Jacques
Jacques was a former scribe for the Inquisition, before he became corrupted by the powers of Chaos and pledged his service to the Great Unclean One Maggotgurgle Pukeslime.[1]
Biography
Before his fall Jacques was stationed aboard a hidden space station, which held an ancient Librarium. It was filled with some of the Inquisition's most valuable and dangerous volumes on the workings of Chaos - information so powerful that only one copy of each volume was kept. Over the millennia since the Librarium's creation the scribes stationed aboard the space station, were regularly charged with copying by hand the knowledge contained within old and worn out volumes into new ones. It was while conducting this duty that Jacques began his fall, as he began studying the knowledge he was copying and was soon under sway of the seductive power of Chaos. He was soon discovered by his superiors however and before he could be delivered to the Inquisition, Jacques made a desperate plea for aid from the Great Unclean One Maggotgurgle Pukeslime. Pukeslime answered and in a hastily made pact, Jacques forfeited his soul to the Great Unclean One in return for power and an escape from the Inquisition's grasp. Pukeslime agreed and fulfilled the pact, allowing Jacques to escape the space station, and the former scribe soon traveled to the Eye of Terror, where he pledged his service to the Greater Daemon.[1]
Sometime later Pukeslime offered Jacques a chance to win his soul back, by finding the written contract created when the scribe had sought his aid, which the Greater Daemon had hidden in one the Chaos tomes in the Inquisition Librarium. Pukeslime also wanted the Librarium itself destroyed and changed Jacques form so that the former scribe was now able to wear Terminator armour, as well as the aid of two squadrons of Death Guard Terminators to complete his task. What Pukeslime failed to tell Jacques before he departed, in what the Greater Daemon regarded as a sinister joke, was that the Inquisition had predicted that Jacques would return and had stationed an Honour Guard from several Space Marine Chapters within the space station to defend the Librarium. Upon entering the space station, Jacques and the Death Guard were caught off guard when they soon came under attack from the veteran Space Marines. Arrayed before them where Honour Guard from the Blood Angels, Ultramarines, Salamanders and the Deathwing and what Jacques thought would be an easy task to reclaim his soul, soon became a desperate fight for survival.[1]
Sources
- 1:White Dwarf 121, pg. 30
