Orgustine Zola

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Orgustine Zola is a member of Inquisitor Grendyl's retinue, serving in a leadership role with the rank of Explicator. The Inquisitor is implied to have selected her personally as Explicator for his operations on Atoma Prime; she was given the rank due to her personal history and knowledge of Hive Tertium gained from growing up within the Hive City.

Overview

Orgustine Zola[2c]

She was born in the Torrent, a rundown slum of a district within Hive Tertium - a district the Administratum gave up on long ago, and whose enforcers have been paid off by the local Water Cartel. She has no love or allegiance to the Water Cartel that runs the district or those in power that had forsaken it. She "fought like Hel" escaping the Torrent, but still sees Hive Tertium as her home, flaws and all. She remains faithful in her dedication to protecting Tertium and in redeeming it from the heretics that now infest it. She sees the Inquisition as Atoma's last hope.[1]

History

Torrent

Zola grew up in the district HL-16-11, the Torrent, alongside her brother, Tibiron Zola. He would eventually be Tithed, called to serve the Emperor in the Imperial Guard. Having her brother taken away by the Tithesman greatly upset Orgustine, whom Tibiron fondly referred to as Stina.[3]

Zola would struggle without her brother's protection. She would have her cut from criminal jobs stolen from her by other gangers. One of these gangers was named Makko, who led a crew bullying Zola and stealing her dubious earnings. Not long after she would sneak into his hab, kill him in his sleep, and subsequently take over his crew. Sometime after, one of the gangers, Hellick, would comment on how much better things were after Zola started running things.[3]

Just like everyone else in the Torrent, criminal or otherwise, they answered to the Ragged King and he got a cut of everything. Eventually he would hear of Zola, who was making a name for herself in the criminal world and earned a place in the Ragged King's court. Her ability and ambition would be a cause for concern to the Ragged King and he plotted to remove her. She had ambitions to die rich.[3]

Iven Rannick would later arrive in Zola's hidden home, without warning, alerting her to this impending betrayal and offer her a place in the Inquisition as an informant, a Wyrmwood agent. She declined and threatened to kill Rannick if she saw him again. Before leaving Rannick provided her with a means to contact the Inquisition, a dataslate with vox freqs and call signs.[3]

The Ragged King placed a bounty on Zola and her crew's heads and tasked local Enforcers with killing them during a subsequent heist. The primary bounty would be Zola herself, wanted dead, and the Ragged King would only pay if they had the corpses to prove it. Two of her crew, Brask and Togger, died initially during the encounter and Hellick was gunned down when he and Zola attempted to get out. Sergeant Strokka and Enforcer Malka were two of the enforcers involved in the encounter. With no one to turn to and enemies, Zola who narrowly escaped death would make the call to the Inquisition as Wyrmwood.[3]

After three days she had still received no response. While contemplating her limited options Makko appeared in her home, having survived Zola's point-blank execution by las pistol. The Ragged King rebuilt Makko, at no small expense, with aid from his backers in the Hourglass. The Ragged King owned Makko. Now the Ragged King tasked him with killing Zola, a task he looked forward to greatly. Sergeant-Major Morrow would unexpectadly make an entrance, alongside the Ogryn Brunt, killing Makko and extracting Zola. They would fight their way through additional gangers sent by the Ragged King to reach the Inquisitorion's valkyrie evac.[3]

Inquisition

Now a member of the Inquisition, Initiate Zola got settled in on the ship and had time to be properly introduced to Morrow and Brunt. She would also begin using Inquisitorial resources to find out what happened to her tithed brother. The voidship would seemingly leave and return to Atoma. Zola was told by Rannick she would never have to see that world again, but circumstances had changed. Zola would take this opportunity to settle old scores, taking Brunt planetside to pay the Ragged King a visit. She would attempt to violently coerce the Ragged King into working as her informant, breaking his arm and threatening to bring down the Adeptus Arbites on him. This was far less discreet than what Rannick requested of Zola. Despite her brash and bold methods, her initiative opened up a new line of investigation, which Rannick reluctantly applauded.[3]

Sometime after, Zola and her Inquisitorial peers joined Lady Emora Brahms aboard her ship, the Mourningstar. Not long after their arrival, Rannick notified Zola that Grendyl was promoting her to Explicator. Rannick emphasised that she would be keeping an eye on her, as well as tasking her with getting on good terms with the Rogue Trader.[3]

Explicator

Rannick received word that an Adeptus Arbites exaction squad had a person of interest aboard the Tancred Bastion, an officer of the Moebian 6th, Captain Biron Wolfer. The timing of his resurfacing apparently being a coincidence. Rannick requested that Zola bring this prisoner to him to talk to and she left to do so immediately.[3]

After Wolfer's escape Zola began to press-gang hundreds of condemned criminals into Inquisitorial service, adding much-needed, and expendable, manpower to the warband. Grendyl approved all of this.[3] These convicts and other rabble would eventually be referred to as the warband's "Rejects".text-middle[Help]Magos Kharib would join the warband subsequently and confirm that the Tertium Blight is not natural and that Warp corruption is confirmed. Magos Kharib would recommend immediate Exterminatus, much to Zola's shock and distress. Rannick would calm her stating that destroying Atoma was not an option. Grendyl had invested too much time and effort in it, but the Blight would complicate the operation.[3]

Zola has a keen interest in the interrogation of Wolfer and his closest commanding lieutenants, Rodin and Rinda Karnak, if for no other reason than to find out why they betrayed the city that they all once called home. Like the rest of the Moebian 6th, Wolfer and the Karnak Twins were recruited from Hive Tertium. Zola sees their dedication to the betrayal and defilement of Hive Tertium as a "dark shadow" to her dedication to protect the city. So she has a personal obsession with hunting Wolfer and the Twins down and making them answer for their betrayal.[2a][2b]

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