[CHAR] ENTER THE ORDO: A Dark Heresy/40k Roleplay

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Markus Grevian

| NAME |

Markus Grevian

| PROFESSION |

Inquisitorial Acolyte

| AGE |

22 Standard Years

| SKILLS |

• Mind Reading - Markus can listen in to the surface thoughts of anyone he concentrates on. He can acurrately detect lies and read the intentions of non-psykers.
• Sense Presence - Markus can percieve the life forces around him, allowing him to tell their location and health status, pending distance and interference. With concentration and familiarity, he can use this ability to help track a specific individual.
• Warp Sensitive - Any recent use of psychic power or weakness in the materium stands out to Markus. He can tell if psychic abilities are being used nearby and if another person is also a psyker.
• Precognition - Markus has the gift of being able to glimpse a ways into the immediate future. Sometimes he gets a flash of warning right in the nick of time, allowing him to dodge things no one else would have been able to. This ability has also improved his aim when using his laspistol, as he can sometimes see where the enemy will move to. Drawing on more power, and with effort, he can attempt to look deeper into the future, but things get fuzzier the farther out they are.
• Far Sight - This is the ability to transfer consciousness and awareness to another location, up to several kilometers away.
• Personal Augury - Use of the Emperor's Tarot and the ability to do psychic readings for people.
• Soul Sight - Allows detection of a person's spiritual shadow in the warp, ie their aura. Markus can detect strong emotions easily and judge an individuals strength of will.
• Limited Telekinesis - Can lift and move objects, pending how much willpower he can put into it. Can do telekinetic shields.
• Limited Healing - Although draining, Markus can stop bleeding and knit freshly wounded flesh back together. He cannot remove bullets or heal burned flesh.
• Suggestion - A minor influence on a person's inclinations.
• Forget Me - With little effort, Markus can mentally affect others around him who are not particularly paying attention, causing them not to notice or remember seeing him. This allows him to move as if invisible even through crowds.
• Resistance - Markus can use his power to resist other psykers' affects on him.

| FLAWS |

• Warp Perils - Sometimes, weird things just happen around Markus. A glass might break, there could be a weird sound, a chill runs up your spine... Don't worry. He's trained enough that nothing 'bad' should happen.
• Not a Fighter - Although he's been through undoubtedly harsh mental training, Markus has relatively poor martial skills. Aside from guns, he's kinda helpless.
• Youth - Markus' understanding of the universe is limited to what he's been taught. He's often a subordinate due to his naivete. There is much he has yet to learn.
• Beaten Down - Markus has problems challenging authority. He is owned and controlled by his masters on a mental and emotional level. Perfectly obedient, he is the tool he was crafted to be. Very loyal.
• Abomination - Sure he's useful to the Imperium, but he's really a degenerate mutant who should burned out to fuel the Astronomicon. Markus has a low sense of self worth knowing what he is.

| EQUIPMENT |

• Laspistol - As the name implies.
• Focus Staff - Helpful for controlling psychic energies.
• Inquisitorial Seal - Not a rosette, yet important for identifying himself when necessary.

| BIOGRAPHY |

Only 12 years old, Markus was ostracized from his people on a feral world in the Segmentum Obscuris for having "witch blood" in his veins. He remembers desperately trying to regain acceptance, not understanding his crimes, but was quickly taken away by strangers in black. Unbeknowest to Markus, his home was a space marine recruiting world, watched intently by the Imperium. The Astra Telepathica was immediately notified. They had specific interest in psykers who manifested their abilities at such a young age. Markus never made Astartes Librarian, but he dodged execution and was admitted into the Scholastica Psycana, where he could be easily molded and put to good use.

During his education and training, Markus was made distinctly aware of his condition and why he had been a danger to his own people on his homeworld. Youthful and innocent, he swallowed everything they fed him, becoming greatly humbled and driven to make up for his sinful nature with devout service.

It was the quality of his psychic abilities that drew the Inquisition to him. What more could they have wanted in their perpetual hunt for heresy than a properly groomed and loyal mindreader? His other abilies would prove useful as well, if he could be trusted. They knew Markus would yet need a lot of work. He was grilled, tested, strained by interrogation, and passed, but only time would tell if he truly believed in the cause of such righteous duty.

[Marshall]

Octavian the Patrolman

| NAME |

Octavian

| PROFESSION |

Ferrum Imperial Patrolman

| AGE |

23

| SKILLS |

• Marksmanship - Intense training in markmanship helps boost the survivability of the Patrol.
• Weapons Handling - Patrolmen are trained to fight with anything they can get their hands on, be it a knife or a Melta-Gun.
• Guerrilla Tactics - "The Imperium cares not how a victory is obtained as long as it is done so quickly."
• Psychic Blank - Octavian is immune to the warp and those standing near him are also immune.

| FLAWS |

• Survivalist - Octavian is sometimes called a coward for using ambush tactics or explosive traps.
• Nomadic - Generations of yearly migration has made every human on Ferrum pretty restless compared to others.
• Psychic Blank - Octavian grew up believing that he was disliked by everyone. He didn't realize why until the Inquisition found him.

| EQUIPMENT |

• Primary - Silenced, Fires APHE, API or other normal rounds
  
  Ferrum-71 Pattern Autogun

  
• Secondary - Accatran Pattern Mark II Laspistol
• Melee - Fighting knife, Broadsword
• Armor - Camo-Cloak over Green/Black Flak Armor
• Miscellaneous -
  
  • Basic Medical Kit
  • Gas Mask
  • Entrenching Tool
  • Auspex
  • 3 Krak Grenades, 3 Snare Mines and 3 Demo Charges

| BIOGRAPHY |

Ferrum History

When colonists first arrived on Ferrum, they soon discovered that a Terran year of daylight followed by a year of night wasn't a terribly appealing prospect. Soon after the decision to migrate was made. After years of difficulty, eventually a two city world formed. Almost everyone on the planet would migrate between the two cities before nightfall in order to stay in the light. However, in one of these cities, heresy was brewing. Rouge traders and even Xeno scum would inhabit the city during the year of night. Over time more and more people would begin to be swayed by their influence and stay in the city for the night. When the people inevitably found out about this secret, they sought to punish the wicked. Before they could finish destroying the scum, an Inquistor arrived. After discovering that the Imperial Guard and PDF were already destroying the scum in the name of the Imperium, the Inquisitor graciously spared the innocent and only wiped out half of the planet with nuclear fire. After the dust settled and things warmed up again, the Governor sent some militants into the wastes to insure there would be no evidence of heresy left on Ferrum. After discovering signs of mutants, the Governor decided on a whim to send in a unit of Guardsmen to mop up. After six Terran months, the Guard returned, they were hardened and seemed to be far more perceptive than when they left and yet they had failed. Mutants were still roaming the wastes and thus began the tradition of the Patrol. Soldiers who went out into the wastes and returned achieved something of a heroic status. A mix of propaganda and the promise of greatness allowed Ferrum to achieve a force of all volunteers.

Short Backstory

Octavian was born on Ferrum and raised with the stories of the Patrol and their deeds. When he was 12 he joined the Imperial Youth Brigade which trained young people in survival and basic combat. At 16 he joined the PDF and after training he served up until his 18th birthday. When it arrived he began his patrol that would last for twice the normal length. Almost immediately after being dropped deep inside the wastes, he lost the single most important item to him, his compass. For a Terran year he fought and survived the harshness of the wastes until he finally managed to make it out. In recognition of his miraculous survival and exceptional fortitude, he was given the honorary title of "Long Patrolman". After a year of serving in the Imperial Guard units attached to Ferrum, he was transferred to the Ferrum Imperial Patrol. Soldiers in the Patrol were often called Rangers or Scouts but neither is quite right. The Patrol fights to win not to show how big their balls are, although they are quite large. Ferrum's production is almost solely devoted to producing the Ferrum-71 Autogun that is issued to members of the patrol. Which is the only rifle that has the capability needed by Patrolmen out in the wide Galaxy.

Being Requisitioned

Octavian had served in countless conflicts already by the time he first came in close contact with a Psyker. After a moment the Psyker realized that he was a Blank and jumped back in disgust. He was arrested just before being requisitioned by the Inquisitor. Octavian hates being away from the Patrol but he knows that the Inquisition serves a greater purpose. He is ready to do whatever is asked of him, be it reconnaissance or assassination.

[DepressedSoviet]

Dr. Tekart Rumnaheim

| NAME |

Dr. Tekart Rumnaheim, M.D.

| PROFESSION |

Officio Medicae Doctor/Researcher

| AGE |

44 Terran Years

| SKILLS |

• Expert at disease treatment and sophisticated medical procedures - Tekart is both a skilled hospital physician and field doctor, able to perform well medically even under fire.
• Vast, encyclopedic medical knowledge - Tekart, in his years as a doctor and field researcher, has gathered and learned much knowledge on medical ailments, diseases, and treatments for almost all of them, supplemented by his data-slate and diagnosticator.

| FLAWS |

• Inept at combat - Tekart is horrible in terms of actually fighting, often shaking, trembling, and shooting wildly with his weapon. He's much more suited to helping the injured in a battle than actually fighting an opponent

| EQUIPMENT |

• Medikit - Contains a Diagnosticator regularly updated with lists of every known ailment, how to identify said ailments, and recommended treatments, and an assortment of drugs, chems, and other medical items used for treatment and field surgery.
• Stub Revolver - Tekart carries a stub revolver for personal defense.
• Data-Slate - Tekart carries a sophisticated data-slate documenting his life's work in terms of medical research and study.

| BIOGRAPHY |

Tekart has spent his life within the Officio Medicae, acting as anything from a clinical doctor, to a humanitarian field doctor, to a lab researcher, to a field experimenter. He's seen warzones, plague-worlds, impoverished hiveworld undercities, and even spent 4 days on Catachan helping ensure the now-immune Catachan natives weren't carrying any transmittable diseases as they left to serve the Guard. But by far the highlight of Tekart's career, and what put him on the inquisitorial map, was when he managed to develop a successful treatment for a disease that turned out to be a minor Nurgle plague. It was by no means a permanent cure, but it was enough to garner a mix of suspicion and interest from the Inquisition, which resulted in Tekart being 'convinced' to lend his support to the Inquisition.

[Opposition]

Syla Selulata

| NAME |

Syla Selulata

| PROFESSION |

Adeptus Mechanicus Enginseer

| AGE |

22

| SKILLS |

• Machine Lore - As a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Syla has a very intimate knowledge of all things mechanical. She has learned how to work with machine spirits and is familiar with a vast majority of the Imperium’s technology.
• Cybernetically Enhanced - Due to the numerous implants given to her by the Adeptus Mechanicus, Syla has gained a few unique abilities stemming from her Mechanicus Implants, cybernetic limbs, and Mechadendrite Harness.

| FLAWS |

• Greed - Syla often times can’t help but satiate her wishes to expand her retinue of technology. The overt fascination with machines bred into her by the Adeptus Mechanicus has led to theft and endangerment on more than one occasion.
• Inexperienced - Due to her upbringing, Syla has spent very little time outside of the grasp of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Working her way up to the position of Enginseer has been a long and arduous journey, and it has left her with no experience in high stakes combat situations.
• Undying Curiosity - Above all other things in life is Syla’s search for explored technology. This, rather unfortunately, has extended to forbidden technology as well. The threat of heresy always lingers in Syla’s head.

| EQUIPMENT |

• Armor & Weapons
  
  • Mechanicus Implants - Being a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Syla was granted a host of implants common to Techpriests. Most of these implants provide framework for other cybernetics to build off of.
  • Cybernetic Arms - Syla has replaced both of her arms with bionic counterparts crafted by the Adeptus Mechanicus.
  • Mechadendrite Harness - Bestowed to Syla on her promotion to Enginseer, her Mechadendrite Harness mounts a host of different Mechadendrites.
  • Mechanicus Mask - The common face mask of the Cult Mechanicus' infantry and Skitarii soldiers. It keeps air filtered and enhances the vision of its wearer.
  • Flechette Blaster - Syla’s weapon of choice.
• Miscellaneous
  
  • Dataslate - Syla’s personal store of any bit of knowledge she would ever need.
  • Combitool - Built into the concealed compartment in Syla’s right cybernetic arm, the variety of probes, hooks, and other tools are commonly used when she is attempting to repair machines.

| BIOGRAPHY |

Raised upon the greatest Forge World in the Imperium, Syla was brought up amongst the masses. Her parents worked for the controlling faction of Mars: the Adeptus Mechanicus as rather low ranking menials. This was to be her life as well, and Syla was content to live out just as her progenitors. It wasn’t until a major accident within a factory that the girl’s fate changed. Losing an arm whilst working, Syla was granted a cybernetic limb to allow her work to carry on. After this procedure, Syla’s whole world was changed. After regaining her physical capabilities, an innate curiosity awakened within her. She wanted more. She wanted to become something more than human. As soon as she could afford to, Syla began production of her own cybernetic limb to upgrade her current arm and replace the other.

It was only then, when Syla’s constant seeking for new schematics and knowledge of cybernetics that the Adeptus Mechanicus had taken notice and indoctrinated her as they did her parents so long ago. She swiftly surpassed the rank of Menial and moved on to Lexmechanic, the rank in which she spent the least amount of time. Syla was soon after promoted to Transmechanic due to the heavy need of communications experts for an outgoing Navy fleet. where she spent a great deal of her life. After her first promotion, Syla was tasked with leaving Mars and working with the Imperium on Terra. She found herself only years later becoming a Transmechanic and being shipped off onto an Imperial Navy ship, maintaining communications in the battlefleet. Throughout it all, her love of working with machines never stopped. During down time, Syla would assist Imperium mechanics when they found themselves at a loss and no Enginseers were around.

This unrelenting work ethic paid off when Syla's ship saw its first devastating combat encounter with the forces of Chaos. Syla's unit was massacred, leaving the very few survivors scarred by the evil forces they had witness cut down their closest friends. Being one of the remaining survivors, Syla was the most suitable (and only) living members of the Adeptus Mechanicus able to take the place of the unit's fallen Enginseer, and having spent most of her career with the Imperial men coupled with Syla's knack for machines and intense work, she was the most suitable candidate aboard the ship. Thus began her career in the lowest branch of the Cult Mechanicus. This promotion coupled with the special encounter with the forces of Chaos also made her a target for working with the Inquisition. Having a firsthand experience with the combating of heresy, the Inquisition requested the Adeptus Mechanicus allow the Tech Priest to work instead with the Imperium as she had for so long. The occurrence of Cult Mechanicus members working with the Inquisition was anomalous, but not unheard of, and since Syla was nothing more than an Enginseer, the Machine Cult obliged. Now coveting the equipment of the fallen Enginseer, Syla readied herself for the Inquisition's trials.

[Xenonia]

Saul Quintus

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| NAME |

Saul Quintus

| PROFESSION |

Ministorum Preacher, Devoted Redemptionist, and Torchbearer

| AGE |

32

| SKILLS |

• Unfailing Devotion - Saul's faith in the God-Emperor is nothing short of fanatical, and any doubt he may have had in the light and truth of the Imperium of Man has been cast out long ago.
• Rousing Orator - Given the natural inclination towards rousing, fiery speeches and sermons that all Ministorum preachers have, it is not surprising that Saul is quite eloquent, if a bit venomous in his tirades.
• Rugged Survivalist - With his time spent in the lawless fringes of the Koronus Expanse, Saul has learned to keep himself alive in the direst situations through both his faith and his wit.

| FLAWS |

• Intolerant Zealot - Faith and bigotry go hand in hand in the Ecclesiarchy, especially amongst the zealots of the Redemptionist philosophy, and Saul is no exception. His hatred of the mutant, the alien, and especially the witch far outstrip those of the average citizen.
• Blinded by Faith - The other side of the unwavering belief Saul has in the God Emperor is his inability to recognize situations where he is outmatched, thoroughly convinced that no matter the odds, the God Emperor will provide. Of course, this is not always the case, and in fact is an incredibly dangerous mindset to have.
• Paranoid and Pure - Saul is convinced that the defilement of one's body, be it through chems, bionics, or mutation, is an affront to the perfect form that the God Emperor embodies and presents to all his faithful. The Cult Mechanicus disgusts him, though he for the most part reserves his scorn for those 'unsanctioned': The citizenry who need bionics to survive, and worst of all, Hereteks.

| EQUIPMENT |

• Rosarius - The badge of office for the high-ranking Ecclesiarch, Saul came into possession of one of these rare artifacts during his time preparing to journey into the Expanse, and made heavy use of it to convince superstitious tribes and ignorant savages of the divinity of the God Emperor.
• Drusus-Pattern Chainsword - Like most servants of the Ministorum born in the Calixis Sector, Saul was raised to venerate the noble Saint Drusus, and uses one of the holy-patterned chainswords modeled after the Saint's own as his melee weapon of choice.
• Perdition-Pattern Hand Flamer - Very much like the standard Hand Flamer known and used throughout the galaxy, the Perdition-Pattern features few adjustments, primarily aesthetic design changes to represent belonging to a particularly devout servant of the God-Emperor, as well as using slight chemical saturation of it's standard promethium to produce a much brighter flame.
• Ecclesiarchy Robes - The standard outfit of the priest on the front lines or in the wilderness, lightly armored to protect against the most basic and primitive of threats, such as sling-bullets or sharpened sticks.
• Omnibus of Assembled Catechisms, Litanies, and Prayers - A collection of situational prayers, devotions, and speeches for any number of daily or esoteric tasks, assembled and transcribed by Saul himself.

| BIOGRAPHY |

Saul was born on the holy Shrine World of Sentinel, raised amongst pilgrims and devotees of Saint Drusus, the patron saint of the Calixis Sector. From a young age, Saul displayed an intense interest in the teachings of the Imperial Faith, And by the time he was old enough to read and write, he was a fanatic in the making, devouring sermons with unrestrained intellectual fervor, and memorizing litanies and prayers the way most children would memorize nursery rhymes. Where many of his peers spent their days engaged in sporting matches or other such games, Saul spent his time conversing with and learning from the itinerant preachers that came and went on their pilgrimages to the world. Indeed, from such a young age, it was clear that the boy's future was with the Ecclesiarchy.

By the time he had reached age 16, Saul was already a well-known orator amongst the uninitiated citizens of Sentinel, preaching with a fire and conviction that turned many a grudging, despondent soul into a devout believer of the God Emperor's glory once more. He had become a well-established figure of the local Ministorum, a pillar of piety and strength in the ranks of the Emperor's flock, undaunted by doubt and devoid of any signs of heretical thought. Still, for all the passion he was able to stir up in the citizenry of the Shrine World, he was certain he could make a greater difference for the God-Emperor's cause.

It was in this way that Saul decided to become a Torchbearer, one of the Ecclesiarchy missionaries who spent their lives bringing the heathen worlds scattered throughout the neighboring Koronus Expanse back to the fold of the Imperium, and the light of the God-Emperor. At age 20, he departed Sentinel for the unknown regions beyond Port Wander, to act as a beacon to the unenlightened. For ten years, Saul was alone (excluding the occasional Rogue Trader visit) on the world of Parg, cut off from the Imperium and surrounded by kingdoms of feuding, barbaric warlords. Though it was difficult to establish a foothold of the faith, Saul managed to do just that through judicious use of his hand flamer, the fiery wrath he was able to call down upon the unfaithful serving as proof of the God-Emperor's might. In this way, he managed to convert the majority of the population to a fittingly violent variation of the Imperial Faith, allowing the natives to interpret the Emperor as a pillar of strength and fury, able to smite them with mere thoughts should they ever doubt his power.

His work in the Expanse was not as unnoticed as he thought it might be. Ten years into his grueling and thankless mission, he found himself visited by a political agent of the Imperium unlike the standard Rogue Traders. Indeed, it was an agent of the Inquisition, rather taken by Saul's unwavering belief in the God-Emperor, and ruthless pursuit of those who would doubt him. Before he knew it, a garrison of Ministorum priests was placed on Parg, and he was taken to be inducted into the position of Inquisitorial Acolyte, to fight the enemy Within as fervently as he fought the enemy Without.

[Asura]

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