena

Ordo Xenos Inquisitor. Has had numerous dealings on the planet Necromunda. Mother of bounty hunter Kal Jerico.

Karamazov, Fyodor

An Inquisitor Lord of the Ordo Hereticus, also known as the Pyrophant Judge of Salem Proctor. This is a reference to Authur Miller's The Crucible, Proctor being the name of one convicted, yet innocent, witch; and Salem being the puritan township he lived in. A staunch Amalathian, Karamazov habitually judges and does battle from his massive Throne of Judgement and is generally hated by the Ecclesiarchy and Thorian inquisitors for his actions on Salem Proctor. His name is a reference to Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian author of the novel The Brothers Karamazov, which contains a parable entitled The Grand Inquisitor. Karamazov made the infamous quote that is used to sum up an inquisitorial investigation: "There is no such thing as a plea of innocence in my court. A plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time."[2]

Kryptmann

Member of the Ordo Xenos, Tyranid expert, saviour of the Imperium in the Hive Fleet Leviathan crisis, and the discoverer of a full 82 alien species (all of which he subsequently deemed a threat to the Imperium and ordered eradicated). He was the first Inquisitor to witness the devastating effects of a Tyranid invasion during the attack of Hive Fleet Behemoth and fought the Tyranids for over 250 years. He was one of the most active members of the Inquisition against the Tyranid invasions, even taking drastic measures to the dismay of other Inquisitors. During the Invasion of Hive Fleet Leviathan, Kryptman led Deathwatch Kill-teams to the Tarsis sector to aid the Mortifactors Chapter and the Ultramarines of Tarsis Ultra. By capturing a Lictor, Magos Biologis Locard (Kryptman's Adeptus Mechanicus Biologist) created a biological weapon to use against the Tyranids and Deathwatch members used it to destroy the Norn Queen. He later authorised the largest single act of genocide the Imperium has ever inflicted on itself by abandoning or destroying all worlds in Hive Fleet Leviathan's path. He was later issued a "Carta Extremis" and was stripped of his title. However, this did not stop him and he soon led his loyal Deathwatch warriors to steal Genestealers in statis and used them to lure Tyranids to the Ork homeworlds of the Orks of Octavius .[5]

Lok, Solomon

Member of the Ordo Xenos, lead the investigation of the loss in communication from Beta Anphelion IV, supported by Space Marines from the Red Scorpions chapter, along with the Eylsian Drop troop regiment D-99 and also a regiment from the Cadian Guard. Featured in Imperial Armour IV, and one of the few Inquisitor models cast by Forge World.

Lady Jena Orechiel

Inquisitors come from all works of life, from humble agri-workers' sons to highborn noble's daughters. If they show potential and pass the arduous trials that test their purity of soul and resistance to temptation then they may well be taken into the Inquisition as an acolyte. In this respect it is true to say that the Inquisition is an equal opportunities employer! This was the case when the young daughter of an estranged planetary governor was enrolled at the Schola Progenium of Ophilla. Most young girls that enter into the care of the Ecclesiarchy are destined to serve in the sisterhood of one of the many orders and young Jena was no different.

However, Jena had a fiery spirit who seemed to have a natural affliction for authority. She was constantly caught outside her boardings after curfew and generally misbehaving. This in itself was nothing out of the ordinary, after all many Progena are equally disruptive, especially when they have recently arrived at the Schola. This rebellious behaviour is usually beaten out of the troublemakers by the Drill Abbots. Jena was different, her stubbornness and fierce convictions would not allow her to succumb to the Drill Abbots demands to conform. One Drill Abbot, Belphus Meere, a retired Mordian Sergeant, took particular interest in young Jena.

Belphus made it his personal mission to supplicate the noble's daughter. The Drill Abbot set constant ordeals for Jena to overcome whether it was all night runs to counting grains of salt. Still Jena refused bend to his will in fact the harder and more demanding the tasks the more determined she became. Over time the conflict between the young noble's daughter and the Drill Abbot started to foster a mutual and grudging respect.

Long after Jena should have been handed over to the Sisterhood she remained at the Schola Progenium deemed as 'unprepared'. It was this extended stay along with a recommendation from Belphus Meere that lead to the Head Abbot to call upon the Inquisition to see if Jena was worthy to be recruited into the most holy of the Imperium's organisations.

The hooded representative that came to evaluate Jena agreed with Belphus Meere's assessment that Jena's steadfast determination and unfloundering drive to succeed were worthy traits of a potential Inquisitor. However, Jena was far from ready to take on the mantle - youth and pride being two obstacles she had yet to conquer. Still the meeting with the hooded man had had a calming effect on Jena. She began to trust and accept the teachings of the Schola and even started to forge a strong friendship with her once nemesis, Belphus. Jena launched herself into her studies with the same determination she had used to fight against the staff of the Schola. She spent many hours in the Sanctus Librarium studying texts banned to most other students taking particular interest in anything recorded on Xenos creatures and artefacts. When Jena reached a mature enough age she was whisked away for induction into the Inquisition, her fascination with aliens predictably leading her to Ordo Xenos where she served as an acolyte in Inquisitor Dargasto's retinue. Dargasto shared many of Jena's traits of determination and a fascination of alien species and cultures, being a venerable Inquisitor these qualities were tempered with age and experience - something Jena was yet to gain. After spending years in her mentor's warband Inquisitor Dargasto's life was tragically ended in a fire fight between a Magos and his entourage of Tech-Priests, both groups were searching for an alien device that may have pointed to the reawakening of an ancient alien race known as the C'tan.

With the death of her master Jena took on the mantle to become a fully instated Inquisitor. She vowed to continue her mentor's crusade to discover all she could on the reawakening of the C'tan. As well as her Inquisitorial seal, Lady Inquisitor Orechiel also inherited Dargasto's considerable wealth and Warband, which consisted of an ageing Astropath and a primitive alien warrior called a Kroot. One of her first acts as an Inquisitor was to re-visit the Schola Progenium and sequester her old friend, the Drill Abbot, Belphus Meere into her retinue.

In the decades that followed Inquisitor Lady Jena Orechiel performed her duty; hunting down heretics, daemons and alien infestations, garnering a good reputation amongst her peers within the Inquisition. However, not all of her fellow Inquisitors agreed with her often-outlandish methods. Her blatant use of xenos weapons and technology had been frowned upon by the more conservative members of the Ordo as was the use of aliens in her retinue, it was even rumoured she had, on occasion, cavorted with the enigmatic Eldar - even having one in her service at one point. This in turn has sometimes lead her into conflict with the more puritan thinking factions within the Inquisition. To keep her enemies - those within the Inquisition as well as outside it - off track, Inquisitor Jena Orechiel has often changed her name, using a variety of aristocratic aliases allowing her to move freely through the circles of bluebloods in the Imperium, often the very people who court the attention of the Inquisition. These have occasionally been more than fleeting social relationships. Jena is beautiful woman, an advantage she has used in the past to gain her objectives.

Recently the search for information of the elusive C'tan has come to the fore unfortunately her old friend, Belphus Meere was killed gaining that knowledge. Inquisitor Orechiel is now on course for what could be her most dangerous and important mission yet…

Ravenor, Gideon

Previous acolyte to Gregor Eisenhorn, a more powerful psyker than even Eisenhorn himself, and author of many famous texts such as the 'Spheres of Longing'. Ravenor's early career saw him in action with Gregor Eisenhorn and together they brought down many heretics, most notably the Beldame Sadia - an accursed cybernetically enhanced xenophile. During the Triumph under the Spatian Gate (a large parade to celebrate a Warmaster's victorious purge of the Ophidian Sub-sector) Ravenor is caught on the edge of an explosion caused by a crashing Lightning Attack Fighter. He is rendered Blind, Deaf, Mute, and senseless. Were it not for his genius and Psychic potential it would have been the end of the finest Interrogator Eisenhorn ever raised. (Like Eisenhorn, Ravenor is a creation of the Black Library's author Dan Abnett. Ravenor is first brought into play in the book titled Malleus, the second book of the Eisenhorn Trilogy. This is consequently the same book that tells of the Spatian Gate incident which nearly cost Ravenor his life. By the time he re-enters the Eisenhorn story line, Ravenor finally holds the rank of Inquisitor. Following his life changing incident, later referred to as the "Thracian Attrocity", Ravenor continues his service from the confines of a mobile armored life support system. Using his advanced psychic powers and the added abilities of his anti-grav "Force Chair" Ravenor continues his service to the Imperium. Tales of this are told in the Trilogy spin off by the same author. The three Books are titled in the following order, "Ravenor", "Ravenor Returned" and "Ravenor Rogue". The trilogy is one of Ravenor's most famous cases where he chases his arch-nemisis, a fiend by the name of Zygmunt Molotch. In a massively twisted tale, their conflict with one another spans over the three books and finally culminates in the destruction of a daemon possessed heretic known as Thonius Slyte. Ironically the result of these three books are foretold in the "afterword" of the the Eisenhorn Trilogy's final book "Hereticus".)

Reynaard, Inquisitor

Reynaard discovered a cult worshipping aliens on Mandall IV. Using a Deathwatch kill team, he attempted to destroy the cult, which proved to have taken over most of the capital city. After escaping, Reynaard returned with over 500,000 troops and eradicated all in the city.[8]

Inquisitor Scarn

Scarn avoids conflict at all costs and is a master manipulator, always getting others to fight for his cause. If he is ever forced into combat then something mysterious will happen, it was a holographic representation, a doppelganger or some kind of puppet servitor!

Always working from the shadows, the methods of Inquisitor Scarn have been labelled anything from eccentric to heretical. He has been an Inquisitor for many centuries, often disappearing and presumed dead, only to reappear many years later. Scarn avoids direct confrontation at all costs, preferring to manipulate and blackmail. If conflict is inevitable then he will strike from the darkness with the Hand of Scarn, an assassin fiercely devoted to her master. The Inquisitor will rarely fight, always making sure that any direct confrontation is on his terms.


Inquisitor Scarn was last officially seen over sixty years ago at an Inquisitorial gathering; he has not been seen since. Many have incorrectly concluded that he is dead; this is what Scarn would like people to think. For the last six decades, Scarn has been developing his ultimate plan. The objective is known only to him, but he believes it will solve all the problems the Imperium faces. For years he has been preparing and only now are the pieces in place for the first stage to begin. He has spent much of the last decade in the Scarla Nyses sub-sector, particularly on Cirian V.

Once Scarn's great scheme has begun, he will stop at nothing to see it through to completion. If anyone gets in his way, even fellow Inquisitors, then they risk the full might of Scarn's wrath.

Thaddeus

A Inquisitor of the Ordo Hereticus, he was put in charge of hunting down and destroying the renegade Soul Drinkers space marine chapter. He is a rather patient man and does things more slow and concise as to do it right. He shuns other inquisitors who use force and fear on imperial citizens to get their information. He believes in speaking to people politely and with respect to get what he needs. He seemed to make a deal with Sarpedon, the Chapter Master of the Soul Drinkers. When Sarpedon was injured badly and held almost in death by an insanely powerful mutant attempting to gain godhood in the warp known as Teturact. Thaddeus decided to spare Sarpedon after months of trailing the Soul Drinkers and fire on Teturact, giving sarpedon time to finish him with the Soulspear. Thaddeus decided that Sarpedon wasn't nearly as dangerous to the Imperium as Teturact was. Thaddeus fell out of favour with the Lord Inquisitors for following the Soul Drinkers, but he still persued them and eventually met his end facing down the Howling Griffons after being seen as Sarpedon's ally.

Toth, Mordecai

Featured in the Dawn of War real-time strategy game. Wielder of the daemonhammer "God-splitter", crafted from a fragment of the weapon of an Eldar Avatar, which he later gifted to the Blood Ravens chapter.

Witch Hunter Tyrus

Tyrus is a blatant follower of the Monodominant philosophy - a bombastic man whose bloody purges have left thousands of heretics dead in his wake. Suspicious of all psykers, even those supposedly cleared by the Inquisition, it is Tyrus' creed to hunt down and exterminate every witch, mutant and warlock in the galaxy (including alien psykers). If, along the way, this means eradicating those who would seek to protect such abhorrent creatures, then so be it. Tyrus is perhaps one of the most active Inquisitors with regards to internal policing, ferociously hunting down those whom he deems heretics within the ranks of his own organisation.

Trials and Ordeals

Tyrus is a great believer in many of the more arcane and religious trials and ordeals employed to judge the guilt or innocence of those he investigates. One of the more popular of these is the Trial by Balance, in which a droplet of the accused person's blood is placed on a set of finely-tuned scales opposite the same amount of water blessed by a member of the Ecclesiarchy. If the blood proves to be heavier, it is believed that this is because it is weighed down by the guilt of the donor's crimes and they are condemned.

The Ordeal of the Blade is another, which Tyrus most famously employed on the Sarcaphon of Gladrinus VI. A heavy, razor-sharp sword is gripped in the fists of the potential heretic, which they must hold above their head while the Inquisitor lists the accusations levelled against them in order of severity. If they can complete this feat without dropping the blade or its keen edge drawing blood, they have proved their innocence of the charges. If blood is spilt or the sword slips, the last spoken accusation and those remaining to be levelled are true. Miraculously, Sarcaphon Hydrupasta successfully endured the Ordeal for three and a half hours while Tyrus listed nearly 1,000 charges against him.

There are many other types of trial and ordeal. In Trial by Holy Seal, the accused has a wax tablet placed upon their outstretched palm and a hot seal is applied to it. If the skin beneath the wax is burnt this is an indication of guilt. If it is unharmed this is an indication of the Emperor's blessing. Other times, Tyrus has ordered those he is investigating to drink a jug of blessed water. If the accused cannot do so without choking or gagging, they are presumed guilty, having been unable to imbibe the holiness of the Emperor. Tyrus has also been known to use the Imperial Tarot, a divination process believed to be guided by the Emperor himself, to determine innocence or guilt literally on the turn of a card. Many are comforted by Tyrus' use of such traditional methods and his staunch belief that it is the Emperor who makes these judgements, not himself. The Trials of Witch Hunter Tyrus

The young Tyrus was to be orphaned at an early age. He was a mere six summers old when the daemons came to his home world of Loressa, an isolated agri-world in the Segmentum Obscurus. Acting insidiously through an adolescent girl, whose miraculous powers of healing had cured many people from Tyrus' village, the Daemon Prince Kholoth the Excoriator spread a plague of mutation across Loressa. This weakened the fabric of reality enough for him to force his way from the Immaterium into the girl's unprotected mind. In its new guise, the daemon destroyed Tyrus' village and began the slaughter of its inhabitants in an orgy of mutilation. Tyrus was dragged from his home into the village's main square, where the inhabitants' corpses lay in a heaped pile. Over the next few hours, Kholoth tortured Tyrus, taking an eye and slicing off an ear, that he might still hear his own screams and witness the destruction of his flesh. As the leering young girl explained precisely what horrors she would next visit upon his body, Tyrus despaired and prepared for death. Only the timely intervention of Witch Hunter Covonis, who had tracked the daemon to Loressa via the Emperor's Tarot, saved Tyrus' life.

The Tarot has guided the servants of the Emperor for ten millennia and, though the significance of its readings are often obscure to the point of meaningless, its holy instruction is said to be imbued with the Emperor's own will. Such indeed seems to have been the case as Covonis, clad in a massive suit of elaborately tooled armour, intricately carved with decorative scrollwork and fluting, materialised with four, grey armoured angels of destruction in the village square. The daemon girl paused in her gruesome handiwork, and turned to face the Witch Hunter, a hiss of recognition escaping her possessed lips. Through a red haze, Tyrus saw the mighty figure of Covonis and his armoured brethren do battle with the daemon girl. Three of the angels were cut down with bolts of blue fire, before Covonis swung his blessed sword in a glittering arc and beheaded the shrieking daemon. Whirlwinds of daemonic energy howled around the combatants as the creature was banished back to the hell from whence it came, and Tyrus watched as one of the angels burned the corpse in the cleansing fire of its weapon.

Tyrus, almost blinded by pain and blood loss, staggered to the edge of the blaze, his skin blistering in the infernal heat, and spat his hatred into the flames. He cursed the daemon's name and, as an armoured gauntlet settled on his shoulder, he looked up into the stern features of Covonis and knew that there was only one path open to him now. Tyrus became Covonis' apprentice and journeyed back to the orbiting starship from which Covonis and the Grey Knights (as Tyrus would later know them) had teleported. He assimilated the wonders of technology and the ways of the Witch Hunter with a zeal only the truly dedicated can muster. He was gifted with cybernetic replacements for his missing eye and ear, and Covonis instructed him in the path of the Witch Hunter, the tools and methods at their disposal and, lastly, the heresy of the daemonic. Never before had Covonis known an acolyte to master the Rites of Detestation so quickly, or one whose pious devotion matched his own.

As the years of intense training passed, Tyrus grew to manhood with his hatred of daemons and those who would consort with such creatures growing stronger with each passing day. He mastered weapons, martial skills and the rites by which the daemon could be vanquished. Such was his strength of devotion to the Immortal God-Emperor that his word alone could stay the hand of a daemonic creature and cause it to reel in pain at his fiery zeal and devotion. Many base and repulsive creatures of the warp were destroyed by Tyrus and his master, until a fateful battle in the royal audience chamber of Epsilon Regalis. The Emperor's Tarot had led Covonis and Tyrus to the palaces of Regalis' great and mighty in search of deviancy. The monarchy of Epsilon Regalis protested their innocence, but Covonis was adamant; they would face Trial by Holy Seal.

Into the palms of each member of the royal family, Covonis placed a featureless wax tablet and heated an Inquisitorial seal. When the seal glowed with heat, Covonis explained, he would press it into the wax upon each of their palms. Those whose flesh was burned would know the full wrath of the Inquisition, while those whose skin remained unblemished would have their innocence displayed for all to see. As Covonis pressed the seal into the first outstretched hand, the human features of the King's daughter split apart into the leering face of a daemon. Worse, it was a daemon Covonis knew; Kholoth the Excoriator. In an instant the daemon was free and dealt a mortal blow to the venerable Witch Hunter. As he fell, the last vestiges of humanity were cast from the faces of the captives and the daemons were free. Tyrus quickly swept up Covonis' power knife and set about himself with terrible fury and righteous anger, his heart burning with vengeance. The lesser thrall daemons in Kholoth's service were no match for Tyrus, and at last he and Kholoth stood face to face, the sole figures left standing in the gore-spattered audience chamber.

The two enemies fought a duel that had been five decades in the making, and almost killed the Witch Hunter's apprentice. Bellowing words of holy purity that the daemon is forbidden to withstand, Tyrus fought with the strength of the Emperor. The bitter foes traded blows, each grievous enough to fell a lesser being. Sheer force of will kept Tyrus standing and, as he grappled with the daemon, sermons of piety and devotion spilling from his lips, he punched Covonis' weapon through the daemon's chest, dragging out its still-beating heart, and crushed it in his gauntleted fist. The daemon grinned as it died, spouting blasphemous oaths that promised the Witch Hunter that they would meet again and that it had already watched him die a thousand times. Suspecting the corruption of the royal family extended to the planet's population, Tyrus launched a bloody purge of the surrounding cities that saw tens of thousands burned at the stake to ensure the purity of Epsilon Regalis.

Tyrus took his master's suit of armour as his own and repaired the damage which the daemon had wrought on its holy fabric. Covonis' masters elevated Tyrus to the status of Witch Hunter and granted him the full remit of an Imperial Inquisitor. If his experiences with Covonis had taught him anything, it was that there was only room for one species in the galaxy and that was Humanity. His purges of aliens, heretics and warlocks have become legendary amongst even the most puritanical Inquisitors. A fierce Monodominant, Tyrus' quest to exterminate heresy, witchcraft and alien influence has carried him from one side of the galaxy to the other, his rousing orations fanning the flames of zeal and faith on every planet he purges. After the Gland War on Dantis III against the Tyranids, Tyrus recruited Sergeant Stone, an Imperial Guard veteran who was one of only three survivors of a bionically altered company of the Lostok 23rd. Stone's aggressiveness and devotion to duty made him an ideal member of Tyrus' retinue.

During the Treachery of Hanuchek, Tyrus joined forces with Devotee Malicant, a disciple of the Redemptionist faith spawned on Necromunda, who led his fanatical army on a holy crusade. The battle to destroy Hanuchek all but annihilated Malicant's followers and, at its conclusion, the Redemptionist gladly accompanied Tyrus in his purges. In pursuit of the (in his eyes) heretic Inquisitor Lichtenstein, Tyrus journeyed to the world of Karis Cephalon, where he recruited the Security Enforcer Barbaretta. Her help in investigating the mutant uprisings, which Tyrus believed might have been sponsored by Emissary Fabian, was invaluable, and she has proven to be a worthy addition to the Witch Hunter's retinue.

Tyrus continues to pursue the unholy, purge the unclean and smite the unworthy. It is his holy task to bring the fire of the Emperor to those who need it most and destroy those who would see its light dimmed. Tyrus' reliance on methods first used thousands of years ago is reassuring to many people, who see the guilt or innocence of his subjects determined by the will of the Emperor Himself.

Amberley Vail-happened to come across, not detailed enough

Member of the Ordo Xenos. Featured in the Ciaphas Cain series, she acts as the editor of the Cain Archive. It has been suggested that her relationship with Cain is more than professional.

Commodus Voke

Ancient and famous Thorian leaning towards Monodominant save for his very powerful psychic abilities. Lived to be extremely old due to being extremely difficult to kill. Arrogant and open with his position and fame, he was a sometime ally of Eisenhorn. A legend during his time, a testament to his ability, is the fact that he fought an uncontained daemonhost in a psychic duel and was not obliterated outright.</del>

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