Everybody loves to hate Inquisitors. They have free rein to protect the Imperium using any means necessary, but some of them really seem to enjoy the more unsavoury aspects of their role.
With an awesome-looking episode of Hammer and Bolter focusing on an Inquisitor and his retinue coming soon, now is a great time to reacquaint yourself with a few of these super-sketchy saviours. Astute readers will remember that we’ve already covered one of the most famous Inquisitors of all, Gregor Eisenhorn, the antihero of the Eisenhorn trilogy, so let’s check out a few others.
Inquisitor Karamazov
Sitting atop the massive Throne of Judgment, Inquisitor Karamazov ruthlessly purges any who would seek to upset the delicate status quo of the Imperium of Mankind. And we do mean any.
Karamazov cemented his hard-hearted reputation when he cruelly tortured and burned a humble and charismatic preacher who had led a popular revolt to overthrow a corrupt cardinal, ignoring the protests of both the Ecclesiarchy and his fellow Inquisitors.
Inquisitor Quixos
The legendary Inquisitor Eisenhorn, along with a number of his colleagues, hunted the renegade Quixos to bring him to justice after a long and slow fall from grace.
Defiant to the last, Quixos claimed to be creating a new type of weapon that could seal the Eye of Terror forever. However, his fondness for daemonic henchmen and proscribed technologies meant that no other Inquisitor could possibly back him, no matter the truth of his claims. Read all about it in Dan Abnett’s Eisenhorn trilogy.
Inquisitor Darkhammer
The puritanical zeal of Inquisitor Emil Darkhammer inspires some of his peers and disgusts many others. But his detractors and champions both agree on one point: Darkhammer loves to use the rite of Exterminatus.
He’s said to have destroyed dozens of worlds, consigning many billions of innocent citizens and entire armies to oblivion, in order to eradicate what some see as only minor threats.
Inquisitor Rassilo
Adamara Rassilo brought a Drukhari Haemonculus to Holy Terra in an attempt to coerce it to repair the failing Golden Throne. Needless to say, this didn’t work out very well, and her plans were foiled by a member of the Adeptus Custodes and another inquisitor, Erasmus Crowl. Chris Wraight tells the story in the first part of his Vaults of Terra series, The Carrion Throne.
It’s safe to say that some Inquisitors can get a little carried away, wielding their almost limitless authority to deadly effect. Maybe it was a bad idea to trust them with so much power, after all. Surely, the Inquisitor in Hammer and Bolter will have learned from these bad examples, right? We’ll find out when Warhammer+ launches on the 25th of August. Until then, sign up to the Warhammer+ newsletter for all the latest on this essential upcoming Warhammer service.
