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Gregor Eisenhorn

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Gregor Eisenhorn was an Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos. Elevated to the rank of Inquisitor by Inquisitor Hapshant in 222.M41, Eisenhorn was a man to be reckoned with.

One of his most famous investigations was the Necroteuch case. Eisenhorn tracked a Chaos worshipping cabal to a world inhabited by the xenos Saruthi, a strange and mysterious race whose bodies and architecture were marked by a complete (and maddening) lack of any sort of symmetry. The saruthi were able to work in and shape the three dimensions as well as the fourth: Time. This ability had a confusing and terrifying effect on humans who encountered them, Eisenhorn included. The saruthi had come into the possession of the Necroteuch, a tome of incredible chaotic knowledge and power, and had the only human-readable copies as well as a copy of their own. One of the human Necroteuch tomes was destroyed by Eisenhorn himself during a meeting between the saruthi and the principal cult members. Some inquisitors deemed this an heretical act, and damned Eisenhorn. These particular inquisitors, however, were recognized radicals and found themselves in the minority among the rest, who supported Eisenhorn's decision to burn the tome. Eisenhorn was spared by the Lord Inquistor and was instumental in planning the attack on the saruthi homeworld during which the remaining copies of the Necroteuch were destroyed. It was during this attack that Eisenhorn also met Cherubael, an incredibly powerful daemonhost who would plague Eisenhorn and the Imperium in later endeavours.

Eisenhorn lost his left hand during an investigation on Sameter. This investigation had started with the discovery of bodies found murdered in a ritual manner, with their eyes plucked out, spine extracted, brain removed, and hands and tongue cut away. At first believing the killings to be of standard heretical nature, Eisenhorn approached the investigation as a purge of some chaotic cult. Soon, however, it was revealed that the culprits were ex-soldiers of the Imperial Guard. These former soldiers of the Ninth Sameter Infantry had been driven mad by the horrors they had faced in war, and were ritually killing regular citizens. The now-fanatical ex-riflemen thought they were serving the Golden Throne by killing anyone they thought was in any way related to the vile forces of Chaos. In their twisted minds, they could only see heretics in the guise of their fellow citizens. With squads of Adeptus Arbites, Eisenhorn managed to corner the fanatics in an abandoned and decaying building that they had converted into an Imperial temple. There, a firefight broke out and Eisenhorn lost his hand to an experienced former-sharpshooter. All of the remaining members of the Sameter Ninth were killed after fighting to the last man, serving the Emperor until death.