Name: Confessor Horacio (with the c pronounced as a "sh") Mazzini 

Age: late 50s/early 60s, he prefers not to dwell on it. 

Gender: male

Role/Order: Priest/Preacher

Personal Demeanour: He is incredibly rambunctious for a Confessor, chins jiggling with laughter as he goes through swathes of enemies with fire or Imperial Citizens with hymns. Still, when isolated and alone or in an extremely grim or grave situation he will quiet down and do his duty with the utmost of concentration. He has a particular hate for spies traitors and liars, despising even those who show some insincerity in jokes or such. This hate was born from dealing with the genestealer cults on the hive-world he was assigned to, making him utterly despise any sort of intrigue and secrecy. For that reason, he particularly adores the "confession" aspect of his profession, since it allows him to ascertain one of the most important things to him: the truth. For these reasons he unreasonably often recommends to more powerful members of the Adeptus Sororitas to force Sisters to become Repentias, or when assigned to the Guard he makes sure Commissars have absolutely no laxity. If however one does adhere to his (admittedly rigorous) views, then they will find a staunch, gentle ally and even friend in him. 

Speciality: Close quarters combat; not hand to hand but just outside of that, in shotgun and side-arm range where he can best describe his enemy in his denouncement of them and aim his firearms properly, but not forced in to a melee where his age and inexperience with it will put him at a disadvantage. 

Rank: Confessor. 

Description: About 5'11 and quite rotund, he is an aged but spirirtful member of the Eclessiarchy having thick white mutton-chops and side-burns, but a head shaved clean. He has a stubby mangled nose that would have been much longer and pointier if it had not been damaged. His features are not particularly strong nor weak, although with age some flabby skin along with fat makes it hard to guess his bones' more or less average proportions. 

History: 

Born in a miscellaneous shrine world in Segmentum solar, Horacio was an extremely faithful lad, with parents who were of the same variety. His parents however were just a little maniacal in their faith (more than the usual for shrine worlders) and thus died upon one of their fasts when he was quite young. The lad was but six and had trouble accepting and comprehending what happened, but this was taken care of for him by the Schola Progenium. In the Schola Progenium the drill abbot made an undying faith even more firm, and eventually Horacio was transferred to the Eclessiarchy in his late teens to finish his education to become a Preacher. 

When finished his education in the Eclessiarchy he was sent to Preach upon a hive world full of unrest alongside a Confessor sent there. He was quite young at the time so he had trouble connecting to the various people, and was quite stumped when many even ridiculed his sermons and he was thus forced to call the Arbites to clear out the spires. On one fateful night however, the Confessor was murdered and the civilian populace got only more violent entering near full rebellion. The young Priest was quite surprised when he was elevated to the position of Confessor by recommendation of the planetary governor, but he took the job and tried to do his best with it. He preached and fought, until the PDF and other forces began to notice that all the rebel elements looked alike, and some seemed to be mutated. It was but a week later that they realized a genestealer a cult was present, and the governor was one of them. It was the precise reason he recommended such a young and inexperienced Priest to become Confessor. Still, he fought tooth and nail now that the time to prove himself had come. They called for help from every nearby force and the message was always "hold out a little longer," and it kept coming until only one loyal hive spire remained loyal. By the time help had arrived, the planet was beyond redemption and a vortex missile was dropped down after Horacio and the mere dozen of survivors were taken evacuated. 

The Priest now Confessor had come out much more experienced and learned from it all, but that was that. After that he roamed the stars preaching until he finally was attached to a convent of the Adeptus Sororitas. He was overjoyed to be with them. Finally there was a group whose faith was so incandescent, finally he met some people who knew all about the Imperial Cult and were not simultaneously looking down upon him for being of a lower rank. He preached, and had a good time thanks to an eager audience but he recently was called upon by an Inquisitor to help fight the enemies of man. Seeing it as another chance to prove himself, he agreed and now goes with the Undying Master's Holy Inquisition. 


Equipment and Armament: Rosarius field, Blackhammer shotgun, Ceres pattern bolt pistol, power maul, carapace armour.  

Miscellaneous: most youngits probably haven't watched it but think of him as an older version of Captain Mainwaring from Dad's Army.