Distaff

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The Distaff was an organization of psychic blanks, created and utilised by Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn when hunting rogue psykers, because of their unique abilities.^[1a]

Psychic blanks, also known as anti-psykers, are people with an extremely rare mutation that causes them, and everything in their vicinity, to be invisible in the alternate dimension of the warp. Consequently, they are immune to all forms of psychic attack, as well as shielding those around them. The leader of the distaff was Alizebeth Bequin. As of 337.M41, the Distaff numbered around forty members, trained and managed by Bequin.^[1a]

The Distaff were instrumental in the defeat of the renegade Inquisitor Quixos in the battle of Farness Beta. Quixos, having collected a large quantity of psykers during the Thracian Atrocity, was deemed to be in a location of psychic strength, until the Distaff neutralised the psykers' ability to attack Eisenhorn's troops.^[1x]

The organization was later headquartered on the Imperial world Messina, but they were targeted^[2a] by the Heretic Pontius Glaw^[2b] circa 396.M41. Vessorine Janissaries^[2a] Mercenary bands^[2c] would then attack the Distaff^[2a] as part of Glaw's plot to kill Inquisitor Eisenhorn and destroy his network of contacts.^[2b] The organization was essentially wiped out in the attack, although off-shoot elements of the Distaff are rumored to have survived beyond this date.^[2a]

Sources

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• 1: Malleus (Novel) — Eisenhorn (Novel Series) by Dan Abnett
  • 1a: Chapter One, pg. 276
  • 1x: ^{[Needs Citation]}
• 2: The Inquisition (Background Book)
  • 2a: pg. 27 - Distaff
  • 2b: pg. 42 - Pontius Glaw
  • 2c: pg. 91 - Vessor