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|align="center"|'''''We die, though our war is eternal,<br>We are doomed, but we walk in darkness,<br>We are forgotten, yet the future is our gift to humanity.''''
|align=center|[[Crucible (Short Story)]]
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|align="center"|[[Rubric of Protocol]],<br>by Inquisitor [[Crowe]],<br>Standard actions of interrogation as described
|align="center"|'''''Action I: Verbal interview without duress.'''''
'''''Action II: Verbal threat of and description of Actions that may follow.'''''
'''''Action III: Light physical torture.'''''
'''''Action IV: Light physical torture and psychological manipulation.'''''
'''''Action V: Sensory and physical deprivation.'''''
'''''Action VI: Psychic interrogation.'''''
'''''Action VII: Intensive psychic interrogation.'''''
'''''Action VIII: Use of psycho-chemical drugs.'''''
'''''Action IX: Classified.'''''
'''''(Exact details not described, but two days of Ninth Action would probably kill a subject.)''''
|align=center||align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 15
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|align="center"|Inscription upon Conclave chamber doors,<br>
[[Mare Cinis]], [[Suluk]]
|align="center"|'''''HERETICUS – FAITH IS MY SHIELD''''
''''MALLEUS – ZEAL IS MY SWORD''''
''''XENOS – HATE IS MY SPEAR''''
|align=center||align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 18
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|align=center|rowspan=2 [[Ksenia Baek]],<br>[[Inquisitor]],<br>[[Ordo Hereticus]]
|align=center|'''''Fear not, for the [[ward]]s I've placed upon your bones will preserve your soul even if the flesh is flensed from them by the horrors duty demands you face.'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 27
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|align=center|'''''Be saved, [[mutant]], filthy as you are. Even a wretch like you can earn salvation serving the God-Emperor’s Inquisition.'''''<br>- directed towards a [[psyker]]
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 68
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|align=center|[[Arbitrator General]] [[Bex van Sturm]]
|align=center|'''''Turning the weapons of the enemy against him is, of course, of grave danger to one’s soul. It is nonetheless a satisfying thing to see.'''''
|align=center| [[Dark Heresy: Daemon Hunter]],<br> pg. 66
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|align=center|[[CommissarCiaphas Cain]] ,<br>[[Ciaphas CainCommissar]]
|align=center|'''''I'm sure most of the men in the galaxy are familiar with the sinking feeling that accompanies the words "Do you think you could do me a little favour, darling?", but when the [[Amberley Vail|woman]] asking the question is an inquisitor it's even less wise than usual to say "No".'''''
|align=center|[[Duty Calls (Novel)]] - [[Ciaphas Cain: Defender of the Imperium (Omnibus)]],<br> ch. 6, pg. 303
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|align=center|[[Caspiel RexCarrhe]], <br>[[InquisitorSecond Voice of the Silent]],<br>[[Explicator]]|align=center|'''''This is It’s true that the Emperor’s planetstain of ruinous knowledge can weigh heavy on a woman, the Emperor’s Throne damn youbut upholding His word and law will always be its own reward. You want it, you traitor pigs? Come take it from us!'''''|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 58|- on |align=center|[[Arnaut Cisneros]],<br>[[Venta SecundusInterrogator]]|align=center|[http://web'''''Heed my warning, Acolyte.archiveThe Imperial Creed teaches us that xenos are foul and corruptive beings, and that is true.org/web/20110211195338/http://wwwBut as servants of the Inquisition, we must stand as examples of utmost purity and unwavering devotion.games-workshopYou will be punished for showing any shred of leniency.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m70039a_Strategy_cards_2 Strategy Cards] You will be cleansed for [[Planetary Empires]] expansion game, card showing any notion of corruption. How do you think Inquisitor Serranus lost his arm? He did that to himself.''Hold At All Costs - Minor Stratagem"'', '|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player'(saved archive pages Guide]], dated February 2011, last accessed 6 October 2015)''<br>pg. 54
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|align=center|[[Inquisitor LordTorquemada Coteaz]] ,<br>[[Torquemada CoteazInquisitor Lord]]
|align=center|'''''There are those amongst our Ordo who say that I seek advancement for my own purposes, and they are correct. My purpose is to destroy the daemonic and if I must rise to command an entire sector to do so, then so be it. I am a servant of the Emperor and only those who consort with Warp-spawn need fear my ambition.'''''
|align=center|[[Codex: Daemonhunters (3rd Edition)]], pg. 56
|align=center|Brother-Captain [[Cynewolf]] of the [[Deathwatch]]
|align="center"|'''''The ethics of booklearning and scholarship I leave to the [[savant]]s. But for what it's worth, I would have burned it without a second thought.'''''<br> – on the [[Necroteuch]] affair
|align=center|[[Xenos (Novel)]],<br> ch. Twenty-One
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|align=center|[[Inquisitor]] [[Czevak]]
|align="center"|'''''Things are very seldom what they seem. In my experience, they’re usually a damn sight worse.'''''
|align=center|[[For the Emperor (Novel)]] - [[Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium]] (Omnibus),<br> ch. 9, pg. 155
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|align=center|[[Jerran Dynaskus]],<br>[[Interrogator]] serving [[Lord Inquisitor]] [[Dezah]]
|align="center"|'''''Scour every rat hole, pressure every official, root out every weakness, and twist until they scream the confession we need. Xendenarius, I want the city’s [[cogitator]]-screed picked clean. [[Ghreen]], see what skulls you can crack among the [[Enforcer]]s. [[Skharen]], go and play with the [[syndicate]]s, [[cartel]]s, and gutter crews that the worshipful [[adept]]s tells us do not exist — see what truths your skin-peeler can elicit. We must miss nothing. Our master demands as much, and his patience has limits.'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 119
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|align=center|'''''We are at War with forces too terrible to comprehend. We cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our resolve. Put aside all such thoughts. They are not worthy of Inquisitors in the service of Our Emperor. Praise His name for in our resolve we only reflect his purpose of will.'''''
|align=center|[[Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness]], pg. 220
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|align=center|[[Caecilius Elbegdorj]],<br>[[Interrogator]]
|align="center"|'''''You think you know heresy? You think the warnings of the [[Ministorum]], the edicts screeched from habway Lex hailers encompass the whole bounds of the law, and that the heretic merely exists beyond these strictures? There are laws so natural, so innate, that no good citizen of the Imperium could comprehend what it is to break them. The Heretic is an unnatural thing, a beast as foul as any mutant or xenos. To slay them is a mercy to be delivered without sentiment, without hesitation, and without doubt.'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 50
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|align=center|[[Thraviam Flast]], [[Inquisitor]] of the [[Ordo Malleus]]
|align=center|'''''I carry with me an [[Inquisitorial Seal]]. It is a small, unassuming object contained in a neat box of Pluvian obsidian. It is a modest thing. Relatively plain, adorned with a single motif and a simple motto. Yet with this little object I can sign the death warrant of an entire world and consign a billion souls to Oblivion.'''''
|align=center|[[Codex: Daemonhunters (3rd Edition)]],<br> pg. 21<br>[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 20
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|align=center|rowspan=2 [[Inquisitor]] [[Aegidius Halikarn]], [[Ordo Hereticus]]
|align=center|'''''The soul of the Imperium teeters on the edge of damnation. Our role is not only to prevent its fall, but to ensure that the blessedly ignorant masses never learn just how close we have come to failure.'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 8
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|align=center|'''''Assume nothing - no writ no warrant, no seal, save my own - is truly valid. The heretic hides behind the titles and honours of the Imperium just as surely as they lurk among the wretched and the malcontent.'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 26
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|align=center|[[Inquisitor Historical]] [[Galbus Heer]]
|align=center|'''''You must face the truth squarely and without flinching from duty. Our Enemies are mortal no longer. Mercy for such as they is a chimera, self-deception is its only ally. Dedicate this weapon, given unto your hand at the behest of the Emperor, to their destruction. Regard its function as your only duty: you live only to bring cleansing fire. Take up your rod and staff, your armour and psycannon, and go forth.'''''<br>- from ''[[Lectures to the Ordo]]''
|align=center|[[Realm of ChaosImperium Maledictum: Slaves to DarknessInquisition Player's Guide]], <br> pg. 2538
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|align=center|'''''There is no such thing as a plea of innocence in my court. A plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time. Guilty.'''''
|align=center|[[Codex: Witch Hunters (3rd Edition)]],<br> pg. 45
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|align=center|[[Josef Karta]],<br>[[Acolyte]]
|align=center|'''''I was a farmer for most of my life. We didn’t know the xenos were already living among us. I was forced to take up arms against the invasion when the war began. I needed to learn all I could about them to lead the fight; I had no choice. When the Inquisitor came and purged the xenos from our land, they spared my mind from being purged too, said I knew the enemy too well, and that my fight continues elsewhere...'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br> pg. 10
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|align=center|[[Inquisitor]] [[Kartize]], [[Ordo Xenos]]
|align="center|[[The Emperor's Gift (Novel)]],<br> ch. Twelve, pg. 153
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|rowspan=2 align=center|[[Lord Inquisitor]] '''Kryptmann''' (presumably [[Fidus Kryptman]])|align=center|'''''One cannot consider the fate of a single man, nor ten, nor a hundred, nor a thousand. Billions will live or die by our actions here, and we have not the luxury to count the cost.'''''<br>- [[Inquisitor]] '''Kryptmann''' (presumably [[Kryptman]])
|align=center|[[Apocalypse]],<br> pg. 12
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|align=center|'''''We are neither spies, soldiers, nor enforcers, yet we are all these at once. We are whatever the Imperium needs us to be. We alone know the horrors that await Mankind should the Imperium fall, so we alone are willing to do whatever it takes to prevent it. Whatever that makes us.'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br> pg. 5
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|align=center|[[InquisitorTarn Laggarian]],<br>[[Confessor]]|align="center"|'''''One world. Nineteen days. A hundred damned souls absolved in death by my hand.'''''|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]] ,<br>pg. 59|-|align=center|[[Lias du Ortise]], <br>[[Inquisitor]] ,<br>[[Ordo Malleus]]
|align="center"|'''''They are beyond comprehension, beyond mortal flesh, beyond even time and mortality. They are beyond many things, but never my hate!'''''
|align=center|[https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/10/12/enemies-beyond/ FFG Site] Teaser for ''Enemy Beyond'' Supplement for [[Dark Heresy Second Edition]] - ''(last accessed 16 October 2015)''
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|align=center|Inquisitor [[Lichtenstein]], <br>Inquisitor,<br>declared [[Excommunicate Traitoris]] 998.[[M41]]
|align=center|'''''Do not presume to judge me or the methods I choose to employ, petty-minded fool. You cannot comprehend the magnitude of the task I have undertaken nor the consequences of my failure.'''''
|align=center|[[Codex: Daemonhunters (3rd Edition)]],<br> pg. 24
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|align=center|[[InquisitorLoffengar]] ,<br>[[LoffengarInquisitor]], <br>[[Ordo Xenos]]
|align="center"|'''''If you can confront the xenos, look upon the xenos, even think upon the xenos, without revulsion, then you are as damned as they.'''''
|align=center|[https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/10/7/know-thy-foe/ FFG Site] Teaser for ''Enemy Without'' Supplement for [[Dark Heresy Second Edition]] ''(last accessed 11 October 2015)''
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|align=center|[[InquisitorMabuse]] ,<br>[[MabuseInquisitor]], <br>[[Ordo Malleus]]
|align="center"|'''''Lady, I advise you to run away now. Right now. Do as the [[Priad|brother-sergeant]] instructs you.'''''<br>
'''''Why? Why?!'''''<br>
|align="center"|'''''Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the daemon, I shall fear nothing. For I am what the daemon fears.'''''
|align=center|[[Dark Adeptus (Novel)]], ch. Twenty
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|rowspan=2 align=center|[[Xerxes Melnyk]],<br>[[Interrogator]] serving Inquisitor [[Ksenia Baek]]
|align="center"|'''''That reverence you hold for the Emperor, the stuff you’ve been taught since you were a kid? Treat the Inquisitor just the same. They are an extension of His Will. Inquisitor says jump, you say, ‘off what spire?’. Inquisitor says purge, you use tooth and nail if that’s all you’ve got. Inquisitor says die; you run headfirst into whatever monstrous thing is staring back at you.'''''
|align=center||align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br> pg. 11
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|align="center"|'''''Throne damn these wretches! [[Mortis]], they’ve got your name and description on the vox. [[Castella]], manufacture him a new cover story and a disguise before the worship ceremony at the Cathedrum — the circumstantial evidence is pointing towards [[Deacon]] [[Tzarelle]], but whoever these “[[Shifting Eye]]” heretics are, they’ll go to ground if we aren’t careful. Take your weapons and your seal, but by the Emperor’s Teeth, keep them concealed.'''''
|align=center||align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br> pg. 120
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|align=center|[[Inquisitor]] [[Gregorina Praxia]] of the [[Ordo Hereticus]]
|align=center|'''''[[Governor]], let me speak plainly. The hero of the [[Battox Sector]] campaign lends me his armies freely. I am allied with the [[Arbitrator]]s of a dozen sub-sectors. [[Adepta Sororitas]] [[Canonesses Superior]] speak my name in praise and offer me aid without my asking. You rule a backwater that barely avoids economic collapse. And yet, you refuse my demands? I invite you to reconsider.'''''<br>— Inquisitor Baran Patahbo in council with Governor [[Nahasi]] of [[Sha’ol]] — pre-emergence of the [[Great Rift]]
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 121
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|align=center|[[Inquisitor]] [[Gregorina Praxia]] of the [[Ordo Hereticus]]
|align="center"|'''''Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.'''''<br>- from ''[[The Spheres of Longing]]''
|align=center|[[The Armour of Contempt (Novel)|The Armour of Contempt]], pg. 3
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|align=center|[[Caspiel Rex]],<br>[[Inquisitor]]
|align=center|'''''This is the Emperor’s planet, the Emperor’s Throne damn you. You want it, you traitor pigs? Come take it from us!'''''<br>- on [[Venta Secundus]]
|align=center|[http://web.archive.org/web/20110211195338/http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m70039a_Strategy_cards_2 Strategy Cards] for [[Planetary Empires]] expansion game, card ''Hold At All Costs - Minor Stratagem"'', ''(saved archive page, dated February 2011, last accessed 6 October 2015)''
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|rowspan=2 align=center|[[Inquisitor]] [[Alis Ruad]],<br>[[Ordo Hereticus]],<br>(possibly [[Ordo Malleus]])
|align="center"|'''''[[Acolyte]], I gave you no more of a stern warning than your fellows. My Rosette is not a child’s toy nor a ticket to be brazenly waved for passage. Though your actions saved [[Hive Sepkos]] for now, you have abused the authority I presented you. You will submit for re-indoctrination immediately or be hunted and executed by your peers. Conduct yourself properly, for once.'''''<br>- Note attached to Reindoctrincation Order KL8934-M2d
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 11
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|align="center"|'''''I have clashed with creatures the sight of which would sear your soul to the core. I have bested horrors that chill with a gaze and tempt unreasoning terror. I have faced death eye to eye and blade to blade. I have stared into the eyes of insanity and met their all-consuming stare. I have done all this for you, for your protection, and to guarantee a future for Humanity. You dare, you who cowers, quivering in the safety of your glittering hive, to question me!?'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 14
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|rowspan=2 align=center|[[Damien Savantas]],<br>[[Interrogator]],<br>[[Ordo Hereticus]]|align=center|'''''Get yourself together before the Inquisitor gets a look at you. Lesson number one: fear her just as much as you would your enemies. She’ll throw you out the airlock if you’re not presentable for her court.'''''|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 28|-|align=center|'''''Look upon this hammer I hold before me, it is far more than a weapon. It is a symbol of the Imperial Justice that smites the diabolic enemies of the Imperium. It is a symbol of my Holy Order and my office, of the authority granted to me by the God-Emperor and the great Inquisitor [[Alis Ruad|Ruad]]. Obey me without question, or it will also symbolise your punishment.'''''|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 52|-|rowspan=2 align=center|[[Konstan Serranus]],<br>[[Inquisitor]],<br>[[Ordo Xenos]]|align=center|'''''Flame, bolt, and blade - all are but tools. Your true weapon against the xenos is contempt. Let it fester in your heart, let it strengthen your will, and their wiles will not assail you.'''''|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 28|-|align=center|'''''The darkest hour has come. [[Lothos]], go to the fleet commander and have them blockade the planet – no one gets off this rock until the last foul xenos has been purged from the surface. [[Skarr]], rally the [[Ministorum]] to gather and safeguard the people and tell that damned [[Magos]] to shut down their manufactorum. [[Karpath]], ascend the spire and take control of the planetary relay, kill the chatter. I will remain on the flagship — know that the [[Deathwatch]] are coming. Do not fail me.'''''<br>— Encoded Missive from Inquisitor Konstan Serranus to his acolytes|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 122|-|align=center|[[Qualtak Shoran]], <br>[[Inquisitor]]
|align=center|'''''The creatures of the Warp have but one trait with which you need concern yourself - their undying contempt for the Emperor. It is your task to quell the rebellion they preach, and the only sure way is to destroy them utterly.'''''<br> - attributed
|align=center|[[White Dwarf 114 (UK)]],<br> pg. 11;<br> [[Warhammer 40,000 Compendium]],<br> pg.5
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|align=center|[[Sliff]],<br>[[Trackless Chain Routerunner]],<br>[[Cruciator]]
|align=center|'''''A doc’s hands can help or hurt, easy as anything. All comes down to who’s holding the leash.'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 57
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|align=center|[[Peytr Strolke]],<br>[[Acolyte]]
|align=center|'''''Disregard the gaps you feel in your memory – know that you have seen too much, and removal was necessary. The [REDACTED] completed their mission on [REDACTED]; the [REDACTED] threat led by [REDACTED] were effectively purged by their supreme will. But take heed; perhaps we overshot our ambitions this time.'''''<br> - Message from Acolyte Peytr Strolke, Sent to Acolyte Peytr Strolke.
|align=center||align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 16
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|align=center|[[Eskender Thracius]],<br>[[Ordo Xenos]] [[Inquisitor]],<br>
declared [[Excommunicate Traitoris]]
|align=center|'''''And yet you accuse me of being a madman, you who have never had your sanity tested so sorely. What right have you to call me heretic and blasphemer, who have not heard the whisper of the dark gods in your ear? You are weak. Vulnerable. Human in your frailty. I am strong, and yet you still judge me for my sins, thou who art most sinful to the heart? Every scholam child knows, “Only the insane have strength enough to prosper: only those who prosper truly judge what is sane".'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br> pg. 6
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|align=center| [[Inquisitor]] [[Atellus Thrax]]
|align=center|'''''Why should you help me, General? In five years’ time, I’ll be an Inquisitor, and you won’t.'''''
|align=center|[[Wrath & Glory: Forsaken System]],<br> pg. 118
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|align=center|[[Shahin Vane]],<br>[[Acolyte]],<br>[[Ordo Hereticus]]
|align=center|'''''May foul blood feed my blade this night.'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 56
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|align=center|Lord [[Varlak]]
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|align="center"|'''''Your objections are irrelevant; I am an Inquisitor, and I answer to none save the Emperor of Mankind. Regarding my methods, He seems content to remain silent.'''''|align="center"|Inquisitor [NAMES REDACTED, SEE CASE ID #3421-G3/Delta-48F3 ‘[[Vitezovich]]’]|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 24|-
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