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'''Gideon Ravenor''' is an [[Imperial]] [[Inquisitor]] of the [[Ordo Xenos]], raised to Inquisitor in 346 [[M41]] , he is a level delta latent [[psyker]], though this is thought to have increased. He was one the brightest and most promising protégés of [[Eisenhorn|Inquisìtor Gregor Eisenhorn]]. Ravenor was serving as an Interrogator to Eisenhorn in 339 M41 when an Apotropaic Congress was called on [[Thracian Primaris]] to examine thirty three Alpha Level [[heretic]] psykers taken captive through the combined efforts of Inquisitors Lyko, Voke and Heldane.  Inquisitor Ryan also took part in this action and part of the parade was made for his memory.  He was killed in action. Ravenor attended the parade of The Triumph on Thracian Primaris, celebrating the victory of the campaign which involved the capture of these psykers, along with his master Eisenhorn. However, the pilots of the [[Lightning]] fighters conducting fly-overs went rogue and attacked the crowd. The fighters were eventually either shot down or crashed, but unfortunately one of these crashed into the group of Inquisitors arrayed for the parade, killing more than 80 Inquisitors and assorted staff. Eisenhorn was safe, but Ravenor was caught in the blast, and suffered horrific burns over 100% of his body. He was severely crippled by the injury, with only his brain remaining fully functional. He lives by way of a force chair, which is partly operated by his heightened psychic powers. He uses his psionic abilities to compensate for what he lost due to his injuries, he is able to produce normal speech from his mind alone, control his chair, and also supplement his ships stealth abilities using his powers. Despite his injuries, Ravenor survived and went on to become one of the most successful inquisitors of his time. His ability to continue functioning after his debilitating injuries was due entirely to his awesome psychic powers.
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Gideon Ravenor is a character from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. Ravenor was a member of the Imperial Inquisition and part of the Ordo Xenos, tasked with keeping humanity safe from unwanted alien influences. Ravenor's body was woefully crippled, whilst he was still an Interrogator, during the atrocity of the Holy Novena on Thracian Primaris. He suffered 100% burns to his body among other injuries and the only way that medicaes could insert life-support equipment was to slice a hole in Ravenor's flesh where his mouth should have been. Ravenor now exists within the cocoon of a force chair where his already powerful psychic abilities (which became stronger to compensate for his crippled body), further boosted by built-in psi-amplifiers, allow him to function as a full Inquisitor, providing him with the ability to mind-speak to his agents as well as temporarily take control of their bodies, usually at the cost of rather painful and dizzying after-effects. In "Ravenor", we learn that his Psychic capacity is between high-level delta and low-level gamma, this makes him one of the most potent psykers in the service of the Imperium. However, this is contradicted in "Ravenor Rogue" when Orfeo Culzean describes Ravenor as an "Alpha plus psyker". This may be a typing mistake or Orfeo exaggerating Ravenor's abilities. He also is able to read most people's minds as well as defeat all but the strongest psykers in single combat. He was an apprentice of the infamous Gregor Eisenhorn, who sponsored his promotion in 346.M41
  
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Ravenor's Inquisitorial methods primarily involve stealth and infiltration using highly skilled agents, closely supervised by the Inquisitor using his psychic powers. He keeps track of his agents through [[wraithbone]] markers that they all wear. When needed he can perform what his agents call “the ware” this involves the personality of the agent being pushed to one side, and Ravenor taking complete control of the agents body, usually in times of crisis, where Ravenor’s intellect, training and other acquired skills can be most useful.
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Ravenor has a dedicated coterie of associates who assist him in fulfilling his role as an Inquisitor of the Imperium of Man:
  
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Due to his powers he is also able to act similar to a tactical officer, giving his agents an overview of their immediate area, even infiltrating the minds of the people around them in order to gather their intentions, or to influence events the way they want them to go. When Ravenor is at his best, it allows him and his agents to perform a multitude of tasks in a very coordinated fashion, and from an outside observer it may seem everything goes their way, when in fact Ravenor is influencing all of their immediate surroundings to his own end.
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    * Interrogator Carl Thonius - Ravenor's pupil and protégé. While he is trained in the use of weapons and can hold his own in close combat, most of the time he chooses not to be involved in the more violent part of Ravenor's business. Thonius is possessed by the daemon Slyte, and is destroyed as Slyte took physical form in Ravenor Rogue.
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    * Harlon Nayl - An ex-bounty hunter formerly under employment of Inquisitor Eisenhorn. Carries a vast array of weapons. Nayl leads most operations and seems to be one of the most senior team members.
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He has successfully prosecuted a number of very notable cases, such as the [[Gomek Violation]] and the [[Cervan-Holman Affair]], and also participated in the downfall of [[Pontius Glaw]] on the [[Daemon]] planet of [[Ghul]].
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    * Kara Swole - A former dancer-acrobat, trained in the use of deadly weapons. Regularly described as a voluptuous beauty. Formerly under employment of Inquisitor Eisenhorn.
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    * Patience Kys - A telekinetic psyker with a shady past. Patience Kys is not her real name and she seems to hide some secret about her past.
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Ravenor is a highly respected Imperial thinker, author and poet, and his works are read by the higher strata of society throughout the Imperium. Published works include the ''Spheres of Longing'', published shortly after the incident on Thracian Primaris.  
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    * Zeph Mathuin - Silent ex-bounty hunter. Ill tempered and heavily armed. Because of an apparent natural affinity he was Ravenor's favourite vessel for waring. Mathuin favoured a multi-barrel rotator cannon. He was killed by a daemon during the events of Ravenor Returned.
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    * Wystan Frauka - An 'Untouchable', a man with the latent ability to block out psychic activity. Big, chain-smoking and disliked by pretty much everyone (in part because of his psychic blankness. It was mentioned in Xenos that the field untouchables project also creates a sense of fear, revulsion and dread in others.). An interesting difference to the Eisenhorn novels is Frauka's so-called inhibitor, a device allowing him to shut down his natural anti-psi field. He is often found passing the time by reading pornographic data-slates or staring at the female members of the team.
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    * Zael - A boy, about 14 years old, addicted to flects when he first appears. In the wake of Ravenor's investigation to uncover the source of the flects, Zael gets taken along for being able to "hear" the telepathic communication between Ravenor and Nayl. He is a psychic "mirror," with no real psychic capabilities of his own. He is able to use the psychic powers of others in his vicinity but not for an extended period of time. He also shares Frauka's attraction to pornography as demonstrated in Ravenor Rogue.
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    * Cynia Preest - Captain of the Hinterlight, a rogue trade ship regularly employed by Ravenor. The Hinterlight is equipped with a custom-built stealth device partly comprised of alien technology, partly powered by Ravenor's own considerable psychic powers.
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    * Sholto Unwerth - Captain of the Arethusa, a rogue trade ship that Ravenor employs after leaving the Hinterlight. In Ravenor Rogue, Sholto describes himself using the word 'Squat', leading to the conclusion that Sholto is related to the old Warhammer 40,000 race, the Squats.
  
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Besides these, like all Inquisitors, Ravenor has other allies that help him in times of need, some of whom also appeared in other works of Dan Abnett (such as short stories). The (in)famous Inquisitor Eisenhorn also made an (arguably) final appearance in the connecting story of Ravenor and Ravenor Returned. Ravenor also allied with a group of Eldar for some time, a highly unorthodox occurrence among the Ordo Xenos, if not outright heresy. According to the end of the last Eisenhorn series book Ravenor contiunes his work even after the events in the Ravenor series. But no further details have been mentioned thus far.
 
Ravenor has also had a number of dealings with the [[Eldar]], including [[Farseers]], this is an association he endeavours to keep from the Ordo as a whole.
 
Ravenor has also had a number of dealings with the [[Eldar]], including [[Farseers]], this is an association he endeavours to keep from the Ordo as a whole.
 
   
 
   

Revision as of 18:30, 5 April 2008

Gideon Ravenor is a character from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. Ravenor was a member of the Imperial Inquisition and part of the Ordo Xenos, tasked with keeping humanity safe from unwanted alien influences. Ravenor's body was woefully crippled, whilst he was still an Interrogator, during the atrocity of the Holy Novena on Thracian Primaris. He suffered 100% burns to his body among other injuries and the only way that medicaes could insert life-support equipment was to slice a hole in Ravenor's flesh where his mouth should have been. Ravenor now exists within the cocoon of a force chair where his already powerful psychic abilities (which became stronger to compensate for his crippled body), further boosted by built-in psi-amplifiers, allow him to function as a full Inquisitor, providing him with the ability to mind-speak to his agents as well as temporarily take control of their bodies, usually at the cost of rather painful and dizzying after-effects. In "Ravenor", we learn that his Psychic capacity is between high-level delta and low-level gamma, this makes him one of the most potent psykers in the service of the Imperium. However, this is contradicted in "Ravenor Rogue" when Orfeo Culzean describes Ravenor as an "Alpha plus psyker". This may be a typing mistake or Orfeo exaggerating Ravenor's abilities. He also is able to read most people's minds as well as defeat all but the strongest psykers in single combat. He was an apprentice of the infamous Gregor Eisenhorn, who sponsored his promotion in 346.M41

Ravenor has a dedicated coterie of associates who assist him in fulfilling his role as an Inquisitor of the Imperium of Man: 

   * Interrogator Carl Thonius - Ravenor's pupil and protégé. While he is trained in the use of weapons and can hold his own in close combat, most of the time he chooses not to be involved in the more violent part of Ravenor's business. Thonius is possessed by the daemon Slyte, and is destroyed as Slyte took physical form in Ravenor Rogue.
   * Harlon Nayl - An ex-bounty hunter formerly under employment of Inquisitor Eisenhorn. Carries a vast array of weapons. Nayl leads most operations and seems to be one of the most senior team members.
   * Kara Swole - A former dancer-acrobat, trained in the use of deadly weapons. Regularly described as a voluptuous beauty. Formerly under employment of Inquisitor Eisenhorn.
   * Patience Kys - A telekinetic psyker with a shady past. Patience Kys is not her real name and she seems to hide some secret about her past.
   * Zeph Mathuin - Silent ex-bounty hunter. Ill tempered and heavily armed. Because of an apparent natural affinity he was Ravenor's favourite vessel for waring. Mathuin favoured a multi-barrel rotator cannon. He was killed by a daemon during the events of Ravenor Returned.
   * Wystan Frauka - An 'Untouchable', a man with the latent ability to block out psychic activity. Big, chain-smoking and disliked by pretty much everyone (in part because of his psychic blankness. It was mentioned in Xenos that the field untouchables project also creates a sense of fear, revulsion and dread in others.). An interesting difference to the Eisenhorn novels is Frauka's so-called inhibitor, a device allowing him to shut down his natural anti-psi field. He is often found passing the time by reading pornographic data-slates or staring at the female members of the team.
   * Zael - A boy, about 14 years old, addicted to flects when he first appears. In the wake of Ravenor's investigation to uncover the source of the flects, Zael gets taken along for being able to "hear" the telepathic communication between Ravenor and Nayl. He is a psychic "mirror," with no real psychic capabilities of his own. He is able to use the psychic powers of others in his vicinity but not for an extended period of time. He also shares Frauka's attraction to pornography as demonstrated in Ravenor Rogue.
   * Cynia Preest - Captain of the Hinterlight, a rogue trade ship regularly employed by Ravenor. The Hinterlight is equipped with a custom-built stealth device partly comprised of alien technology, partly powered by Ravenor's own considerable psychic powers.
   * Sholto Unwerth - Captain of the Arethusa, a rogue trade ship that Ravenor employs after leaving the Hinterlight. In Ravenor Rogue, Sholto describes himself using the word 'Squat', leading to the conclusion that Sholto is related to the old Warhammer 40,000 race, the Squats.

Besides these, like all Inquisitors, Ravenor has other allies that help him in times of need, some of whom also appeared in other works of Dan Abnett (such as short stories). The (in)famous Inquisitor Eisenhorn also made an (arguably) final appearance in the connecting story of Ravenor and Ravenor Returned. Ravenor also allied with a group of Eldar for some time, a highly unorthodox occurrence among the Ordo Xenos, if not outright heresy. According to the end of the last Eisenhorn series book Ravenor contiunes his work even after the events in the Ravenor series. But no further details have been mentioned thus far. Ravenor has also had a number of dealings with the Eldar, including Farseers, this is an association he endeavours to keep from the Ordo as a whole.

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