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{{InquisitionPortal}}'''{{PAGENAME}}Thadus Valconet Horst''' was an [[Inquisitor]] researching the [[Eye of Night]] and [[Hand of Darkness]] prior to the outbreak of the [[Gothic War]].{{fn|1}}
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==Biography==
'''{{PAGENAME}}Thadus Valconet Horst''' was an experienced [[Inquisitor]] by 139.[[M41]] when he began investigating the [[Gothic War#Buil-up to War|Arx Raid]]. He eventually became convinced that the forces of [[Chaos]] were planning a new [[Black Crusade]], heading towards the centre of Chaos activity in the [[Gothic Sector]]. Discovering that the mysterious artefact known as the [[Hand of Darkness]] had been stolen from [[Purgatory]], he attempted to recover its counterpart, the [[Eye of Night]], from [[Ornsworld]]. Again he was too late.{{fn|1}}
Horst began researching the Eye of Night and Hand of Darkness from the secret [[Inquisitorial Fortress]] under the Cathedral of [[Savaven]] to discover what the artefacts might do and how to find them. While much of his work was sent to [[Terra]], some of his later work was destroyed{{fn|2a}} along with the planet by [[Abaddon the Despoiler]]'s [[Planet Killer]] in 143.M41. Horst survived the attack and was involved in co-ordinating the [[Imperium|Imperial]] response with [[Lord Admiral]] [[Cornelius von Ravensburg]].{{fn|1}}
After the war, Horst disappeared investigating Abaddon and the [[Blackstone Fortress]]es.{{fn|1}} He eventually found the Eye of Night with the aid of Moriana, promising in exchange to kill the [[daemon]] that possessed it for failing to fulfil its own bargain with the seer. He was defeated, his body [[Daemonic Possession|possessed]], and so Horst projected his soul into the body of the [[Grey Knight]] [[Paladin (Grey Knights)|Paladin]] Belacus and teleported through the [[warp]] to a psychic beacon in the ruined fortress on Savaven.{{fn|2c}}
==Canon Conflict==
On page 95, the [[Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook]] states:
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook]], pgs. 92-10292–102
*2: [[Eye of Night (Audio Drama)]]
**{{Endn|2a}}: Part I
**{{Endn|2b}}: Part II
**{{Endn|2c}}: Part III
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Shadow Point (Novel)]], Part One, Chapter One, pgpgs. 13-1413–14
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