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Helgrund was an Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus.

Upon reaching inquisitorial rank, Helgrund launched himself on a three-decade search for a powerful tome known as the Malus Codicium, which was a guidebook for the summoning of Daemons. Determining that the tome should be destroyed lest it falls into the wrong hands, Helgrund eventually arrived on Zandrini Prime, where the Malus Codicium was held. However, some time before, a mysterious figure had taken the Malus from its vault. Disappointed but determined, Helgrund continued his search - the trail eventually taking him to the planet Maginor.

A group of nobles and traders known as the Mystic Path had set up a mountain fortress on Maginor, and openly used Warp artifacts to influence their patrons and increase demand for their goods. Aided by a small retinue of supporters provided by the Cardinal of Maginor, Helgrund begun a pogrom against the Mystic Path that lasted several weeks. As he put the Mystic Path to the flame, he discovered cultists half-possessed by Daemons and utilizing Chaotic weapons. In the center of the Path's operations, Helgrund was alarmed to discover, was a fellow Inquisitor - the venerable Quixos.

Helgrund and Quixos eventually met in combat, a combat compared to that between the Emperor and Horus ten millennia earlier. Helgrund wielded a holy force hammer, while Quixos held a daemonblade possessed by a creature called Kharnagar the Deathly. As they shredded through each other's wards, it seemed they were evenly matched, Helgrund even gaining the upper hand - but Quixos stabbed Helgrund through the torso with his daemonblade, causing Helgrund to immolate. He was the first Inquisitor to fall before Quixos, but he would not be the last.

Quixos was eventually killed on Farness Beta by a cell of inquisitors comprising Eisenhorn, Commodus Voke, Titus Endor, and others.

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