Orchaedes
Orchaedes is an Inquisitor with a deep entrenched hatred for Psykers. This hatred led him to denounce the precognitive abilities of the Ultramarines' Chief Librarian Tigurius as evidence of his forbidden pacts with the dark powers of the Warp and demand an audience with Chapter Master Calgar to discuss the issue. Their meeting took place in the Temple of Corrections on Macragge, where more than a hundred Ultramarines watched as Orchaedes spat forth his anti-Psyker rhetoric. He only stopped his rant, which scorned the good name of Tigurius and the honour of the Ultramarines, when Calgar's voice cut through his tirade like a peal of thunder and Captain Sicarius issued a challenge, in his role as the Chapter's Knight Champion, under the laws of trial by combat.[1]
For his part, Orchaedes had a champion of his own, and from within his personal army of Acolytes emerged the battle-class Chrono-gladiator known as Naogotha, who launched itself at Sicarius. Though the Chrono-gladiator was heavily armoured and pumped full of combat drugs, Sicarius left his Talassarian Tempest Blade sheathed and used only his fists to pummel Naogotha. Their battle finally ended hours later, when Naogotha's drugs ran out and the Chrono-gladiator fell dead. With Orchaedes's champion defeated, Sicarius told the Inquisitor to take his retinue and leave Ultramar. Orchaedes was undaunted by his defeat, however, and stood in front of the Captain as he shrilled his anti-Psyker beliefs and insulted both Tigurius and Sicarius. It was then that the Inquisitor made a nearly fatal mistake, as he reached into his belt and grabbed his archeotech pistol...[1]
In a blur, Sicarius lunged forward and swung the Tempest Blade up, in a savage arc that struck Orchaedes's hand off while it still clutched the pistol. As the Inquisitor's hand hit the ground, Sicarius looked at the Inquisitor's retinue, as some went to Orchaedes's aid while others grabbed their weapons. With a snarl, the Captain ordered them to leave, as one hundred Ultramarines raised their Bolters at the retinue and Lord Calgar stood from his throne. Quaking with fear, Orchaedes's retinue quickly left the Temple of Corrections and let the enraged Inquisitor's cries for justice and vengeance against the Ultramarines go unanswered.[1]
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- 1: Warlords of the Dark Millennium: Sicarius (Background Book) — The Knight Champion Of Macragge
