Name: Battle-Sister Lisbeth Dominicia

Gender: Female

Role/Order: Militant, Order of our Thrice-Pierced Martyr

Personal Demeanour: Above all else, Lisbeth is an embodiment of the inner peace that comes from a life spent in His service. She can almost always be found with a quiet smile, satisfied with the knowledge that her God-Emperor is near. In the presence of her sisters or the ranks of the faithful, Lisbeth is warm, eager to share her love of the Emperor and always willing to help those in need. Unfortunately, her earnestness sometimes overreaches her abilities, and she has yet to realise that there are times when the most helpful thing she can do is to shut up and mind her own business.

Away from the company of other people, Sister Lisbeth bears a much darker manner. She is constantly haunted by the fear of failing Him, paralysed by a sense of responsibility for the souls of Mankind. Her chaplet ecclesiasticus rattles loudly with each step, because each night is spent in contemplation of her failure to bring the Imperial Creed to as many people as possible, no matter how her day has been spent; there is always something Lisbeth can decide she must atone for.

Fortunately, Battle-Sister Dominicia is never alone - her connection to the Emperor extends beyond the purely spiritual attachment all right-thinking humans feel. Lisbeth believes that the voices she hears in her head are the direct manifestation of the God-Emperor, and their presence gives her solace amidst all the guilt. It is by their instruction that she commits acts of ritual penance, and it is by their presence that she knows that she is beloved of the God-Emperor.

Speciality: Lisbeth has spent all of her adult life in service of the Emperor; since she was old enough to strip a boltgun, she was been preparing to defend the Order and the Emperor's faithul children in the Librae sector. There is no firearm she is not trained in, from the humble bolt pistol to the holy multi-melta, but above all others Lisbeth is most comfortable in doing His service with her boltgun.

Rank: Battle-Sister

Description: Battle-Sister Lisbeth Dominicia was originally extracted from a hive on Artaxerxes Epsilon, a vastly overpopulated world overrun with disease, famine and pollution. As such, when she was admitted to the Scholae Progenium, she was one of the scrawniest, stringiest progenia, and even amongst the stringently-regulated environment within the Scholae's walls, there was time for the other progenia to bully and trash the smallest and weakest students. 

Lisbeth found two sources of solace; the Imperial Creed, and physical training. While she remains a short woman, her dedication to disciplined training means that she has a broad, muscular body, with little fat, and despite her small stature she holds herself with a confident, bold air, secure that her regimen and her faith in the God-Emperor of Mankind can carry her through any trials.

Sister Dominicia is rarely seen without a smile; she has a kind heart, and while the discipline of the Order of Our Thrice-Pierced Martyr is fierce, it has not been able to quash the quiet joy she finds in serving the God-Emperor. Her eyes are a light gray, and she wears her ginger hair in a short ponytail. She has been fortunate enough to avoid scarring so far, and the only distinguishing mark is a large fleur-de-lis tattoo, about the size of a child's hand, centred around her left eye.

History: After the chemical and psychological scrubbing of her earliest memories, Lisbeth has no recollection of her early childhood. Her parents were both low-ranking officers in the Astra Militarum, lost with the destruction of their regiment on the eastern fringe. From her first introduction into the Scholae Progenium, Lisbeth took quickly to the scripture and lessons of the Ecclesiarchy's representatives. The stories of how the Emperor sacrificed unimaginable amounts for His children captivated her, and the parables of how the God-Emperor directs Mankind to their inevitable destiny as rulers of all by His side were accepted, word-for-word, verbatim. 

When she was old enough to leave the Scholae, there was no question of Lisbeth going anywhere but the Ecclesiarchy. The Order of our Thrice-Pierced Martyr was a natural home for Lisbeth, a life dedicated to serving the Emperor through protection of pilgrims and the holy artifacts left by the Emperor's time amongst mortals. Guided by the voice of the God-Emperor which had been with her since her earliest remembered days, she took to the regimented routine of prayer and penance, with rare excursions out of the convent itself to ensure the security of the faithful and spread His word.

For some seven years now, Lisbeth has made efforts to repent all of Man's sins in the face of the Emperor, be they the grand Apostasy of Goge Vandire, or the common acts of mistrust in His divine will that permeate the lives of the laypeople, while preparing herself for battle in His name. 

Equipment and Armament: 

-Godwyn-De'az Patter Bolter with Sarissa - Lisbeth's bolter, [i]Permanance[/i], is always set with a sarissa affixed; Lisbeth does not often stay hunkered down behind a single piece of cover for long. The Emperor's fury does not wait for the faithless to come, and so neither should His servants. Wherever possible, Lisbeth prefers to engage in close with the foe, and deliver vengeance up-close, where the heretic might better see their absolution as it impales them. In the field, the spikes of the sarissa also act as a tool for bodily penance through flagellation.

-Sororitas Power Armour - Sister Dominicia goes into battle without a helmet, as she believes her faith in the Emperor is protection enough. The black carapace is covered in scripture, carefully engraved into the surface of the armour and filled in with white, so that it might be better seen and read by the faithful as they march into battle alongside her, inspiring them on to greater feats of bravery in His name.

-Chaplet Eccelesiasticus - Rattling loudly with each step, Lisbeth's chaplet ecclesiasticus bears exactly eight hundred and thirty-three beads, each one representing ten acts of penance, wrapping several times around her waist.

-Frag grenades - As part of her dedication to close combat, Lisbeth echews the standard krak grenades, instead choosing to employ a larger compliment than usual of frag grenades, in order to force her foe out of their hiding holes and into the Emperor's light.