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'''Erekart Veneris Sanguian Sanguinan Mesring'''{{Cite ThisFn|7}} was [[Ecclesiarch]] of the [[Adeptus Ministorum]] in mid-[[M32]] during the [[War of the Beast]]. Hailing from the powerful shipping family of House Mesring, Mesring voted in favor of his family's financial interests as opposed to that of humanity's in the [[Senatorum Imperialis]]. This included voting against expanding shipyards on [[Uranus]] despite their safety in order to protect House Mesring's holdings in the [[Tang Sector]]. Mesring was a close ally of the powerful [[Lord High Admiral of the Imperial Navy]] [[Lansung]], forming his most important ally among the High Lords alongside [[Master of the Administratum]] [[Tobris Ekharth]].{{Fn|1}}
Mesring was highly elitist, slapping subordinates with his obese hand even for looking at his jewelry. However this could not save him from the [[Grand Master of Assassins]] [[Drakan Vangorich]], who infiltrated the [[Ecclesiarchal Palace ]] and poisoned him. Vangorich instructed Mesring that he only had 3 days to live, and if he wanted the antidote he would declare a [[War of Faith]] against [[The Beast]] and force Lansung to redeploy his fleets against the Greenskins.{{Fn|2}} After Mesring accomplished this, he is still seen alive several weeks later, which was apparently due to somehow acquiring his own antidote as Vangorich intended for him to die.{{Fn|33b}}
Following the appearance of an Ork [[Attack Moon]] over Terra and the fall of Lansung from grace, Mesring aligned with the newly ascendant [[Speaker for the Chartist Captains]] [[Juskina Tull]]. The Ecclesiarch supported the Speaker's disastrous [[Proletarian Crusade]], providing vital vocal support and blessing the operation.{{Fn|3a}} Mesring fell into a deep depression after the operations failure and revealed that he had only acquired enough antidote from [[Wienand]] for 25 days. The poisoning shattered his faith in the God-Emperor, seeing Him as enfeebled, and he secretly began praying to [[the Beast]] for his show of force.{{Fn|4}} A physically frail and disheveled Mesring later abandoned [[Lord Commander of the Imperium]] [[Udin Macht Udo]] when he was overthrown by [[Koorland]] and the [[Inquisition]].{{Fn|5}}
*{{Endn|1}}: [[I Am Slaughter (Novel)]] Chapter 9
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Predator, Prey (Novel)]] Chapter 7
*{{Endn|3}}: [[The Last Wall (Novel)]] Chapter 5
**{{Endn|3a}}: Chapter 13
**{{Endn|3b}}: Chapter 5
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Throneworld (Novel)]] Chapter 21
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Echoes of the Long War (Novel)]] Chapter 18
