[@shylarah]
Honestly, the way I envisioned it was that Inquisitors are pretty damned powerful, even the young recently ordained ones like us. If a squad of 7 inquisitors were to go up against a squad of 50 regular soldiers, we'd win easily. The military, or at least the Varyan military, are a colossal but largely conscripted force, revolving more around numbers than might. Their tanks are pretty powerful (even though they're mostly churned out of factories) but I think any of us would be able to take one down if we worked together. I suppose if the tank pilot was an ace who had been operating it for twenty years they'd be able to make a decent fight out of it, but yeah. 

And no, tanks don't have their own individual aegis. Remember, an aegis is not a device or machine, but a magic shield that's upheld by a Protector (it can be large enough to encompass over a hundred soldiers shoulder-to-shoulder). During the war against Lanostre, where huge armies went up against each other, separate Varyan divisions each had multiple Protectors in their ranks to uphold larger-than-usual aegis shields.

 As for her power I was just picturing her casting a small explosion near the tank's vicinity, powerful enough to act like a grenade or something of the sort. Wasn't really thinking of her specifically targeting the tank's engine or anything. Basically, I think you overcomplicated what I meant a bit :p

 So, just as precursor to my next point, I'm going to include this next bit inc ase it wasn't properly explained before: An inquisitor can use their [i]own[/i] ether to power their magic, but doing so would be incredibly dangerous, since that's akin to like, fueling a flamethrower with two quarts of your own blood. Exhausting one's own ether is one sure way to leave yourself vulnerable in battle (it makes you pitifully weak and leaves you in a near comatose state), and that's something that the Seminary trains you not to do. Because of this, we all use vials of Omestrian ether that act as separate charges to power our magic. These individual ether vials are deposited into our catalysts (the devices we use to cast spells), and are then used up. So, for example, one ether blast would drain you of one ether vial, and you carry three of them on your person at all times, so you'd have five "spells" at your disposal per mission. If you really had to, you could dip into your own individual well of ether if it was some kind of life or death situation, but as mentioned above, it'd be really foolish and everyone would yell at you for it :p. 

 Now, Ziotea's ether drain ability. I think I misread this last time and wasn't able to give you a proper critique. I think this could be a cool secondary power, but I feel like it'd make most sense if she was only able to use her own ether pool to drain other sources, since that's the ether that she actually has control of, not someone else's ether that's sitting in a vial or something. Also, she wouldn't be able to add it to her own ether pool unless it was of the same compatible type (we'll have to come up with separate ether 'blood types" at some point). Now, this power in particular, would start off incredibly weak, and wouldn't even be worth using at first, since she'd be putting herself at a disadvantage whenever she used it. Eventually though, the cost to use this power will become less and less, and she'd be able to use a minuscule amount of her own ether to draw larger amounts. Does that make sense? This explanation was a bit wordy, but let me know if any of it was unclear.

 I'm perfectly cool with her third ability, as long as you manage it correctly. :)

 So yeah, as Sisyphus mentioned, inquisitors are basically the most powerful soldiers in the empire. There are only a scant few non-inquisitor soldiers who would stand a chance against us, and even those aren't exactly normal themselves. So yeah, when it comes to fighting other more experienced Inquisitors, we would easily be overmatched and would require strategy, cunning and luck to win let alone survive. That isn't even counting whoever we're going to fight in El, as that place and its military are a completely mystery. Demons aren't exactly easy to kill either, as they have their own defenses and quirks to deal with.